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ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 SPORTS 15 NHL Results/Standings Bruins edge Isles in to WASHINGTON, May 11, (AP): Results and standings from the NHL games on Monday. Philadelphia 4 New Jersey 2 Edmonton 4 Montreal OT 3 Florida 4 Tampa Bay 0 Boston 3 NY Islanders OT 2 Vancouver 3 Winnipeg 1 Nashville 5 Carolina 0 Dallas 5 Chicago OT 4 clinch 3rd place in East Division Colorado 2 Vegas 1 St Louis 2 Los Angeles OT 1 East Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Pittsburgh 56 37 16 3 77 196 156 x-Washington 55 35 15 5 75 189 162 x-Boston 55 33 15 7 73 167 134 x-NY Islanders 56 32 17 7 71 156 128 NY Rangers 56 27 23 6 60 177 157 Philadelphia 56 25 23 8 58 163 201 New Jersey 56 19 30 7 45 145 194 Buffalo 56 15 34 7 37 138 199 Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Carolina 56 36 12 8 80 179 136 x-Florida 56 37 14 5 79 189 153 x-Tampa Bay 56 36 17 3 75 181 147 x-Nashville 56 31 23 2 64 156 154 Dallas 56 23 19 14 60 158 154 Chicago 56 24 25 7 55 161 186 Detroit 56 19 27 10 48 127 171 Columbus 56 18 26 12 48 137 187 West Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Vegas 55 39 14 2 80 185 124 x-Colorado 54 37 13 4 78 186 132 x-Minnesota 54 35 14 5 75 178 149 x-St Louis 54 25 20 9 59 158 167 Arizona 56 24 26 6 54 153 176 Los Angeles 54 21 26 7 49 142 159 San Jose 55 21 27 7 49 151 193 Anaheim 56 17 30 9 43 126 179 North Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Toronto 54 35 13 6 76 182 140 x-Edmonton 54 34 18 2 70 178 147 x-Winnipeg 54 28 23 3 59 161 152 x-Montreal 55 24 21 10 58 156 164 52 23 26 3 49 138 149 Ottawa 55 22 28 5 49 153 187 Vancouver 50 21 26 3 45 135 164 Note: Two points for a win one for over- time loss. The top four teams in each division will qualify for under this ’s temporary realignment. defenseman Erik Cernak (81) and defenseman Markus Nutivaara (65) go for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, on May x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division 10, in Sunrise, Florida. (AP) Osaka conflicted Canadiens secure playoff spot, lose 4-3 in OT to Oilers

BOSTON, May 11, (AP): NHL debut, Smith was in his Nishikori raises questions Taylor Hall scored his sec- fifth game of the season and ond of the game 2:53 Kuwait figure skaters grab up Joseph has been in the lineup for all 56 Tampa Bay games in about ‘holding’ Tokyo Oly into overtime and the 2020-21. beat the to ‘17 medals’ in int’l tourney Carter Verhaeghe scored a ROME, May 11, (AP): Japanese what I’ve been waiting for my in KUWAIT CITY, May 11, ver medals and a bronze one in the goal in his first game back from tennis player Kei Nishikori has entire life,” Osaka said. “A lot of their home finale to clinch (KUNA): The Kuwaiti figure skat- three-day competitions. injury, and Alex Wennberg and doubts about whether the IOC unexpected things have hap- ing girls team grabbed up to 17 Al-Ajmi praised the Kuwaiti third place in the East medals in the (online) open inter- female players for their outstand- MacKenzie Weegar also scored and local organizers are doing pened and if it’s putting people at goals for the Panthers. Keith enough to plan for a worst-case risk, and if it’s making people Division. national tournament that conclud- ing performance vis a vis top- ed in the Romanian capital notch competitors from various Yandle had an assist and record- scenario of “hundreds” or “thou- very uncomfortable, then it defi- Brad Marchand also scored for Boston, which will face second- Bucharest. countries. ed his 600th NHL point. sands” of coronavirus cases at nitely should be a discussion, Hussa Al-Saraawi won two gold Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 the Tokyo Olympics. place Washington in the first round which I think it is as of right of the playoffs. Tuukka Rask had FIGURE SKATING medals, Khairiyah Al-Kanderi stops for the Lightning. Or whether it’s even still fea- now.” grabbed two gold ones. Other 16 saves. Kuwaiti