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Penguins hold off Hurricanes, move to 2nd spot in division

The Associated Press Corey Crawford in their fi-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jake nal regular-season home
Guentzel and Conor game.
Sheary scored power-play The Blackhawks clinched
goals and Scott Wilson first place in the Central
picked up his eight of the Division and Western Con-
season as the Pittsburgh ference on Saturday when
Penguins held off the Caro- Minnesota lost at Nash-
lina Hurricanes 3-2 on Sun- ville. Chicago is assured
day. of home-ice advantage
Matt Murray finished with through the first three play-
33 saves for the Penguins, off rounds.
who moved into second LIGHTNING 6, STARS 3
place in the Metropolitan TAMPA, Florida (AP) —
Division with a week to go Adam Erne scored twice
in the regular season. and Ondrej Palat added a
Jeff Skinner collected his power-play goal and two
33rd goal of the season for assists as Tampa Bay beat
Carolina and Justin Faulk’s Dallas.
17th of the year halfway Brayden Point scored the
through the third period go-ahead goal in the third
gave the Hurricanes mo- period to break a 2-2 tie,
mentum but Pittsburgh and Braydon Coburn and
tightened up in front of Anton Stralman also had
Murray to beat Carolina for goals for Tampa Bay. Back-
the seventh straight time. up Peter Budaj made 23
Eddie Lack made 23 stops saves to help the Lightning
for the Hurricanes in his first move within three points of
start since being taken to the idle Ottawa Senators,
the hospital with a strained who hold the second wild-
neck last week. St. Louis Blues’ Magnus Paajarvi (56), of Sweden, is checked by Nashville Predators’ Mike Fisher card spot in the Eastern
The loss inched Carolina (12) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Sunday, April 2, 2017, in St. Louis. Conference.
Associated Press
closer to missing the play- Gemel Smith, Jason Spezza
offs for an eighth consecu- and St. Louis prevented prove to 3-1 since being re- Ryan Spooner, Patrice and Brett Ritchie scored for
tive season. Nashville from clinching a called from the minors. Bergeron and Kevan Miller Dallas, and Esa Lindell as-
CAPITALS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 playoff berth. With four games left, New scored for the Bruins, who sisted on all three goals.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vladimir Tarasenko and York earned its 86th point jumped over idle Toronto WILD 5, AVALANCHE 2
Braden Holtby stopped 35 Joel Edmundson also to inch within five of Otta- and Ottawa into second ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP)
shots, Andre Burakovsky scored, and Jake Allen wa for the Eastern Confer- place in the Atlantic Divi- — Erik Haula had a goal
had a goal and an assist stopped 35 shots as St. Lou- ence’s second wild card. sion. and assist, Devan Dubnyk
and Washington held on is earned at least at point It was the Islanders’ first Boston began the day in stopped 30 shots and Min-
to beat Columbus. for the ninth straight game game since Tavares was wild-card position, four nesota beat Colorado.
T.J. Oshie and Matt Nis- (7-0-2). Allen improved to sidelined by a left ham- points ahead of Tampa Martin Hanzal, Jared Spur-
kanen also scored for the 9-1-2 with two shutouts and string injury in a 2-1 win over Bay for the final playoff spot geon, Zach Parise and Jor-
Capitals, who improved to 16 goals allowed his past New Jersey on Friday. in the Eastern Conference. dan Schroeder also scored
8-1-1 in their last 10 games. 12 starts. BRUINS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2 Chicago’s Artemi Panarin for Minnesota, which re-
Washington, with a league- Ryan Johansen scored for CHICAGO (AP) — Backup extended his goal-scoring covered from a tough 3-0
best 112 points, leads Pitts- Nashville and Juuse Saros goalie Anton Khudobin streak to four games with loss at Nashville a day ear-
burgh by five points in the finished with 21 saves. The made 41 saves and Boston his 29th. Jordin Tootoo also lier with a resounding win
Metropolitan Division. The Predators had won four of held on for its fifth straight scored for the Blackhawks, against the NHL’s worst
Blue Jackets are another the last five meetings with win. who got 26 saves from team.q
point back in third. St. Louis. Nashville needed
Holtby’s 41st win of the sea- one point in the game to
son also tied him with his clinch a postseason spot, APNewsBreak: Yanks drop to
Blue Jackets counterpart but can still qualify if Los An-
Sergei Bobrovsky for best in geles doesn’t win against
the league. Arizona later Sunday. 3rd in payroll; Dodgers lead
Bobrovsky finished with 27 ISLANDERS 4, SABRES 2
saves, and Jack Johnson BUFFALO, New York (AP) RONALD BLUM ing day but dropped to their opening-day payroll
and Kyle Quincey scored in — Anders Lee scored third- AP Baseball Writer $225 million, the AP study had not dropped this low
the third period for Colum- period goals a little more NEW YORK (AP) — An As- showed Sunday. That’s the since 2007, according the
bus, which has lost three than five minutes apart, sociated Press study of big Dodgers’ lowest payroll AP’s calculations. New York
straight games for the first and New York overcame league contracts shows the since 2013. topped opening-day pay-
time this season. the absence of captain New York Yankees aren’t Detroit was second at rolls from 1999-2013 before
BLUES 4, PREDATORS 1 John Tavares to stay in the among baseball’s top two $199.75 million and the falling behind the Dodgers
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alexander playoff hunt. payrolls for the first time in Yankees, in the midst of a each year since 2014.
Steen scored the tiebreak- Cal Clutterbuck and nearly a quarter-century. turn toward youth, third at After setting a record at
ing goal early in the sec- Joshua Ho-Sang also The Los Angeles Dodgers $195 million. The Yankees $270 million two years ago,
ond period, David Perron scored and Jaroslav Halak topped the major leagues had not been outside the the Dodgers dropped to
had a goal and two assists, stopped 35 shots to im- for the fourth straight open- top two since 1993, and $234 million last year.q