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Saturday 10 March 2018
Predators win 10th straight, Golden Knights blank Red Wings

By The Associated Press goals from Gabriel Landesk-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — og and Carl Soderberg to
Austin Watson scored a force overtime. Soderberg
short-handed goal late in had two in the game, and
the second period and the Tyson Barrie also scored for
Nashville Predators beat the Avs.
the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 on HURRICANES 3, BLACK-
Thursday night to extend HAWKS 2
their franchise-record win- CHICAGO (AP) — Sebas-
ning streak to 10 games. tian Aho snapped a tie with
The Predators also matched a power-play goal in the
Colorado for the longest third period, and the Caroli-
winning streak in the NHL na Hurricanes beat the Chi-
this season. The victory cago Blackhawks in their
kept Nashville's edge at six first game since Ron Francis
points ahead of Winnipeg was forced out as general
and Vegas for the Western manager. Justin Williams
Conference lead. had a goal and an assist as
Pekka Rinne made 31 saves Carolina stayed four points
to improve to 18-1-1 over his back of Columbus for the
last 20 games. Craig Smith, second wild card in the
Ryan Johansen and Viktor Detroit Red Wings defenseman Trevor Daley (83) deflects a shot by Vegas Golden Knights center Eastern Conference. Scott
Arvidsson each scored. Filip William Karlsson (71) in front of goaltender Jimmy Howard during the first period of an NHL hockey Darling made 22 saves in
Forsberg had two assists for game Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Detroit. his return to Chicago after
Nashville, which honored Associated Press he was traded to Carolina
David Poile before the in April, and Elias Lindholm
game for becoming career stretch during their inaugu- in his second shutout of diens, who lost their second added two assists.
wins leader among NHL ral season since losing five the season, Nick Bjugstad straight. Tomas Jurco and Patrick
general managers with his of six early on. The victory scored his fourth goal in BLUE JACKETS 5, AVA- Sharp scored for last-place
1,320th victory last week. at Little Caesars Arena was two games, and the Florida LANCHE 4, OT Chicago (29-31-8), which
Rickard Rakell scored twice their 19th on the road, tying Panthers beat the Montreal COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — had won two of three.
in the third period for the Anaheim's 1993-94 team for Canadiens for their seventh Seth Jones scored 59 sec- Jean-Francois Berube
Ducks. the most by an expansion straight home win. onds into overtime to lift made 37 stops.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, RED team. Evgenii Dadonov had a the Columbus Blue Jackets JETS 3, DEVILS 2
WINGS 0 Fleury got his third shutout goal and an assist, and over the Colorado Ava- NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Patrik
DETROIT (AP) — Marc-An- of the season and the 47th Vincent Trocheck, Micheal lanche in a matchup of Laine extended his point-
dre Fleury stopped 28 shots, of his career. Haley and Jonathan Hu- teams fighting to stay in the scoring streak to 10 games
Cody Eakin and Alex Tuch Jimmy Howard had 28 berdeau also scored for the playoff mix. Jones added and Connor Hellebuyck
each scored two goals and saves for the Red Wings, Panthers, who have points two assists, Thomas Vanek made 41 saves as the Win-
the Vegas Golden Knights who have lost five straight in eight straight games. scored twice and Zach nipeg Jets won their fourth
dominated the Detroit Red games for the third time this Keith Yandle added three Werenski also tallied for the straight game. Joel Armia
Wings. season. assists, and Aleksander Bar- Blue Jackets, who have and Nikolaj Ehlers also
The Pacific Division-lead- PANTHERS 5, CANADIENS 0 kov had a pair. won three straight for the scored as the Jets posted
ing Golden Knights had SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Rober- Charlie Lindgren stopped first time since November. their ninth win in the last 11
lost four of five, their worst to Luongo made 40 saves 27 shots for the Cana- Colorado got third-period games.q

Geraint Thomas takes overall lead of Tirreno-Adriatico

TREVI, Italy (AP) — Geraint "I came to Tirreno-Adriatico one involving race leader
Thomas moved into the for GC but I lost my hopes Patrick Bevin. Simon Ge-
overall lead at the Tirreno- yesterday. My bike was schke was the worst affect-
Adriatico on Friday, and damaged in the crash. So I ed and had to be taken to
Primoz Roglic rode to an switched focus to on other the hospital.
uphill victory at the end of goals. I got my stage win The fourth stage on Satur-
the third stage. and I'm happy with that." day is a rolling 219-kilometer
Roglic was involved in a Thomas moved into the (136-mile) route from Foli-
crash on Thursday, but the lead with the same time gno to Sarnano-Sassotetto,
Slovenian rider attacked as Greg Van Avermaet of ending in a mountain-top
with just over 1 kilometer BMC, who won the open- finish.
remaining of the 239-kilo- ing time trial. "A lot can happen tomor-
meter (149-mile) route from Pre-race favorite Chris row. It's a long climb and
Follonica to Trevi. Froome moved up to third, having strength in num-
Adam Yates crossed the three seconds behind bers is good," Thomas said.
line three seconds behind Thomas, his Team Sky team- "Hopefully I'll feel good but
Roglic, and Tiesj Benoot Primoz Roglic, of Slovenia, celebrates as he crosses the finish mate. Another Team Sky if I don't then hopefully
line to win the 3rd stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico cycling race,
was a further three seconds from Follonica to Trevi, Italy, Friday, March 9, 2018. Rider, Michal Kwiatkowski, Froomey or Kwiato will be
behind in third. Associated Press is fifth, nine seconds behind on a good day, too. We've
"It was my tactic to attack Thomas. got options. It's a great po-
from far out because I've my career," Roglic said. "I just went flat out after I got There were a number of sition to be in."
already lost some sprints in couldn't wait till the end so I a gap. crashes on the hilly route, The race ends Tuesday.q