players, Lulwa Al-Darman Flyers 4, Devils 2 sible to hold the games when a Japan has attributed 11,000 Mathew Barzal and Oliver In Philadelphia, Joel Farabee state of emergency has been The head of Kuwait Winter and Lara Al-Barrak each snatched deaths to COVID-19, better than Wahlstrom scored for the Games Club Fehaid Al-Ajmi said one gold and one silver medal. scored two goals and James extended in many countries, but poor for Islanders. Semyon Varlamov in a statement to KUNA, on Sara Al-Laho, another Kuwaiti van Riemsdyk added one on Tokyo and Asia. The virus and its spreading made 25 saves before he was Monday, that the national champi- champion, grabbed two silver the power play to lead other parts of variants are taxing Japan’s replaced to start the third period ons won nine gold medals, six sil- medals. Philadelphia. Japan health-care system with only 2% by Ilya Sorokin, who stopped 10 The Flyers finished yet another because of of the population vaccinated. shots. season without a - the pandem- Public sentiment in Japan con- New York will face East cham- they haven’t won one since con- ic. tinues to run against holding the pion Pittsburgh in the first round. secutive championships in 1974 “I don’t Olympics in the middle of a pan- Oilers 4, Canadiens 3, OT and 1975 - and this ends as one know what demic. Between 60-80% of In Montreal, Connor McDavid of the more disheartening ones in they are Japanese people in polls have scored 2:42 into overtime for his franchise history. thinking, and Osaka league-leading 102nd point of Pavel Zacha scored his 17th I don’t know the season and Edmonton beat goal of the season and Janne how much OLYMPICS Montreal as the Canadiens Kuokkanen added his eighth to they are thinking about how they clinched the last playoff spot in give New Jersey a 2-0 lead. The are going to make a bubble, said the Olympics should be can- the North Division. Flyers tied it 2-2 on Farabee’s because this is not 100 people celed or postponed. Dominik Kahu, Ryan Nugent- 19th goal of the year and Sean like these tournaments,” But local organizers and the Hopkins and James Neal also Couturier’s 18th. Nishikori said after winning his International Olympic scored for the Oilers, who won Canucks 3, Jets 1 first-round match at the Italian Committee insist the games, their sixth straight on the road. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nils Open on Monday. which were already postponed Leon Draisaitl had two assists Hoglander scored twice and “It’s 10,000 people in the vil- by a year, will open as planned and Mikko Koskinen had 25 Vancouver beat Winnipeg. lage. So I don’t think it’s easy, saves. Bo Horvat also scored and especially what’s happening on July 23. “I know you still have two, Thatcher Demko stopped 39 right now in Japan. It’s not doing shots for his 14th win of the sea- good. Well, not even (just) Japan. three more months. It’s tough to really say right now,” Nishikori son for the Canucks, Vancouver You have to think all over the was eliminated from the playoff world right now.” said, adding that he thought orga- nizers should “hold” on making a Jake Evans, Paul Byron and race earlier in the night when Nishikori is one of a growing Artturi Lehkonen scored for the Montreal earned a point in a 4-3 of tennis players express- decision for now. The 45th-ranked Nishikori, a Canadiens, who lost their fourth overtime loss to Edmonton to ing reservations about the games. straight (0-3-1). Montreal, which clinch fourth place in the North Serena Williams suggested former U.S. Open finalist and Japan’s top male player, said that has one game left, moved nine Division. she won’t go to Japan if corona- points ahead of fifth-place Kyle Connor scored for the virus protocols mean she can’t if the Olympics were opening now, he thinks it would be “real- Calgary, which has four remain- Jets, who lost for the ninth time bring her 3-year-old daughter ing. Jake Allen finished with 31 in 10 games. Laurent Brossoit with her. ly tough” to