SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2015 SPORTS

NHL Results/Standings

Detroit 2, Toronto 1 (OT); New Jersey 4, Chicago 2; Dallas 4, Carolina 1; NY Rangers 2, Colorado 1; Pittsburgh 2, Edmonton 1.

Western Conference Central Division WLOTLGFGAPTS Dallas 11 3 0 50 38 22 St. Louis 9 3 1 36 31 19 Nashville 8 2 2 35 27 18 Winnipeg 8 4 2 42 38 18 Minnesota 7 3 2 37 35 16 Chicago 7 6 1 35 36 15 Colorado 4 9 1 36 42 9

Pacific Division Los Angeles 8 5 0 31 28 16 Vancouver 6 3 4 38 29 16 San Jose 7 6 0 38 35 14 Arizona 6 5 1 34 34 13 Anaheim 4 7 2 21 33 10 Edmonton 5 9 0 37 43 10 Calgary 4 9 1 32 57 9

Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Montreal 12 2 1 55 27 25 Ottawa 7 4 2 40 39 16 Tampa Bay 7 6 2 38 37 16 Detroit 7 5 1 32 32 15 Boston 6 5 1 43 40 13 Florida 5 5 3 36 31 13 Buffalo 5 8 0 29 39 10 Toronto 2 8 3 27 42 7

Metropolitan Division NY Rangers 9 2 2 38 24 20 Washington 9 3 0 40 29 18 Pittsburgh 9 4 0 29 23 18 NY Islanders 7 4 3 39 35 17 New Jersey 7 5 1 33 33 15 Philadelphia 4 6 3 25 39 11 Carolina 5 8 0 27 38 10 Columbus 4 11 0 35 54 8 TORONTO: Toronto Maple Leafs’ defenseman Morgan Rielly, bottom, is taken down by Detroit Red Wings’ forward Riley Sheahan (15) during second-period NHL hockey Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings game action in Toronto, Friday. — AP and are not included in the loss column (L) Red Wings sweep aside Babcock’s Leafs in OT

TORONTO: Jakub Kindl scored 2:17 into overtime, Henrik Zetterberg got his 300th career goal and Detroit won its third straight. Kindl was able to skate in down the middle and beat James Reimer over the blocker for his second England fail to help Burgess crack code goal of the season. Dion Phaneuf scored and Reimer fin- ished with 22 saves for Toronto, which has just one win in LONDON: As if presiding over the first host nation to during the World Cup. He certainly did not cost asked to play either at flanker for his club or centre seven games this season at Air Canada Centre. Petr Mrazek suffer a pool-phase exit at a World Cup was not bad England a quarter-final place. In the key defeat by for England-two of the most difficult positions to play made 32 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings went 0 for 3 on enough, ’s return to after Wales, having done an admirable defensive job and rugby, with a constant 80 minutes of decision-mak- the power play while the Leafs failed to score on four just a year in will further undermine been a useful decoy runner in build-up to a try, his ing,” former England union fly-half Stuart Barnes told chances with the man advantage. Zetterberg opened the England coach Stuart Lancaster. side were leading when Burgess came off only for the Sky Sports. scoring with 3:39 to play in the first on an apparently harm- It was always asking a lot of Burgess, heading back Welsh to rally late on. “It’s not a mark of failure for Burgess not to have less wrist shot taken from just inside the blue line. It fooled to the South Sydney Rabbitohs, barely 12 months But his undeniable physical power and presence cracked it in under a year.” Barnes added: “What it Reimer blocker side for Zetterberg’s fourth goal this sea- after helping the club win the Australian NRL Grand could not disguise his lack of ease in his England role, does do is question England’s blind determination to son. Final, to become a fully fledged union international in with veteran Ireland centre Gordon D’Arcy’s wither- force him in, when it was always going to be a race such a short space of time. ing critique that Burgess “doesn’t know how to play against time.” DEVILS 4, BLACKHAWKS 2 And it became all the more difficult when, in the inside centre” sadly proving all too accurate. For all that England assistant coach Andy Farrell, Travis Zajac capped a three-goal first period with a goal absence of a central contract, club side Bath and another cross-code convert, was in the firing line over and an assist in a 26-second span and the New Jersey England saw his union future in two different posi- ‘Doesn’t know’ Burgess’s rapid promotion, Lancaster-bidding to stay Devils beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Friday night. tions. That Burgess’s inclusion in the World Cup squad in post as England review a woeful World Cup cam- The Blackhawks’ poor performance came a day after an Bath played him mainly as a flank forward, while came at the expense of experienced centre Luther paign-will have to carry the can. upstate New York prosecutor decided not to bring rape England saw him as an inside centre-a key playmak- Burrell, who up until the tournament had been one of “It leaves Stuart Lancaster in a very tenuous posi- charges against Chicago star forward Patrick Kane because ing position in the backline. Because the two rugby the mainstays of Lancaster’s three years as England tion,” said Barnes. of a lack of credible evidence following a three-month codes are played with an oval-shaped ball, it is easy coach, all added to the sense of a needless gamble. “I don’t think he was the most convinced of the investigation. Kane extended his goal-scoring streak to to think the only key difference between them is that There was a hope in some quarters that Burgess England coaches about the qualities of Sam Burgess three games and his points streak to nine (6 goals, 7 there are 15 players in a union team and 13 in a might do for Lancaster what fleet-footed former rug- for this year, but the fact is Stuart Lancaster had the assists). The Devils dominated in winning for the seventh league one. by league star did for Clive final say and he selected him in the 31 (man squad).” time in nine games, sending the Blackhawks to their sec- Yet while a tackle in league sees play halted, in Woodward’s World Cup-winning England side of So long as union remains the higher profile inter- ond straight loss and ending a four-game losing streak union it is the start of a contest for possession. 2003. national sport, more league players can be expected against Chicago. Lee Stempniak and Kyle Palmieri had a Meanwhile the line-out, another important area for Robinson, however, was a wing, a position in to switch codes-the traffic was all the other way when goal and an assist, Severson added two assists and Mike union forwards, simply does not exist in league. which there is the least difference between the two union was an amateur game. Cammalleri tallied a goal as New Jersey took a 4-0 lead in Burgess, trying to master two of union’s most codes, and he had two years of international rugby But they must hope for more sympathetic treat- the opening 27:28. demanding positions and a complex rulebook, made union behind him when England won the World Cup. ment, and above all, more time than England gave just one start and two appearances off the bench “What happened really was he (Burgess) was Burgess or, indeed, Burgess gave himself. —AFP PENGUINS 2, OILERS 1 Phil Kessel broke a tie midway through the third period and Pittsburgh won its sixth straight. Kessel’s goal was his fifth. Daniel Sprong also scored and the Penguins won their ninth in 10 games. Oscar Klefbom had the Oilers’ lone goal. Edmonton has lost two of three. Kessel scored on a power play 9:45 into the third. His shot from the point was partially blocked by Brandon Davidson then floated past goalie Anders Nilsson. Jeff Zatkoff stopped 27 shots and won for the second time in two starts this year.

