44 Friday Sports Friday, November 1, 2019 Tampa Bay rally for wild overtime win over Devils

NEW JERSEY: Lightning center Tyler Johnson goals to win for the eighth time in its past 10 scored 1:16 into overtime Wednesday night, and games by beating host Los Angeles. Elias Pet- Tampa Bay overcame a two-, third-period tersson had a goal and three assists, while Bo deficit to outlast the host 7- Horvat had a goal and an assist for the Canucks, 6 in a back-and-forth game. Johnson’s third shot who extended a winning run that started with a was the charm in a flurry that opened with victory over the Kings in the third game of the point-blank shots by Ondrej Palat and Ryan Mc- season. Vancouver goalie Jacob Markstrom had Donagh. The result snapped a two-game losing 21 saves. Jeff Carter scored two goals and Adrian streak for the Lightning. Palat scored twice while Kempe added one for the Kings, who saw their Alex Killorn, Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli and losing streak extend to four games, having given Mathieu Joseph all scored once for the Light- up five goals in all four of those games. Jonathan ning. Goalie Curtis McElhinney recorded 36 Quick made 44 saves for Los Angeles. saves. New Jersey’s Kyle Palmieri collected a hat trick, including the goal that forced overtime OILERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 1 with 7.4 seconds left in regulation. However, the Leon Draisaitl posted two goals and an as- Devils still lost for the eighth time in 10 games sist, James Neal scored his NHL-leading eighth to open the season. Jesper Bratt scored twice, power-play tally, and won at Colum- Sami Vatanen had one goal, and Cory Schneider bus. Playing their third game in four days, the made 16 saves. Oilers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second period. Jujhar Khaira also netted a goal, and CANADIENS 4, COYOTES 1 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins added two assists as Shea Weber had a goal and assist, and Carey Edmonton broke a two-game losing skid. Ed- Price stopped 32 shots, leading Montreal past monton goalie Mike Smith stopped 23 of 24 GLENDALE: Brendan Gallagher #11 of the controls the puck ahead of Arizona in Glendale, Ariz. Brendan Gallagher, shots. The Blue Jackets received a goal from Oliver Ekman-Larsson #23 and Nick Schmaltz #8 of the Arizona Coyotes during the first period Jonathan Drouin and former Coyote Nick Zach Werenski while falling to 2-2-2 in their of the NHL game at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. — AFP Cousins also scored for Montreal, which has past six games. won four of six. Price improved to 12-1-0 in 13 scored for the Blues, who won for the fourth time orado in Denver. Aleksander Barkov had a goal career starts versus Arizona. Jakob Chychrun BLUES 2, WILD 1 in five games. Mats Zuccarello scored for the and an assist, Colton Sceviour also scored, scored the Coyotes’ lone goal, which came in the Jordan Binnington stopped 35 of the 36 shots Wild, who lost for the eighth time in nine road Aaron Ekblad had two assists and Sergei Bo- third period. Arizona lost for just the second time he faced as host St. Louis edged Minnesota. Bin- games. Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves before de- brovsky stopped 27 shots for the Panthers, who in eight games and the second time in five home nington delivered a nice bounce-back perform- parting for an extra attacker. overcame a 3-1, third-period deficit. Nathan games this season. Antti Raanta made 32 saves. ance after allowing four goals Sunday at Detroit. MacKinnon had a goal and an assist, Matt Nieto His teammates bailed him out with a 5-4 over- PANTHERS 4, AVALANCHE 3 (OT) and Joonas Donskoi also scored, and Philipp CANUCKS 5, KINGS 3 time victory over the Red Wings in that game, Jonathan Huberdeau scored the tying goal Grubauer had 34 saves for the Avalanche. Brock Boeser delivered his third career hat but Binnington proved to be the difference with 90 seconds left in regulation and the winner MacKinnon has posted a point in all 12 games trick, and Vancouver scored four power-play Wednesday. Alex Pietrangelo and Sammy Blais 29 seconds into overtime as Florida beat Col- this season (seven goals, 10 assists). — Reuters

