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Sean Couturier has hat trick, Flyers beat Bruins 4-3

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean their last six games.
Couturier had a hat trick, SABRES 4, FLAMES 3, OT
Carter Hart stopped 39 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
shots and the Philadelphia Jack Eichel scored at 1:10
Flyers beat the Boston Bruins of overtime to lift Buffalo
4-3 on Wednesday night. past Calgary.
Couturier scored twice Seconds after putting a
within 90 seconds in the backhand off the post, the
second period and sealed Buffalo captain beat goal-
the win with his 19th goal ie Dave Rittich with a low
late in the third for his first shot to the glove side.
career regular-season hat Jake McCabe, Evan Ro-
trick after doing it twice in drigues and Rasmus Dah-
the playoffs. He gave the lin also scored and Linus
Flyers hat tricks in consecu- Ullmark made 30 saves to
tive games after James help Buffalo snap a four-
van Riemsdyk did it Mon- game skid and end Cal-
day night. gary's five-game winning
Oskar Lindblom also streak. Johnny Gaudreau
scored, with Claude Gir- had a goal and an assist for
oux getting his 500th assist the Flames, and Matthew
to join Hall of Famer Bobby Tkachuk and Noah Hanifin
Clarke (852) as the only Fly- also scored. Rittich made
ers to hit that milestone. Pe- 19 saves.
ter Cehlarik scored twice in SENATORS 5, AVALANCHE 2
his first game of the season OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —
and David Pastrnak added Matt Duchene had two
a goal for Boston. goals and an assist against
COYOTES 6, SHARKS 3 his former club and Ottawa
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Philadelphia Flyers' Sean Couturier, center, skates off the ice after scoring his third goal of the beat Colorado for its first
Christian Fischer had a goal night against Boston Bruins' Jaroslav Halak, right, during the third period of an NHL hockey game, home victory since Dec. 17.
and an assist, Richard Panik Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, in Philadelphia. Duchene returned after
scored Arizona's 12th short- Associated Press missing three games for the
handed goal of the season birth of his first son.
and the Coyotes snapped Coyotes, the last two com- four games. back games after beating Brady Tkachuk, Mark Stone
San Jose's seven-game ing after the Sharks pulled Kevin Labanc had a goal Pittsburgh at home Tues- and Ryan Dzingel also
winning streak. goalie Aaron Dell in the fi- and two assists, Evander day. scored for the Senators,
Oliver Ekman-Larsson, nal two minutes. Kane got his 17th goal and The Sharks had not lost and Anders Nilsson made
Lawson Crouse, Alex Gal- Darcy Kuemper made 26 Logan Couture scored for since falling 8-5 to Calgary 30 saves. Nikita Zadorov
chenyuk and Josh Ar- saves for Arizona, extend- the Sharks, who were play- on New Year's Eve and had and Nathan MacKinnon
chibald also scored for the ing his winning streak to ing the second of back-to- given up only 10 goals in scored for Colorado.q

NHL, NHLPA abandon hope of a World Cup in September 2020

By STEPHEN WHYNO The current CBA runs until dialogue with the hope of
AP Hockey Writer 2022, but either owners or being able to schedule the
The NHL and NHL Players' players could choose this next World Cup event as
Association have given up September to opt out and part of a broader agree-
on the possibility of stag- end it Sept. 15, 2020. Play- ment, which would include
ing the next World Cup of ers' escrow payments and a long-term international
Hockey in September 2020 Olympic participation are event calendar," the NHL
but will continue collective significant issues that must said in a statement.
bargaining talks. be overcome to avoid The 2016 World Cup of
The league and PA an- either side electing to re- Hockey generated rev-
nounced the conclusion open the CBA. enue that was split evenly
in separate statements Deputy Commissioner Bill among owners and play-
Wednesday that there's not Daly told The Associated ers, and the goal is to keep
enough time to put togeth- Press last week he believed that event going with an-
er a World Cup in roughly there was a commitment other edition at a time later
20 months. The sides met In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, NHL Commissioner Gary Bett- by both sides to continue than September 2020.
earlier in the day in Toronto man, center, and NHL Players' Association Executive Director talking and "see if we can "The players are focused on
Donald Fehr, left, listen to Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Kane,
to discuss the World Cup as right, after announcing in Columbus, Ohio, the return of the move forward on some- finding the proper time to
part of collective bargain- World Cup of Hockey in 2016 at Toronto. thing that might work for a schedule the World Cup of
ing talks after holding an Associated Press CBA extension." Hockey within the context
informal meeting in Las Ve- "While the parties have now of an overall international
gas on Jan. 10 that lasted closely linked to the poten- a potential work stoppage. joined the concluded that hockey calendar," the NHL-
more than two hours. tial of labor peace in hock- A lockout wiped out the it is no longer realistic to try PA said in a statement. "We
Not holding the World Cup ey. But the NHL and NHLPA 2004-05 season and lasted to schedule a World Cup of look forward to continu-
in September 2020 is conse- plan to meet again soon more than three months in Hockey for the fall of 2020, ing our discussions with the
quential because it was so with the goal of avoiding 2012-13. they plan to continue their league."q