Derek Stepan had a goal and an assist and Antti Raanta made 32 saves as the New York Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Friday night at the Verizon Center in Washington.
Stepan gave the Rangers the 3-2 lead just 17 seconds into the third period when his shot from high in the slot deflected off defenseman Brooks Orpik’s stick and by goalie Braden Holtby.
Jesper Fast and Keith Yandle gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead in the first period. Ryan McDonagh had two assists.
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Jay Beagle and T.J. Oshie scored second-period goals for Washington, which were looking to reach the 100-point mark.
Raanta, starting in place of Henrik Lundqvist who had neck spasms, made 32 saves while Holtby made 20.
BLUE JACKETS 6, OILERS 3
David Savard had the first two-goal game of his career as Columbus answered Edmonton at every turn in a win at the Nationwide Arena in Colombus, Ohio.
Cam Atkinson, Boone Jenner, Scott Hartnell and Fedor Tyutin also scored for the Blue Jackets, who are 12-5-4 since Jan. 13. Joonas Korpisalo finished with 33 saves.
The Oilers got goals from Connor McDavid, Taylor Hall and Leon Draisaitl, while Laurent Brossoit, making only his third NHL start, made 21 saves.
STARS 4, DEVILS 2
In Texas, Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and an assist, Mattias Janmark had two assists and Kari Lehtonen stopped 18 of 20 shots for Dallas in a win over New Jersey at the American Airlines Center.
The Stars also got goals from Jason Spezza, Colton Scevour and Vernon Fiddler in their first home win since Feb. 13 against Washington.
The Devils got goals from Adam Henrique, who now has four goals in his last four games, and Devante Smith-Pelly.
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
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