Sidney Crosby scored 43 seconds into overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.
Alex Goligoski scored twice and added an assist, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 32 saves to help the Penguins rally from a two-goal deficit.
Pascal Dupuis also scored, and Malkin had three assists for Pittsburgh (18-11-4), which won for the second time in three games and improved to 4-5-1 in December.
Ales Kotalik and Daniel Paille had a goal and an assist each, and Clarke MacArthur also scored for the Sabres (16-13-5), who lost their second straight and third in their last four.
MAPLE LEAFS 6, THRASHERS 2
At Atlanta, Matt Stajan scored two goals, including an empty-netter, as rookie goaltender Justin Pogge won his NHL debut.
Alexei Ponikarovsky, Jeremy Williams and Niklas Hagman joined Stajan in scoring a goal for the second straight game for Toronto, which has won six of seven.
Colby Armstrong and Todd White scored for the Thrashers, who were outshot 38-21 while losing for the eighth time in their last nine home games.
OILERS 4, COYOTES 2
At Edmonton, Alberta, Sheldon Souray and Andrew Cogliano scored power-play goals in the third period, lifting Edmonton past Phoenix.
Zack Stortini and Marc Pouliot also scored for the Oilers, who ended a three-game winless streak (0-2-1) and improved to 5-5-3 at home.
Martin Hanzal and Enver Lisin scored for the Coyotes, who snapped a three-game winning streak. Edmonton was also unbeaten in regulation in its previous six games.
CANUCKS 4, DUCKS 3
At Vancouver, Daniel Sedin scored twice to help the home team rally from an early deficit and then hold on to beat Anaheim.
The Canucks led by three midway through the third period only to see the Ducks close the deficit on late goals by Scott Niedermayer and Sammy Pahlson. Anaheim pulled its goalie in the final seconds for the extra attacker, but failed to tie the score against Vancouver’s Curtis Sanford.
Mason Raymond and Ryan Kesleralso scored for the Canucks.
Bobby Ryan had the Ducks’ first goal.
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
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