Corey Crawford stopped 23 shots for his second shutout this season as he anchored a physical 4-0 victory for the Blackhawks over the St Louis Blues to give Chicago coach Joel Quenneville his 700th NHL win on Wednesday.
It was a costly victory for the Blackhawks, with leading scorer Patrick Kane leaving the game at 7 minutes, 56 seconds of the second period, favoring his left leg following a collision with Brenden Morrow. Kane is expected to miss three weeks, Quenneville said.
Duncan Keith, Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger and Ben Smith scored for Chicago.
Photo: AFP
Quenneville, who previously guided St Louis and Colorado, has the most wins of any active NHL coach and ranks third all-time behind Al Arbour and Scotty Bowman, now the Blackhawks’ senior adviser of hockey operations.
Crawford earned his 10th career shutout in Chicago’s first win against the Blues this season after three losses.
LIGHTNING 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3
Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos scored a natural hat-trick as the Lightning beat Toronto 5-3 in a game that included a frightening injury to Maple Leafs defenseman Paul Ranger.
Ranger left the ice on a stretcher after his head hit the boards following a first-period hit from Alex Killorn.
Ranger was “stable, conscious and alert,” according to the Maple Leafs, after being taken to the hospital for what the team called a “precautionary assessment.” Killorn was given a five-minute major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct.
Stamkos, in his seventh game back after missing four months with a broken right leg, scored his three goals on three shots. Radko Gudas had Tampa Bay’s first goal 59 seconds in, while Tyler Johnson added an insurance goal. Ben Bishop made 36 saves.
Phil Kessel scored his team-leading 35th of the season for Toronto. Nikolai Kulemin and Jake Gardiner also had goals for the Maple Leafs.
JETS 5, AVALANCHE 4
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Blake Wheeler scored in overtime on a shot through the crowd to lift the Jets over the Colorado Avalanche.
Andrew Ladd scored twice for the injury-depleted Jets. Eric Tangradi and Evander Kane also had goals.
Ryan O’Reilly, Gabriel Landeskog, Nick Holden and Cody Mcleod scored for Colorado.
CANUCKS 2, PREDATORS 0
Eddie Lack made 30 saves for Vancouver, while Nicklas Jensen and Alex Edler scored 1:13 apart in the third period as the Canucks blanked the Nashville Predators 2-0.
The Canucks posted their fourth win in seven games, but remained in 10th place in the Western Conference, while pulling within three points of the eighth-placed Phoenix.
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