Dany Heatley scored his team-leading 38th goal and Ray Emery made 27 saves to give the Ottawa Senators a 2-0 victory over Carolina on Wednesday night and a home-and-home sweep of the Hurricanes.
Jason Spezza had a goal and an assist as Ottawa beat Carolina for a second straight night, extending its winning streak to three.
Emery dived to make a glove save against Justin Williams and held off two Hurricanes power-play opportunities late in the third to earn his fifth shutout this season and eighth in his NHL career.
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Ottawa, which has won eight of nine (8-0-1), became the third Eastern Conference team to reach 80 points and improved their hold on fourth place.
Cam Ward stopped 24 shots for the Hurricanes, ninth in the East with 71 points. Carolina, which won six of nine (6-3-0) before the sweep by Ottawa, is one point behind Montreal and the playoff cutoff.
Flames 2, Wild 1, SO
At Calgary, Alberta, Jarome Iginla scored in the shootout to give Calgary its first shootout victory of the season.
After Iginla scored, Calgary goalie Miikka Kiprusoff secured the victory by stopping Minnesota's Pierre-Marc Bouchard.
Robyn Regehr scored at 15:29 of the third period to tie the game for Calgary, which is an NHL-best 27-6-1 at home, including a 13-1-1 mark over their last 15 games at the Pengrowth Saddledome.
Pavol Demitra scored his 19th of the season for Minnesota, which began a key three-game road trip against Northwest Division opponents.
Predators 4, Sharks 3, SO
At San Jose, California, J.P. Dumont scored in the fourth round of the shootout to end Nashville's victory and spoil Bill Guerin's debut with San Jose.
Tomas Vokoun made 27 saves and stopped three of the Sharks' four shootout attempts to remain unbeaten in his last six starts against San Jose.
Alexander Radulov of Russia scored in the third period and again in the shootout as the Predators earned their league-best 43rd victory.
Evgeni Nabokov made 28 saves for San Jose and forced the shootout with a stunning glove save on Paul Kariya with a second left in overtime, but the Sharks still lost for the sixth time in eight games.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB