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Zibanejad rallies Rangers to 6-4 win over Golden Knights

By The Associated Press scored his second goal
NEW YORK (AP) — Mika and Alex Stalock stopped
Zibanejad got the tie- 17 shots for Minnesota,
breaking goal with 5:39 left which had won three of
and the New York Rangers four. The Wild were 0 for 5
scored four in the third pe- on the power play.
riod to rally for a 6-4 victory RED WINGS 5, COYOTES 3
over the expansion Vegas DETROIT (AP) — Anthony
Golden Knights on Tuesday Mantha scored his team-
night. leading fifth goal and
Jimmy Vesey, Mats Zucca- Dylan Larkin added a goal
rello, Chris Kreider, Pavel and an assist as Detroit
Buchnevich and Michael beat Arizona.
Grabner scored for the Knowing the Coyotes (1-
Rangers, and Henrik Lun- 11-1) had played the night
dqvist made 30 saves. before in Philadelphia,
Zibanejad also had assists where they won in over-
on the first two goals in the time for their first victory of
third, helping the Rangers the season, the Red Wings
win for the third time in sev- applied pressure at the
en games (3-2-2). outset. They fired the first
Reilly Smith scored twice, eight shots on goal and
Oscar Lindberg got a goal scored twice before the
against his former team game was three minutes
and David Perron con- New York Rangers’ Pavel Buchnevich (89) celebrates after scoring a goal as Vegas Golden old.
verted a penalty shot for Knights’ Deryk Engelland (5) reacts during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. Gustav Nyquist and Luke
Vegas, which has lost con- 31, 2017, in New York. The Rangers won 6-4. Glendening had early
secutive games after win- Associated Press goals for Detroit. Darren
ning five straight. NHL start. and Kyle Connor scored in Connor added his second Helm added a late empty-
Maxime Lagace, the JETS 2, WILD 1 Winnipeg’s win over Minne- for the Jets, who are 6-1- netter.
fourth goalie used by the ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — sota. 1 since an 0-2 start to the Jason Demers, Nick Cous-
Golden Knights this season, Connor Hellebuyck made Ehlers scored his team- season. ins and Clayton Keller
stopped 32 shots in his first 28 saves, and Nikolaj Ehlers leading seventh goal and Wild rookie Luke Kunin scored for the Coyotes.q
All those wins add up: Under new rule, Dodgers host Game 7

By BEN WALKER The edge and the ability to we have a huge home-
AP Baseball Writer use the designated hitter field advantage.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — All helped a little, maybe — The Dodgers won 104, in-
you fans who hated the of those 11 times they had cluding a major league-
rule that linked the All-Star home field, AL clubs won high 57 at home, and those
Game to home-field ad- six titles. victories added up to a fi-
vantage in the World Se- Before this season, that nal game at their place.
ries, guess what? provision was scrapped. Houston won 101, and
This is your year. As part of the new labor matched Cleveland for the
The Los Angeles Dodgers deal between owners and most road wins with 53.
hosted the Houston Astros players, World Series home “I like the way that you
in Game 7 on Wednesday field goes to the team that earn an opportunity to
night, thanks to a change wins the most games in the get home-field advan-
that went into effect this regular season. tage,” Dodgers manager
season. “We feed off the crowd, for Dave Roberts said. “So to
Now, teams earn the right: sure. Especially at home,” have it come down to one
Los Angeles posted the Los Angeles leadoff man game, I wouldn’t change
most wins in the majors, so Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Kenley Jansen celebrates af- Chris Taylor said. “We feel a thing.”q
ter their win against the Houston Astros in Game 6 of baseball’s
the all-or-nothing matchup World Series Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in Los Angeles.
is at Dodger Stadium. Associated Press
“The home-field advan- Minute Maid Park, home of concept that drove many
tage, having the last at- the Astros. fans crazy. Any method
bat, it’s definitely huge. “It certainly would have would be better, they ar-
Especially in this Series, you been nice. I think what gued — alternating sites
see how many times it’s this postseason has shown like the old days, best in-
gone back and forth, so to me, certainly for us in the terleague record, coin flip,
be able to have that last Division Series and in the anything.
at-bat is huge,” Dodgers Championship Series, that But that’s the way it had
star Justin Turner said. home-field was pretty im- been since a 2002 fiasco
No more giving home field portant,” Astros manager in Milwaukee when the
to the league that wins the A.J. Hinch said before AL and NL both ran out
All-Star Game. This summer, Wednesday’s game. “I sort of pitchers after 11 innings
in fact, the AL won 2-1 at of like it when the 48,000 and the game was de-
Miami on Robinson Cano’s people are yelling for us. clared a 7-7 tie.
home run in the 10th inning There is a difference.” In that span, the American
— under the old rules, this Tying the World Series to League went 11-3 in All-
Game 7 would’ve been at the All-Star Game was a Star play.