Kyle Brodziak on Monday scored the go-ahead goal to cap a three-goal burst over the final 3 minutes, 31 seconds of the second period, rallying the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
The Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl scored his team-leading 41st goal and added an assist to extend his point streak to 11 games (nine goals, eight assists), as Connor McDavid set up two goals to help their side overcome a 3-1 deficit in the second period.
Defenseman Darnell Nurse and Zack Kassian also scored for the Oilers, who won their third straight to close a five-game trip at 4-1-1. Goalie Mikko Koskinen stopped 35 shots.
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Jack Eichel scored twice and Casey Mittelstadt also scored for the slumping Sabres. Buffalo dropped to 2-7-1 in their past 10 games.
Sabres goalie Linus Ullmark was yanked at the end of the second period, after allowing four goals on 20 shots. Carter Hutton took over and stopped all seven shots that he faced.
MAPLE LEAFS 6, FLAMES 2
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Tyler Ennis recorded his first career hat-trick to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs past hosts the Calgary Flames 6-2.
Zach Hyman had two goals for the Maple Leafs, while Mitch Marner had a goal and two assists, giving him 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in the past four games.
Matthew Tkachuk and Derek Ryan scored for the Flames, who have dropped two in a row after a seven-game winning streak. The Flames remain atop the Pacific Division, three points ahead of the San Jose Sharks.
Maple Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen made 35 saves and won his fifth straight, improving to 32-13-3.
Flames goalie David Rittich had 26 stops and slipped to 22-6-5. It was Rittich’s second regulation loss since the middle of December. He entered the game 11-1-4 in his past 16 games.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
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