hold the competi- tion. saves. finished with 28 saves. “I haven’t spent 24 hours with- Stars 5, Blackhawks 4, OT The teams meet again on out her, so that kind of answers “If you think only about ath- letes, I think you can do it,” he In Chicago, Jason Robertson Tuesday in Winnipeg. The Jets the question itself,” Williams scored 4:30 into overtime, and ’ Nick Suzuki (14) checks ’ Kailer hold a 5-3 lead in the nine-game said. “There is this pandemic and said. “If you can make a good Yamamoto (56) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Montreal, bubble, maybe you can do it, but Dallas rallied to beat Chicago. on May 10. (AP) season series. there is so much to think about.” Miro Heiskanen had a goal and Avalanche 2, Golden Knights And on Sunday, second-ranked there is some risk, too.” “(What happens) if there is 100 an assist for the Stars, who had 1 Naomi Osaka sounded conflicted dropped six of seven. Joe In Las Vegas, J.T. Compher about the games’ status. cases in the village ... (or) thou- sands?” Nishikori asked. “You Pavelski, Jason Dickinson and scored a go-ahead goal in the “Of course I would say I want Joel Kiviranta also scored, and have to really discuss how you third period, Philipp Grubauer the Olympics to happen, because Jake Oettinger made 19 saves. made 36 saves, and Colorado I’m an athlete and that’s sort of can play really safely.” The Stars controlled play for preserved its chance to finish in most of the night, finishing with first place in the West Division. a 50-23 advantage in shots on Andre Burakovsky also scored goal. But they trailed 4-2 before for the Avalanche, who trail the Kiviranta and Dickinson scored Golden Knights by two points 1:54 apart midway through the atop the division. Vegas has third. game left, Colorado has two. Collin Delia made 45 stops and scored for the Alex DeBrincat extended his Golden Knights. Robin Lehner, goal-scoring streak to seven in a facing the Avalanche for the first row, but Chicago finished the time this season after Marc- season with seven losses in its Andre Fleury was in net the first last nine games. DeBrincat, seven meetings, stopped 19 Dylan Strome, Pius Suter and shots. Vinnie Hinostroza each had a Blues 2, Kings 1, OT goal and an assist. In Los Angeles, Justin Faulk New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (3) checks Boston Bruins Predators 5, Hurricanes 0 right wing Ondrej Kase (28) to the ice in the second period of an NHL scored 46 seconds into overtime In Nashville, Tennessee, Pekka hockey game, on May 10, in Boston. (AP) and St. Louis beat Los Angeles. Rinne made 30 saves for his sec- Tyler Bozak also scored and ond shutout of the season as fans chanted his name early and record his third shutout of the Jordan Binnington made 26 Nashville blanked Carolina to often. season, Juho Lammikko scored a saves for the Blues, who are finish the regular season. scored twice, short-handed goal, and Florida locked into the fourth seed in the Rinne tied Tom Barrasso for and Ryan Johansen and Tanner secured home-ice advantage for West Division and will play No. 19 in NHL history with his Jeannot each had a goal and an the opening round of the play- Colorado or Vegas in the first 369th victory in his first start assist for Nashville. Rocco offs. round of the playoffs. since April 10. Now 38 and in Grimaldi scored a short-handed The Lightning opened the Alex Iafallo scored and Calvin the final year of his contract, goal. game with the first all-Black line Petersen made 17 saves as the Rinne notched his 60th career Panthers 4, Lightning 0 in NHL history -- Mathieu Kings wrapped up their home Japan’s Kei Nishikori returns the ball to Italy’s Fabio Fognini during their shutout in what might have been In Sunrise, Florida, Chris Joseph, Gemel Smith and Daniel schedule with four straight loss- match at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, on May 10. (AP) his final start for Nashville as Driedger stopped 30 shots to Walcott. Walcott was making his es.