Sebastian Aho set up Justin Williams’ go-ahead goal with 9 minutes, 45 seconds remaining as the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to take a 3-0 lead in their second-round series.
Teuvo Teravainen had two goals, including an empty-netter with 57.1 seconds remaining, while Justin Faulk also scored and Aho added another empty-net goal with 4.8 seconds to play.
Curtis McElhinney — who at 35 years and 343 days old became the oldest goalie in NHL history to make his first playoff start — stopped 28 shots in place of Petr Mrazek, who is day to day with a lower body injury.
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The wild-card Hurricanes — in the playoffs for the first time in a decade — moved within a victory of a berth in the NHL Eastern Conference final and took a 3-0 series lead for just the second time since they moved to North Carolina in 1997.
After losing the first two games of their first-round series with Washington, Carolina have won seven of eight.
Game 4 is tonight in Raleigh.
Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist, while Devon Toews scored on a power play for New York. Robin Lehner stopped 34 shots, but his career record against the Hurricanes fell to 0-7.
STARS 4, BLUES 1
In Dallas, rookie Roope Hintz scored his fifth goal of the playoffs, while Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov each had two assists as the Stars beat the St Louis Blues to even their second-round series at two games each.
Rookie coach Jim Montgomery made a significant change by switching up his top two lines, and the move paid off for Dallas.
Seguin skated on a line with Jason Dickinson and Mats Zuccarello. That put Hintz, instead of Seguin, alongside Radulov and captain Jaime Benn.
Dickinson, Jason Spezza and John Klingberg also scored for the Stars, who were down 1-0 only five minutes into the game. Zuccarello also had two assists, giving him six in the series.
Vladimir Tarasenko had a power-play goal for the Blues, who lost for the first time in their five road games this post-season.
Robert Thomas also scored in the third period.
The NHL Western Conference semi-final series returns to St Louis for Game 5 tonight.
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
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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
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