SPORTS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 , 2013 Photo of the day Sharks edge Ducks to top Pacific Division SAN JOSE: San Jose leapfrogged Anaheim to the top of before Ovechkin scored to give the Capitals (14-11-2) their the NHL Pacific Division by beating the Ducks 4-3 after a second successive win. shootout on Saturday, with Joe Pavelski netting the Sharks’ winner and Antti Niemi stopping all three attempts in the Penguins 5, Panthers 1 tiebreaker. Despite being badly out-gunned, the Pittsburgh Also Saturday, league leader and defending champion Penguins made the most of their opportunities to beat the Chicago completed an impressive road trip with a win at Florida Panthers. Florida, who out-shot Pittsburgh 40-22, Phoenix, Colorado beat Minnesota in a shootout, and Max have lost four of their past five games. Pacioretty led Montreal over Toronto. San Jose’s Logan Couture scored his first goal in eight Bruins 3, Blue Jackets 1 games while Patrick Marleau and Marty Havlat also scored The Boston Bruins closed out November with their for the Sharks, who finished a season-long five-game fourth win in their last five games as left winger Milan homestand unbeaten and won their eighth in nine overall. Lucic scored twice and backup goalie Chad Johnson faced Corey Perry, Alex Grant and Ben Lovejoy scored for the just 14 shots, 13 of which he saved, as the Bruins finished Ducks, who have lost six of their past seven road games. the month 9-4-0 and atop the Eastern Conference. Chicago’s Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist in a domi- nant first period which set up a 5-2 win over Phoenix. Flyers 3, Predators 2 (shootout) Blackhawks goaltender Antti Raanta made 32 saves for The Philadelphia Flyers started a six-game road trip with his second NHL win. After watching a 3-0 lead become 3-2 a victory over the Nashville Predators. Vincent Lecavalier after a sloppy second period, Brandon Bollig’s goal with scored the shootout’s only goal as the Flyers posted their 9:11 left put it away for Chicago. Andrew Shaw and Niklas eighth win in 11 games. Hjalmarsson also scored for the Blackhawks, and Marian Aaron Colton performs on the rooftop of the W Hotel, in downtown Dallas, Hossa added an empty-net goal in Chicago’s sixth straight Blackhawks 5, Coyotes 2 TX, USA on 6 April 2013. — www.redbullcontentpool.com win to wrap up a seven-game trip. The Chicago Blackhawks completed their long road trip Rob Klinkhammer and Martin Hanzal scored for the in style, scoring three first-period goals to beat the Phoenix Coyotes. Colorado’s Ryan O’Reilly scored the only goal in Coyotes. The win gave the Blackhawks a 6-1 mark on their the shootout which secured a 3-2 win over Minnesota. road trip and kept them atop the NHL’s overall standings Geisenberger wins season’s Semyon Varlamov stopped 35 shots while Gabriel with 44 points. Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon had a goal apiece for the Avalanche, which edged a rare penalty-free game. Avalanche 3, Wild 2 (shootout) 3rd World Cup luge race Mikko Koivu and Matt Cooke scored for the Wild, which Center Ryan O’Reilly scored the only shootout goal as had won six of its previous seven visits to Colorado. the Colorado Avalanche recovered from blowing a late WINTERBERG: World champion Natalie Geisenberger led However, a mistake from Geisenberger at the start of Montreal’s Max Pacioretty scored twice and added an assist two-goal lead to beat the Minnesota Wild. The Wild trailed a German sweep of the top three spots in the third World the team relay later Sunday cost Germany the chance of to power the Canadiens to a 4-2 win over Toronto. with time running out but scored twice late, with Mikko Cup luge race to maintain her perfect start to the season making it a perfect 4-for-4 in gold medals from the week- P.K. Subban and Tomas Plekanec also scored for the Koivu burying a slap shot with 4.3 seconds left to send it to yesterday. The 25-year-old Geisenberger was fastest in end. Canadiens, who went ahead via Pacioretty inside a minute. overtime. both runs down the Hochsauerland course to finish in a Italy’s Sandra Gasparini, Dominik Fischnaller and James van Riemsdyk and Mason Raymond scored for the combined time of 1 minute, 53.457 seconds for her 19th Christian Oberstolz with Patrick Gruber took advantage Maple Leafs. Boston’s Milan Lucic scored a pair of goals and Flames 2, Kings 1 career victory. and won in a track record combined time of 2:25.874. Patrice Bergeron added the other as the Bruins downed Winger Mike