Jeff Carter scored during a two-man advantage in Los Angeles’ three-goal second period as the Kings completed a sweep of a six-game homestand with a 5-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday.
Columbus left wing Nick Foligno was seriously injured with 11:34 left. He was taken off on a stretcher while wearing a neck brace. Carter checked him along the boards in front of the Kings bench, and Foligno’s head rammed into the elbow of linesman Shane Heyer, who had jumped on top of the boards in an attempt to avoid both players.
Tanner Pearson scored twice in the third for the Kings, who swept a homestand of at least six games for the first time. The defending Stanley Cup champions did not win more than five in a row at home at any time last season.
Tyler Toffoli and Dwight King also scored for the Kings. Jonathan Quick made 22 saves.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bryan Little scored at 4:35 of overtime to lift the Jets to a 2-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche.
Little redirected Andrew Ladd’s backhander past Semyon Varlamov for his fifth goal of the season. Ladd also had the game’s first goal. Ondrej Pavelec made 22 saves.
Jamie McGinn scored for Colorado. Varlamov stopped 26 shots.
San Jose’s Joe Pavelski and Tommy Wingels scored power-play goals as the Sharks emphatically ended a four-game losing streak with a fight-filled 4-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.
Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for the Sharks, who ended Anaheim’s seven-game winning streak with just their second victory in seven games.
Antti Niemi made 33 saves as San Jose rebounded aggressively from an embarrassing home loss to lowly Buffalo on Saturday, taking a 3-0 lead after two dominant periods. The third turned into a prolonged brawl featuring 127 penalty minutes and ending with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in the Ducks’ dressing room.
Matt Beleskey scored for the Western Conference-leading Ducks, who had not lost since opening night on Oct. 9.
Frederik Andersen stopped 33 shots, but his 10-start winning streak ended as Anaheim wrapped up a five-game homestand with an unimpressive effort against a Pacific Division rival.
Jonathan Toews and Brent Seabrook scored and Scott Darling made 32 saves in his NHL debut as the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Ottawa Senators 2-1, while the Vancouver Canucks beat the Washington Capitals 4-2 after Nick Bonino and Radim Vrbata both had a goal and an assist.
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
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
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