Radek Bonk of the Czech Republic scored 28 seconds into overtime on Tuesday as the Ottawa Senators held onto their lead atop the NHL standings with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins.
Bonk's countryman Zdeno Chara scored with 7:47 remaining in the third period to tie the game.
Karel Rachunek and Curtis Leschyshyn scored first-period goals as defensemen accounted for all of Ottawa's goals in regulation.
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Joe Thornton scored a pair of special-teams goals early in the second and P.J. Axelsson scored midway through the third as the Bruins scored three straight after falling behind 2-0.
Stars 2, Blue Jackets 0
In Columbus, Ohio, Ron Tugnutt stopped 25 shots to earn his second successive shutout as Dallas beat Columbus.
The shutout was the fourth of the season for Tugnutt, who had 23 saves in a 3-0 victory over San Jose on Sunday. He ran his scoreless streak to 122 minutes, 57 seconds with his 25th career shutout.
Ulf Dahlen and Steve Ott scored for the Stars, who have won four of their past five games.
The Stars have 95 points, one more than Ottawa in the race for the NHL's best mark.
Tugnutt was one of the most popular players in the Blue Jackets' first two seasons, receiving six write-in votes in Franklin County in the 2000 presidential election.
Thrashers 3, Devils 2
In East Rutherford, New Jersey, Dan Snyder scored a pair of unassisted goals to lead Atlanta over New Jersey.
Lubos Bartecko also scored for the Thrashers, who snapped a three-game winless streak.
John Madden and Brian Gionta scored for New Jersey.
New Jersey dominated the final period, outshooting Atlanta 13-2. Nurminen preserved the victory with a number of stellar stops, including two on Madden.
Blues 4, Sharks 2
San Jose, California, Keith Tkachuk, Dallas Drake, Cory Stillman and Eric Boguniecki all scored as St. Louis beat San Jose.
Brent Johnson stopped 19 shots to end his three-game losing streak as the Blues improved to 8-1-1 in their last 10 visits to San Jose. He and newly acquired Chris Osgood will compete for the No. 1 goalie spot the rest of the season.
Oilers 5, Flames 2
In Calgary, Alberta, Georges Laraque scored the go-ahead goal midway through the final period as Edmonton capped a busy day of trading by beating Calgary.
Canucks 4, Islanders 3
In Vancouver, British Columbia, New York had a late third-period goal taken away by a referee's whistle and didn't have another answer for Sami Salo's goal that lifted Vancouver.
The Islanders, four points ahead of the New York Rangers at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff race, appeared to tie it on Shawn Bates' breakaway goal.
But the ref blew his whistle while Bates was in the clear as New York's Radek Martinek was on the ice bleeding at the other end. Martinek caught an errant stick from Jarkko Ruutu in the face.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
Rafael Nadal on Wednesday said the upcoming French Open would be the moment to “give everything and die” on the court after his comeback from injury in Barcelona was curtailed by Alex de Minaur. The 22-time Grand Slam title winner, back playing this week after three months on the sidelines, battled well, but eventually crumbled 7-5, 6-1 against the world No. 11 from Australia in the second round. Nadal, 37, who missed virtually all of last season, is hoping to compete at the French Open next month where he is the record 14-time champion. The Spaniard said the clash with De Minaur was
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