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NHL through the third period

before Jeff Skinner tied it
Continued on Page 20 late in regulation with Car-
olina’s net empty.
Valtteri Filppula scored Sergei Bobrovsky, last sea-
twice for the Flyers, and son’s Vezina Trophy win-
Andrew McDonald, Nolan ner as the NHL’s top goal-
Patrick and Travis Konecny ie, made 37 saves for the
each added a goal. Phila- Blue Jackets.
delphia finished 2-2 on its Scott Darling, obtained in
first four-game road trip to an offseason trade with
open a season since 1971. Chicago, stopped 25
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, COY- shots for the Hurricanes.
OTES 2 STARS 4, RED WINGS 2
LAS VEGAS (AP) — James DALLAS (AP) — John Kling-
Neal scored twice dur- berg and Tyler Seguin
ing a thrilling four-goal first scored in the first period,
period and the Golden and Dallas beat Detroit for
Knights remained unbeat- its first win of the season.
en three games into their Ben Bishop made 23 saves
inaugural season. for the Stars (1-2). Mattias
Tomas Nosek scored the Janmark scored in the
first home goal in franchise Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) scores past Philadelphia Flyers goalie Brian Elliott second period and Martin
history just 2:31 into the first (37) in the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. Hanzal put the puck into
period, and Deryk Engel- Associated Press an empty net with 2 sec-
land added his first goal for ice during 58 seconds of shot the Blues 32-23 overall goalie Carey Price, who onds remaining. The Stars
his adopted hometown’s silence. but dropped to 1-3. stopped 22 shots. (2-1) got goals from Justin
new team moments later. Engelland spoke elo- Gunnarsson scored 15 Tomas Plekanec scored Abdelkader in the sec-
Marc-Andre Fleury made quently to the crowd. seconds into the game. for Montreal (1-3-0), which ond period and Anthony
31 saves for the Golden BLUES 3, RANGERS 1 Mika Zibanejad scored his has lost three in a row and Mantha in the third. Petr
Knights, who became the NEW YORK (AP) — Carter fifth goal of the season for scored only four goals Mrazek stopped 29 shots.
first team in NHL history to Hutton made 16 of his 32 the Rangers on a power overall. The Canadiens SENATORS 3, CANUCKS 2
begin their debut season saves in the third period play. went 0 for 5 on the power VANCOUVER, British Co-
with three straight wins. to help St. Louis remain BLACKHAWKS 3, CANA- play and are 0 for 14 this lumbia (AP) — Mark Stone
Just nine days after the Las unbeaten with a win over DIENS 1 season. scored in the fifth round of
Vegas Strip shooting mas- New York. MONTREAL (AP) — Alex Montreal outshot the the shootout as the Sena-
sacre, the Golden Knights Carl Gunnarsson and DeBrincat scored his first Blackhawks 42-25. tors picked up their first
reverently honored the Brayden Schenn scored NHL goal and set up one BLUE JACKETS 2, HURRI- win of a season.
victims and heroes before first-period goals for the for Artem Anisimov to help CANES 1, OT Kyle Turris kept Ottawa
the long-awaited home Blues, who improved to Chicago spoil Montreal’s RALEIGH, North Caro- alive in the third round of
debut of the city’s first ma- 4-0. Jaden Schwartz add- home opener. lina (AP) — Sonny Milano the shootout after Markus
jor professional sports fran- ed an empty-netter with Brandon Saad also scored scored two goals, includ- Granlund gave Vancou-
chise. 1:47 left. for the Blackhawks (3-0- ing the game-winner on ver the early lead.
The Knights held a pre- Trailing 2-1, the Rangers 1), who were coming off a breakaway with 22 sec- Cody Ceci and Ryan Dz-
game ceremony during pressured an injury-deplet- an overtime loss Monday onds left in overtime to ingel scored in regulation
which the names of the ed Blues squad in the third night in Toronto. Corey give Columbus a victory for Ottawa (1-0-2), which
shooting victims were pro- period, outshooting St. Crawford made 41 saves over Carolina. got 26 saves from Craig
jected in gold onto the Louis 16-8. New York out- and outplayed Montreal Milano scored midway Anderson.q

Robben not enough as Dutch beat Sweden 2-0, miss World Cup

By MIKE CORDER a playoff for the World Cup erlands has produced, who
Associated Press in Russia next year. France may be best remembered
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Arjen beat Belarus 2-1 to seal top for a goal he didn’t score
Robben ensured that the spot in the group and auto- - against Spain in the 2010
Netherlands bowed out matic qualification. World Cup final, when Iker
of World Cup qualifica- The Netherlands, a three- Casillas made an outstand-
tion in some style Tuesday, time World Cup runner-up, ing save to keep the Dutch-
scoring both goals as the has now missed out on the man at bay. Spain won 1-0
Dutch beat Sweden 2-0 World Cup after failing to in extra time. Tuesday’s
before then announcing qualify for last year’s Eu- performance was vintage
his retirement from interna- ropean Championship in Robben. He darted past
tional football. The winning France. defenders, drifted in from
margin at the Amsterdam It has been a dramatic fall the right flank and shot
Arena was nowhere near from grace for a Dutch with his left foot, fell the-
enough for the Nether- team that reached the atrically under a Swedish
lands, which had to beat semifinals at the 2014 World tackle and pleaded with
Sweden by seven goals to Cup in Brazil, four years af- the referee for a free kick.
Netherland’s Arjen Robben applaudes to supporters at the end move into second place in ter losing the final in South He fired up his team, urging
of the World Cup Group A soccer qualifying match between the Group A. The Swedes, who Africa. them forward and fell to his
Netherlands and Sweden at the ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, looked content to defend But it was a fittingly bitter- knees, pounding the turf
Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. throughout the match, fin- sweet end for one of the with both hands, when he
Associated Press
ished second and go into greatest wingers the Neth- hit an inaccurate pass. q