Last night’s National Hockey League game between the Buffalo Sabres and the visiting New York Rangers was postponed due to heavy snow in the Buffalo area, the league said on Thursday.
The NHL announcement came as the National Football League was considering contingency plans for tomorrow’s scheduled game in Buffalo between the Bills and New York Jets, which has now been moved to Monday.
Snowbound residents of western New York, who had been socked by 1.5m of snow in some areas earlier this week, awoke to another 30cm of accumulation on Thursday, with the possibility of a further 76cm expected, meteorologists said.
At least eight deaths have been blamed on the wintry blast.
In Thursday’s games, James van Riemsdyk scored two goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Maple Leafs left winger scored twice in a span of 2 minutes, 44 seconds as Toronto scored three unanswered goals in the second period after the first ended 1-1.
Center Alex Killorn and center Steven Stamkos scored for the Lightning.
CANADIENS 4, BLUES 1
Max Pacioretty scored twice to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-1 win over the St Louis Blues.
Goaltender Carey Price made 31 saves for the Canadiens, who beat St Louis for the first time since Nov. 16, 2008.
BLACKHAWKS 4, FLAMES 3
Defenseman Adam Clendening scored just four minutes into his debut as the Blackhawks scratched out a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames.
Patrick Kane scored the game-winner at the 9 minute, 12 second mark of the third period for the Blackhawks.
SENATORS 3, PREDATORS 2
A second-period goal by Ottawa defenseman Jared Cowen stood as the winner in the Senators’ 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators.
Senators goaltender Robin Lehner made 33 saves to pick up his first victory since Oct. 28.
RED WINGS 4, JETS 3
Detroit center Tomas Tatar scored two goals, including the game-winner late in the third period, and the Red Wings pulled off a scrappy, come-from-behind victory over the Winnipeg Jets, 4-3.
Tatar broke a 3-3 tie with his eighth goal of the season 15 minutes, 10 seconds into the third, but the Red Wings scored two unanswered goals to win.
WILD 3, FLYERS 2
Jason Zucker scored a tiebreaking goal with 45.4 seconds left in the game to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
Nino Niederreiter and defenseman Marco Scandella also scored goals, and goaltender Darcy Kuemper made 37 saves to help the Wild win their fourth successive game.
Claude Giroux scored the tying goal with 3 minutes, 30 seconds left and defenseman Mark Streit also had a goal for the Flyers, who lost their fourth consecutive game.
CAPITALS 3, AVALANCHE 2
Alex Ovechkin scored at 14 minutes, 4 seconds of the third period as the Washington Capitals beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2.
Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and an assist and left winger Jason Chimera also scored for the Capitals. Goaltender Braden Holtby stopped 27 shots for Washington.
DUCKS 4, CANUCKS 3
Jakob Silfverberg and Corey Perry scored in a shootout as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-3.
Anaheim’s Matt Beleskey tied the game at 3-3 to force overtime when he scored at 11 minutes, 52 seconds of the third.
Anaheim improved their Western Conference-leading record to 12-4-5 for 30 points, while the Canucks dropped to 13-6-1 for 27 points.
In other games, it was:
‧ Stars 3, Coyotes 1
‧ Kings 3, Hurricanes 2
‧ Panthers 3, Sharks 2 (shootout)
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