Sports FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015 43 Canadiens top Rangers 5-1 in matchup of Eastern powers

NEW YORK: Star goalie exited with a recur- their previous four. Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves Mrazek for his third NHL . Miller scored the tying with an apparent lower-body injury during the second ring injury, but Devante Smith-Pelly and Alex for his 11th win of the season. Alex Pietrangelo tied the goal with 1:44 left in the third period, and Boston won and did not return. Galchenyuk scored in the opening 1:29 of the third game 3-3 with 5:41 left in the third period. St Louis also its sixth straight game against the Red Wings. Boston is period and the beat the New York got goals from Paul Stastny and Robby Fabbri. 2-1 in overtime, while Detroit fell to 4-3. Vatrano ISLANDERS 3, FLYERS 1 Rangers 5-1 Wednesday night in a matchup of the top opened the scoring at 7:11 of the first period when his Jaroslav Halak made 17 saves and Kyle Okposo put two teams in the Eastern Conference. Smith-Pelley had LIGHTNING 2, KINGS 1, SO shot from the left point beat Mrazek. At 2:26 of the sec- New York ahead early in the second period to beat two goals. Sven Andrighetto and Max Pacioretty also Valtteri Filppula scored the game-winning goal in ond, Pavel Datsyuk eluded Boston defenseman Torey Philadelphia. Casey Cizikas and Frans Nielsen also scored for the Canadiens, who have handed the the third round of a shootout to lift Tampa Bay over Los Krug and shot the puck into the top left corner of the scored and New York improved to 11-8-3. The win end- Rangers (16-4-2) two of their four losses in regulation Angeles. The Lightning won the tiebreaker 2-1 after net. It was Datsyuk’s 300th career goal. ed the Islanders’ two-game losing streak. Steve Mason this season. Price stopped 22 shots in the first two peri- Filppula made a nice move to beat Jonathan Quick. made 33 saves and Claude Giroux scored the Flyers’ ods and was replaced at the start of the third by Mike Tampa Bay got a goal from Tyler Johnson, and Ben CAPITALS 5, JETS 3 lone goal. Philadelphia has lost four of five and fell to 7- Condon in a 2-1 game. After it was over, coach Michel Bishop made 37 saves through overtime. The Evgeny Kuznetsov had one goal and two assists 10-5. The first of five meetings this season between Therrien said Price was sidelined by the same lower- Lightning have allowed two regulation goals over the and Dmitry Orlov broke a tie late in the second period Philadelphia and New York was a chippy affair. There body injury that kept him out for eight games earlier last three games, going 3-0-0. Milan Lucic scored for to lift Washington over Winnipeg for its third straight were post-whistle scrums seemingly after every whis- this month. This was his third game back. Price was the the Kings, who went 2-2-1 on a road trip against win. Orlov’s third-period goal Monday night gave the tle, and tempers boiled over in the second period NHL MVP and Vezina Trophy winner last season as the Eastern Conference teams. Quick stopped 29 shots. Capitals a 1-0 victory over Edmonton. In this game, his when Nick Leddy fought Giroux. Seven minutes after league’s top goalie.

BLACKHAWKS 5, SHARKS 2 Patrick Kane had two assists to extend his career- best scoring streak to 17 games, leading Chicago over San Jose. Kane set up Brent Seabrook on Chicago’s first goal and also got a helper on Duncan Keith’s second- period goal to give him 28 points during the streak. Jonathan Toews and former Shark Andrew Desjardins also scored for Chicago. Andrew Shaw added an emp- ty-netter for the Blackhawks, who improved to 2-1-1 on their annual circus road trip. The six-game swing con- cludes this weekend with games in Anaheim and Los Angeles. Corey Crawford made 27 saves. Brent Burns and Patrick Marleau scored for the Sharks, who returned home from a 6-0 road trip to lose once again at the Shark Tank. San Jose fell to 3-6 at home this sea- son after dropping 22 games here last season - their most since 1996-97. The Sharks had earned the most points at home in the NHL over the previous nine sea- sons.

COYOTES 4, DUCKS 2 Antoine Vermette scored twice in Arizona’s victory over Anaheim. The Coyotes had beaten the Ducks twice already this season behind Max Domi, Anthony Duclair and Martin Hanzal. Domi and Duclair were at it again, combining for three points - including a goal in the third period shortly after Anaheim cut the lead to two. Duclair has scored five of his eight goals against the Ducks this season and has combined with Domi for 11 points in three games. Anaheim twice cut Arizona’s lead to one on third-period goals by Sami Vantanen and Ryan Kesler before Vermette put it away with an empty-netter. Michael Stone also scored and Mike Smith stopped 29 shots for the Coyotes.

