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                                                                                                                            Saturday 7 November 2015

NHL Capsules 

 Holtby’s 28 saves carry Caps to victory over Bruins

WASHINGTON (AP) —                Philadelphia Flyers’ Radko Gudas, right, of the Czech Republic, checks Calgary Flames’ Johnny                                         net goal. Rookie star Jack
Braden Holtby stopped            Gaudreau during second-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Thursday, Nov. 5,                                           Eichel scored his fifth goal
28 shots, Alex Ovechkin          2015.                                                                                                                                 of the season for Buffalo.
scored his seventh goal                                                                                                                                                Chad Johnson replaced
and the Washington Capi-                                                                                                                             Associated Press  Ullmark and stopped all 10
tals handed the Boston                                                                                                                                                 shots he faced.
Bruins their first road loss of  Montreal. The Canadiens          game California swing af-   and Tampa Bay beat Buf-                                                  SENATORS 3, JETS 2, SO
the season, 4-1 on Thurs-        are 3-0-1 since Mike Con-        ter dropping a shootout in  falo for the seventh straight                                            OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —
day night.                       don replaced injured             Anaheim on Wednesday.       time.                                                                    Mika Zibanejad scored the
John Carlson had a goal          Carey Price as the start-        Al Montoya made 27 saves.   Tampa Bay’s early barrage                                                shootout winner, Craig An-
and an assist for the Capi-      ing goaltender and are           LIGHTNING 4, SABRES 1       chased goaltender Linus                                                  derson made 38 saves and
tals, whose 9-3-0 record         12-2-1 overall. Kyle Okposo      BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ste-   Ullmark, and Andrei Vasi-                                                Ottawa beat Winnipeg.
matches the best start in        scored and the Islanders         ven Stamkos, Tyler John-    levskiy made 30 saves for                                                Cody Ceci and Bobby
franchise history.               lost for the fourth time in      son and Nikita Kucherov     the Lightning. Victor Hed-                                               Ryan scored in regulation
Holtby notched shutouts in       five games, including two        scored in the first period  man added an empty-                                                      for the Senators.
all three games between          overtime defeats.                                                                                                                     Andrew Ladd and Dustin
the teams last season. A         Montreal had a 24-18 shot                                                                                                             Byfuglien also scored for
power-play goal by Jimmy         advantage and beat                                                                                                                    Winnipeg and Michael
Hayes in the first period        former Canadiens goal-                                                                                                                Hutchinson turned away
ended the streak.                tender Jaroslav Halak for                                                                                                             29 shots.
Ovechkin tied the game at        only the second time in six                                                                                                           Trailing 2-1 to start the third
1 with the 482nd goal of his     meetings.                                                                                                                             period, the Jets didn’t wait
career, one short of Sergei      SHARKS 5, PANTHERS 2                                                                                                                  long to tie things up. Byfug-
Fedorov for most among           SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —                                                                                                               lien stripped Erik Karlsson of
Russian-born players in NHL      Patrick Marleau scored a                                                                                                              the puck at center along
history.                         highlight-reel goal for his                                                                                                           the boards and then beat
Brooks Laich and Karl Al-        997th career point and San                                                                                                            Anderson 26 seconds into
zner scored a goal each          Jose beat Florida at home                                                                                                             the period.
for the Capitals.                for the first time in nearly 10                                                                                                       FLAMES 2, FLYERS 1, OT
BLUE JACKETS 3, KINGS 2          years.                                                                                                                                CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bran-         Brent Burns, Joonas Don-                                                                                                              Mikael Backlund scored 35
don Dubinsky had a goal          skoi, Marc-Edouard Vlas-                                                                                                              seconds into overtime and
and an assist and Colum-         ic and Chris Tierney also                                                                                                             also had an assist to give
bus overcame a shotless          scored for the Sharks, who                                                                                                            Calgary the victory over
second period to hold off        had lost four straight in their                                                                                                       Philadelphia.q
Los Angeles for its fourth       own building against Flor-
victory in six games under       ida since winning on Dec.
coach John Tortorella.           8, 2005, in Joe Thornton’s
Sergei Bobrovsky made            second home game with
31 saves to help the last-       the franchise.
place Blue Jackets win           Alex Stalock made 31
their second straight game       saves to earn his first win
in California and hand the       of the season as San Jose
first-place Kings just their     won for just the third time in
second loss in 10 games.         nine games.
Cam Atkinson and Greg-           Vincent Trocheck and
ory Campbell also scored.        Brandon Pirri scored for the
Columbus had no shots in         Panthers, who have lost
the second period, a first in    the first two on their three-
franchise history.
Jonathan Quick stopped
22 shots and Alec Martinez
scored a power-play goal
for the Kings, who opened
a five-game homestand
with a clunker. Los An-
geles’ four-game home
winning streak ended, as
did its five-game winning
streak against Columbus
at Staples Center.
CANADIENS 4, ISLANDERS 1
MONTREAL (AP) — David
Desharnais and Brendan
Gallagher scored 1:33
apart in the third period to
lift Montreal to the victory
over New York.
Dale Weise and Tomas
Plekanec also scored for
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