Cammalleri scored in the final minute of Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner overcame earlier Hansen and American team mates Greg West, Christian Columbus 3-1. the third period as the Calgary Flames edged the Los back problems to finish second in 1:53.897, while Anke Niccum and Jayson Terdiman were second, ahead of The Bruins haven’t lost at home in regulation in 11 Angeles Kings. Cammalleri’s winner came with 23 seconds Wischnewski clocked 1:54.101 to complete the German Austria’s Nina Reithmayer, Daniel Pfister and Peter Penz games and have won all three meetings between the left in regulation when he backhanded a rebound home to success. with Georg Fischler. teams this season. Ryan Johansen scored a power-play give Calgary (9-13-4) its second win in two attempts on the Canada’s Alex Gough was fourth, 0.925 seconds behind The Germans had to make do with ninth. On Saturday, goal for the Blue Jackets, who were outshot 36-14. New Kings’ home ice this season. — Agencies Geisenberger, followed by Russia’s Tatiana Ivanova. United Germany’s Chris Eissler was the surprise winner of the York’s Chris Kreider had a hat trick - doubling his season States pair Erin Hamlin and Kat Hansen were sixth and sev- men’s singles race on his World Cup debut, and world goals total - as the Rangers spoiled the return of former enth. Geisenberger leads the standings with 300 points, champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt claimed their sec- coach John Tortorella by beating his Vancouver team 5-2. ahead of Huefner (200) and Wischnewski (186). ond doubles victory of the season.— AP Rick Nash added a goal and two assists and Michael Del NHL results/standings Zotto also scored for the Rangers. David Booth and Daniel NY Rangers 5, Vancouver 2; Boston 3, Columbus 1; Sedin scored for the Canucks. Calgary’s Michael Montreal 4, Toronto 2; Pittsburgh 5, Florida 1; New Jersey Cammalleri scored with 23 seconds remaining to give the 1, Buffalo 0 (OT); Washington 3, NY Islanders 2 (OT); Flames a 2-1 win over Los Angeles. Philadelphia 3, Nashville 2 (SO); Chicago 5, Phoenix 2; Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin scored a goal and had three Colorado 3, Minnesota 2 (SO); Calgary 2, Los Angeles 1; assists to lift the Penguins to a 5-1 win over Florida. San Jose 4, Anaheim 3 (SO). Philadelphia’s Vincent Lecavalier scored the only goal in the shootout as the Flyers beat Nashville 3-2 to start a six- Western Conference game road trip on a winning note. Pacific Division Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin scored in overtime to WLOTLGFGAPTS lift the Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders. San Jose 18 3 5 92 60 41 New Jersey also had an overtime win, with Steve Bernier Anaheim 18 7 4 91 77 40 scoring the sole goal to give the Devils a 1-0 win over Los Angeles 16 7 4 70 58 36 struggling Buffalo. Phoenix 15 7 4 85 84 34 Vancouver 13 10 5 74 75 31 Rangers 5, Canucks 2 Calgary 9 13 4 70 93 22 Left winger Chris Kreider scored his first NHL hat-trick Edmonton 8 17 2 70 93 18 Central Division and goaltender Cam Talbot stopped 35 shots to help the Chicago 20 4 4 102 76 44 New York Rangers beat the Vancouver Canucks at Madison St. Louis 18 4 3 89 57 39 Square Garden. The Rangers (14-13-0) are 12-8 since Colorado 19 6 0 76 52 38 Kreider and Talbot were called up on the same day from Minnesota 15 8 5 68 67 35 the minors on Oct. 20. New York’s victory spoiled the Nashville 13 11 3 62 75 29 return of Vancouver coach John Tortorella, who was fired Winnipeg 12 12 4 73 80 28 by the Rangers in May. Dallas 12 9 3 68 70 27 Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 2 Eastern Conference Left winger Max Pacioretty scored two goals and added Atlantic Division an assist to help lead the Montreal Canadiens to a win over Boston 18 7 2 75 55 38 the Toronto Maple Leafs. Canadiens goaltender Carey Price Tampa Bay 16 9 1 76 66 33 made 34 saves for Montreal (15-9-3), who have gone 5-0-1 Montreal 15 9 3 73 57 33 in their last six games. Detroit 13 7 7 74 71 33 Toronto 14 10 3 75 73 31 CARDIFF: Australia’s fly-half Quade Cooper (C) evades Wales’ No8 Toby Faletau (L) during the International rugby Ottawa 10 12 4 76 86 24 union test match between Wales and Australia at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday. — AFP Devils 1, Sabres 0 (overtime) Steve Bernier scored with 40.2 seconds remaining in Florida 7 15 5 59 91 19 overtime to lift the New Jersey Devils to victory against the Buffalo 6 20 2 48 85 14 Barry John laments Wales Buffalo Sabres.