Andrew Ladd on Monday night had the tying goal late in the second period, while Stephen Gionta and Mathew Barzal scored 2 minutes, 35 seconds apart early in the third to lead the New York Islanders to a 4-3 exhibition victory over the New Jersey Devils.
Ladd, who signed with the Islanders in the off-season, scored his first of the pre-season with 5 minutes, 31 seconds remaining in the middle period to tie it 2-2.
Gionta tipped in a shot from fellow former Devils player Steve Bernier to put New York ahead at 3 minutes, 55 seconds of the third. Barzal then tipped in another shot by Bernier to make it 4-2 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
Colin Markison scored in the first period for the Islanders. Thomas Greiss stopped 25 shots in his pre-season debut after returning from the World Cup of Hockey following Team Europe’s loss to Canada in the finals.
In Philadelphia, Jakub Voracek’s second goal 27 seconds into overtime gave the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 win after giving up a three-goal lead against the New York Rangers.
Jordan Weal, Voracek and Travis Konecny scored 3 minutes, 21 seconds apart in the second period to give the Flyers a 3-0 lead. Steve Mason had 27 saves.
Ryan Graves got the Rangers on the scoreboard with about three-and-a-half minutes to go in the middle period, and Brandon Pirri and rookie Jimmy Vesey scored in the third to tie it with 9 minutes, 9 seconds left.
Leading 1-0, the Flyers went on a five-on-three with about nine-and-a-half minutes left in the second after Vesey was called for tripping and J.T. Miller got a double-minor for high-sticking 13 seconds apart.
In Washington, T.J. Oshie and Andre Burakovski scored in the shootout to lift the Capitals to a 2-1 victory over the St Louis Blues.
Paul Casey scored in regulation for Washington, tipping in a shot by Zach Sill to tie the score 1 minute, 50 seconds into the third period.
Braden Holtby had 13 saves on the 14 shots he faced over the first 31 minutes, 50 seconds. Philipp Grubauer stopped all seven shots he faced through overtime, and then had three saves in the shootout — including a stop on Kenny Agostino in the fourth round for the win.
Dmitrij Jaskin’s second of the pre-season gave the Blues the 1-0 lead with 5 minutes, 47 seconds left in the first.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, highly touted rookie Kyle Connor scored the deciding goal on the power play as the Winnipeg Jets beat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 for their fourth straight win.
Connor, a finalist for the Hobey Baker award at the University of Michigan last season, broke a 2-2 tie at 7 minutes, 2 seconds of the third period when his high shot from the side of the net glanced off goalie Andrew Hammond. It was Connor’s third goal of the pre-season.
Nikolaj Ehlers was credited with an empty-net goal with five seconds left in the game when he was tripped up on a breakaway.
Mark Scheifele had a power-play goal and Jets captain Blake Wheeler also scored and added an assist. Michael Hutchinson stopped 27 shots.
In Vancouver, Anthony Duclair put Arizona ahead for good late in the first period, while Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Shane Doan scored in the second to lead the Coyotes to a 4-2 win over the Canucks.
Anthony DeAngelo gave Arizona the early lead in the first period, and Dylan Strome assisted on the last two goals. Louis Domingue had 22 saves in the first two periods, and Justin Peters stopped all eight shots he faced in the third.
Markus Granlund tied the score at 1-1 at 6 minutes, 10 seconds of the first for Vancouver, and Ben Sutton’s backhander pulled the Canucks to 3-2 with 8 minutes, 18 seconds left in the second.
Doan’s slap shot restored the Coyotes’ two-goal lead just more than two minutes later, and neither team scored again.
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