Washington’s Alex Ovechkin became the third player in NHL history to reach 30 goals in each of his first 11 seasons as the Capitals beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Sunday.
Ovechkin joined Wayne Gretzky and Mike Gartner in the NHL record books, and moved within two goals of Chicago’s Patrick Kane for the league lead.
Dmitry Orlov and Matt Niskanen also scored for Washington.
Braden Holtby was stellar in the net, especially on the penalty kill, as he improved to 3-0-0 in the second half of back-to-back starts this season.
It did not matter that Washington went none for two on power plays to extend their season-worst drought to none for 17.
Michael del Zotto and Nick Schultz scored for the Philadelphia Flyers.
CANADIENS 2, HURRICANES 1
In Montreal, Sven Andrighetto was the only player to score in a five-round shootout, leading the Montreal Canadiens past the Carolina Hurricanes.
Ben Scrivens stopped all five Carolina shooters, including Eric Staal on the final attempt, to secure the win.
Max Pacioretty scored in regulation for Montreal, who swept a pair of weekend afternoon games after beating Edmonton 5-1 on Saturday.
Jeff Skinner scored for Carolina.
ISLANDERS 8, OILERS 1
In New York, Kyle Okposo scored a hat-trick after the New York Islanders opened a commanding early lead with three first-period goals as they routed the last-placed Edmonton Oilers.
Thomas Greiss made 30 saves for the Islanders, who moved within three points of the New York Rangers for second place in the Metropolitan Division.
Johnny Boychuk, John Tavares and Nikolay Kulemin scored in the opening period, chasing former Islanders goalie Anders Nilsson, who was replaced by Cam Talbot after Kulemin’s goal.
Josh Bailey and Cal Clutterbuck also scored for New York.
Oilers rookie sensation Connor McDavid scored the lone goal for Edmonton.
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