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SPORTSTuesday 29 December 2015

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Checked: Stone scores twice; Senators beat Bruins 3-1 

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —         Ottawa Senators’ Mark Stone (61) checks Boston Bruins’ Brad Marchand (63) during first period                           tin Faulk and Victor Rask
Goaltender Craig Ander-        NHL hockey action in Ottawa on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015.                                                                   scored, backup Eddie Lack
son is showing he can han-                                                                                                                             stopped 35 shots and the
dle a heavy workload.                                                                                      (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press via AP)  Hurricanes beat the Black-
Mark Stone scored twice,                                                                                                                               hawks.
Anderson stopped 38 shots      saves for Florida. Colum-      Nikolay Kulemin scored        home win.                                                  Chicago’s Brent Seabrook
and the Ottawa Senators        bus’s Curtis McElhinney        New York’s goal.              Since last losing at the Sco-                              spoiled Lack’s shutout bid
beat the Boston Bruins 3-1     had 29 saves.                                                tiabank Saddledome on                                      with 3 seconds left and
Sunday.                                                       STARS 3, BLUES 0              Oct. 30, the Flames have                                   Blackhawks goalie Corey
It was the 15th time this      MAPLE LEAFS 3, ISLANDERS 1     DALLAS (AP) — Kari            dominated at home with                                     Crawford on the bench for
season that Anderson has       NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Bo-      Lehtonen made 22 saves        Gaudreau leading the way.                                  an extra attacker.
faced 35 or more shots,        zak and Michael Grabner        in his 33rd career shutout,   The 22-year-old has scored                                 Lack wasn’t consistently
and he’s 11-2-2 in those       scored 1:40 apart in the       Jamie Benn scored his NHL-    in eight of the 11 wins with                               tested until the Blackhawks
games.                         second period to lead the      leading 23rd goal and the     15 goals and 22 points over                                outshot Carolina 19-9 in the
“For me the way the game       Maple Leafs to a victory       Stars beat the Blues.         that span, including a hat                                 third period.
was, I thought we played a     over the Islanders.            Benn and Patrick Sharp        trick in a 4-1 win over Win-                               The Hurricanes’ Jeff Skinner
solid game and we were in      After going 1-7-2 in Octo-     each had a power-play         nipeg last Tuesday night.                                  had two assists.
the right spots at the right   ber, the Leafs are 12-7-5 in   goal and an assist. Cody      Mark Giordano also scored
time,” Anderson said. “We      November and December.         Eakin scored into an empty    twice and Matt Stajan had                                  DUCKS 4, FLYERS 2
allowed a lot of perimeter     Toronto has recorded at        net with 1:32 remaining.      a goal for the Flames. Karri                               ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Co-
shots with some traffic, but   least one point in seven of    Lehtonen improved his sea-    Ramo stopped 28 shots.                                     rey Perry had the tying and
guys did a great job block-    its last eight games (5-1-2).  son record to 12-2-0. He is   Benoit Pouliot scored twice                                go-ahead goals, Shawn
ing shots, boxing out and      Overall, the Leafs are 13-     13-6-2 in his career against  and Teddy Purcell added                                    Horcoff scored a short-
doing the little things that   14-7.                          the Blues.                    the other for Edmonton.                                    handed goal and Ryan
make a difference.”            Jonathan Bernier stopped                                     The Oilers are 1-4-1 since                                 Getzlaf connected on a
“The big part of the reason    25 shots and James van         FLAMES 5, OILERS 3            a six-game winning streak                                  power play, leading the
why we’ve got any success      Riemsdyk added an empty        CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —       ended.                                                     Ducks to their fitfh straight
is because of the goalten-     net goal.                      Red-hot Johnny Gaudreau                                                                  win over the Flyers.
ding that we’ve had and        Thomas Greiss made 35          scored twice and Calgary      HURRICANES 2, BLACK-                                       Defenseman Sami Vatanen
he’s a big part of it,” Sena-  saves for New York, which      beat Edmonton for its fran-   HAWKS 1                                                    had two assists and John
tors coach Dave Cameron        has lost four of five.         chise-record 11th straight    CHICAGO (AP) — Jus-                                        Gibson made 24 saves in his
added.                                                                                                                                                 first career game against
The two teams meet again                                                                                                                               the Flyers.
Tuesday night in Boston.                                                                                                                               Jakub Voracek and Mi-
                                                                                                                                                       chael Raffl scored for
PANTHERS 3, BLUE JACKETS                                                                                                                               the Flyers. Steve Mason
2                                                                                                                                                      stopped 33 shots in his
SUNRISE, Florida (AP) —                                                                                                                                fourth straight start.
Aleksander Barkov had a
pair of goals as the Florida                                                                                                                           COYOTES 2, AVALANCHE 1,
Panthers took over the top                                                                                                                             OT
spot in the Atlantic Divi-                                                                                                                             DENVER (AP) — Mikkel
sion with a 3-2 win over the                                                                                                                           Boedker scored at 4:17 of
Columbus Blue Jackets on                                                                                                                               overtime and Anders Lind-
Sunday night.                                                                                                                                          back stopped 38 shots,
Aaron Ekblad also scored a                                                                                                                             helping the Coyotes beat
goal for the Panthers. Jon-                                                                                                                            the Avalanche.
athan Huberdeau had two                                                                                                                                Boedker corralled a loose
assists.                                                                                                                                               puck at his own blue line
Brandon Saad and Cam                                                                                                                                   and skated in all alone on
Atkinson scored for Colum-                                                                                                                             Semyon Varlamov, lifting
bus.                                                                                                                                                   a shot over the stick of the
Roberto Luongo made 15                                                                                                                                 Colorado goalie.q
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