SENATORS 5, AVALANCHE 3 Shane Prince had two goals and an assist for his DETROIT: left wing (63) and Detroit Red Wings defenseman Mike Green (25) battle for the first NHL points, and Ottawa held on to defeat puck in the first period of an NHL hockey game on Wednesday, Nov 25, 2015. —AP Colorado. Zack Smith, Kyle Turris and Mika Zibanejad each had a goal and an assist for the Senators, who slap shot with 3:38 left in the second period beat the Leddy-Giroux fight, Matt Martin squared off with have won four straight. Craig Anderson made 20 of his PREDATORS 3, SABRES 2 Winnipeg goalie Michael Hutchinson and broke a 3-3 Wayne Simmonds. 40 saves in the third period when the Avalanche tried Mike Fisher ended Nashville’s franchise-record scor- tie. Orlov now has scored goals in three straight games to overcome a three-goal deficit. Nathan MacKinnon ing drought in the first period and the Predators beat after going without one in his first 18 contests. Both of BLUE JACKETS 2, DEVILS 1 and Gabriel Landeskog each had a goal and an assist, Buffalo to end a three-game losing streak. Fisher ended his tie-breaking goals in the last two games came on Matt Calvert scored the tiebreaking goal late in the and Chris Wagner scored his first NHL goal for the Predators’ goalless skid at 227:39, and Craig Smith left-handed slap-shots. Justin Williams, Alex Ovechkin second period and Sergei Bobrovsky made 27 saves to Colorado. and Cody Hodgson also scored. Carter Hutton made 30 and Nicklas Backstrom also scored for Washington. help Columbus beat New Jersey. William Karlsson also saves. The Predators were outscored 11-0 over the first Tyler Myers, Andrew Ladd and Mathieu Perreault scored for Columbus, and Bobrovsky extended his PENGUINS 4, BLUES 3, OT three games of this five-game trip, which ends Friday scored for Winnipeg. mastery of New Jersey. He has won his last four starts Evgeni Malkin scored 1:03 into overtime and in Philadelphia. They hadn’t scored since the second against the Devils. Adam Henrique scored for New Sidney Crosby broke out with two goals to lift period of a 3-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Nov 17. HURRICANES 4, OILERS 1 Jersey, which has lost three of four. Pittsburgh over St Louis. Malkin took a lead pass from Evander Kane and Jack Eichel scored for the Sabres. Elias Lindholm scored the go-ahead goal midway Phil Kessel and beat goaltender Jake Allen on the back- The loss was Buffalo’s sixth straight, and they’ve only through the second period, Cam Ward made 30 saves CANUCKS 3, WILD 2 hand for his eighth of the season and fifth game-win- scored seven goals and collected two points in that and Carolina beat Edmonton. Jordan Staal and Jeff Radim Vrbata scored twice, Jannik Hansen once ner. Crosby scored his fourth and fifth of the season time. Over the first two periods, Buffalo outshot Skinner also scored for Carolina. Andrej Nestrasil, who and the Vancouver held off Minnesota. Daniel Sedin and now has a goal against every NHL team he had Nashville 25-11 but trailed 3-0. had a goal and an assist, scored an empty-netter with had two assists, Ryan Miller stopped 31 shots and five assists in 10 career meetings against St. Louis. It 51 seconds left as Justin Faulk picked up his second Vancouver allowed fewer than three goals for the first was also the first time Crosby scored two regular-sea- BRUINS 3, RED WINGS 2, OT assist of the night. Benoit Pouliot scored for the Oilers, time in 11 games, winning for just the third time in that son goals since February, a span of 47 games. Ben Frank Vatrano scored his second goal of the game the 100th goal of his career, and Anders Nilsson span. Thomas Vanek and Charlie Coyle scored and Lovejoy also scored to help the Penguins finish 3-1 dur- at 3:32 of overtime, giving Boston a victory over stopped 23 shots. Edmonton forward Nail Yakupov, Minnesota lost for just the second time in 10 home ing a four-game homestand after dropping three of Detroit. Vatrano deflected Colin Miller’s shot past Petr who got his 100th career point in the first period, left games. —AP