Corey Perry had his second hat-trick of the season to help the Anaheim Ducks beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-1 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory in the NHL.
A moment of silence was observed out of respect for the people of Ottawa, where gunfire erupted inside the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday morning after a soldier standing guard at a war memorial was shot to death.
The Ottawa Senators’ scheduled home game against Toronto was postponed as a result, and there were tributes at the remaining NHL games.
At Anaheim, Frederik Andersen made 22 saves, losing a bid for his second consecutive shutout when Tyler Ellis scored off a rebound with 5 minutes, 4 seconds left to play. That ended Buffalo’s scoreless streak at 192 minutes, following a 1-0 loss to Florida and 3-0 loss to Boston.
Andersen, who beat St Louis 3-0 on Sunday night for his first NHL shutout, has been in net for each of the six wins. He has stopped 154 of 162 shots after John Gibson lost the opener in Pittsburgh.
In the other games, the Flyers beat the Penguins 5-3 in Pittsburgh, while the Oilers edged the Capitals 3-2 in Edmonton.
R.J. Umberger and Matt Read scored two minutes apart in the third period to lift Philadelphia past the Penguins. Umberger, a Pittsburgh native, beat Marc-Andre Fleury 6:50 into the third to break a tie and Read followed with a backhander.
Though the game featured two US teams, the sell-out crowd sang O Canada before the opening faceoff as a tribute to a Canadian soldier killed in attack in Ottawa.
The Edmonton Oilers handed Washington their first regulation loss of the season, with Ben Scrivens making 32 stops.
Justin Schultz, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nikita Nikitin scored to help the Oilers win their second straight game after opening the season 0-4-1. Teddy Purcell added two assists.
John Carlson and Mike Green scored for Washington, who dropped to 3-1-2.
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
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Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier