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Monday 15 February 2016

Kinkaid has first A-OKEI
NHL shutout, Devils
Nishikori captures fourth Memphis title in a row
beat Kings 1-0
Kei Nishikori of Japan holds his guitar tro-
By DENIS P. GORMAN phy after beating Taylor Fritz of the Unit-
Associated Press ed States in the singles championship at
View gallery’’It’s been the Memphis Open tennis tournament
a long time coming,’’ Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, in Memphis, Tenn.
Kinkaid said after he made Nishikori won 6-4, 6-4.
28 saves for his first NHL
shutout in leading the New Associated Press
Jersey Devils to a 1-0 vic- Page 19
tory over the Los Angeles
Kings on Sunday.
David Schlemko scored
the lone goal, and New
Jersey won its third straight.
The Devils leapfrogged the
idle New York Islanders for
third place in the Metro-
politan Division.
‘’You can’t say it’s a fluke
at this point in the sea-
son,’’ forward Lee Stemp-
niak said. ‘’We’ve worked
extremely hard.’’
The Kings, who got 18 saves
from Jhonas Enroth, have
split the first four outings of
their seven-game trip, their
longest of the season.
New Jersey broke through
on Schlemko’s power-play
goal 5:19 into the first peri-
od. Four seconds after Vin-
ny Lecavalier was assessed
a minor penalty for hook-
ing Reid Boucher, Travis Za-
jac won an offensive zone
faceoff back to Schlemko,
who fired a shot that beat
a screened Enroth.
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‘’I had a clear lane,’’
Schlemko said. ‘’I tried to
get the puck on net.’’

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