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Saturday 5 OctOber 2019
Sabres beat Penguins 3-1 in opener for both teams

By The Associated Press RANGERS 6, JETS 4
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Conor NEW YORK (AP) _ Brett How-
Sheary scored twice den broke a tie with 4:09
against his old team and remaining and New York
Carter Hutton stopped 26 beat Winnipeg in a wild
shots in the Buffalo Sabres’ season opener.
3-1 victory over the Pitts- Mika Zibanejad had a goal
burgh Penguins on Thurs- and three assists, Jacob
day night in the opener for Trouba added a goal and
both teams. Rasmus Dahlin two assists, and Artemi Pan-
also scored to help Buffalo arin had a goal and an as-
give Ralph Krueger a vic- sist for New York. Marc Sta-
tory in his Sabres coaching al also scored, and Henrik
debut. Buffalo beat Pitts- Lundqvist _ making his 14th
burgh in regulation for the consecutive opening-day
first time since April 23, 2013. start _ stopped 43 shots.
Krueger last coached in The Jets went on their fifth
the NHL in 2012-13 when power play with 1:37 left,
the Edmonton Oilers had 19 and were skating with a
wins during a shortened 48- 6-on-4 advantage when
game regular season. Buf- Brendan Smith scored into
falo went 33-39-10 under the empty net with 17 sec-
Phil Housley last season. onds remaining.
Sheary, who played on two Buffalo Sabres’ Zemgus Girgensons (28) collides with Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray Blake Wheeler had two
Stanley Cup champion (30) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. goals, Mark Scheifele and
teams with the Penguins, Associated Press Kyle Connor also scored,
has four goals and six points overtime in the second helped St. Louis win its first teams’ opener. and Connor Hellebuyck
in four games against his round and the Bruins in the Stanley Cup last season, Erik Haula, making his de- made 26 saves.
former club. Evgeni Malkin Cup finals. made it 4-2 before Erik but with the Hurricanes, PREDATORS 5, WILD 2
scored on the power play Roope Hintz scored for Dal- Cernak added an empty- tied it at 3 with 13:05 left. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _
for Pittsburgh. Matt Murray las. Ben Bishop gave up netter. Andrei Vasilevskiy Martin Necas also scored Forsberg each had a goal
made 38 saves. goals on the first two Boston stopped 35 shots to help with the man advantage and an assist and Nashville
BRUINS 2, STARS 1 shots before saving the final Tampa Bay extend its win- for a Carolina team that rallied with four third-period
DALLAS (AP) _ Brett Ritchie 18. ning streak in season open- struggled in those situations goals to beat Minnesota in
scored on his first shift LIGHTNING 5, PANTHERS 2 ers to an NHL-best six. Mike during the postseason. the opener for both teams.
against his former team TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Reign- Hoffman and Vincent Tro- Lucas Wallmark also Mikael Granlund, Austin
barely a minute into the ing NHL MVP Nikita Kuch- check scored for Florida, scored, Hamilton had two Watson and Viktor Arvids-
game and Boston beat erov had a goal and an and Sergei Bobrovsky assists and Mrazek made son also scored goals for
Dallas to open defense of assist, Kevin Shattenkirk and made 25 saves in his debut 33 saves for the Hurricanes. the Predators, and Pekka
its Eastern Conference title. Pat Maroon scored in their for the Panthers. Jordan Weal, Tomas Ta- Rinne stopped 22 shots.
Danton Heinen had a pow- Tampa Bay debuts, and HURRICANES 4, CANADIENS tar and Jesperi Kotkaniemi Matt Duchene, who signed
er-play goal in the first peri- the Lightning opened the 3, SO each scored for Montreal a seven-year deal with
od, and Tuukka Rask made season with a victory over RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Dou- during a three-goal second Nashville as a free agent,
28 saves in a meeting of Florida. gie Hamilton scored in period that erased an early had three assists. Jason
teams that lost Game 7s in Ondrej Palat snapped a the shootout, Petr Mrazek 2-0 deficit, with the goals Zucker and Matt Dumba
the playoffs to Stanley Cup 2-2 tie with a power-play stopped three shots in by Tatar and Kotkaniemi scored for Minnesota, and
champion St. Louis last sea- goal midway through the the tiebreaker and Caro- coming 1:04 apart. Carey Devan Dubnyk made 27
son _ the Stars in double third period. Maroon, who lina beat Montreal in the Price stopped 40 shots. saves.q

Bears join Raiders we came over on a Thurs-
day and we just didn’t feel
Continued from Page 17 2015 when the Chiefs beat like our players were rested
the Lions 45-10. enough, so we decided to
Gruden opted for this ap- “It wasn’t too bad,” re- make a change this year in
proach after choosing to ceiver Allen Robinson said. the schedule and that’s the
spend most of the week “Once you got out there reason why we decided to
back home in the Bay Area and got the blood going a come Sunday, but I feel like
last year before arriving on little bit, it wasn’t too bad. right now our players had a
Friday and losing 27-3 to I thought we had a really good practice.
Seattle in London. crisp practice today, not They were full of energy,
For the Bears, the game just for getting off the plane they looked rested, so
on Sunday is like a business but in general. We looked Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden attends a press we’re counting on the fact
trip. They arrived from Chi- sharp today. I don’t envi- conference during the media day at The Grove Hotel, Watford, that we came here Sunday
cago on Friday morning, sion any jet lag on Sunday.” England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. to give us a little bit of an
held a practice at a rugby Not that an early arrival Associated Press advantage.”
field in the afternoon and guarantees any success. coach Dennis Allen was “Certainly, we thought it The extra time allowed
then tried to rest up before The Raiders went straight to fired soon after they arrived would be an advantage some of the players to
playing their game. Coach London from the East Coast home. for us,” said offensive coor- check out Tottenham Hot-
Matt Nagy opted for that in 2014, getting a full prac- But they still decided dinator Greg Olson, who is spur Stadium on Tuesday
approach after having tice week here and time to spending more time would coaching his eighth game for a Champions League
done it the same as an as- acclimate. They ended up be the better approach in London. “We had a game against Bayern Mu-
sistant for Kansas City in losing 38-14 to Miami and this year. chance to come last year, nich. q