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Saturday 31 december 2016

Blue Jackets win 14th straight, on to historic game vs. Wild

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) 17 set by Pittsburgh in 1992- saves for his 23rd win of the to tie it. of 31 shots.
— Alexander Wennberg 93. The Jackets next play season. RANGERS 6, COYOTES 3 DEVILS 2, CAPITALS 1, SO
had two goals and Bran- at Minnesota on Saturday Shawn Matthias, Bryan Lit- GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — WASHINGTON (AP) — Keith
don Saad also scored, night, and the Wild have tle and Mathieu Perreault Matt Puempel got two of Kinkaid made 43 saves and
helping the Columbus Blue won 12 straight, setting scored for Winnipeg, and his three power-play goals stopped two attempts in
Jackets beat the Winnipeg up the first meeting be- Michael Hutchinson turned late in the third period to the shootout, helping New
Jets 5-3 on Thursday night tween clubs with such long aside 30 shots. help New York avert a col- Jersey beat Washington.
to extend their franchise- streaks. WILD 6, ISLANDERS 4 lapse and beat Arizona. New Jersey’s backup goal-
record winning streak to 14 Nick Foligno and Lukas ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Erik Puempel scored 2:24 into tender was the best player
games. Sedlak also scored for Co- on the ice for the entire
Columbus has tied for the lumbus, and Foligno and game and cracked only
fourth longest winning Zach Werenski each had a on a short-handed goal by
streak ever in the NHL and pair of assists. Daniel Winnik. Jacob Jo-
is closing in on the record Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 sefson returned from a five-
game absence caused by
a concussion to score the
shootout winner.
PA Parenteau scored in the
second period as the Dev-
ils snapped a seven-game
skid against the Capitals.
New Jersey beat Washing-
ton for the first time since
Nov. 14, 2014.
Braden Holtby made 26
saves but couldn’t stop Mi-
chael Cammelleri and Jo-
sefson in the shootout.
OILERS 3, KINGS 1
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP)
— Eric Gryba broke a tie at
6:58 of the third period and
Jordan Eberle had two as-
sists in Edmonton’s victory
over Los Angeles.
Patrick Maroon and Ryan
Nugent-Hopkins also
scored for the Oilers. They
are 4-0-1 in their last five
and 19-12-6 overall.
Cam Talbot made 28
saves, allowing only Nick
Buffalo Sabres’ Nicolas Deslauriers (44) and Boston Bruins’ David Shore’s goal. The Kings
Backes (42) collide along the boards during the first period of have dropped three
an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, in Buffalo, N.Y. straight to fall to 17-15-4.
Associated Press It was the second of five
meetings between the
Haula scored midway the game for a 1-0 edge teams this season, with
through the third period and New York built a 3-1 the Kings winning the first
to help Minnesota hold off lead over the next 20 min- one 4-2 in Los Angeles. The
New York for its 12th victory utes. Arizona rallied to tie Kings swept the five-game
in a row. it on Tobias Rieder’s goal set last season and came
Marco Scandella, Chris 7:32 into the third, but then into the game with a 17-1-2
Stewart, Jared Spurgeon, Puempel made it 4-3 with a record against Edmonton
Jordan Schroeder and Mi- power-play score with 5:20 in their last 20 meetings.
kael Granlund also scored remaining. BLACKHAWKS 3, PREDA-
for Minnesota, which had After a goal by J.T. Miller TORS 2
a franchise-record three with 26.7 seconds left made NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
goals in 80 seconds in the it 5-3, Puempel completed Patrick Kane had a goal
second period. his hat trick with 16.7 sec- and an assist to lead Chi-
The Wild’s Devan Dubnyk onds to go by redirecting a cago over Nashville.
allowed more than three pass from Brandon Pirri. Artem Anisimov and Jona-
goals for the first time this Nick Holden also scored than Toews also scored
season but made 23 saves on a power play and Chris and Corey Crawford made
to win his 10th straight start. Kreider added an even- 36 saves to help Chicago
Haula put Minnesota strength goal for the Rang- snap a three-game losing
ahead 5-4 with his sixth ers. Antti Raanta made 18 streak, the Blackhawks’
goal after Nino Niederreit- saves. longest skid of the season.
er’s shot deflected off Hau- Christian Dvorak and An- Filip Forsberg and Mike
la’s leg. New York’s Brock thony Duclair helped rally Fisher scored for Nashville,
Nelson scored twice in 42 the Coyotes with goals, but and Ryan Johansen had
seconds early in the period Mike Smith stopped just 26 two assists.