STARS 4, HURRICANES 1 Patrick Sharp scored the go-ahead goal and Radek Faksa added his first of his career to lead Dallas. Ales Hemsky and Jason Demers also scored and Colton Sceviour had two assists for the Stars. Kari Lehtonen fin- ished with 30 saves. Jordan Staal scored for Carolina and Eddie Lack stopped 25 shots. Staal’s goal marked the sixth time he had scored on an assist from brother Eric. Jordan has assisted Eric nine times. The Western Conference-lead- ing Stars have won six of their last seven games and are 6-2 on the road. Dallas has also won eight of the last 11 against Carolina and four of the last five meetings in Raleigh.

RANGERS 2, AVALANCHE 1 Derek Stepan and Oscar Lindberg scored 21 seconds apart in the second period, helping New York to its fourth straight win. Henrik Lundqvist made 29 saves as the Rangers improved to 14-2 on the road against Western Conference teams dating to last season. Nathan MacKinnon scored a power-play goal for the Avalanche, who have dropped four of their last five contests. They begin a seven-game trip Tuesday. TOULON: Montpellier’s Oleg Ishchenko, right, tries to tackle Toulon’s (RCT) new recruit, Tom Taylor of New-Zealand, during the Top 14 final rugby match between Toulon and Montpellier, at the Mayol stadium, in Toulon, Southern France, yesterday. — AP DUCKS 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf had three assists in his first game back from an appendectomy, including one on defenseman Josh Manson’s first NHL goal, and the Ducks Murray charges past Ferrer to reach Paris final beat Columbus. Cam Fowler and Patrick Maroon also scored, Corey Perry also had three assists and Frederik Andersen made 34 saves for the three-time defending PARIS: World number three Andy Murray reached his maid- “I dictated a lot of the points and I finished a lot of points exchange at the net with a fine sliced lob to set up two set Pacific Division champions in a matchup of teams that en Paris Masters final when he overpowered Spanish eighth up at the net and was able to shorten enough points to not points and on the first one Ferrer netted a routine backhand. began the day last in their respective divisions. Anaheim seed David Ferrer 6-4 6-3 despite a few off lapses yesterday. make it too tiring.” Murray made a dream start, breaking to In typically tenacious fashion Ferrer got straight back has won three straight following a 1-7-2 start. Clayton The British second seed lost his focus at times but eventu- love in the first game, but Ferrer was spurred into action and down to business and raced to a 3-1 lead in the second set. Stoner scored into an empty net with 16 seconds to play ally had too much for the 2012 Bercy champion as he set up the Spaniard levelled for 3-3 when two Murray unforced But double grand slam champion Murray found his range after Columbus’ Scott Hartnell got his second goalof the a showdown with either world number one Novak Djokovic errors gave him a break in the sixth game. again, producing some improbable angles as he won five night with a minute on the clock. Curtis McElhinney or French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka. “I managed to In a see-saw opening set, Ferrer set up four more break games in a row, wrapping up the victory on his first match stopped 33 shots for the Blue Jackets against his former shorten a lot of the points. There was some variety in there points in the eighth game but Murray saved them all and point when Ferrer netted an attempted drop shot. Murray with the way the points finished, which was pleasing for me,” went on to steal his opponent’s serve as the Spaniard made a will be guaranteed finishing the year second in the ATP rank- club. Columbus is 4-4-0 under new coach John Tortorella, Murray told a news conference. string of unforced errors. The Scot finished a superb ings for the first time if he wins the title. — Reuters who replaced Todd Richards after the team’s 0-7 start. —AP