David Krejci scored 1 minute, 28 seconds into overtime to lift the surging Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday.
Reilly Smith and Zdeno Chara also scored for Eastern Conference leaders Boston, who beat the Hurricanes for the second time this week and improved to 7-1-2 in their past 10 games. Bruins backup Chad Johnson, playing his fourth game of the season, made 22 saves in place of Tuukka Rask.
Patrick Dwyer scored a short-handed goal and Andrej Sekera had one on the power play for the Hurricanes, who lost their fourth straight game. Cam Ward stopped 35 shots.
Anaheim’s Dustin Penner scored two goals as the Ducks handed the Phoenix Coyotes their first regulation home loss of the season 4-2.
Sami Vatanen had a power-play goal and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks, who are the only NHL team not to lose at home in regulation this season.
In Nashville, Tennessee, Cam Talbot made 17 saves to record his second consecutive shutout as the New York Rangers beat the Predators 2-0.
Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan scored for the Rangers, who have won the first two games of a five-game road trip.
Mats Zuccarello assisted on both goals for New York, who have won six stright road games.
The Minnesota Wild edged the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 after Charlie Coyle scored in the fourth round of the shootout, while Joffrey Lupul scored the shootout winner in Toronto and James Reimer made 49 saves to lift the Maple Leafs over the Washington Capitals 2-1.
Matt Read scored two goals and Steve Mason made 36 saves as the streaking Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Islanders 5-2, while the Ottawa Senators downed the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 thanks to two Clarke MacArthur goals.
In other games, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2, the St Louis Blues trounced the Dallas Stars 6-1, the San Jose Sharks edged the New Jersey Devils 2-1, the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 and the Colorado Avalanche were 1-0 overtime winners against the Los Angeles Kings.
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