Jamie McGinn scored on his Ducks debut, while Jakob Silfverberg got the only goal in the shootout as Anaheim beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Wednesday night for their ninth consecutive victory.
Corey Perry scored the tying power-play goal with 9 minutes, 9 seconds to play for the Ducks, who have won 18 of 21 to streak into a first-place tie with Los Angeles atop the Pacific Division.
John Gibson stopped 25 shots and all three Montreal shootout attempts with relative ease.
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Alex Galchenyuk scored two goals and Mike Condon made 32 saves for the Canadiens, who lost their second straight to open a West Coast road trip.
CAPITALS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2
Matt Niskanen and the NHL’s top power play unit cashed in as the Washington Capitals outlasted the youthful and outclassed Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Capitals reached 98 points for the season and matched the 1995-1996 Detroit Red Wings for the most victories through 63 games, with 47. The Maple Leafs remained in last place in the league, with 52 points.
Niskanen’s winner came after Washington relinquished a 2-0 lead built on goals by Taylor Chorney and Alex Ovechkin. Nikita Soshnikov scored his first NHL goal, while Colin Greening scored his second of the season for the Maple Leafs.
BLACKHAWKS 5, RED WINGS 2
Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist 1 minute, 24 seconds apart on power plays in the second period, while Artemi Panarin scored twice to help the Chicago Blackhawks rout the Detroit Red Wings.
Kane finished with three points, extending his NHL-leading total to 88 to match his career high set during the 2009-2010 season.
Corey Crawford did not give up a goal until midway through the third period when Brad Richards scored. Gustav Nyquist had Detroit’s other goal.
Andrew Ladd restored a three-goal lead in the third period in his second game back with the Blackhawks. Panarin scored his second goal 35 seconds later. Brent Seabrook also scored for Chicago.
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