SPORTS SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015 Senators pound Bruins Canadiens roll OTTAWA: Bobby Ryan’s third-period goal snapped a tie and lifted the Ottawa Senators to a 6-4 victory over the Boston Bruins in a back-and-forth game on Thursday night. The surging Senators moved within two points of the Bruins in the race for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Ottawa has a game in hand. Kyle Turris netted two goals, and Milan Michalek, David Legwand and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also scored for the Senators. Andrew Hammond, making his fifth straight start, faced 35 shots and improved to 12-0-1 in his first 13 NHL starts. Ottawa native Ryan Spooner had two goals as Boston dropped its third straight. CANADIENS 4, HURRICANES 0 Carey Price made 31 saves for his league-leading and career-best 39th win of the season, lifting Montreal past Carolina. Price also earned his eighth shutout for the Canadiens, who got goals from Dale Weise, Brendan Gallagher, David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty. Anton Khudobin stopped 18 of 22 shots for Carolina, which has lost five of its last six. Montreal has won five straight against the Hurricanes. PANTHERS 3, RED WINGS 1 Jaromir Jagr scored his 718th NHL goal, moving into fifth place on the career list, and added an assist in Florida’s win over Detroit. Jagr, who gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead, passed Phil Esposito for sole possession of fifth place with his first goal since March 1. Scottie Upshall and Brandon Pirri also scored, and Roberto Luongo made 25 saves in his return after missing six games due to an upper-body injury. It was Florida’s first OTTAWA: Tuukka Rask No. 40 and Zdeno Chara No. 33 of the Boston Bruins defend the net against a puck carrying Kyle Turris No. 7 of win in three games. Erik Cole had the lone goal for the Ottawa Senators in the second period at Canadian Tire Centre. — AFP Detroit, and Petr Mrazek stopped 29 shots, but the Red Wings lost for the fifth time in seven games. in the second period, and the Dallas Stars held on od to preserve his 30th win of the season. Kris added two assists to lead Calgary over Philadelphia. to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins. Letang scored the Penguins’ second power-play Gaudreau’s fourth three-point game of the season - SHARKS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1 Benn set up Ritchie’s deflection goal at 2:15 of goal in nine games at 13:26 of the second. against the team he grew up cheering for - moved Logan Couture had a goal and an assist, helping the second, and put his own rebound past Marc- the 5-foot-9 forward into the NHL rookie scoring San Jose defeat Toronto. Couture’s goal early in the Andre Fleury at 3:37 for a 2-0 lead. Dallas’ Kari FLAMES 4, FLYERS 1 lead with 56 points, one more than Nashville’s Filip second period was the eventual winner for San Lehtonen made 15 of his 31 saves in the third peri- Johnny Gaudreau scored his 20th goal and Forsberg. Jiri Hudler, Dennis Wideman and T.J. Jose (35-28-8), which ended a two-game skid. Brodie also scored for Calgary. Claude Giroux scored Tomas Hertl, Melker Karlsson and Tommy Wingels the lone goal for Philadelphia. also scored for the Sharks, and Antti Niemi made 27 NHL results/standings saves for the win. Jake Gardiner was the lone scorer BLUE JACKETS 6, CANUCKS 2 for Toronto, which has dropped four straight. Rookie Marko Dano recorded his first two-goal San Jose 4, Toronto 1; Montreal 4, Carolina 0; Ottawa 6, Boston 4; Florida 3, Detroit 1; Washington game in the NHL and Sergei Bobrovsky made 38 CAPITALS 3, WILD 2 3, Minnesota 2; Winnipeg 2, St. Louis 1 (SO); Dallas 2, Pittsburgh 1; Calgary 4, Philadelphia 1. saves as Columbus routed Vancouver. Alex Ovechkin scored two goals, helping lift the Western Conference Tampa Bay 43 21 7 230 184 93 Rene Bourque, Cam Atkinson, Scott Hartnell and Washington Capitals past the Minnesota Wild. Pacific Division Detroit 38 20 11 201 186 87 Alexander Wennberg - an empty-netter - also Evgeny Kuznetsov also had a goal, and Braden W L OTL GF GA PTS Boston 36 24 11 189 183 83 scored for Columbus, which has won five of its last Holtby stopped 28 of 30 shots as the Capitals won Anaheim 45 20 7 211 197 97 Ottawa 35 24 11 202 185 81 six.Bo Horvat and Daniel Sedin had goals for their third straight. Ovechkin’s 