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                                                                                                                              Tuesday 17 November 2015

NHL Roundup

Zuccarello leads Rangers to 4-3 win over Maple Leafs 

NEW YORK (AP) — Mats           made 23 saves.                    win in two nights and third    Chicago Blackhawks’ Artemi Panarin (72), of Russia, celebrates
Zuccarello scored with         Peter Holland, Joffrey Lu-        win its last four contests.
58.3 seconds left to give      pul and Dion Phaneuf              Jonathan Toews added an        with teammates on the bench after scoring a goal during the
the New York Rangers their     scored for Toronto, which         empty-netter with 37.4 sec-
ninth straight win, 4-3 over   snapped a three-game              onds left                      second period of an NHL hockey game against the Calgary
the Toronto Maple Leafs on     winning streak. Jonathan          Kane, who took over the
Sunday.                        Bernier stopped 26 shots.         NHL lead in goals (13) and     Flames on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, in Chicago. Chicago won
Zuccarello also had two        BLACKHAWKS 4, FLAMES 1            points (28) has scored a
assists as New York im-        CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick            goal in seven consecutive      4-1. 					  Associated Press
proved to 14-2-2, the best     Kane scored and had an            games and a point in 13
18-game start in franchise     assist in Chicago’s quick         straight. He has 10 goals
history in wins and points     three-goal outburst in the        and 12 assists during his run
(30). The Rangers’ winning     second period, and the            to the top of the NHL scor-
streak is their third-longest  Blackhawks beat the Cal-          ing list.
overall and longest since      gary flames 4-1 Sunday            Chicago backup Scott
winning 10 straight in the     night.                            Darling made 25 saves in
1972-73 season.                Rookie Artemi Panarin and         his fourth start.
Ryan McDonagh, Derek           Marian Hossa also scored          David Jones scored for
Stepan and Derick Bras-        in the Blackhawks’ 1:55           Calgary, which finished
sard also scored for New       blitz in the second to help       a four-game road trip at
York, and Antti Raanta         lift Chicago to its second        1-3.q

Andy Murray not afraid to play Davis Cup final in Belgium 

CHRIS LEHOURITES               where the Davis Cup final         Murray slowly fought back      Andy Murray of Britain serves to David Ferrer of Spain during
AP Sports Writer               will be played from Nov.          as Ferrer continued to         their singles tennis match at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2
LONDON (AP) — Andy             27-29 in Gent.                    struggle to get the ball in    Arena in London, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. 
Murray plays tennis for a      “We need to go out there          play. Murray ended up
living, and he doesn’t plan    and do what we always             winning 19 of the 32 points                                                                        Associated Press
on being afraid of doing       do and try not to change          off Ferrer’s second serve.
his job.                       too much. That’s all we           Unfortunately for Mur-
Murray was asked about         can do,” Murray said. “I          ray, the ATP finals is being
the Paris attacks on Mon-      don’t want to live my life in     played on an indoor hard
day, and whether he was        fear each time I step on a        court while the Davis Cup
scared to go to Belgium at     tennis court. So that’s what      final will be played on in-
the end of the month to        I’ll do.”                         door clay.
play in the Davis Cup final.   Against Ferrer at the O2          Murray has been splitting
“I think everybody right       Arena in London, Murray           his preparation time for the
now is concerned about         was able to win with plenty       two tournaments on both
things,” said Murray, who      of help from the Spaniard’s       surfaces, and it showed.
beat David Ferrer 6-4, 6-4     serve. The seventh-seeded         “First couple of games my
in his opening match at        Ferrer had eight double-          timing was a little bit off,”
the season-ending ATP fi-      faults and landed only 49         Murray said. “But I got it
nals. “But I do think the      percent of his first serves.      back pretty quickly, which
best thing that we can do      “I serve bad @ the end of         was pleasing.”
is to live our normal lives,   the first set and also in the     Britain has not won the
not change too much,           second set,” Ferrer said.         Davis Cup title since 1936,
because then the terrorists    “Anyway, in important mo-         when Fred Perry was the
are the ones that are win-     ments he was better than          team’s star player. Per-
ning.”                         me. He played more ag-            ry was also the last Brit-
Among the sites targeted       gressive than me.”                ish man to win the men’s
in Friday’s attacks was the    Murray broke Ferrer to win        title at Wimbledon that
Stade de France, where         the first set, getting his final  same year, until Murray
France’s national team         point on the Spaniard’s           came along. In the late
was playing Germany in a       second double-fault of            match at the ATP finals,
soccer friendly. And many      the game. Although Ferrer         Rafael Nadal will take
of the attackers have          broke to open the second          on French Open cham-
been linked to Belgium,        set in the following game,        pion Stan Wawrinka.q
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