SPORTS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Canadiens trounce rival Bruins 5-1

MONTREAL: Max Pacioretty had two goals, Dale Weiss scored on a shot, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the rival 5-1 on Thursday night for their fourth straight win. Lars Eller and Jiri Sekac also scored for Montreal (12-4-1), which benefit- ed from Sergei Gonchar’s debut after he was acquired Tuesday in a trade with Dallas. Dougie Hamilton scored a power-play for Boston (10-8-0), which lost badly for a second game in a row after a 6-1 setback in Toronto on Wednesday night. The Bruins were playing a third game in four nights.

JETS 3, HURRICANES 1 Blake Wheeler scored two goals and had an assist, and the Jets beat the Hurricanes. The Jets, who are in the middle of a five- game road trip, won for the fifth time in sev- en games and bounced back from a shutout loss. They’ve gone 7-1-2 in their last 10 games. Carolina lost for the second time in three games since winning four straight. Elias Lindholm scored Carolina’s goal on the power play. Winnipeg backup goalkeeper Michael Hutchinson earned the win with 22 saves. Cam Ward finished with 34 saves.

AVALANCHE 4, RANGERS 3, SO Nathan MacKinnon scored the tying goal in the third period and then connected in the shootout as the Avalanche rallied for a victory over the Rangers. MacKinnon started the tiebreaker with a goal, and Alex Tanguay added one in the third round. Semyon Varlamov stopped Mats Zuccarello and then Lee Stempniak on the final attempt as Colorado won for the first time in three games on a four-game trip. Matt Duchene had a goal and assist, and Tanguay also scored for the Avalanche, who had dropped four of five. Varlamov stopped 30 shots. Derek Stepan and Danb Girardi scored their first goals of the season 1:43 apart in the sec- ond period for the Rangers, who led 3-2 after trailing by a goal twice. EDMONTON: Keith Aulie #22 of the Edmonton Oilers fights Chris Neil #25 of the Ottawa Senators during an NHL game at Rexall Place on SHARKS 2, LIGHTNING 1 November 13, 2014 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.—AFP Antti Niemi made 32 saves and added an assist as the Sharks beat the Lightning. Joe Predators had a three-game winning streak Chiasson and Milan Michalek also scored for Arizona (6-9-1), which has lost three straight. Thornton and Tyler Kennedy scored for the snapped. Stastny tipped in a shot from Kevin the Senators (8-4-4) who are 3-1-2 in their Sharks, who are 2-2 on a seven-game road Shattenkirk to break a 3-all tie. Vladimir last six outings. Leon Draisaitl, Jordan Eberle STARS 2, KINGS 0 trip. Niemi improved to 5-0-1 against the Tarasenko, TJ Oshie and Carl Gunnarsson and Jeff Petry responded for the Oilers (6-9- Kari Lehtonen posted his first shutout of Lightning. Tampa Bay got a goal from Steven also scored for the Blues. 2) who have lost two in a row. the season with 27 saves, and the Stars got Stamkos, and Ben Bishop stopped 37 shots. goals from Ryan Garbutt and Jason Spezza in The Lightning are 0-1-1 since their six-game SENATORS 4, OILERS 3, OT FLAMES 5, COYOTES 3 a victory over the Kings. The highlight of winning streak was snapped. Mike Hoffman scored a pair of goals, Paul Byron scored twice to break out of a Lehtonen’s 28th career shutout was an acro- including the overtime winner, and the scoring funk, and the Flames beat the batic glove save the 11-year veteran made WILD 6, SABRES 3 Senators snapped a three-game skid by Coyotes. David Jones, Mark Giordano and while diving across the crease to rob Jarret Nino Niederreiter had his first career beating the Oilers. Hoffman sent a shot from Sean Monahan also scored for Calgary (10-6- Stoll at the edge of the crease at 13:16 of the three-goal game and backup goalie Niklas the slot under the arm of Oilers goalie Ben 2), while Sven Baertschi added two assists, second period. Kings goalie Martin Jones, Backstrom stopped 25 shots as the Wild Scrivens 2:39 into overtime to secure the win his first points of the season. Shane Doan, making his third start of the season, had 25 broke out of a scoring slump for a victory for the Senators, who wasted a 3-0 lead. Alex Antoine Vermette and Joe Vitale scored for saves.— AP over the Sabres to snap a four-game skid. The Wild have been missing leading scorer NHL results/standings Zach Parise since Nov 4. He’s out with a con- cussion and Minnesota scored just two goals Colorado 4, NY Rangers 3 (So); Winnipeg 3, Carolina 1; Montreal 5, Boston 1; San Jose 2, Tampa Bay 1; St. Louis 4, Nashville 3; Minnesota 6, Buffalo 3; Calgary 5, Arizona 3; in three straight losses without him. After Ottawa 4, Edmonton 3 (OT); Dallas 2, Los Angeles 0. Rasmus Ristolainen scored his first of the season just 1:03 in for Buffalo, the teams Western Conference Eastern Conference Pacific Division Atlantic Division combined for three goals in a 17-second W L OTL GF GA PTS Montreal 12 4 1 45 43 25 span midway through the period. Tampa Bay 11 4 2 61 46 24 Anaheim 11 3 3 47 37 25 Toronto 9 5 2 53 43 20 Minnesota’s Ryan Carter opend the spurt. Vancouver 12 5 0 53 47 24 Ottawa 8 4 4 45 41 20 Seven seconds later, Niederreiter got his first Calgary 10 6 2 55 48 22 Boston 10 8 0 49 48 20 and 10 seconds after that Buffalo’s Zemgus Los Angeles 8 5 4 42 38 20 Detroit 7 3 5 40 37 19 Florida 5 4 4 24 31 14 Girgensons evened the score. Kyle Brodziak San Jose 9 7 2 53 51 20 Edmonton 6 9 2 43 58 14 Buffalo 3 13 2 24 66 8 Metropolitan Division and Jared Spurgeon also scored for Arizona 6 9 1 40 56 13 Minnesota. Former Wild center Torrey Pittsburgh 10 3 1 55 32 21 Central Division NY Islanders 10 5 0 48 42 20 Mitchell for the Sabres. St. Louis 11 4 1 45 32 23 Washington 7 5 3 49 44 17 Nashville 10 4 2 41 34 22 NY Rangers 7 6 3 47 50 17 BLUES 4, PREDATORS 3 Winnipeg 9 6 2 33 36 20 Philadelphia 7 5 2 45 43 16 Chicago 9 6 1 44 30 19 New Jersey 7 7 2 43 50 16 scored on a deflection with 5 Carolina 5 7 3 36 47 13 minutes, 54 seconds left to lift the Blues over Minnesota 8 7 0 44 35 16 Columbus 4 10 1 38 55 9 Dallas 6 6 4 46 53 16 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings and are not Nashville. St Louis has won nine of 10. The Colorado 5 8 5 44 59 15 included in the loss column (L).