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SPORTSTuesday 23 February 2016
NHL Capsules
Wild beat Blackhawks 6-1 in team’s 1st outdoor game
The Associated Press Minnesota Wild right wing Jason Pominville, second from right, celebrates with right wing Nino Calgary captain Mark
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jason Niederreiter, right, and other teammates after scoring against the Chicago Blackhawks during Giordano scored his ca-
Pominville and Erik Haula the second period of an NHL Stadium Series hockey game Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, in Minneapolis. reer-best 15th goal and
each had a goal and two former Ducks goalie Jonas
assists, and the Minnesota Associated Press Hiller stopped 28 shots for
Wild celebrated the first the Flames, who have lost
outdoor game in franchise and helped the Rangers ond period and extended empty. four of five. Mikael Back-
history with a 6-1 victory on win for the seventh time in his goal streak to three DUCKS 5, FLAMES 2 lund added a last-minute
Sunday over the Chicago nine games (7-1-1). games in leading Pitts- ANAHEIM, California (AP) goal for Calgary, which
Blackhawks. Howard stopped 29 shots burgh over Buffalo. — Ryan Kesler had two hasn’t won a regular-sea-
In front of a crowd of as the Red Wings lost their The Penguins beat Buffalo goals and an assist, John son game at Honda Cen-
50,426 at TCF Bank Sta- sixth straight road game, for the eighth straight time Gibson made 22 saves and ter since Jan. 19, 2004.
dium on the University of their longest skid since and also got goals from Anaheim returned from a LIGHTNING 4, HURRICANES
Minnesota campus with an March 2012. He forced Patric Hornqvist, Phil Kes- long road trip to beat Cal- 2
ideal faceoff temperature overtime with a save on sel and Matt Cullen, who gary for its fifth consecutive RALEIGH, North Carolina
of just above freezing, the a penalty shot by Jesper scored on a short-handed victory. (AP) — Ryan Callahan
Wild turned the NHL’s 17th Fast with 5:25 left in regula- breakaway in the third pe- Anaheim captain Ryan scored twice and Steven
edition of open-air hockey tion and then a sliding pad riod. Getzlaf extended his point Stamkos had a goal and
into a romp past their post- save on Fast in close with Kris Letang had three as- streak to eight games with an assist to propel Tampa
season nemesis and prima- 3:45 to go. sists and Marc-Andre Fleury a third-period goal for the Bay past Carolina for its
ry rival. PENGUINS 4, SABRES 3 stopped 24 shots in return- streaking Ducks, who have third straight win.
The Blackhawks pulled BUFFALO, New York (AP) ing after missing a game won 12 of 14 to improve Stamkos put the Lightning
goalie Corey Crawford for — Rookie Scott Wilson due to illness. to 19-4-2 since Christmas. ahead 3-2 on a power play
Scott Darling after 19 saves sparked a two-goal sec- Zach Bogosian scored Anaheim also trimmed Los with 5:43 left, and Calla-
in two periods. Nino Nie- twice, and added an as- Angeles’ lead to two points han added an empty-nett-
derreiter and Ryan Carter sist, and Brian Gionta had a atop the Pacific Division. er with less than 10 seconds
each added a goal and goal and assist for Buffalo, Patrick Maroon and Kevin remaining.
an assist, and Matt Dumba which had a 3-0-1 streak Bieksa also had power-play Ben Bishop made 29 saves
and Thomas Vanek also ended. Bogosian’s second goals as Anaheim beat the and improved to 6-1 in his
scored. goal came with 22 sec- Flames at home for the career against Carolina.
Patrick Kane ended Devan onds left and Buffalo’s net 22nd consecutive time. J.T. Brown also scored for
Dubnyk’s shutout pursuit the Lightning.
with his Western Confer- Joakim Nordstrom and Mi-
ence-leading 35th goal chal Jordan scored for the
midway through the third Hurricanes.
period. Dubnyk stopped 31 CANUCKS 5, AVALANCHE 1
shots. VANCOUVER, British Co-
RANGERS 1, RED WINGS 0, lumbia (AP) — Jannik Han-
OT sen scored twice, Ryan
NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Miller made 37 saves as
Klein scored on a 2-on-1 Vancouver beat Colorado
break at 1:59 of overtime to end a four-game skid.
and New York spoiled a Adam Cracknell, Radim
magnificent effort by De- Vrbata and Christopher
troit goalie Jimmy Howard. Tanev also scored for Van-
Henrik Lundqvist made 22 couver. Henrik Sedin had
saves in his fourth shutout four assists and Daniel Se-
din had three assists.
The Canucks were 0-5-1
over their last six at Rogers
Arena. Semyon Varlamov
stopped 23 shots, and the
Avalanche ended a two-
game winning streak. Matt
Duchene scored with 42
seconds left for Colorado.
The Avalanche won 3-2
Saturday night at Edmon-
ton, but trailed 3-0 after
two periods in this one. It
might’ve been closer if not
for Miller’s stellar play.q
In other NHL games it was
Pittsburgh 4, Buffalo 3; Min-
nesota 6, Chicago 1; N.Y.
Rangers 1, Detroit 0, OT;
Tampa Bay 4, Carolina 2;
Anaheim 5, Calgary 2; and
Vancouver 5, Colorado
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