Djokovic at the rankings summit next week Barty clinches Djokovic survives ahead of the ATP Tour Finals in London, beat home wildcard Mannarino 7-5, 6-4 to set up pole position a clash with three-time Grand Slam title-win- scare in Paris ner Stan Wawrinka. Djokovic, who was beaten by Karen Khachanov in last year’s final, found in Shenzhen opener, Nadal himself in a spot of bother when Moutet broke his serve in the seventh game before saving SHENZHEN: World number one Ashleigh Barty also through four break points to seize a 5-3 lead. clinched pole position in the Red Group after But the home hope saw two set points defeating Petra Kvitova in straight-sets at the come and go in the following game, with WTA Finals in China yesterday. PARIS: Novak Djokovic defied illness to sur- Djokovic quickly taking advantage to break The French Open champion stormed into the vive a scare against French lucky loser back and level the set. The Serbian took con- semi-finals with a crushing 6-4, 6-2 win in one Corentin Moutet and reach the third round of trol as the opener entered a tie-break and hour and 28 minutes at the Shenzhen Bay Sports SHENZHEN: Ashleigh Barty of Australia hits a the Paris Masters on Wednesday, while Rafael Moutet smashed a ball into the crowd in anger Centre. The result knocked out the winless return against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Re- Nadal saw off a plucky challenge from Adrian as his opportunity for an upset looked to have Czech from the round-robin tournament. public during their women’s singles match at Mannarino. Top seed Djokovic, locked in a disappeared, with his opponent cruising Belinda Bencic and Kiki Bertens clash in the the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Shenzhen battle with Nadal for the year-end world num- through the breaker. later match with the winner joining Barty out of yesterday. — AFP ber one spot, had to save two set points in the Moutet delighted the crowd with an outra- the Red Group. first set before beating the 97th-ranked geous ‘hotdog’ lob over Djokovic early in the Barty, who had already sealed the year-end Moutet 7-6 (7/2), 6-4. The 32-year-old will second set, but the 16-time Grand Slam cham- No.1 ranking, rebounded after a three-set loss cisive break in the fifth game. Barty had break play Britain’s Kyle Edmund on Thursday in the pion belatedly found his form. Djokovic did let to late replacement Bertens on Tuesday. points against her serve in the sixth and eighth last 16 as he continues his bid for a record-ex- one break slip after leading 4-1, but closed out “I felt like I executed really well,” she said games but withstood Kvitova’s attempts to get tending fifth Bercy title. victory on his first match point with a forehand after the match. back into the first set. “I don’t feel health-wise 100 percent in the winner. Nadal was not at his imperious best “I knew I had to play aggressively. I’m really Kvitova, the oldest player in the draw, last couple of days, but it is what it is,” said against world number 43 Mannarino, but did excited to still have another chance to play changed tactics early in the second set and at- Djokovic, who was struggling with a sore enough to win with relative comfort. The 19- here.” Kvitova had a scare in the third game of tacked the net but Barty had the answers to throat. “It affects your energy, your vitality on time Grand Slam champion, who has never the first set but saved two breaks points to hold reach the semi-finals on her WTA Finals debut. the court. Obviously it’s not ideal, but in these won the tournament but does hold a record 35 her serve, which was being targeted by an ag- For Kvitova, the 2011 WTA Finals champion, kind of circumstances you just have to accept Masters titles, will hope to improve in the third gressive Barty. the loss marks a second straight winless cam- it and do everything that you can to recover.” round against Wawrinka after the Swiss beat But the Australian’s consistency wore down paign in her seventh appearance at the lucrative Nadal, who is guaranteed to usurp Marin Cilic 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/5). — AFP an error-strewn Kvitova and she grabbed a de- year-ender. —AFP