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SPORTS Friday 17 February 2017
Blue Jackets beat Maple Leafs; Blues beat Red Wings

The Associated Press into the game and Jaden
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Schwartz had an empty-
Backup Joonas Korpisalo net goal in the final sec-
made 31 saves, and Nick onds, helping St. Louis beat
Foligno and Boone Jen- Detroit.
ner had a goal each as The Blues have won a
the Columbus Blue Jackets season-high five straight
beat the Toronto Maple games, and coach Mike
Leafs 5-2 on Wednesday Yeo has won six of seven
night. since replacing the fired
Josh Anderson, Oliver Ken Hitchcock.
Bjorkstrand and Matt Cal- Detroit has dropped five
vert also scored, and Al- straight games for the
exander Wennberg, Zach second time in less than a
Werenski and Seth Jones month, matching its sea-
had a pair of assists each son-long losing streak. De-
for the Blue Jackets. Co- troit also lost five straight
lumbus moved into a tie following a 6-2 start to
with Pittsburgh for second what’s become a difficult
place in the Metropolitan season.
Division two days before The Red Wings played
the Penguins visit Nation- their first home game since
wide Arena. team owner Mike Ilitch
Nazem Kadri scored both died Friday.
goals for Toronto, and Cur- FLAMES 3, FLYERS 1
tis McElhinney blocked 30 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
shots — McElhinney was Florida Panthers right wing Jaromir Jagr (68), from the Czech Republic, is congratulated by Colton Matthew Tkachuk had a
waived by the Blue Jack- Sceviour, right, after Jagr’s 1,900th career point on an assist on Aleksander Barkov’s goal during goal and an assist, Brian
ets earlier this season af- the third period of an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks in San Jose, Calif., Wednes- Elliott made 33 stops and
ter backing up Sergei Bo- day, Feb. 15, 2017. The Panthers won 6-5 in overtime. Calgary beat Philadelphia.
brovsky the past few sea- Associated Press The 19-year-old Tkachuk
sons. Josh Leivo assisted on pulled Calgary even at 1
both goals for the Maple after San Jose’s Joe Pavel- 1,900th NHL point. Sharks’ game with a lower-body with a goal 4:28 into the
Leafs, who squandered a ski scored twice late in the fans gave him a nice ova- injury with 38 seconds left first period, then assisted
chance to move ahead third period to tie it. tion. in the third period. He was on TJ Brodie’s go-ahead
of Ottawa and Boston for Nick Bjugstad and Alek- Brent Burns, Joel Ward and replaced by James Reimer, goal 12:45 into the second.
second place in the Atlan- sander Barkov each scored Marc-Edouard Vlasic also who stopped two shots. Mark Giordano added an
tic Division. twice for the Panthers, who scored for the Sharks, who BLUES 2, RED WINGS 0 empty-net goal with 39
PANTHERS 6, SHARKS 5, OT have won five of six games. have lost five of six. DETROIT (AP) — Carter Hut- seconds left for the Flames.
SAN JOSE, California (AP) Jussi Jokinen also scored. Roberto Luongo stopped ton made 25 saves for his Nick Cousins scored for the
— Jonathan Huberdeau Jaromir Jagr assisted on 29 of 34 shots for Florida second straight shutout, Flyers, and Michal Neuvirth
scored 1:38 into overtime Barkov’s second goal for his and had to leave the Ivan Barbashev scored 2:06 stopped 20 of 22 shots.q

AP sources: Napoli passes physical, set for 3rd Texas stint

STEPHEN HAWKINS Arizona, on Wednesday, .320 with 30 homers in 113 catcher for the AL All-Star Texas before going to the
AP Sports Writer when he was set to take regular-season games and team in 2012, though he Red Sox as a free agent.
DALLAS (AP) — Mike Na- a physical. He will get a $6 had 10 RBIs in the World also played first base dur- He played some left field in
poli has passed his physi- million salary this year, and Series. He was the starting ing that two-year span in 2015.
cal, clearing the way for an the agreement includes Texas already has room on
$8.5 million, one-year deal an $11 million club option its 40-man roster after put-
and his third stint with the for 2018 with a $2.5 million ting first baseman Prince
Texas Rangers. buyout. Fielder and reliever Jake
Two people with knowl- In his return to the Rangers, Diekman on the 60-day dis-
edge of the situation told who have won the AL West abled list this week.
The Associated Press that title the past two seasons, Mitch Moreland won a
the deal was done and Napoli figures to play first Gold Glove as the Rang-
that Napoli will be intro- base and provide a big bat ers’ primary first baseman
duced Thursday. They in the middle of the lineup. last season, but became
spoke on condition of ano- He previously played with a free agent and agreed
nymity Wednesday night Texas in 2011 and 2012, to a $5.5 million, one-year
because the Rangers had then spent the final two deal with Boston. Fielder is
not announced the agree- months of the 2015 season signed through 2020 and
ment. in Texas before going to remains on the roster even
While not saying who, the Cleveland as a free agent. though he was forced to
team announced a news Napoli hit a career-high 34 quit playing last summer
conference at its Arizona homers last season, when after his second neck sur-
spring training complex “Party at Napoli’s” be- gery.
before workouts Thursday came a team rallying cry Mike Napoli, center, poses with Texas Rangers manager Jeff Texas also lost big hitters
morning to announce a for the AL champions. Banister, left, and general manager Jon Daniels during a news Carlos Beltran and Ian Des-
free-agent signing. In his first season with the conference Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Surprise, Ariz. mond as free agents.q
Napoli was seen in Surprise, Rangers in 2011, Napoli hit Associated Press