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SPORTSMonday 4 January 2016
NHL Roundup:
Devils beat Stars 3-2 in overtime despite Cammalleri scratch
New Jersey Devils defenseman John Moore celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal over goals from Kyle Palmieri worst record in the league,
the Dallas Stars during overtime in an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, in Newark, N.J. and Bobby Farnham. provided the upset of the
The Devils won 3-2 in overtime. Patrick Sharp and Colton day by beating high-fly-
Sceviour scored in the third ing Washington 5-4 after
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez) period as Dallas overcame a shootout. Jack Johnson
the deficit to force over- and Brandon Saad each
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) lead in the Central Division Division, after leader Wash- time. With Dallas’ Jamie had two goals and Ryan
— New Jersey overcame out to double figures. ington lost in a shootout at Benn in the penalty box for Johansen scored in the
the late withdrawal of its Elsewhere, Florida ascend- Columbus and the New hooking, Moore intercept- third round of the shootout.
leading scorer and beat ed to the top of the Atlantic York Islanders were well ed a clearing attempt and The victory was achieved
NHL-leading Dallas 3-2 in Division standings by beat- beaten by Pittsburgh. fired the puck past Antti despite losing goalie Anton
overtime on Saturday, with ing the New York Rangers New Jersey suffered a set- Niemi for the overtime win- Forsberg to injury at the start
John Moore scoring on the and stretching its winning back when leading scorer ner. Florida’s winning streak of overtime. Replacement
power-play 1:47 into the streak to eight. Mike Cammalleri withdrew reached record propor- Curtis McElhinney made six
added period. The Rangers missed a before the game, with the tions with a 3-0 victory over saves in the shootout for his
The point earned for going chance to make up ground team unwilling to explain the Rangers. first career win.
to overtime was enough on the two teams above why, but went ahead 2-0 Not only is the eight straight T.J. Oshie and Jason Chi-
for Dallas to push its points them in the Metropolitan through second-period wins a franchise record, so mera had power-play
is the six successive home goals for Washington, and
victories, and they had the Marcus Johansson and
satisfaction of ending a run Kuznetsov also scored.
of seven consecutive losses Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby
to the Rangers. continued his form resur-
Roberto Luongo stopped gence with two power-
39 shots for his third shutout play goals to lead the Pen-
of the season and his sev- guins to a 5-2 win against
enth straight win — break- the Islanders.
ing his own franchise re- After scoring just six goals
cord — while Brandon Pirri, in his first 32 games this sea-
Vincent Trocheck and Lo- son, Crosby is on a streak
gan Shaw each scored for of five scores in as many
the Panthers. games.
The Rangers have lost eight Goaltender Marc-Andre
of their past nine away Fleury returned from three
games. weeks out with concussion
Columbus, which has the and made 38 saves.q
Czech Republic beats Hewitt, Australia team at Hopman Cup
DENNIS PASSA at Perth, Western Australia. named Australia’s Davis many. Russian-born Daria and moves well and serves
AP Sports Writer The Czech team won the Cup captain and will be in Gavrilova beat Sabine Lis- big.”
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) later mixed doubles 6-2, 7-5 charge of the team against icki 6-2, 6-2 to give the Aus- On Monday, Serena Wil-
— Lleyton Hewitt lost just to sweep the match 3-0. the United States in the first tralian side the early lead, liams and Jack Sock of the
weeks away from his re- “Jiri is a quality player and round of World Group play and Kyrgios and Gavrilova United States play Ukraine,
tirement as Czech Repub- deserved to win, but it was from March 4-6 at Kooyong later combined for a 6-3, while Andy Murray and
lic beat the Australia Gold just good to come out here in Melbourne. 4-6, 10-7 (match tiebreak) Heather Watson lead Brit-
team at the Hopman Cup for the first game of the year For the first time in the Hop- win in mixed doubles to ain into its match against
mixed teams event Sun- and get a tough match,” man Cup’s 28-year history, complete a 3-0 win. France.
day. Hewitt said. “Hopefully I Australia is being represent- The 18-year-old Zverev, at At the Brisbane Internation-
Jiri Vesely defeated Hewitt, can come out for the rest of ed by two teams. 83rd, is the youngest player al, former Australian Open
who will retire after the Aus- the week now and get bet- Earlier, Nick Kyrgios broke in the top 100 in ATP rank- finalist Dominika Cibulkova
tralian Open, 6-3, 6-7 (1), ter from here to get ready Alexander Zverev’s service ings. “I really like the kid,” overcame Belgium’s Yani-
6-4 before Karolina Pliskova for the rest of the summer.” at 3-3 in the deciding set the 20-year-old Kyrgios na Wickmayer, recovering
came from 3-1 down in the Hewitt, a two-time Grand for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 win, giving said. “He’s got a great fu- from 4-3 and 0-40 down on
second set to beat Jarmila Slam champion and former his Australia Green team ture ahead and he’s a her serve in the third set to
Wolfe Gajdosova 7-5, 6-3 No. 1, has already been the winning edge over Ger- great athlete for his size win 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.q
