Defenseman Michal Rozsival scored in the fifth round of a shootout after Jonathan Toews also connected in the tiebreaker to lead the Chicago Blackhawks to a 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Monday.
Rozsival, who has not scored a regulation goal this season, beat Pekka Rinne with a high shot in his first attempt in a shootout this season.
Patrick Kane scored his team-leading 19th goal and rookie Brandon Saad scored in regulation to help the Blackhawks win their second straight.
Craig Smith scored in the second round of the shootout for Nashville, but the Predators dropped their third straight.
Corey Crawford made 25 saves for Chicago, while Rinne stopped 38 shots for Nashville.
Bobby Ryan had a goal and an assist to lead the Anaheim Ducks over the Dallas Stars 4-0 in Viktor Fasth’s third shutout of the season.
Corey Perry and Matt Beleskey also scored, while Ryan Getzlaf added two assists for the Ducks, who completed a four-game road trip.
Teemu Selanne had an empty-netter in the final minute.
Carey Price made 18 saves for Montreal in his 300th NHL game to lead the Canadiens over the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1.
Max Pacioretty scored twice, while Andrei Markov and Jeff Halpern also scored for Montreal, who swept the season series and remain unbeaten in 10 games against the Southeast Division this season.
Jordan Staal scored and Justin Peters stopped 25 shots for the Hurricanes.
The San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 for their fifth straight victory as Joe Thornton had a goal and an assist during a second-period scoring flurry.
Andrew Desjardins and Logan Couture also scored for San Jose, who broke a scoreless deadlock with three goals in a span of 2 minutes, 13 seconds against Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider.
In St Paul, Minnesota, Jaden Schwartz and Andy McDonald each had a goal and an assist as the St Louis Blues downed the Minnesota Wild 4-1, while Damien Brunner ended his 15-game scoring drought and Jimmy Howard made a late save to help the Detroit Red Wings hold off the Colorado Avalanche 3-2.
In other games, the New York Rangers beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-2, the Edmonton Oilers downed the Calgary Flames 4-1 and the New York Islanders defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1.
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