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SPORTSWednesday 3 January 2018
NHL Capsules
Johnson scores twice in Lightning’s 5-0 rout of Columbus
By The Associated Press Bishop’s 23rd career shut-
out came in his seventh
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — straight start. It was Dallas’
fourth win in five games.
Tyler Johnson scored twice, Dallas scored two goals
in each period — by John
Andre Vasilevskiy stopped Klingberg and Pitlick in the
first, Stephen Johns and
21 shots for his ninth career Tyler Seguin in the second
and Devin Shore and Pitlick
shutout and the Tampa 50 seconds apart in the
third.
Bay Lightning beat the Co- DUCKS 5, COYOTES 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
lumbus Blue Jackets 5-0 on Rickard Rakell scored twice
in the first period and Ana-
Sunday night. heim had a three-goal third
to pull away and beat NHL-
Johnson’s second-period worst Arizona.
Cam Fowler broke a tie
goals extended his point midway through the third
period, Jakob Silfverberg
streak to 12 games, tied for added a late goal and
Antoine Vermette capped
the longest in the league the scoring with an empty-
netter. John Gibson made
this season. He’s got eight 23 saves for Anaheim.
Clayton Keller and Brandon
goals and 10 assists in that Perlini scored for Arizona,
and Antti Raanta stopped
stretch. 21 shots. The Coyotes have
lost 10 of their last 12.
After a slow start, Tampa JETS 5, OILERS 0
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP)
Bay scored four times in a — Connor Hellebuyck
made 35 saves for his third
span of 7:23 in the second shutout of the season and
Kyle Connor and Bryan Lit-
period, sucking the energy tle each had a goal and
an assist in Winnipeg’s vic-
out of the sellout crowd at tory over Edmonton.
Marko Dano, Blake Wheel-
Nationwide Arena on New er and Mathieu Perreault
also scored. The Jets have
Year’s Eve. won three in a row and
are 5-1-1 in their last seven
Nikita Kucherov got his games.
Cam Talbot made 33 saves
league-leading 25th goal for Edmonton. The Oil-
ers have dropped three
of the season, and Steven straight.
AVALANCHE 6, ISLANDERS
Stamkos and Cory Co- Tampa Bay Lightning’s Tyler Johnson, left, checks Columbus Blue Jackets’ Josh Anderson during 1
nacher also scored for the DENVER (AP) — Gabriel
Lightning. Brayden Point, the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Landeskog scored twice in
Mikhail Sergachev and Vic- less than two minutes in the
tor Hedman had two assists Associated Press second period, and Colo-
apiece. rado routed New York.
Vasilevskiy didn’t have to pass back to the blue line GOLDEN KNIGHTS 6, MAPLE Karlsson pushed his team- Carl Soderberg and Erik
work particularly hard in re- Johnson had a goal and
cording his league-leading where Giordano took a LEAFS 3 leading goals total to 20. an assist each, and Matt Ni-
fifth shutout of the season eto and Patrik Nemeth also
for the Lightning, who lead couple strides and fired a LAS VEGAS (AP) — William Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, scored for Colorado, which
the NHL in wins and sit atop blew open the game with
the Atlantic Division at 28- shot into the top corner on Karlsson had the first hat Erik Haula and Jonathan four goals in the second.
8-2. Jonathan Bernier stopped
FLAMES 4, BLACKHAWKS 3, Jeff Glass. It helped Cal- trick in Vegas history and Marchessault also scored, 27 shots, Nathan MacKin-
OT non had three assists and
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — gary salvage a win after added an assist to help the and Malcolm Subban Samuel Girard had two as-
Mark Giordano scored 52 sists for Colorado.q
seconds into overtime to lift Chicago’s Brandon Saad streaking Golden Knights made 19 saves.
Calgary over Chicago.
Mikael Backlund sent a tied it with 1:46 left in the beat Toronto. Auston Matthews scored
third period. The Western Conference- twice for Toronto, and Pat-
Matthew Tkachuk had two leading Golden Knights rick Marleau added a goal.
goals and Sean Monahan have won seven straight RED WINGS 4, PENGUINS 1
also scored for Calgary, and have earned points DETROIT (AP) — Gustav Ny-
which had lost five of seven in 12 consecutive games, quist scored twice, Jimmy
home games. Mike Smith both NHL records for a first- Howard made 37 saves
turned away 34 shots. year team. An NHL-best and Detroit beat Pittsburgh.
Jordan Oesterle and Jona- 11-1-1 in December, the Dylan Larkin and Frans
than Toews also scored for Golden Knights are 16-2-1 Nielsen also scored for De-
Chicago. at home and 26-9-2 overall. troit. Evgeni Malkin got his
fifth goal in seven games
Dutch head to Winter Games led by Kramer and Wust for the Penguins.
The Wings took the lead
By RAF CASERT 11:31 into the opening pe-
Associated Press riod. Detroit captain Hen-
BRUSSELS (AP) — Olympic rik Zetterberg fed a cross-
champions Sven Kramer ice pass to Nyquist in the
and Ireen Wust are leading middle of the Pittsburgh
a strong Dutch team to the zone. Nyquist skated out
speedskating oval in South between the hash marks
Korea. and used Pittsburgh defen-
After five days of quali- seman Frank Corrado as a
fying, it is clear that the screen to fire a high shot
Dutch might not be as all- past Matt Murray on the
powerful as they were four glove side.
years ago in Sochi, but it In this Saturday, March 5, 2017 file photo, Iren Wust and Sven Murray finished with 19
will still be extremely tough Kramer from the Netherlands celebrate winning the allround saves for Pittsburgh.
to keep them off the top title at the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships at STARS 6, SHARKS 0
of the speedskating medal Vikingskipet Olympic Hall in Hamar, Norway. DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bishop
table at the 2018 Winter made 26 saves in his fourth
Associated Press
Olympics. third 5,000-meter gold in a seeking to push the Dutch shutout of the season, Ty-
Triple Olympic champion row and try to finally add a pursuit team to a second ler Pitlick scored twice and
Kramer will be going for his 10,000 title. He will also be gold in a row.q Dallas beat San Jose.
