MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016 SPORTS Benn brothers score in Dallas’ 3-2 win over Kings LOS ANGELES: Jordie Benn scored the back in the lineup and made 33 saves. tiebreaking goal with 4:58 to play, as the Dallas Stars rallied from a third-period deficit RED WINGS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2 to assert their Western Conference suprema- Brad Richards and Mike Green each had a cy with a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles goal and an assist as the Detroit Red Wings Kings on Saturday. Benn scored his first goal beat the Toronto Maple Leafs. Jimmy Howard since December 21 after Patrick Eaves tied it made 32 saves for the Red Wings, who moved early in the third. Jamie Benn also scored his past the Boston Bruins for third place in the 41st goal for the Stars, who claimed a late- Atlantic Division with 91 points. Kyle Quincey season meeting of division leaders. Coach also scored for Detroit, which is trying to Lindy Ruff won his 700th career game as extend its streak of making the playoffs to 24 Dallas (48-22-9) moved four points ahead of straight seasons. Colin Greening and William St. Louis atop the Central Division and eight Nylander scored for Toronto, and Garret points ahead of Los Angeles (46-27-5) in the Sparks made 23 saves. conference standings. Jeff Carter scored his fifth goal in four games and Jonathan Quick PANTHERS 4, CANADIENS 3 stopped 36 shots for the Kings, who have lost Aleksander Barkov scored the winning five of seven. goal with 28.1 seconds left as the Florida Panthers rallied from a three-goal deficit to PENGUINS 5, ISLANDERS 0 beat Montreal. Barkov finished with two goals The Penguins clinched a playoff berth and two assists, and Jaromir Jagr and behind Matt Murray’s 23 saves for his first Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for Florida. NHL shutout. Surging Pittsburgh improved to Aaron Ekblad also had a pair of assists, while 45-25-8 with its fifth straight win and has Huberdeau and Brian Campbell had one outscored opponents 25-10 in that stretch. each. Brendan Gallagher scored in his return The Penguins made the postseason for the to the Montreal lineup, and David Desharnais 10th straight year and solidified their grip on and Torrey Mitchell added goals. Joel Hanley, second place in the Metropolitan Division. Max Pacioretty, Lars Eller, Paul Byron, Darren Oskar Sundqvist, Patric Hornqvist, Matt Dietz and Tomas Plekanec recorded assists. Cullen, Phil Kessel and Tom Kuhnhackl scored Montreal’s Mike Condon made 34 saves, while for Pittsburgh, and Sidney Crosby got his Roberto Luongo had 24 for Florida. 600th NHL assist. Crosby, the NHL’s first star KOLKATA: West Indies’s Stafanie Taylor (L) and Hayley Matthews run between the wickets during the World T20 cricket tournament women’s for March, played in his 704th game as a BLUE JACKETS 5, HURRICANES 1 final match between Australia and West Indies at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata yesterday. — AFP Penguin, passing Brooks Orpik for fifth place Brandon Saad scored three goals for his first on the franchise’s all-time list. The Islanders’ career hat trick as the Columbus Blue Jackets playoff outlook dimmed with the loss as they beat the Carolina Hurricanes. Boone Jenner chase a wild-card spot. and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored, and Windies stun Aussies to Alexander Wennberg and David Savard had FLYERS 3, SENATORS 2 two assists apiece. The last-placed Blue Jackets The Flyers got two power-play goals from scored three goals in the second period and Wayne Simmonds and a strong effort from snapped a four-game losing streak. Jeff Skinner claim women’s T20 crown goaltender Steve Mason as they continued to scored and Eddie Lack made 22 saves for the surge toward the playoffs. Thanks to the Hurricanes, who were mathematically eliminat- Islanders dropping a home game against ed from the playoff race. They had kept their KOLKATA: Powerful half-centuries from Hayley humongous six from Matthews. youth World Cup in February. Pittsburgh, the Flyers moved within two long-shot postseason bid alive by earning Matthews and skipper Stafanie Taylor fired the A destructive Matthews clobbered three six- Earlier after electing to bat, skipper Meg points of the first wild-card spot in the points in 12 of their previous 14 games. West Indies to their maiden women’s World es and six boundaries during her 45-ball blitz Lanning and Elyse Villani helped Australia post Eastern Conference. The Flyers built a 2-0 lead Twenty20 crown in a thrilling last-over win that made the Aussie bowling attack appear 148 for five against a sloppy West Indies fielding on power-play goals in the