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SPORTSTuesday 22 March 2016
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) and Washington Capi-
tals’ Karl Alzner (27) collide during the second period of an NHL
hockey game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, March 20, 2016.
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rook-
ie Tom Kuhnhackl had a
goal and two assists on his
way to a career-best three
points as the Pittsburgh
Penguins denied the Wash-
ington Capitals a chance
to lock up the Metropolitan
Division with a dominant
6-2 win on Sunday night.
Matt Cullen, Trevor Daley,
Justin Schultz, Chris Kunitz
and Bryan Rust also scored
for Pittsburgh. Sidney Cros-
by picked up two assists to
push his scoring streak to 12
games as the Penguins won
their sixth straight. Marc-An-
dre Fleury stopped 16 shots
to move past the New York
Rangers and into second
place behind Washington
in the Metropolitan.
The Capitals could have
clinched the franchise’s
ninth division title with a win geles Kings for first place in
but instead gave up a sea-
son-high six goals. Braden
Holtby finished with 21
Brad Davis’ first goal with Sporting KC beats Toronto FC 1-0
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (AP)
— Brad Davis scored the
first goal with his new team,
helping unbeaten Sport-
ing Kansas City stay atop
the MLS standings with 1-0
win over Toronto FC.
Davis joined Sporting KC for
his 15th season in the MLS
after spending a decade
at the Houston Dynamo.
He beat defender Justin
NHL Capsules
Penguins run win streak
to 6, top Capitals 6-2
who last their third straight. with 21 saves.
Hutchinson finished with 30
saves.
DEVILS 2, BLUE JACKETS 1
Associated Press NEWARK, New Jersey (AP)
— Devante Smith-Pelly
saves before being pulled scored the tiebreaking
in the third. Jason Chime- goal 8:38 into the third peri- Minnesota on Feb. 29, ap-
ra and Andre Burakovsky od and Scott Wedgewood
scored for Washington. made 27 saves in his NHL
DUCKS 3, JETS 2, OT debut to lead New Jersey.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) Reid Boucher also scored
— Jakob Silfverberg scored as the Devils ended a six-
at 4:01 of overtime to lift game losing streak against
Anaheim past Winnipeg. the Blue Jackets (1-5-1), less backhanded a shot at his
Silfverberg’s 13th goal of than 24 hours after drop-
the season came as he was ping a 6-3 decision in Co-
left all alone in front of Jets lumbus.
goalie Michael Hutchin- Jared Boll scored for the
son, who made a glove Blue Jackets, while Joonas
save on the first attempt Korpisalo made 20 saves.
but couldn’t corral the re- Smith-Pelly did most of the
bound, allowing Silfverberg work on his seventh goal in
to score. nine games in New Jersey.
Jamie McGinn and Ryan His forecheck on Nick Foli-
Kesler scored for the Ducks gno forced the Columbus
in regulation, and John forward to send the puck
Gibson made 27 saves for around the boards. Devils
his 17th win. defenseman Adam Larsson
Anaheim got its 40th win stopped it at the point and
of the season and moved sent it to Smith-Pelly on the
four points behind Los An- edge of the crease.
Korpisalo stopped his back-
the Pacific Division. hander but the Devils’ for-
Paul Postma and Blake ward nudged the rebound
Wheeler scored for the Jets, into the net.
FLAMES 4, CANADIENS 1
MONTREAL (AP) — Sean
Monahan had two goals
and an assist to help Cal-
gary beat Montreal.
Joe Colborne and John-
ny Gaudreau also scored
for the Flames, who have
points in four straight
games. Niklas Backstrom,
playing for the first time in
more than a year, finished
Morrow to a loose ball and hosts held firm, and Toron-
slotted a left-foot shot into to missed a chance for an
the far corner in the 70th equalizer when Sebastian
minute Giovonco’s free kick hit the
Sunday to secure KC’s third defensive wall in the last
win from as many games. minute of stoppage time.
It was his 56th career MLS The Philadelphia Union won
goal. their home opener 3-0 over
Sporting KC was reduced the 10-man New England
to 10 men in the 84th when Revolution and moved into
Roger Espinoza was sent a share of top spot in the
off for a serious foul but the Eastern Conference on six
Michael McCarron scored
his first NHL goal for Montre- AVALANCHE 3, OILERS 2
al, which has lost four of its EDMONTON, Alberta (AP)
last five. Michael Condon
stopped 30 shots.
Backstrom, acquired from
peared in his first NHL game
since Jan. 13, 2015.
One of Montreal’s best
chances came when
Flames defenseman Mark
Giordano accidentally
own net in the first period.
WILD 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, SO
CHICAGO (AP) — Charlie
Coyle scored the only goal
in the shootout as Minne-
sota beat Chicago for the
fourth time in four meetings
this season.
Coyle, the Wild’s first shoot- Landeskog and Barrie
er, beat Chicago’s Scott
Darling a night after he and
Zach Parise scored in the
tiebreaker in a home win
over Carolina.
Nino Niederreiter had his
18th goal and added an
assist, and Erik Haula also
scored in regulation for
Minnesota. Devan Dubnyk
stopped 29 shots through
overtime and then was
perfect in the shootout
against Chicago’s Jona-
than Toews, Patrick Kane
and Artemi Panarin.
Andrew Shaw scored his
12th goal to end an 11-
game drought and line-
mate Richard Panik con-
nected to end a 14-game
streak without a goal to
bring the Blackhawks back
from a 2-0 deficit. Darling
points with Montreal.
C.J. Sapong had two first-
half goals, both left foot
shots from crossed by Fa-
binho in the
18th and Creavalle in the
33rd. Sebastien Le Toux
capped the scoring in
stoppage time.
Winless New England
played with 10 men after
Je-Vaughn Watson was
made his third straight start
and finished with 32 saves.
— Gabriel Landeskog had
a goal and an assist as Col-
orado got its third straight
win.
Tyson Barrie and Blake Co-
meau also scored for the
Avalanche, who remained
one point ahead of Min-
nesota for the second and
final wild-card spot in the
Western Conference.
Matt Hendricks and Ryan
Nugent-Hopkins scored for
Edmonton, which snapped
a two-game winning streak
and was mathematically
eliminated from playoff
contention for the 10th
consecutive year.
scored in the second pe-
riod to give the Avalanche
a 2-0 lead.
Hendricks got the Oilers
on the scoreboard with his
second goal in two games
about 3 minutes into the
third. However, Comeau
deflected Erik Johnson’s
shot to restore Colorado
two-goal lead midway
through the period.
Nugent-Hopkins closed the
scoring with just under 7.6
seconds remaining.
SHARKS 3, COYOTES 0
SAN JOSE, California (AP)
— Tomas Hertl scored a
power-play goal in the lat-
est contribution from San
Jose’s second unit and
James Reimer earned his
second shutout in four starts
with the Sharks.q
sent off for a studs-up chal-
lenge on Roland Alberg in
the 36th minute.
In the only other match Sun-
day, D.C. United salvaged
a 1-1 draw with Fabian
Espindola’s 80th-minute
equalizer against the Colo-
rado Rapids canceling out
Dillon Powers’ header from
Marco Pappa’s corner in
the 69th minute.q