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ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 SPORTS 14 Habs top Vegas, one win away from Final Price makes 26 saves LAS VEGAS, June 23, in opposite directions by the midway (AP): Carey Price made point of the second period, and the Canadiens feeding off momentum on 26 saves to lead Montreal a power play, another Vegas turn- to 4-1 victory over the Ve- over ended up in transition with gas Golden Knights, put- Corey Perry darting in on a would-be breakaway before shuffling the puck ting the Canadiens one win cross-ice to Caufield, who one-timed away from the Stanley Cup a snap shot up top to extend Final. Montreal’s lead to 3-0. The Canadiens lead Vegas 3-2 in Pacioretty got Vegas on the board the their best-of-seven series, with after he whiffed on an initial shot Game 6 scheduled for historic Bell near the top of the circle, then fol- Centre in Montreal on Thursday. lowed up with a wrist shot over Montreal’s 11th playoff victory is Price’s blocker to cut the deficit to the franchise’s most in one postsea- two, at 3-1. son since the Canadiens won the Cup It was all the Golden Knights in 1993, also the last time a Canadian- would get, as Price stopped the final based team won the title. nine shots he saw, and Suzuki - who Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Eric Staal, never got to suit up for one regular- Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki season game with the Golden scored for the Canadiens, who have Knights - made an empty-net goal to made an NHL-record 34 Stanley provide the final margin Cup Final appearances. Meanwhile, Lou Lamoriello of the Max Pacioretty scored for Vegas. New York Islanders has won the Jim Marc-Andre Fleury, the league’s Gregory gener- active leader in playoff wins (90) and al manager of games played (162), made 22 stops the year award in front of an announced crowd of for the second straight year. The league ICE HOCKEY announced Tuesday night 17,969 that were left stunned with that Lamoriello the Golden Knights now on the brink finished ahead of elimination. of fellow final- Outside of Pacioretty’s third-peri- Lamoriello ists Marc Montreal Canadiens left wing Artturi Lehkonen (62) shoots against Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) as defenseman Alex Pietran- od goal, the storyline remained the Bergevin of the gelo (7) defends during the second period in Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup semifi nal playoff series, on June 22, in Las Vegas. (AP) same with Vegas struggling to find Montreal Canadiens and Bill Zito of its offense against Montreal’s suffo- the Florida Panthers. Colorado’s Joe cating tactics, in limiting space and Sakic was fourth and Vegas’ Kelly Lloyd makes US soccer team for her 4th Olympics dominating the neutral zone. McCrimmon fifth in voting by GMs, The Golden Knights, who have league executives and media mem- scored 11 goals in the series, have bers after the second round of the gotten just four from their forwards. playoffs. Yang banned again, misses Tokyo Games Montreal, meanwhile, had no trou- Lamoriello’s Islanders are in the ble scoring with its forwards, who semifinals of the Stanley Cup LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June Tobin Heath joins Lloyd in heading produced all four goals. Playoffs for the second straight year, 23, (AP): Chinese swimmer star to her fourth Olympics. Kotkaniemi was the beneficiary bolstered by the trade-deadline Sun Yang was banned for more than At the 2008 Beijing Games, of strong defensive play in Vegas’ acquisitions of forwards Kyle four years for breaking anti-doping Kuwait’s Qabazard cruises into 16th Lloyd scored in overtime for a 1-0 offensive zone, as Montreal defen- Palmieri and Travis Zajac. Palmieri, rules after a retrial at the Court of victory against Brazil in the fi nal. semen Jeff Petry and Jon Merrill who had two goals and two assists in Arbitration for Sport. round in future int’l tennis tourneys Four years later, she scored both create a turnover to push the puck 17 games after his trade from New Jersey, has seven goals and two The court’s verdict ends Sun’s TUNIS, June 23, (KUNA): Kuwait’s Federation’s ranking after beating goals in the gold-medal match in transition. At the other end, it hopes of defending his Olympic national tennis player Issa Qa- Al-Abdullah. against Japan at Wembley Stadium, was Josh Anderson streaking past assists in 17 postseason games. title in the 200 meters freestyle in bazard has qualifi ed for the 16th He noted that the number of to- becoming the only