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SPORTS Thursday 5 January 2017
Horvat gets deciding goal in

so to lead Canucks past Oilers

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Weber helped send it to Justin Williams had a goal
Cam Atkinson and William overtime with his tying goal and two assists, and T.J.
Karlsson scored power-play at 4:26 of the third. This was Oshie, Evgeny Kuznetsov,
goals and the Columbus the first game between Dmitry Orlov and John Carl-
Blue Jackets beat the Ed- these teams since a stun- son also scored for Wash-
monton Oilers 3-1 on Tues- ning blockbuster trade last ington. Philipp Grubauer
day night to extend their June, when they swapped made 15 saves in relief of
winning streak to 16 games All-Star defensemen, with Braden Holtby, who was
— one away from the lon- the Predators getting P.K. pulled after allowing three
gest ever in the NHL. Subban. Carey Price made goals on eight shots.
Nick Foligno also scored for 22 saves for his first win in Nazem Kadri, Connor
the Blue Jackets, who can four games. Brown, Frederik Gauthier,
tie the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Kevin Fiala scored and Pe- Leo Komarov and Mitch
Penguins with a victory kka Rinne made 41 saves Marner scored for the Ma-
Thursday night at Washing- to help the Predators snap ple Leafs. Frederik Ander-
ton. The near-sellout crowd a three-game losing streak sen made 23 saves.
chanted “We want 16!” as against Montreal. KINGS 2, SHARKS 1, OT Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (88), of Russia,
the clock ticked down. Subban was placed on in- SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — makes a save on a shot by the Winnipeg Jets during the third
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped jured reserve Sunday and Tanner Pearson scored 58 period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Tampa,
Fla .
21 shots for Columbus, missed his eighth game seconds into overtime to Associated Press
which started the new with an upper-body injury. help Los Angeles rally for a
year on the right note af- Subban was announced victory over San Jose and season series at two games Sam Reinhart had two as-
ter winning all 14 games in earlier Tuesday as the fans’ a sweep of the home-and- apiece. sists, extending his career-
December. The Blue Jack- choice as Central Division home series. Logan Couture scored the best points streak to seven
ets haven’t lost since Nov. captain for the NHL All-Star Jeff Carter tied it early in lone goal for the Sharks, games and giving him two
26 thanks in part to the Game. the third with his 21st goal who lost for just the second goals and seven assists in
league’s best power-play CAPITALS 6, MAPLE LEAFS 5, and then set up the winner time all season when lead- that stretch.
unit. Oscar Klefbom scored OT after San Jose lost posses- ing after two periods. Mar- Buffalo has beaten the
for Edmonton, which was WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex sion in the offensive zone. tin Jones made 33 saves. Rangers in three straight
limited throughout by Co- Ovechkin scored 22 sec- Carter came in on a 2-on- SABRES 4, RANGERS 1 meetings — including
lumbus’ hard-pressing de- onds into overtime and 1 and passed to Pearson NEW YORK (AP) — Evander twice this season — after
fense. Cam Talbot had 32 Washington rallied to end for the one-timer that gave Kane and Justin Bailey losing the previous nine.
saves for the Oilers. Toronto’s winning streak at the Kings their league-lead- scored 1:42 apart around Nick Holden scored and
CANADIENS 2, PREDATORS five. ing seventh overtime win of the first intermission, lead- Henrik Lundqvist made 15
1, OT Ovechkin’s 18th goal of the season. ing Buffalo over New York. saves for the Rangers, who
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — the season came after the Peter Budaj made 26 saves Zemgus Girgensons and were trying for their first
Shea Weber scored in the Capitals erased multiple and Los Angeles followed Jack Eichel also scored, four-game winning streak
third period of his return deficits to win their third in up a 3-2 win at home over and Anders Nilsson stopped since a five-game run Oct.
to Nashville and Max Pa- a row. The Russian superstar first-place San Jose on Sat- 24 shots to help the Sabres 30 to Nov. 6. The Rangers
cioretty had a goal late in moved to within five points urday night with another win for just the second time have had four three-game
overtime for Montreal. of 1,000 for his career. on the road to even the in eight games (2-4-3). winning streaks since.q

U.S. tops Russia 4-3 in world junior hockey semifinal shootout

MONTREAL (AP) — Troy sons plays for London in the awarded a penalty shot
Terry scored on all three of Ontario Hockey League. at 5:14 of the third. White
his shootout attempts, the Denis Guryanov had two went high with his back-
last in the seventh round goals for Russia, Kirill Kapr- hander, and Samsonov
to give the United States a izov also scored, and Sam- made a nice glove save.
4-3 victory over Russia on sonov made 40 saves. Guryanov tied it at 3 less
Wednesday in the world ju- Seeking its fourth title and than a minute later, beat-
nior hockey semifinals. first since 2013, the U.S. ing Parsons through the
Canada faced Sweden beat Russia in the knock- legs. Kaprizov continued
later Wednesday in the out round for the first time his electrifying tournament,
other semifinal. in eight games. The Ameri- scoring on a wraparound
Terry scored the winner cans also beat Russia 3-2 in at 11:54 of the first period
right after Russia’s Alexan- the preliminary round. to get the Russians on the
der Polunin hit the crossbar. Kunin tied it at 2 on a pow- board. It was the first time
The University of Denver for- er play at 10:23. The Min- the Americans trailed in
ward beat Ilya Samsonov nesota Wild first-round draft United States’ Troy Terry scores past Russia goaltender Ilya Sam- this tournament.
through the legs for the pick completed a beautiful sonov in the shootout to beat Russia 4-3 in a semifinal game at White tied it from a dif-
third time. tic-tac-toe play from Jer- the World Junior ice hockey championships, Wednesday, Jan. ficult angle with 55 sec-
Boston College’s Colin emy Bracco and Jordan 4, 2017 in Montreal. onds remaining in the first
White scored twice and Greenway. Associated Press period, throwing the puck
Wisconsin’s Luke Kunin White put the Americans in on net from the corner
added a goal in regulation front six minutes later when off Russian defenseman Clayton Keller could have of the ice. Guryanov put
for the Americans. Tyler Par- his wrist shot from the left fa- Yegor Rykov and eluded put the game away for the the Russians back in front
sons stopped 33 shots. Par- ceoff dot took a deflection Samsonov’s glove. Americans when he was at 1:17 of the second.q