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              Coyotes get 1st win, beat Flyers in OT on Goligoski’s goal


            By The Associated Press                                                                                             pansion  Vegas  its  second
            PHILADELPHIA  (AP)  —  The                                                                                          loss of the season.
            struggling Arizona Coyotes                                                                                          Andrew  Ladd,  Mathew
            finally  got  their  first  win  of                                                                                 Barzal,  Cal  Clutterbuck
            the  season,  beating  the                                                                                          and  Nikolay  Kulemin  also
            Philadelphia  Flyers  4-3  on                                                                                       scored, and Jaroslav Halak
            Alex  Goligoski’s  overtime                                                                                         stopped  31  shots  to  help
            goal  after  blowing  a  two-                                                                                       the  Islanders  win  for  the
            goal lead in the final min-                                                                                         fifth  time  in  six  games.  Ta-
            ute  of  regulation  Monday                                                                                         vares has eight goals in the
            night.                                                                                                              last four games.
            Goligoski  scored  with  14.4                                                                                       William Karlsson, Alex Tuch
            seconds  left  on  the  clock                                                                                       and Colin Miller scored for
            in  OT  and  Arizona  (1-10-1)                                                                                      the  Golden  Knights,  who
            avoided setting an NHL re-                                                                                          snapped a five-game win-
            cord for most consecutive                                                                                           ning  streak  and  lost  an-
            losses to start a season. Jor-                                                                                      other goalie to injury. With
            dan  Martinook,  Christian                                                                                          starter  Marc-Andre  Fleury
            Dvorak and Brandon Perlini                                                                                          and backup Malcolm Sub-
            also  scored  for  the  Coy-                                                                                        ban already sidelined, Os-
            otes,  who  matched  the                                                                                            car Dansk left after Tavares
            1943-44  Rangers  (0-11)  by                                                                                        scored the tying goal late
            losing their first 11 games.                                                                                        in  the  second  period  with
            Sean    Couturier   scored   Arizona Coyotes’ Scott Wedgewood, left, covers up the puck as Philadelphia Flyers’ Sean Coutu-  an apparent leg injury.
            twice  and  Ivan  Provorov   rier, center, and Jakub Voracek, of the Czech Republic, right, reach in for the it during the second   Dansk,  who  came  in  3-0
            had three assists for the Fly-  period of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Philadelphia.               with  an  NHL-best  1.34
            ers.                                                                                               Associated Press   goals-against   average,
            Arizona  was  in  position   SHARKS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2      NHL. Marleau left as a free   Frederik  Andersen  made    made  17  saves.  Maxime
            to  close  it  out  earlier,  but   SAN  JOSE,  Calif.  (AP)  —   agent  this  summer  to  sign   36 saves.         Lagace,  the  fourth  goalie
            Jordan  Weal  scored  on  a   Rookie  defenseman  Tim     an  $18.75  million,  three-  BLUES 4, KINGS 2            Vegas has used in its inau-
            rebound  with  53  seconds   Heed  scored  a  tiebreak-   year contract with Toronto.  ST. LOUIS (AP) —             gural season, came on for
            left in the third period and   ing goal on the power play   Marleau  finished  with  two   Vladimir  Tarasenko  and   his NHL debut and gave up
            Couturier  tipped  a  shot   early in the third period to   shots  on  goal  but  didn’t   Jaden Schwartz each had   four goals on 11 shots.
            past  goalie  Scott  Wedge-  spoil  Patrick  Marleau’s  re-  record  a  point  as  Martin   a goal and an assist to lead   LIGHTNING 8, PANTHERS 5
            wood with 16 seconds left    turn to San Jose by leading   Jones  made  16  saves  for   St. Louis past Los Angeles in   SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) —
            in the third period to tie the   the Sharks over Toronto.  San Jose to improve to 7-0   a  matchup  between  two    Andrei  Vasilevskiy  won  his
            game at 3.                   Heed scored on a slap shot   against  the  Maple  Leafs.   of the NHL’s top teams.     ninth straight start and Ste-
            Goligoski  scored  the  win-  from just above the faceoff   Jones  has  allowed  just  10   Carl  Gunnarsson  scored   ven Stamkos scored twice
            ner  from  a  sharp  angle  in   circle  with  15:49  to  play   goals in those starts.  the   game-winner   and    to lift Tampa Bay over Flor-
            the 3-on-3 overtime period   and  assisted  on  Joe  Pav-  Auston Matthews scored in   Vladimir  Sobotka  added     ida.
            after  a  pass  from  Clayton   elski’s  second-period  goal   the first period and Nazem   an  empty-netter  for  the   Vasilevskiy  made  18  saves
            Keller.                      to give the Sharks their 10th   Kadri  added  a  goal  with   Blues,  who  improved  to   and shares the longest win
            Wedgewood  made  28          straight  win  over  Toronto.   1:10  remaining  to  cut  San   10-2-1  to  match  the  fran-  streak  by  a  goalie  in  fran-
            saves  in  his  Arizona  de-  Joel Ward added an emp-     Jose’s lead to 3-2. The Ma-  chise’s  best  start  set  in   chise history with John Gra-
            but,  and  Niklas  Hjalmars-  ty-net goal for San Jose.   ple Leafs have lost four of   1997.  Jake  Allen  made  26   hame, who won nine in a
            son  added  two  assists  for   This  time  it  came  with   five and were held to only   saves as St. Louis remained   row  from  Nov.  14  to  Dec.
            the Coyotes. Wedgewood       Marleau  in  a  Maple  Leafs   two shots on goal in a span   the  only  unbeaten  team   10, 2005.
            was  acquired  Saturday      sweater  as  he  returned  to   of more than 31 minutes in   on  home  ice  this  season   Ondrej  Palat  scored  the
            from  the  Devils  for  a  2018   the arena he called home   the second and third peri-  (5-0).                     go-ahead  goal  and  had
            fifth-round draft pick.      for his first 19 seasons in the   ods.                    Tanner Pearson and Dustin    an  assist.  Nikita  Kucherov
                                                                                                   Brown scored for the Kings,   added  his  NHL-leading
                                                                                                   who had their three-game     13th  goal  and  an  assist,
                                                                                                   winning  streak  snapped     while  Brayden  Point  and
                                                                                                   and fell to 9-2-1. Jonathan   Yanni  Gourde  each  had
                                                                                                   Quick made 26 saves.         a  goal  and  an  assist  for
                                                                                                   ISLANDERS    6,   GOLDEN     the  Lightning.  Vladislav
                                                                                                   KNIGHTS 3                    Namestnikov  and  Anton
                                                                                                   NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  John     Stralman also scored.
                                                                                                   Tavares kept up his scoring   Aleksander  Barkov  had  a
                                                                                                   surge with two more goals    goal  and  three  assists  to
             budgetaruba@setarnet.aw                                                               and New York handed ex-      lead the Panthers. q
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