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                                                                                                       SPORTS Saturday 7 January 2017
                   Blue Jackets’ win streak snapped at 16



            WASHINGTON  (AP)  —  Co-                                                                                            OT
            lumbus delivered a clunker                                                                                          CHICAGO  (AP)  —  Patrick
            in its try for a historic win.                                                                                      Kane  scored  56  seconds
            The Blue Jackets lost 5-0 to                                                                                        into  overtime,  Artem  Ani-
            the  Washington  Capitals                                                                                           simov  had  two  goals  and
            on  Thursday  night,  ending                                                                                        Chicago beat Buffalo.
            their  winning  streak  at  16                                                                                      Jonathan  Toews  set  up
            games, one shy of the NHL                                                                                           Kane’s  12th  goal  when
            record.                                                                                                             he  forced  Anders  Nilsson
            Columbus  lost  for  the  first                                                                                     to  make  a  left  pad  save.
            time  since  Nov.  26,  end-                                                                                        The rebound went right to
            ing  a  captivating  run  for                                                                                       Kane, who knocked it into
            coach  John  Tortorella’s                                                                                           the  open  side  of  net  be-
            team  that  fell  short  of  the                                                                                    fore Nilsson could recover.
            1992-93  Pittsburgh  Pen-                                                                                           Ryan Hartman also scored
            guins’ record of 17 consec-                                                                                         for  the  Blackhawks,  who
            utive wins.                                                                                                         had  dropped  five  of  six.
            The Capitals kept the Blue                                                                                          Kane  also  had  two  as-
            Jackets’    league-leading                                                                                          sists against his hometown
            power  play  off  the  board                                                                                        team and Corey Crawford
            in five chances, and Daniel                                                                                         made  17  stops  in  Chica-
            Winnik, John Carlson, Nate                                                                                          go’s 10th consecutive vic-
            Schmidt, Andre Burakovsky                                                                                           tory against Buffalo.
            and  Justin  Williams  scored                                                                                       RED WINGS 4, KINGS 0
            to chase goalie Sergei Bo-   Edmonton Oilers left wing Patrick Maroon (19) scores past Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask (40) in   LOS  ANGELES  (AP)  —
            brovsky.                     the third period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Boston.             Thomas    Vanek    scored
            Bobrovsky  had  been  rock                                                                         Associated Press  twice  during  a  three-goal
            solid  during  the  streak  but   a  late  two-goal  deficit  to  was  snapped  by  Colum-  monton beat Boston.     first  period,  Jared  Coreau
            stopped just 18 of 23 shots   beat San Jose.              bus.                         Cam  Talbot  stopped  33     stopped 34 shots for his first
            Thursday.                    The  teams  combined  for  Devan  Dubnyk  saved  30  shots for the Oilers. He took     career shutout and Detroit
            A game after being pulled    five goals in the third, with  shots in his first appearance  a 4-2 lead into the final four   beat Los Angeles.
            himself, Vezina Trophy win-  Joel  Ward  and  Patrick  in  San  Jose  in  over  two  minutes before David Krejci    Andreas  Athanasiou  also
            ner  Braden  Holtby  made    Marleau  putting  San  Jose  years,                       scored on a rebound of Pa-   scored  in  the  first  period,
            29 saves, giving Columbus    ahead  4-2  in  the  first  five  when  he  was  with  the  trice Bergeron’s shot in the   and  Coreau  turned  away
            just  its  second  shutout  de-  minutes  before  Eric  Staal  Phoenix Coyotes.        last two seconds of a 5-on-  Tanner Pearson on a pen-
            feat this season.            scored  once  and  Koivu  Joonas  Donskoi  and  Joe  3 power play.                     alty shot during the open-
            The Capitals moved within    twice  to  bring  the  Wild  Pavelski  also  scored  for  But Talbot killed off the rest   ing frame.
            five points of the Blue Jack-  back.  Koivu  scored  twice  the  Sharks,  who  lost  their  of the power play with the   Anthony Mantha added a
            ets  for  the  top  spot  in  the   in 1:55, with the go-ahead  third  straight,  matching  a  Oilers  one  man  down.  He   goal in the third period to
            ultra-competitive   Metro-   goal coming with 9:42 left.  season  high.  Martin  Jones  then  blanked  Boston  for   help the Red Wings end a
            politan Division.            Minnesota  got  its  seventh  made 21 saves.              another minute with goalie   two-game skid.
            WILD 5, SHARKS 4             straight victory on the road.  OILERS 4, BRUINS 3         Tuukka  Rask  pulled  for  an   Vanek  scored  in  the  first
            SAN  JOSE,  Calif.  (AP)  —   Staal  also  had  two  goals  BOSTON (AP) — Patrick Ma-  extra skater.                two  minutes  and  last  two
            Mikko  Koivu  scored  back-  and Zach Parise scored for  roon  had  a  hat  trick  and  Bergeron  and  Colin  Miller   minutes  of  the  first  for  his
            to-back    goals   midway    the Wild, who were playing  also  squared  off  in  a  fight  also  scored  for  the  Bruins,   53rd   career   multigoal
            through  the  third  period   their  first  game  since  their  with  6-foot-9  defenseman  and Rask stopped 21 shots.  game,  giving  him  nine
            and  Minnesota  overcame     12-game  winning  streak  Zdeno  Chara,  helping  Ed-     BLACKHAWKS  4,  SABRES  3,   goals this season.q

                                                                      Troy Terry lifts U.S. past


                                                                      Canada in world junior thriller




                                                                      5-4  on  Thursday  night  to  “As  I  came  down,  I  de-  “He’s  a  guy  that  doesn’t
                                                                      win the world junior hockey  cided I just had to try to go  get  nervous.  He’s  always
                                                                      title.                       five-hole.”                  calm  and  confident  and
                                                                      The game was decided in  The University of Denver for-    he  just  has  that  ice  in  his
                                                                      the five-round shootout af-  ward  and  Anaheim  draft  veins.  He  came  up  clutch
                                                                      ter  a  20-minute  overtime  pick beat Carter Hart in the  for us again, and (Parsons)
                                                                      period.                      fourth  round  of  the  shoot-  made that big save at the
                                                                      On Wednesday in the semi-    out.  Parsons  then  stopped  end.”
                                                                      finals,  Terry  scored  on  all  Anthony  Cirelli’s  attempt,  Parsons  made  46  saves.
                                                                      three  of  his  shootout  at-  American  Jeremy  Bracco  The  Michigan  native  and
                                                                      tempts  to  give  the  United  missed  a  chance  to  end  Calgary draft pick plays for
            United States players pose with the trophy after defeating Can-  States  a  4-3  victory  over  it  in  the  top  of  fifth  round,  London  in  Ontario  Hockey
            ada in the final of the world junior championship in Montreal on
            Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.                                   Russia. He beat the goalies  and  Nicholas  Roy  mishan-  League.
                                                     Associated Press   between the legs on all four  dled  the  puck  on  Cana-  “It was a great atmosphere
                                                                      attempts in the two games.   da’s last attempt.           in  the  building,”  Parsons

            MONTREAL (AP) — Troy Ter-    all five shots he faced in the   “Before the shootout, I was  “He’s  unbelievable”  Bos-  said. “It gave me chills. It’s
            ry scored the lone shootout  tiebreaker  and  the  United   thinking about trying some-  ton University forward Clay-  unbelievable to win this for
            goal, Tyler Parsons stopped  States  outlasted  Canada    thing  different,”  Terry  said.  ton Keller said about Terry.  your country.”q
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