Aaron Ward scored two goals -- including the go-ahead score late in the third period -- to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
Ray Whitney and Oleg Tverdovsky added goals to help the Hurricanes return from the two-week Olympic break with yet another home win. The game also marked Carolina's third win against Boston this season, with all three coming by 4-3 scores.
Carolina, which leads the Eastern Conference with 84 points, improved to 25-5-1 at home this season. Marco Sturm, David Tanabe and Sergei Samsonov scored for the Bruins, who have won one of their past six games.
Devils 2, Flyers 1, SO
At East Rutherford, New Jersey, Viktor Kozlov scored in regulation and added the only goal in a shootout as New Jersey edged Philadelphia.
Kozlov beat Robert Esche with a high shot in the shootout, and New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur stopped Philadelphia's Mike Richards and Petr Nedved and watched as Peter Forsberg shot wide on the Flyers' third attempt.
Senators 4, Penguins 3
At Pittsburgh, Daniel Alfredsson and Dany Heatley scored their 35th goals of the season and Ottawa built a four-goal lead before holding on to beat Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh's John LeClair, Andre Roy and Jani Rita scored in an 8-minute span of the third. Rita, acquired from Edmonton last month, scored his first goal for Pittsburgh and set up another in a 33-second stretch.
Thrashers 4, Sabres 2
At Buffalo, New York, Kari Lehtonen made 34 saves, and Brad Larsen scored two goals in Atlanta's four victory in five games.
Vyacheslav Kozlov and Niclas Havelid also scored for Atlanta.
Chris Drury, and Maxim Afinogenov scored for Buffalo. The Sabres have lost three of their last four, including an overtime loss and shootout loss.
Blackhawks 3, Predators 0
At Chicago, Craig Anderson made 20 saves for his first shutout of the season and defenseman Dustin Byfuglien scored in his first NHL game to lead Chicago past Nashville.
Rene Bourque and Patrick Sharp also scored to help the Blackhawks snap a three-game losing streak and beat the Predators for the first time in six meetings this season.
Blues 4, Oilers 2
At Edmonton, Alberta, Curtis Sanford made 35 saves, and Scott Young scored two goals as St. Louis downed Edmonton. Keith Tkachuk and Jay McClement also scored for St. Louis, 6-1-1 in its last eight games and 17-31-9 overall.
Red Wings 2, Mighty Ducks 0
At Anaheim, California, Olympic champions Tomas Holmstrom and Henrik Zetterberg scored in a 46-second span in the first period and Chris Osgood made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season for Detroit.
Hong Kong-based cricket team Hung See this weekend found success in their matches in Taiwan, even if none of the results went their way. Hung See played the Chairman’s XI on Saturday morning, the Daredevils that afternoon and PCCT yesterday, with all three home teams winning. The team for Chinese players at the Happy Valley-based Craigengower Cricket Club sends teams on tour to “spread the game of cricket.” This weekend was Hung See’s second trip to Taiwan after visiting Tainan in 2016. “The club has been traveling to all parts of the world since 1982 and the annual tradition continues [with the Taiwan
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei yesterday advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while Coco Gauff’s dreams of a first women’s singles title in Melbourne were crushed in the quarter-finals by Paula Badosa. World No. 2 Alexander Zverev was ruffled by a stray feather in his men’s singles quarter-final, but he refocused to beat 12th seed Tommy Paul and reach the semi-finals. Third seeds Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania and Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in 2 hours, 20 minutes to advance the semi-finals. Hsieh and Ostapenko converted eight of 14 break
The San Francisco Giants signed 18-year-old Taiwanese pitcher Yang Nien-hsi (陽念希) to a contract worth a total of US$500,000 (NT $16.39 million). At a press event in Taipei on Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Giants’ Pacific Rim Area scout Evan Hsueh (薛奕煌) presented Yang with a Giants jersey to celebrate the signing. The deal consisted of a contract worth US$450,000 plus a US$50,000 scholarship bonus. Yang, who stands at 188 centimeters tall and weighs 85 kilograms, is of Indigenous Amis descent. With his fastest pitch clocking in at 150 kilometers per hour, Yang had been on Hsueh’s radar since playing in the HuaNan Cup
HARD TO SAY GOODBYE: After Coco Gauff dispatched Belinda Bencic in the fourth round, she wrote ‘RIP TikTok USA’ and drew a broken heart on a television camera lens Defending champion Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan yesterday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while compatriot Chan Hao-ching on Saturday dominated her opponents in the second round, as world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka swept into the quarter-finals. Third seeds Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia toppled Hungary’s Timea Babos and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US 6-4, 6-3, hitting 24 winners and converting three of seven break points in 1 hour, 18 minutes at 1573 Arena. Although rivals at last year’s Australian Open — where Hsieh and Belgium’s Elise Mertens beat Ostapenko and Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-1, 7-5
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