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St. Louis Blues vs

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By STEPHEN WHYNO to beat up and disrupt the
AP Hockey Writer Bruins. It's working. Since al-
Something is missing from lowing six power-play goals
Boston's power play. early in the final and letting
The uninterrupted puck the Bruins go 4-for-4 on four
movement and cross-ice shots in Game 3, the Blues
passes to a wide-open Da- have made five successful
vid Pastrnak aren't there penalty kills.
anymore. Torey Krug isn't Suddenly Boston's most
getting the chance to fire valuable weapon is quiet.
away from the top. Patrice "We're staying tight to
Bergeron isn't dominating each other," Blues penalty
between the faceoff cir- killer Oskar Sundqvist said.
cles like before. "We're not letting them
Boston rode its power play pass through the seams
to a 2-1 lead in the Stanley and shoot from the top and
Cup Final. Since then, the things like that. We're mak-
St. Louis Blues have shut out ing it harder on them and
the most effective power- keeping them on the out- St. Louis Blues' Vince Dunn, left, checks Boston Bruins' Joakim Nordstrom, of Sweden, during the
play unit in more than 30 side. We just need to keep second period in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Boston.
years and held the Bruins' doing the same thing and Associated Press
best players in check, too. we're probably going to be
The Blues' power play has fine if we do that." Berube also has made ad- been the second-highest ways the half wall is a big
been nothing special, but Not just fine. If this keeps up, justments to counter Boston all-time for a Cup cham- thing. But I would guess
their penalty kill is a major they could be Stanley Cup coach Bruce Cassidy's spe- pion — and was drawing more net-front tips, re-
reason why St. Louis has champions. cial teams. comparisons to the New bounds back then. Now
won two straight to earn Game 3 was such an eye- "They really like using seam York Islanders' 1980s dynas- it's more one-timer, seam
a chance to claim the first opener of how good Bos- passes and things like that, ty that featured Mike Bossy, passes."
NHL championship in fran- ton's power play is that and I thought we were tight Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies Krug considers Cassidy a
chise history at home Sun- many wondered if the and doing a good job with and Bryan Trottier. power-play mastermind,
day night in Game 6. Bruins were just going to our sticks and doing a real "Back then it was more and that will be tested with
St. Louis has gone from be- steamroll the Blues and win good job on our stand at drop-off, backdoor, over- the Bruins facing elimina-
ing the playoffs' least-pe- the series in five games. But the blue line on their break- load ... a lot more point tion Sunday for the first time
nalized team through three Sundqvist was suspended outs and breaking plays shots," Cassidy said. "Little since Game 7 in the first
rounds to something else that game and goalten- up," Berube said. more low-to-high driven round against Toronto.
entirely. The Blues are bor- der Jordan Binnington has Boston's power play had net-on-net, whereas now "I think in zone, they've
derline undisciplined, rely- shown serious resolve since been converting over 30% I think you see a lot more been tight," Cassidy said of
ing on targeted toughness then. Blues coach Craig — a clip that could have power plays, certainly al- the Blues.q

Gymnastics coach under restrictions for misconduct claim

Associated Press home weren't returned Fri- conduct. The Morning Call
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — day. reported that the website
The organization tasked The U.S. Center for SafeS- was updated after its initial
with policing abuse in port is investigating the al- story on Holman. Leslie A.
Olympic sports has barred legations. King, a representative for
a Pennsylvania gymnastics No details about the al- USA Gymnastics, said web-
coach from being around legation are given in the site updates had been in
minors unsupervised while it restriction notice. A spokes- the works for some time.
investigates a misconduct woman for Lehigh County Holman told the Orange
claim. District Attorney Jim Martin County Register earlier this
John Holman's interim re- told The Allentown Morning week he was unaware of
striction issued by the U.S. Call his office is not aware the allegation and didn't
Center for SafeSport is a of allegations against Hol- commit sexual misconduct.
requirement when such al- man. Last year, The Morning Call
legations are reported, ac- The bylaw cited as grounds reported that former U.S.
cording to USA Gymnastics. for the restriction refers ex- National Team member
Holman has coached for clusively to sexual miscon- Jessica Armstrong said she
about 40 years at Parkettes duct, but USA Gymnastics was sexually abused by
Gymnastics Club, which said it could also refer to a coach while training at
has trained thousands of non-sexual misconduct al- Parkettes in the late 1970s
gymnasts including several legations. The organiza- or early 1980s. The coach
In this June 30, 2016 photo, coach John Holman works with a Olympians. tion's website was updated Armstrong accused, who
gymnast at Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Al- Messages seeking com- Friday to include a line that wasn't named, has not
lentown, Pa. ment left at the club and the bylaw is listed for any worked for the club since
Associated Press at the 66-year-old Holman's matter, not just sexual mis- the 1980s.q