Duncan Keith scored a power-play goal with 8.5 seconds left and the Chicago Blackhawks beat St. Louis 4-3 on Wednesday night to hurt the
Blues‘ playoff hopes.
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for the first time in three meetings this season.
Vladimir Tarasenko and Brayden Schenn each had a goal and an assist for the Blues. They have lost four straight to fall a point behind idle Colorado for the
second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
Robert Bortuzzo also scored for the Blues, and Jake Allen made 22 saves.
DUCKS 3, WILD 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Ondrej Kase scored the tiebreaking goal on a rebound with 3:56 to play, and Anaheim clinched its sixth consecutive playoff berth with
a victory over Minnesota.
Kase secured his first 20-goal season by jumping on a long rebound of Josh Manson’s shot, and Andrew Cogliano added an empty-net goal with 2:13 left. Ryan
Miller made 26 saves in his first start since March 9 for the Ducks, who have
won eight of 10 in their usual late-season surge to the playoffs.
Nick Ritchie also scored, and Manson had two assists as the Ducks officially extended the NHL’s second-longest streak of consecutive postseason berths.
Anaheim also leapfrogged archrival Los Angeles into third place in the Pacific
Division, leading by one point with two games to play for both clubs.
Matt Dumba scored a power-play goal and Devan Dubnyk stopped 28 shots for the Wild, who took their fifth loss in seven games during what turned out to be a
meaningless contest for the playoff-bound club.
SENATORS 4
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Matt Duchene scored his team-leading 27th goal for Ottawa, helping assure Buffalo of finishing last in the NHL standings.
Max McCormick, Ryan Dzingel and Alexander Burrows, with an empty-netter, also scored for the Senators, and Craig Anderson stopped 32 shots.
Ryan O’Reilly and Kyle Okposo scored for the Sabres. Buffalo had already extended its franchise-worst playoff drought to a seventh season and will finish
last for the third time in five years.
Indianapolis Colts starting safeties Malik Hooker and Clayton Geathers waited anxiously for months to get back to
work.
They agonizingly watched teammates run around as they learned the new defense. They were limited to sideline duty when the practice pace picked up at
June's three-day minicamp. And they were still out when training camp
opened.
Now both have returned from knee surgery, eager to show the coaches just what they can do.
"It's been rough, but I try to get those thoughts out of my head and just keep going and try to help this team win," Geathers said Friday. "That was my
goal coming in as a rookie and then one thing led to another. So I'm just trying
to get back and get right."
While things haven't gone quite as smoothly as they'd hoped, at least they've been activated from the physically unable to perform list. Both are able to
participate in position and individual drills and believe they'll soon be in
11-on-11 team work after a long
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For Geathers, it's been one obstacle after another.
He showed promise as a rookie, making two starts and getting 31 tackles after the Colts selected him in the fourth round of the 2015 draft. Chuck Pagano's
staff figured the next NFL prospect from the Geathers' family tree was perfectly
suited as a hybrid safety/linebacker at 6-foot-2, 220 pounds.
Instead, Geathers missed seven games in 2016 with an assortment of injuries, including a concussion that put him on the season-ending injured reserve list in
mid-December.
Then Geathers needed offseason neck surgery, sat out until Week 11 and wound up making eight tackles while playing five of the Colts' last six games. He
spent the offseason again recovering from surgery, this time on his knee.
"I went and got the procedure and one thing led to another and now we are here," he said. "We are off PUP and now we are back getting acclimated."
Hooker has a playmaking pedigree.
As a senior at Ohio State, he finished third in FBS with seven interceptions and led the nation by returning three for touchdowns. The Colts liked him so
much they couldn't wait to take him with the No. 15 overall pick in the 2017
draft, prompting then-coach Pagano to draw a quick comparison with one of his
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Indy took a cautious approach with Hooker in training camp as he recovered from shoulder and sports hernia surgeries, but Hooker injured his hamstring at
his first practice.
Once he finally got healthy, Hooker performed precisely as the Colts expected. He picked off passes in each of his first three starts, tying Eugene
Daniels' Indianapolis era record for most consecutive games with an interception
by a rookie.
But seven games into the season, Hooker tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee, requiring surgery that kept him off the
field until Thursday.
"The ACL injury is a difficult injury to recover from, but I think and the coaching staff thinks that I'm doing a great job of recovering from that and
just getting back out there, not thinking twice about cutting, moving and things
like that," Hooker said.
New coach Frank Reich hasn't provided a timetable for either to return to full action though the hope is both will be ready for the Sept. 9 season opener
against Cincinnati.
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Seattle.
Still, the Colts think they have quite the combination.
"Just their physical presence ??I'm standing over there and you look over there ??I'm just telling you as a quarterback you notice it," Reich said. "It's
a physical presence. You also know as a quarterback when you are playing a
safety who has that knack to have ball production. You know guys like Earl
Thomas. When you are a quarterback, you know 'I can't make a mistake' and any
little mistake is going to be amplified when you've got a playmaker like that
(Hooker)."
NOTES: Andrew Luck took another big step during Sunday morning's practice with a touchdown pass as time ran out in the two-minute drill. Under duress,
Luck scrambled to his left and threw the ball 45 yards against his body while on
the move. "That's a tough throw to make, so that's definitely checking something
off," Reich said. ... Left tackle Anthony Castonzo and Denzelle Good, who is
competing to start at right tackle, both sat out with hamstring injuries. Reich
said Castonzo will miss "some time" after reinjuring the hamstring that
initially put him on the non-football injury list. Castonzo was activated
Wednesday. He was hurt in Friday night's practice.
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