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to push streak to 7 Thursday 22 October 2015
The Associated Press Larrson’s game-winner 43 Lehtonen is 1-10-2 in 13
MONTREAL (AP) — Carey seconds into overtime to lift games against Philadel- Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price makes a save
Price made 38 saves for his New Jersey. phia. against the St. Louis Blues during the third period of an NHL
second shutout in his last Larsson slam dunked the Steve Mason made 30 hockey game, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 in Montreal.
three starts and Alex Semin game winner to cap a saves for the Flyers in his Associated Press
scored his first goal as the 3-on-1 break that started return for the Flyers after sit-
Montreal Canadiens beat after he knocked Martin ting out the last two games
the St. Louis Blues 3-0 on Hanzal off the puck in the due to personal reasons.
Tuesday night to win their Devils’ zone. PREDATORS 5, LIGHTNING 4,
team-record seventh in a Mike Cammalleri also SO
row to begin the season. scored for New Jersey and NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fil-
Max Pacioretty and Torrey Cory Schneider made 18 ip Forsberg scored the only
Mitchell also scored for the saves as the Devils won goal of the shootout to help
Canadiens, who broke the their second straight over- Nashville beat Tampa Bay.
Blues’ four-game winning time game under new James Neal scored twice
streak. coach John Hynes after and Mike Fisher and Shea
Price, the league’s most opening the season 0-3-1. Weber also scored for the
valuable player and top Anthony Duclair and Mik- Predators, winners of five of
goaltender last season, has kel Boedker scored for Ari- six. Nashville’s last two wins
allowed only six goals in six zona, which has lost three have come via a shootout.
starts. It was the 36th shut- in a row. Mike Smith made Predators goalie Pekka
out of his career. He posted 22 saves in the opener of a Rinne allowed four goals
a 25-save shutout against five-game East Coast road on 29 shots through over-
the New York Rangers on trip for Arizona. time, but he was sharp in
Oct. 15, and allowed one PENGUINS 3, PANTHERS 2, the shootout, denying all
goal on 22 shots in a 4-1 win OT three Lightning shooters.
over Detroit on Saturday PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni Steven Stamkos, Nikita
night to earn NHL first star Malkin scored on the pow- Kucherov, Ryan Callahan
of the week honors. er play in overtime and Sid- and Erik Condra scored for
His save of the night was ney Crosby picked up his the Lightning, who have
a spectacular glove effort first goal of the season to dropped three of four.
early in the second frame lead Pittsburgh. In the tiebreaker, Forsberg
on Vladimir Tarasenko, who Malkin’s third goal in as skated to the right and
was held off the scoresheet many games withstood a beat Lightning goalie Ben
for the first time this season. video review. He took a Bishop with a quick wrist
ISLANDERS 3, BLUE JACKETS pass from Kris Letang at the shot.
0 top of the right circle and CAPITALS 6, FLAMES 2
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — fired a slap shot past Ro- CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
Jaroslav Halak stopped berto Luongo. Nicklas Backstrom scored
37 shots for his 37th career Crosby netted his first three twice and Alex Ovechkin
shutout to lead the New points of the season on the added a goal and an assist
York Islanders to their fourth first-period goal and two for Washington.
straight win. assists. Andre Burakovsky, T.J. Os-
Nikolay Kulemin gave the Phil Kessel scored his sec- hie and Jason Chimera
Islanders the lead late ond goal and Malkin has also scored, and Evgeny
in the first period, and five points during a four- Kuznetsov added three as-
Thomas Hickey, Cal Clut- game point streak for the sists. The Capitals, playing
terbuck and John Tavares Penguins, who won their their first road game of the
all scored in the third pe- third straight. Marc-Andre season, have opened with
riod. Halak made a second Fleury stopped 31 shots. four wins in five games.
straight start after returning Quinton Howden and Der- Sean Monahan and Mark
from an upper-body injury ek MacKenzie scored goals Giordano scored for Cal-
sustained during the pre- for the Panthers and Luon- gary, which has lost five of
season. go made 32 saves. their first six games while
The Blue Jackets extended STARS 2, FLYERS 1 opening with four straight
their franchise-worst winless PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyler losses on home ice for the
start and became the third Seguin and Jamie Benn first time in franchise history.
team in the NHL’s modern each had a goal and Ovechkin gave the Capi-
history to open a season an assist as Dallas won its tals the lead for good 30
0-7. Curtis McElhinney fin- fourth straight. seconds into the second
ished with 25 saves and Sean Couturier scored for period. His long shot was
was steady throughout, the Flyers, who were play- stopped by Flames goalie
making several key saves ing for the first time since Karri Ramo but mishandled,
to keep Columbus within beating Chicago last allowing the Washington
striking distance for most of Wednesday. captain to poke in the
the game. Antti Niemi made 34 saves rebound and put Wash-
DEVILS 3, COYOTES 2, OT to improve to 3-1 in four ington ahead 2-1. It was
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tra- career starts against Phila- Ovechkin’s fourth goal of
vis Zajac had a goal, two delphia. Niemi was in be- the season and 900th ca-
assists and set up Adam cause starting goalie Kari reer point.q