second period SHARKS 3, PREDATORS 2, SO against Australia in yesterday’s final in Kolkata. pedestrian. Taylor played a more sedate but display. The Aussies lost opener Alyssa Healy after a sloppy, scoreless first. Their first goal Logan Couture scored the only goal of the Chasing a competitive 149 for a win against commanding innings to lead the Windies to an early but a 77-run second wicket partnership came when Jakub Voracek, playing the point, shootout to lead the San Jose Sharks to a the three-time champions, West Indies rode a historic title after three previous failed semi- between Lanning (52) and Villani (52) set the intercepted a failed clearing attempt by comeback victory over the Nashville Predators. blistering 120-run opening stand between final attempts. Leg-spinner Kristen Beams got tone for a formidable score. Ottawa’s Jean-Gabriel Pageau. Voracek, Tomas Hertl scored a pair of third-period goals Matthews (66) and Taylor (59) to triumph with Mathews caught at mid-wicket in the 16th over Villani’s 37-ball knock was laced with nine uncovered at the point, quickly fired the puck and Joe Thornton assisted on both for San three balls to spare. and 18 balls later Rene Farrell saw the back of fours as she and Lanning were helped by some toward the net to a wide-open Simmonds, Jose, winners of three of four. Shea Weber and The Windies won by eight wickets at the Eden Taylor but the wickets only proved to be minor shoddy West Indies fielding as captain Taylor who redirected the puck past Andrew Calle Jarnkrok had the goals for the playoff- Gardens stadium as they picked up their first win hiccups on the Windies’ road to victory. Wild juggled seven bowlers. Hammond 1:30 into the second period. bound Predators, who have lost four straight. against Australia at their ninth attempt. “Words celebrations erupted from the Caribbean Medium-pacer Deandra Dottin was the pick Despite the skid, Nashville clinched its second can’t explain what I’m feeling right now. Means dugout as Britney Cooper hit the winning runs of the Windies bowlers with two wickets, those SABRES 4, RANGERS 3 consecutive playoff berth Friday night when so much for us and especially the people of the to script a new chapter in Windies women’s of Villani and Ellyse Perry, the latter of whom Ryan O’Reilly scored two first-period goals the Washington Capitals defeated the Caribbean,” said Windies wicketkeeper Merissa cricket. The Caribbean women danced with chipped in with 28 runs off 23 balls including the in a 2:52 span as the Buffalo Sabres put a hold Colorado Avalanche in regulation. Aguilleira. their male counterparts, who play England in only two sixes of the Aussie innings. on the New York Rangers’ hopes of clinching a Player of the match Matthews and Taylor, the men’s final later. “Full credit to the West Indies they came out playoff berth. Zamgus Girgensons and Matt COYOTES 3, CAPITALS 0 who looked determined from the word go, The West Indies men can now complete a with the bat, did not quite get the result we Moulson also scored on a night the Sabres Mike Smith stopped 31 shots for his sec- acquired 16 runs off the sixth over, including a rare hat-trick after the Under-19 boys lifted the wanted,” Lanning said afterwards. —AFP sent Henrik Lundqvist to the bench in less ond shutout since returning from injury, and than 21 minutes and had the sellout crowd at Shane Doan and Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored Madison Square Garden booing several times. 27 seconds apart early in the third period as Afridi quits captaincy, Chad Johnson had 33 saves and Buffalo killed the Arizona Coyotes beat the NHL-leading off a late two-man disadvantage in improving Washington. Brad Richardson also scored in wants to continue to 6-2-2 in its last 10 games, and snapping a the third and Max Domi had two assists in nine-game losing streak against the Rangers teaming with Doan on a dominant night by playing Twenty20s dating to April 2013. Kevin Hayes, J.T. Miller Arizona’s second line. Philipp Grubauer made and Derek Stepan scored for the error-prone 24 saves filling in for No. 1 goaltender Braden ISLAMABAD: Shahid Afridi stepped down from the cap- Rangers. Holtby in the Capitals’ second loss in three taincy of Pakistan’s Twenty20 team yesteray, but decided to games since claiming the Presidents’ Cup for continue playing the shortest format of the game. “Today I LIGHTNING 3, DEVILS 1 best record in the NHL. wish to inform my fans in Pakistan and all over the world Brian Boyle scored the go-ahead goal on a that I am relinquishing the captaincy of the T20 Pakistan third-period power play to help the Tampa FLAMES 5, OILERS 0 team of my own volition,” Afridi said in a statement.