Ben Eager scored twice and Andrew Ladd had a goal and three assists for a career-high four points in the Chicago Blackhawks’ 7-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Sunday.
Jonathan Toews and Dave Bolland each had a goal and an assist, and Patrick Sharp and Dustin Byfuglien also connected. The Blackhawks scored their season-high seven goals during a span of 11 consecutive shots against Ilya Bryzgalov.
FLAMES 3, RANGERS 0
At New York, Jarome Iginla and David Moss struck for the second straight game and Calgary goalie Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 31 shots for his 29th NHL shutout.
Kiprusoff started for the 26th time in Calgary’s 27 games — including 12 consecutive — and led the Flames to their fifth win in six.
Iginla and Moss also scored in the third period of Calgary’s 4-3 comeback overtime victory at St. Louis on Friday night that started a four-game trip. Rene Bourque scored a short-handed goal with 2 minutes left.
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HURRICANES 3, CAPITALS 1
At Raleigh, North Carolina, Eric Staal broke a tie for Carolina with 4:09 left, and Ray Whitney scored twice to help give Paul Maurice his first victory in his second coaching stint with the Hurricanes.
Michael Leighton stopped Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin on a penalty shot with 1.2 seconds left in the second period, and finished with 38 saves.
Carolina had lost three in a row, the last two after Maurice took over for the fired Peter Laviolette on Wednesday. Nicklas Backstrom scored for Washington, coming off a 2-1 victory in Toronto on Saturday.
AVALANCHE 5, CANUCKS 4, SO
At Denver, Wojtek Wolski, Marek Svatos and Milan Hejduk scored in a shootout and Peter Budaj made 34 saves in Colorado’s eighth straight victory over Vancouver.
Colorado defenseman Daniel Tjarnqvist forced overtime, scoring with 2:48 left in regulation. Hejduk, David Jones and Ryan Smyth also scored in regulation.
Steve Bernier had two goals for Vancouver, Daniel Sedin and Darcy Hordichuk also scored, and Kyle Wellwood connected in the shootout.
DUCKS 5, BLUE JACKETS 3
At Anaheim, California, Ryan Getzlaf scored twice, rookie Bobby Ryan had a goal and an assist and Rob Niedermayer also scored for Anaheim.
Defenseman George Parros added two assists for the first multipoint game of his career, and Chris Kunitz also had two assists for the Ducks.
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
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier