Shea Weber scored twice to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 win over the St Louis Blues on Tuesday night.
Gabriel Bourque added a goal for Nashville, who have won two of three.
Chris Butler and T.J. Oshie scored for St Louis, but the Blues lost for the fifth time in six games despite the return of No. 1 goaltender Brian Elliott.
Elliott was activated from the injured list earlier on Tuesday after he missed 14 games due to a lower-body injury. He made 44 saves.
Weber’s short-handed goal 9 minutes, 2 seconds into the third period gave Nashville a 3-2 lead. His first-period tally made it 1-0. He had not scored since Nov. 20 — a span of 16 games.
CANADIENS 2, PANTHERS 1, SO
Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau scored the only goal in the shootout to lift Montreal over Florida. Parenteau’s shot glanced off the glove of Roberto Luongo and went into the net in the third round of the tiebreaker.
Jonathan Huberdeau missed on the ensuing attempt, and Montreal improved to 5-1 in shootouts.
The Canadiens have won four in a row — including three on the road — and seven of eight. Montreal own a three-game winning streak against the Panthers.
Brendan Gallagher had a goal in regular time for Montreal, while Dustin Tokarski had 36 saves in his first start in 11 games.
Nick Bjugstad scored Florida’s goal. Luongo stopped 33 shots for the Panthers, who lost at home for the first time in four games.
OILERS 3, KINGS 2, SO
David Perron’s shootout goal snapped Edmonton’s nine-game losing streak in a victory over defending Stanley Cup champions Los Angeles.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Matt Hendricks scored in regulation for the Oilers (8-22-7), who won for just the second time in 22 games. It was also just their second win against Western Conference opponents (2-18-6).
Drew Doughty and Jake Muzzin had goals for the Kings (18-12-8), who lost for the second time in two nights and dropped their fifth straight on the road.
CANUCKS 3, SHARKS 1
Jannik Hansen scored in the second period, immediately after leaving the penalty box for an illegal hit to the head, as Vancouver snapped a four-game road losing streak by beating San Jose.
Bo Horvat and Radim Vrbata also scored for the Canucks, who have won their past three games in San Jose. Ryan Miller stopped one of two penalty shots he faced and made 31 saves in all.
Joe Thornton converted his penalty shot, while Joe Pavelski missed for the Sharks, who had two penalty shots for just the second time in franchise history. Alex Stalock made 18 saves as San Jose lost their third straight.
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
HSIEH MAKES QUARTERS: Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won in the women’s doubles and face Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin of the US Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff were knocked out of the women’s singles at the Miami Open on Monday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei advanced in the women’s doubles. Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2, hours after third seed Gauff fell in three sets to No. 23 Caroline Garcia 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Alexandrova beat a top-ranked player for the first time and advanced to face Jessica Pegula, a 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 winner over Emma Navarro, in the quarter-finals. Alexandrova recorded her second win over Swiatek, following a 2021 victory in Melbourne. Swiatek had won their three matches since. “We played quite