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12 Established 1961 Sports Thursday, March 8, 2018 Marchand completes third career hat trick as Boston past Detroit 6-5

New Jersey Devils score four times in opening frame

BOSTON: Brad Marchand completed his third career six assists during the streak. Laine also recorded his hat trick 34 seconds into overtime and finished with five 14th multi-point game this season and eighth during points on the evening to send the past this streak. the 6-5 on Tuesday night in Boston. Marchand now leads the team with 28 goals on the sea- DEVILS 6, CANADIENS 4 son and recorded his 11th career regular-season over- Travis Zajac scored a pair of first-period power-play time , moving him into first all-time in Bruins histo- goals in a three-point game and Taylor Hall continued ry. Torey Krug (13 goals) his torrid scoring streak scored twice, Jake as the New Jersey Devils DeBrusk (14) added a scored four times in the goal and Anton opening frame en route to Khudobin made 30 a 6-4 victory over the saves as Boston earned Marc-Andre on its fourth straight victo- Tuesday night in New ry. Anthony Mantha (23 Fleury finished Jersey. Hall collected two goals) lit the lamp twice assists, which officially and Frans Nielsen (14), with 17 saves gives him a 19-game Martin Frk (11) and Mike point streak. He’s hit the Green (7) each had scoresheet in 26 straight goals for Detroit, which games played - a three- lost its fourth straight. game hiatus due to a knee injury breaking up JETS 3, RANGERS 0 the run - in which he’s collected 18 goals and 38 points. Patrik Laine recorded his fourth career hat trick as Goalie Keith Kinkaid made 29 saves in the win at Winnipeg blanked New York at Madison Square Prudential Center, which snaps New Jersey’s three- Garden. He surpassed his total from his rookie season game losing skid, on a night his teammates provided an by upping his season total to 38 goals. He also extend- offensive onslaught. ed his points streak to nine games. He has 13 goals and

NHL results/standings NEWARK: Nico Hischier #13 of the New Jersey Devils skates against the Montreal Canadiens at the Prudential Boston 6, Detroit 5 (OT); New Jersey 6, Montreal 4; Winnipeg 3, NY Rangers 0; Columbus 4, Las Vegas 1; Tampa Bay 5, Florida 4 (OT) Nashville 2, Dallas 0; Center on Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey. — AFP Minnesota 6, Carolina 2; Chicago 2, Colorado 1 (OT); Anaheim 4, Washington 0. Eastern Conference Western Conference BLUE JACKETS 4, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1 Bay’s win spoiled a heroic effort by Florida’s Nick Atlantic Division Central Division Joonas Korpisalo had 37 saves and Pierre-Luc Bjugstad, who scored three goals for his first career WLOTLGFGAPTS Nashville 43 14 9 216 168 95 Tampa Bay 46 17 4 245 186 96 Winnipeg 40 17 9 223 175 89 Dubois and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and two hat trick. He has 16 points in his past 16 games. Boston 41 15 8 215 163 90 Minnesota 38 22 7 210 192 83 assists to lead host Columbus over Pacific Division- Toronto 39 22 7 223 195 85 Dallas 37 24 6 195 176 80 leading Vegas. Defensemen Zach Werenski and Ian WILD 6, HURRICANES 2 Florida 32 25 7 193 204 71 Colorado 35 24 7 206 195 77 Cole also scored for Columbus, which won despite Eric Staal’s second goal of the game capped a Detroit 26 29 11 175 199 63 St. Louis 35 26 5 180 176 75 getting outshot, 38-21. Korpisalo, filling in for starter franchise record-breaking four-goal outburst early in Montreal 25 30 11 171 206 61 Chicago 29 30 8 190 196 66 Sergei Bobrovsky who was ill, snapped a personal the second period and host Minnesota routed Ottawa 23 32 10 177 227 56 Pacific Division Buffalo 21 34 11 159 214 53 Las Vegas 42 19 5 226 184 89 three-game losing streak. Erik Haula scored for the Carolina. Goalie Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves at Metropolitan Division Anaheim 34 21 12 190 183 80 lone goal for Vegas, which lost for the fourth time in Xcel Energy Center and had a front-row seat to his Washington 37 22 7 203 197 81 San Jose 35 22 9 196 184 79 five games. Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 17 saves, team’s seventh wins in nine games. Already up 1-0 Pittsburgh 38 25 4 219 203 80 Los Angeles 36 25 5 192 165 77 suffering just his ninth loss in 34 games (22-9-3). after the first period, the Wild went on a scoring Philadelphia 34 21 11 197 193 79 Calgary 32 25 10 188 199 74 spree after the intermission, with Nino Niederreiter New Jersey 34 25 8 199 203 76 Edmonton 28 34 4 187 219 60 LIGHTNING 5, PANTHERS 4 (OT) kicking things off just 23 seconds into the middle Columbus 34 28 5 180 187 73 Vancouver 25 32 9 180 217 59 Carolina 29 27 11 178 204 69 Arizona 20 34 11 158 213 51 Brayden Point scored with 2:11 left in overtime as period. Niederreiter was parked in the slot and NY Islanders 29 29 9 216 241 67 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings host Tampa Bay edged Florida. The loss snapped deflected a Jared Spurgeon point shot to snap a nine- NY Rangers 30 31 6 189 212 66 and are not included in the loss column (L). Florida’s season-best six-game win streak. Tampa game goal drought. — Reuters

