Ryan Kesler scored two goals to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.
Tom Sestito also scored for the Canucks, while Jason Garrison had two assists. Backup goalie Eddie Lack made 29 saves to help Vancouver earn their third win in 11 games.
Kesler’s second goal capped a stretch in which the teams combined to score three goals in 37 seconds.
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Jordan Staal and Nathan Gerbe scored 10 seconds apart for Carolina in the opening 49 seconds of the second period. Kesler answered 27 seconds later to make it 3-2.
Carolina’s Cam Ward made 27 saves.
The Hurricanes, who failed on six power-play chances against the NHL’s best penalty-killing unit, have lost six of eight.
RED WINGS 4, SENATORS 2
In Ottawa, Daniel Alfredsson scored an empty-net goal and added an assist in his return to Ottawa as Detroit beat the host Senators.
Alfredsson, the former longtime captain of the Senators, was not primarily responsible for Ottawa’s second straight loss and fourth consecutive at home, but he helped contribute to the continuation of hisformer team’s woes.
Like so many times in their previous 27 games in the post-Alfredsson era, something was missing for the Senators (10-13-4). Defensive breakdowns led to goals, and there was not enough offense to compensate.
Drew Miller scored twice, Johan Franzen added a goal, and Jonas Gustavsson made 29 saves for Detroit.
Clarke MacArthur and Mika Zibanejad had goals for Ottawa, who have won the first two meetings between the teams this season in Detroit. Robin Lehner took the loss.
The Red Wings, who won their fourth straight, have not lost since the Senators beat them on Nov. 23.
OILERS 3, STARS 2, SO
In Dallas, Jordan Eberle and David Perron scored in the shootout, while Devan Dubnyk came on in relief of injured goalie Ilya Bryzgalov to help Edmonton earn a win over Dallas.
Dubnyk stopped two of three shots in the tiebreaker. Dallas’ Kari Lehtonen failed to make a save in the shootout.
Edmonton’s Ales Hemsky scored five seconds before the second period ended, and Andrew Ference fired in a slap shot with 5 minutes, 7 seconds remaining in regulation to tie it again.
Ryan Garbutt scored two goals, including a short-handed tally that gave Dallas a 1-0 lead in the second period. He also put the Stars ahead in the third.
Garbutt nearly had a hat-trick, but he was stopped on a breakaway attempt by Bryzgalov with 3:41 left in the second. Garbutt collided with Bryzgalov, who left with an upper-body injury and did not return.
Bryzgalov, who made 28 saves, trailed 1-0 when he came out.
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