Friday 37 Sports Friday, August 7, 2020 Petry, Habs put Penguins on brink of elimination Toews’ late tip-in lifts Blackhawks over Oilers TORONTO: Jeff Petry’s sharp-angle goal in the COYOTES 4, PREDATORS 1 third period Wednesday gave the Canadiens a 4- Darcy Kuemper made 39 saves to lead Arizona 3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of past Nashville in Game 3 of their best-of-five their qualifying-round series, moving Montreal Western Conference qualifying series in Edmon- ahead two games to one in the best-of-five set at ton. Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, and Toronto. Montreal, seeded 12th and last among Christian Dvorak, Conor Garland and Carl Soder- Eastern Conference postseason participants, berg also scored for the Coyotes, who grabbed a pushed the fifth-seeded Penguins into an elimina- 2-1 series lead heading into Game 4 on Friday. tion game Friday. Petry, who scored in overtime in Viktor Arvidsson scored and Juuse Saros made 24 Game 1, broke a 3-3 tie and scored Montreal’s saves for the Predators. third unanswered goal at 5:33 of the third. He BLACKHAWKS 4, OILERS 3 lifted a shot from the bottom of the left circle that Jonathan Toews scored the game-winner with went off the mask of goaltender Matt Murray, off 76 seconds remaining, and Chicago claimed a the crossbar and in. Shea Weber added a goal and stunning win over Edmonton to move within a vic- two assists, Paul Byron a goal and an assist, tory of advancing to the Stanley Cup playoffs’ Jonathan Drouin a goal and Ben Chiarot two as- round of 16. The Blackhawks, the lowest seed in sists for the Canadiens. Carey Price made 30 the Western Conference to reach the qualifying saves. Patric Hornqvist, Jason Zucker and Teddy round, lead the Oilers 2-1 in the best-of-five se- Blueger scored for the Penguins, and Murray ries. Chicago will look to complete the upset on TORONTO: Kris Letang #58 of the Pittsburgh Penguins checks Tomas Tatar #90 of the Montreal Cana- made 27 saves. Friday. With overtime looming, Toews got a piece diens in Game Three of the Eastern Conference Qualification Round prior to the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup PANTHERS 3, ISLANDERS 2 of a Connor Murphy point shot that also deflected Playoffs at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. — AFP Mike Hoffman scored the go-ahead goal in the off Oilers defender Ethan Bear and past Oilers third period, and Florida stayed alive in its Eastern goalie Mikko Koskinen for his second goal of the from the left circle to lift the Lightning (2-0-0, four AVALANCHE 4, STARS 0 Conference qualifying series with a win against game and fourth of the series. Chicago goalie points) to the top of the standings in the week- Pavel Francouz had 27 saves, Andre Bu- New York in Toronto. New York leads the best- Corey Crawford stopped 25 shots to earn the win. long tourney, which will set the top four seeds in rakovsky and Joonas Donskoi each had a goal and of-five series 2-1, with Game 4 set for Friday. Hoff- LIGHTNING 3, BRUINS 2 the Stanley Cup playoffs. Alex Killorn notched a an assist, and Colorado beat Dallas in Edmonton. man added an assist and the Panthers also got Tyler Johnson’s tiebreaking rebound goal with goal and an assist, and Brayden Point also scored. Cale Makar and Vladislav Namestnikov also had goals from Erik Haula and Brian Boyle. New York, 87 seconds remaining in regulation kept Tampa Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 25 shots. Boston’s goals, and Sam Girard had two assists for Col- which got goals from Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Bay’s round-robin record perfect at the expense Charlie McAvoy and Chris Wagner tallied goals, orado, which has won its first two games of the Brock Nelson, had beaten Florida six straight of Boston. Johnson, who also had an assist, and Tuukka Rask made his first start of the post- seeding round of the NHL restart. Anton Khu- times entering the contest. punched in a rebound off Yanni Gourde’s shot season and allowed three markers on 35 shots. dobin had 36 saves for the Stars. —Reuters “Always very constant, always 100 Hamilton forcing rivals to per cent, mentally very strong,” he told Italian sports daily La Gazzetta Giant Olympic dello Sport. ‘count sheep’ at Silverstone “There is nothing else to say. Mer- cedes and him — that combination, of rings towed away these two elements, makes it so diffi- SILVERSTONE: Lewis Hamilton re- aftermath of his 87th career win. cult to compete with them right now.” turns to Silverstone this weekend “Obviously, our cars are a lot This weekend’s race will commem- for maintenance knowing he faces another “serious quicker this year, but we’re using the orate the 70th anniversary of the in- challenge” with even softer tyres same tyres as last year. augural world championship race, TOKYO: A giant set of Olympic rings well as its salvage barge will undergo and hotter conditions for the 70th “They (Pirelli) weren’t able to de- held at Silverstone in 1950 - an event installed off Tokyo’s waterfront was a safety inspection and receive main- Anniversary Grand Prix than those velop a better tyre to deal with the that saw Italian Giuseppe Farina vic- towed away for inspections and main- tenance for about four months. The he overcame on his way to a dra- forces for this season so it’s going to torious in the first of three triumphant tenance yesterday after coronavirus date of re-installation to the current matic triumph in last Sunday’s British be a really serious challenge.” Alfa Romeo cars. forced the year-long postponement of location will be determined after Grand Prix. Hamilton’s heroics in bringing his Juan-Manuel Fangio, who was to the 2020 Games. The 69-ton inter- maintenance has been completed,” Just days after his victory on three damaged car home to win by five sec- be a five-time champion, led briefly locking rings went up off the Odaiba the Tokyo Metropolitan Government bay area at the beginning of the year, said in a statement. working wheels, and one that was onds ahead of the rapidly-closing but failed to finish in his Alfa Romeo as the city began the final countdown This year’s Games were originally damaged and punctured, the champi- Max Verstappen of Red Bull has given after rupturing an oil pipe. onship leader and six-time world him folklore status within the sport as to the Summer Olympics. scheduled to open on July 24, but of- This allowed Luigi Fagioli to come They were intended to stay in ficials took the historic decision to champion is braced for a similarly he moved 30 points clear of his Mer- second ahead of Briton Reg Parnell, testing weekend with high tempera- cedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the place until the original end date of the push back the event by a year as the who hit a hare during the race. Olympics, on August 9, and then be coronavirus pandemic spread across tures forecast and tyre suppliers drivers championship. Such hazards may be less likely replaced by the Paralympics symbol. the globe. Olympic and Japanese offi- Pirelli switching to a less durable “I think we cannot take anything this weekend, but after last Sunday’s But yesterday, the barge holding the cials have said they remain committed compound. away from Lewis, who I think is one three tyre failures in the closing laps monument — which is more than 15 to holding the Games next year as “One step softer is going to be a of the greatest drivers in Formula One - Bottas and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz metres tall and 32 metres wide (49 planned, but experts have questioned challenge for us all and, no doubt, will history,” proclaimed Charles Leclerc, were also hit by delamination and feet by 104 feet) — was towed back whether the virus will be under con- move us all to at least a two-stop who finished third behind him for Fer- punctures - more unexpected inci- to shore. “The Olympic Symbol as trol by then. —AFP (strategy),” explained Hamilton in the rari last weekend. dents cannot be discounted.—AFP.