Jeff Friesen scored his third goal in four games early in the third period to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers on Sunday night.
Martin Brodeur made 24 saves, including a spectacular tumbling stop on Frantisek Kaberle in the second period, and Grant Marshall scored a goal and set up another by Patrik Elias to help the Devils win for the fourth time (4-1-1) in six games.
Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 26th goal of the season and Jeff Cowan added another for Atlanta, which lost for the second time in two nights.
Flyers 4, Capitals 1
In Washington, Mark Recchi and John LeClair each had a goal and three assists for Philadelphia.
Michal Handzus and Kim Johnsson also scored to help the Flyers win for the fifth time in their last six games.
Robert Esche made 12 saves for the Flyers, allowing only Mike Grier's breakaway goal in the first period.
Washington played with just five defensemen after losing Sergei Gonchar to a shoulder injury Friday night in a loss in Florida.
Sabres 4, Hurricanes 2
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Jochen Hecht had two goals and Martin Biron made 37 saves for Buffalo.
Derek Roy's third-period goal put the Sabres ahead to stay, and Milan Bartovic had a goal and an assist. Erik Cole and Kevyn Adams scored for the Hurricanes.
Canucks 4, Predators 1
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canucks defenseman Brent Sopel scored twice and added an assist in a win over Nashville.
Henrik Sedin and Todd Bertuzzi also scored, and Markus Naslund had three assists to help the Canucks win at home in regulation for the first time since Nov. 8.
The victory was tempered by the loss of star defenseman Ed Jovanovski to a sprained right shoulder early in the first period.
Dan Cloutier made 15 saves for the Canucks, allowing only Jordin Tootoo's power-play goal midway through the third period.
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Stade Rennais, four days after firing coach Habib Beye, stunned Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 on Friday, snapping the defending champions’ seven-match winning run in French Ligue 1. Second-placed RC Lens could leapfrog the champions and retake top spot last night after press time if they beat Paris FC in the capital. PSG started brightly, with Ousmane Dembele and Desire Doue carving openings to no avail. Rennes fired Beye on Monday and promoted his assistant Sebastien Tambouret, and the same players who had lost four games on the bounce seemed transformed. Jordanian forward Mousa al-Tamari bagged the opener, unleashing a fierce strike
Dasun Shanaka hammered the fastest half-century by a Sri Lankan in T20Is as the cohosts thrashed Oman by 105 runs at the World Cup yesterday in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, for their second win in Group B. The 2014 champions piled up 225-5, the highest total of the tournament, before restricting an outclassed Oman to 120-9. The 43-year-old Mohammad Nadeem waged a lone battle for Oman, compiling an unbeaten 53 to become the oldest player to score a 50 in T20 World Cups. Having promoted himself up the order and under pressure to deliver, Sri Lanka skipper Shanaka smashed a 19-ball half-century. It has been
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