The Los Angeles Kings notched their fifth straight victory and continued their impressive form with a 2-1 home victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, with Jeff Carter scoring his 250th career NHL goal.
The Kings stayed a point ahead of the Minnesota Wild for sixth place in the Western Conference, while the Canadiens missed a chance to close within four points of Atlantic Division leaders the Boston Bruins, but Montreal did stay three points ahead of Atlantic rivals the Toronto Maple Leafs, which lost at home against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Los Angeles goaltender Jonathan Quick made 17 saves to remain unbeaten since the Olympic break, while Jake Muzzin scored an early goal for the Kings, who opened a 10-game gap over nearest Pacific Division rivals the Vancouver Canucks and won at home against Montreal for the first time in 11 years.
P.K. Subban scored for the Canadiens, who had not lost in regulation time since Feb. 2.
Columbus’ Dalton Prout and Artem Anisimov scored second-period goals to lift the Blue Jackets to a 2-1 win in Toronto.
The Maple Leafs had won their previous seven home games — their best sequence in seven years.
Prout, a defenseman, and Anisimov scored less than three minutes apart for Columbus, who completed a three-game season sweep of Toronto.
Mason Raymond had the lone goal for Toronto, bringing the Maple Leafs within a goal with 4 minutes, 15 seconds remaining.
The Minnesota Wild extended their winning streak to five games by downing the Calgary Flames 3-2, with Jared Spurgeon’s power-play goal in the third period standing as the winner.
Dallas Stars coach Lindy Ruff earned his 600th NHL coaching victory with a 3-2 win over his old team, the Buffalo Sabres.
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