13th multigoal Vancouver 40 26 4 199 191 84 Florida 32 25 14 175 196 78 Vancouver. Eddie Lack allowed five goals on 30 game this season improved his NHL-leading goal Calgary 39 27 5 209 186 83 Toronto 27 39 6 189 230 60 shots before being pulled in favor of Jakob total to 47. Minnesota got goals from Christian Los Angeles 34 22 14 188 175 82 Buffalo 20 43 7 134 235 47 Markstrom midway through the third period. Folin and Jared Spurgeon. San Jose 35 28 8 199 199 78 Edmonton 19 39 13 167 243 51 Metropolitan Division Arizona 21 42 8 147 236 50 AVALANCHE 5, COYOTES 2 JETS 2, BLUES 1 NY Rangers 44 18 7 207 159 95 Ryan O’Reilly and Jarome Iginla scored 29 sec- Central Division NY Islanders 43 25 4 222 203 90 Andrew Ladd scored the decisive shootout goal St. Louis 45 20 6 219 172 96 onds apart in the first period, Semyon Varlamov to give the Winnipeg Jets a victory over the St. Nashville 43 21 8 205 176 94 Pittsburgh 39 22 10 197 177 88 made 27 saves, and Colorado beat Arizona for its Washington 39 23 10 212 177 88 Louis Blues. Drew Stafford netted the only goal in Chicago 43 21 6 203 158 92 third straight win. Philadelphia 29 29 15 188 210 73 regulation for the Jets. David Backes scored the Minnesota 39 25 7 201 178 85 Freddi Hamilton added his first NHL goal, and Winnipeg 36 23 12 198 189 84 New Jersey 30 29 11 160 179 71 lone goal for the Blues. Ondrej Pavelec made 32 Columbus 32 35 4 190 223 68 Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog also scored saves for his 16th win of the season. Brian Elliott Colorado 33 26 11 189 195 77 for the Avalanche, who won for the 11th time in 15 Dallas 33 28 10 220 230 76 Carolina 26 35 9 162 193 61 stopped 33 shots in the loss. Eastern Conference Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one games to remain seven points behind Calgary for Atlantic Division point in the standings and are not included in the final Western Conference playoff spot. Oliver STARS 2, PENGUINS 1 Montreal 45 20 7 191 159 97 the loss column (L). Ekman-Larsson scored twice for the Coyotes, who Brett Ritchie and Jamie Benn scored 1:23 apart have dropped four straight and 16 of 17. — AP Sprinters to kick off Spring Classics in San Remo PARIS: Top sprinters such as Mark Cavendish, Andre Greipel the longest one-day race on the calendar-has fewer climbs Those two races, of course, pale in comparison to the true and last year’s winner Alexander Kristoff will kick off the Spring than the last few years. objectives not only of Cancellara and Sagan but also the likes Classics season at Milan-San Remo tomorrow. It is likely to set up a bunch sprint with Greipel, Kristoff or of Tom Boonen, Sep Vanmarcke, Greg Van Avermaet and Niki It is the one opportunity during the Spring season, which even German John Degenkolb looking to be in the mix. If not, Terpstra, which are the Tour of Flanders on April 5 and Paris- runs through to the end of April with the Cobbled Classics fol- though, a one-day specialist such as Fabian Cancellara, Roubaix a week later. Cancellara has won Flanders the last two lowed by the Ardennes Classics, for the sprinters to shine. Philippe Gilbert or Peter Sagan could take their chance, years and like Boonen has triumphed three times at the event. Following Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico the last two although they will probably need to drop the sprinters before The Swiss star beat Belgians Van Avermaet, Vanmarcke and weeks, where Grand Tour contenders had their chance to test the finish. The short distance between the final Poggio climb Stijn Vandenbergh in a sprint finish last year while Boonen their early-season legs, it is now the turn of the one-day spe- and the finish could give them that opportunity if they can dis- could only manage seventh. cialists to come to the fore. tance the sprinters as the road rises. Flanders, like San-Remo, is one of the five Monuments of The 2011 road race world champion Cavendish won Milan If not, both Cancellara and Sagan will be looking forward to cycling-the others being Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege San-Remo in 2009 but this year will provide him with his best the Cobbled Classics beginning with E3 Harelbeke on March and October’s Giro di Lombardia-and winning it holds extra opportunity for a second victory as the nearly 300km course- 27 and Ghent-Wevelgem two days later. special significance. —AFP.