player to score Vegas defenseman Zach The 78-year-old Lamoriello, in his Tokyo next month. The ban is back- round as part of the M15 future tal players in the current qualifi ers winning goals in consecutive Olym- Whitecloud and pulling Fleury to third season in charge of the Islanders dated to February 2020, meaning championships’ series held in Tu- are 64, indicating that the country’s pic fi nals. his far right with a backhand that following three years with the Sun could return for the 2024 Paris nisia after beating his compatriot team including him, Al-Abdullah and Lloyd, who will turn 39 before the was stuffed. But the rebound float- Toronto Maple Leafs, is the first Olympics when he would be 32. Bader Al-Abdullah 6-5,3-6,4-6. Ali Al-Shatti are taking part in some Tokyo Games, is the oldest national ed to the left, where Kotkaniemi two-time winner of the award that The judges found Sun “to have Speaking to KUNA after the vic- future competitions that include fi ve beat Vegas blueliner Nick Holden was first handed out in 2010. tory, Qabazard said that he won a consecutive championships and will team Olympian, besting Christie acted recklessly” when he refused Rampone, who was 37 when she and backhanded the puck into a New York has made the playoffs fi rst point in the International Tennis end on July 25 in Tunisia. each year under Lamoriello and to let anti-doping offi cials leave his played at the 2012 London Games. wide-open net to give Montreal a coach Barry Trotz, and won at least home with a sample of his blood. Heath did not play in the na- 1-0 lead. Sun’s original eight-year ban im- Suzuki, who was dealt to Montreal one series each time after totaling tional team’s recent Summer Series one series win in the previous 25 posed last year was overturned on in Texas because of a knee injury. in the trade that sent Pacioretty to appeal to Switzerland’s supreme Vegas, set the Canadiens up for a years. Julie Ertz is also recovering from an The Islanders, pursuing their first court which ordered a fresh pros- injury but should be ready when the two-goal lead in the second period ecution. with a perfectly timed backcheck on title since winning four in a row in United States opens the Olympics Jonathan Marchessault to the right of the early 1980s, trail the Tampa Bay Federal judges ruled the fi rst on July 21 against Sweden. guilty verdict unsafe because the Price. At the other end, Suzuki’s 3-2 heading into Game 6 of the Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley semifinals at home on Wednesday chairman of the three-judge panel patience paid off, as he waited until O’Hara, Alex Morgan and Megan night. If they go on to win the Cup, at CAS showed anti-Chinese bias in the precise moment to feed Staal Rapinoe will be playing in their it’ll be a fourth title for Lamoriello, social media comments. between the hashmarks for a wrist third Olympics. shot that beat Fleury top shelf. who won three times with New The retrial was heard by three Abby Dahlkemper, Tierna David- With the confidence level headed Jersey. new judges by video link over three son, Emily Sonnett, Rose Lavelle days last month and fast-tracked and goalkeeper Adrianna Franch ahead of the Tokyo Olympics open- are fi rst-time Olympians, as are sis- ing on July 23. ters Samantha and Kristie Mewis. Kristie Mewis is the only player on the roster who was not on the OLYMPICS 2019 World Cup-winning team. She and Samantha are the fi rst sisters to The case was about a failed at- play for the senior national team in tempt to take blood and urine from In this July 25, 2019 fi le photo, China’s Sun Yang swims during a warm a world championship. Sun by a sample collection team up session at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Ko- Also who made an unannounced visit rea. Chinese swimmer star Sun Yang has been banned for more than four to his home in China in September years for breaking anti-doping rules. (AP) WELLINGTON: Women’s rugby sev- 2018. ens captain Sarah Hirini and two- It turned confrontational and led time Olympic rowing gold medalist to Sun’s entourage ordering a secu- Hamish Bond will carry the New rity guard to smash the casing of a Zealand fl ag at the opening cer- blood vial with a hammer. emony of the Tokyo Games. The World Anti-Doping Agency Hirini was a member of the New appealed to CAS when a tribunal Zealand team that won a silver appointed by swimming’s gov- medal at the 2016 Rio de Janiero erning body, FINA, only warned Games, where rugby sevens made the three-time Olympic champion its Olympic debut, and has since led about his conduct.