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Friday 45 Sports Friday, October 6, 2017 Blues beat Penguins, Connor McDavid has hat trick for Oilers Giroux and Weal score to get Flyers off to a good start

PITTSBURGH: Alex Pietrangelo beat Matt consecutive home sellout roaring during an elec- Murray 1:15 into overtime to give the St. Louis tric pregame ceremony that included Crosby skat- Blues a 5-4 victory over the -champi- ing to mid-ice with the Cup held aloft and the 2017 on on Wednesday in the banner making its way to the rafters. NHL season opener for both teams. The Blues recovered after letting a two-, third-period OILERS 3, FLAMES 0 lead slip away when Pietrangelo’s from the Connor McDavid looks more than ready to slot hit Murray and slipped under the crossbar for pick up where he left off last season - McDavid his second goal of the game. Paul Stastny had a had a hat trick as the Oilers shut out the Flames in goal and an assist for the Blues, Brayden Schenn ’s home opener. McDavid led the NHL and Colton Parayko also scored, and Jake Allen with 100 points last season and earned the Hart finished with 34 saves. Trophy as the league’s most valuable player. The and Conor Sheary scored 54 Oilers used his speed to blow past seconds apart in the third to tie it, but the defenders on several occasions throughout the Penguins couldn’t game, scoring once in complete the come- the first period and back on a night the twice in the third. “It’s two-time defending Penguins began quest a good way to start,” Stanley Cup champi- said McDavid. ons raised the fran- for the first three “Everybody was mak- chise’s fifth Cup ban- peat in 35 years ing a big deal about ner to the rafters at Calgary’s defense, but PPG Paints Arena. it was our defense PITTSBURGH: Matt Murray #30 of the Pittsburgh Penguins makes a save Justin Schultz and Olli that was great tonight. against Dmitrij Jaskin #23 of the St Louis Blues at PPG PAINTS Arena. —AFP Maatta also scored They were moving for the Penguins. pucks up to the for- Murray stopped 28 shots. wards so we could do what we get paid to do.” shutout bid midway through the third period, and Giroux and Jordan Weal also scored to get the Just 115 days after finishing off a heated chal- Mathieu Perreault also scored for Winnipeg. New Flyers off to a good start after missing the playoffs lenge from Nashville in the finals, the Penguins MAPLE LEAFS 7, JETS 2 Jets goalie Steve Mason was pulled after Marleau’s last season. Jakub Voracek and Shayne began the quest for the first three-peat in 35 years Patrick Marleau scored twice in his Maple Leafs second goal 36 seconds into the third period, hav- Gostisbehere each had three assists for with one last nod to the franchise’s fifth champi- debut and beat Winnipeg. The 38-year-old ing allowed five goals on 20 shots. Connor Philadelphia. Brian Elliott made 32 saves in his first onship. The players received their commemorative Marleau signed with Toronto as a free agent after Hellebuyck stopped nine of 11 shots in relief. game with the Flyers after signing a $5.5 million, bling during a private ceremony on Tuesday night, 19 seasons with the . He has 510 two-year contract this summer. Kevin Labanc coming together to pose with their respective career goals. Nazem Kadri, James van Riemsdyk FLYERS 5, SHARKS 3 became the first San Jose player to score two goals nine-carat rings that feature nearly 400 diamonds and William Nylander scored in a three-minute Wayne Simmonds scored his second power- in the opening period of the season but also was and come engraved with coach Mike Sullivan’s span in the first period. and play goal to break a tie with 10:33 remaining and called for three minor penalties that all led to goals mantra “play the right way.” On Wednesday the Mitch Marner also scored, and Frederik Andersen completed an opening-night hat trick with an emp- for the Flyers. also scored for the party grew considerably larger, with the 485th made 35 saves. ended Andersen’s ty-netter as the Flyers beat San Jose. Claude Sharks, who had won seven straight openers. —AP Bradley’s stunning triple helps D-backs beat Rockies 11-8

PHOENIX: Relief pitcher Archie Bradley hit a game. Arizona moved on to a best-of-five stunning triple in the seventh inning, driving Division Series against the NL West champi- PHOENIX: Trevor Story #27 of the Colorado Rockies hits a broken in two runs with one of four three-baggers on Dodgers, a team the Diamondbacks beat bat single during the top of the fourth inning of the National by Arizona that sent the Diamondbacks past the last six times they played. Game 1 is League Wild Card game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. —AFP the Colorado Rockies 11-8 in the National Friday night in Los Angeles. League wild-card game Wednesday night. Arizona became the first team with four The lanky pitcher, a fan favorite with a became the first player to triple twice in a Paul Goldschmidt launched an early three- triples in a postseason game since the Boston bushy beard, regrouped from the two solo postseason game since Mariano Duncan did run homer and the Diamondbacks built a 6-0 Americans (now Red Sox) twice hit five dur- homers he gave up to get the final two outs it for Philadelphia against Atlanta in the lead before ace Zack Greinke faltered. ing the first World Series back in 1903 of the eighth with the Diamondbacks clinging 1993 NL Championship Series. Colorado climbed back into it and cut it to 8- against Pittsburgh. It was that kind of crazy to a one-run lead. Fernando Rodney allowed The home team won for just the second 7 when Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story hit night in the desert as the two NL West foes a run in the ninth before closing it out. time in the six NL wild-card games since back-to-back homers in the eighth off slugged it out. Daniel Descalso also homered Jonathan Lucroy doubled twice, scored the one-game format was adopted in 2012. Bradley, perhaps exhausted from hustling for the Diamondbacks, and Ketel Marte two runs and drove in one for the Rockies in The hosts hadn’t even scored in the last around the bases and shouting in excitement tripled twice. their first postseason appearance since three, but the Diamondbacks ended that to giddy teammates. But then A.J. Pollock Bradley, the spirited reliever who had one 2009. Jake Lamb tied an Arizona postsea- before their first out. knocked in two runs with Arizona’s fourth hit in four at-bats all season, knocked Pat son record with four hits, all singles, and Goldschmidt, in an 0-for-17 slump to end triple, this one off closer Greg Holland, as the Neshek’s 3-1 pitch to deep left-center with scored three times. Marte, who came to the regular season, hit the first pitch he saw Diamondbacks scored three times in their two outs in the seventh for the first triple by a Arizona with pitcher Taijuan Walker from from ineffective starter Jon Gray into the left- half of the eighth to finally put away a wild reliever in postseason history. Seattle for Jean Segura in an offseason deal, field seats for a three-run shot. —AP