England’s Hughes seeks ‘big start’ in France Six Nations clash Scotland stick LONDON: Nathan Hughes says England will be looking for a “big start” against France in the Six Nations on Saturday, desperate to bounce back from the defeat to with Calcutta Cup Scotland that ended their Grand Slam hopes. The Wasps No.8, who returned from injury in the loss in , believes England need to come out of the blocks strongly against Les Bleus if they are to winning formula secure back-to-back wins in the French capital following their 2016 victory. The defending Six Nations champions are second in the table after their shock MURRAYFIELD: will make a first 25-13 defeat against Scotland, with Grand Slam-chasing Ireland favourites to win the start for Scotland as he was chosen yesterday to tournament. replace the injured at wing in Captain Dylan Hartley is a doubt for the game in Paris while Jack Nowell and Sam coach ’s only change to his Underhill have been ruled out. “Our mentality this week is to have a big start,” said side to take on Ireland in the Six Nations on the 26-year-old Hughes, who was born in Fiji. Saturday. “With France they’ve got big boys so if we can move them around in the early Seymour has not recovered from a back part of the game then that’ll be a big bonus for us, and (if we can) keep the score- injury suffered in Scotland’s Calcutta Cup suc- board ticking. “If we can create that big mountain for them to climb I think it will be cess over England at Murrayfield two weeks ago quite hard for them to get back.” when they beat the auld enemy 25-13. There is rain forecast at the Stade de France this weekend for the clash between The 21-year-old Kinghorn debuted as a sub- England and fifth-placed France, which Hughes said could be a factor. “The weather stitute in the match. It was no surprise that is going to dictate the game so if it’s going to be a wet one then our forwards need to Townsend stuck with a winning combination muscle up on their forwards and carry us around. “We’re not going to make the weather change the way we want to play, we still after Scotland scored a second successive win in Nathan Hughes this year’s competition and are now looking to want to play expansive, running rugby and for us to do that we need to be connect- derail Ireland’s hopes of a Grand Slam when they ed. “We don’t want to change too much of our game-that’s why we’ve been doing play in Dublin. heaps of skills and stuff like that to cope with whatever weather that comes.” legs so I’m ready to go if I get the nod to play this weekend,” he said. Scotland added 10 players to their squad on Although Hughes is not taking his selection for granted, he says the whole team “I’ll be raring to go really because of the performance when we lost in Scotland. Monday including the return from injury of a are motivated to put things right after their defeat. “I’ve got a lot of minutes into the We want to turn that around and go back to winning ways.” — AFP number of stalwarts like Richie Gray and , but only hooker Fraser Brown made it into the match 23. “We were delighted with the result against England and backing up our win PAS holds sports against France with an improved performance,” said Townsend in a statement. “The intent we showed in attack and defence media course in the first half was very encouraging and we continued to work hard in the second-half. The By Abdellatif Sharaa effort that went into denying England a second try in the closing minutes was great to see. KUWAIT: Abdallah Al-Salem Leaders Preparation “Our players had prepared very well for the Center in Khaldiya received Secretary General of challenge of taking on England and there has Electronic Media Mohammad Al-Aradah, and Former been a similar focus and commitment this week Director General of Political Media Hussein Jamal, dur- at training. “There are a few areas of our game ing the fourth day of sports media course being held that we are working to improve and we are under the patronage of Public Authority for Sports aware that we will have to be better if we are to (PAS). Both men spoke about the openness of elec- beat a very good Ireland side in Dublin.” tronic media, the increase of newspapers electronic sites and forming an association to protect freedom of Team: 15-, 14-Blair Kinghorn, 13- opinion. Al-Aradah spoke about the development of Huw Jones, 12-Pete Horne, 11-, 10- social media, and the emergence of some electronic , 9-, 8-Ryan Wilson, 7- papers, and having a law by the government. He said Hamish Watson, 6-John Barclay (captain), 5- we met former Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al- , 4-, 3-, Humoud, and Members of Parliament, and the “elec- 2-Stuart McInally, 1-Gordon Reid. tronic association” was declared by electronic papers owners. There are more than 200 electronic papers as Replacements: 16-Fraser Brown, 17-Jamie competition is on the increase. He said that lawyers Bhatti, 18-WP Nel, 19-, 20-David were referred to defend electronic media owners and about his experience at the ministry and the opening and health. Director of Abdallah Al-Salem Center Denton, 21-, 22-, 23-Lee writers whenever any case came up. of the largest political, social and sports media office in Mahmoud Abul lauded both speakers and their new Jones. — Reuters Meanwhile, former Director General of Political Kuwait and benefiting from his experiences, adding information, and conveyed greetings to PAS Director News at the Information Ministry Hussein Jamal spoke that the media became important such as education General Dr Humoud Fulaiteh.