TORONTO (AP) — Matt Murray made 38 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Pittsburgh Penguins snapped the Toronto Maple
Leafs‘ winning streak at five games with a stifling 3-0 victory Thursday
night.Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist
Kyle Okposo Jersey , scoring early and adding an empty-net goal. Kris Letang also had an empty-netter, and Sidney Crosby picked up an assist to tie
Darryl Sittler for 60th on the NHL’s career points list with 1,221.Toronto’s
Auston Matthews, the NHL in scoring with 16 points on 10 goals and six assists,
was looking to become the third player in NHL to start a season with eight
consecutive multi-point games. The Maple Leafs came in averaging an NHL-high
4.71 goals.Murray returned from a concussion that sidelined him for three games.
He has seven career shutouts.Frederik Andersen stopped 36 shots for
Toronto.LIGHTNING 3, RED WINGS 1TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored his
first goal of the season, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves and Tampa Bay beat
Detroit.Stamkos ended a 16-game regular-season goal drought dating to last
season from the slot with 4:41 left in the second. The goal gave the Lightning a
2-1 lead.Brayden Point and Alex Killorn also scored for the Lightning. They went
4-1-0 on a season-opening homestand, and have won 12 in a row against the Red
Wings.Detroit is 0-5-2, its worst season-opening stretch since opening the
1985-86 season with eight losses and a tie. Luke Glendening scored for the Red
Wings.AVALANCHE 5, DEVILS 3NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog broke a tie
with 3:22 left with his third goal of the game, helping Colorado beat New
Jersey.Landeskog one-timed Mikko Rantanen’s pass from behind the net to complete
his third career hat trick. He scored earlier in the third period on a
deflection of a shot by Ian Cole.Philipp Grubauer stopped 27 shots for his first
victory of the season.Rantanen scored on an empty-netter with 12 seconds left
and added three assists, giving him an NHL-leading 11 this season. Sven
Andrighetto also scored for Colorado.The Devils lost for the first time after
opening the season with four straight victories. Taylor Hall had a goal and two
assists, and Nico Hischier and Brian Boyle also scored.BLUE JACKETS 6, FLYERS
3COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cam Atkinson scored twice in the second period and Sergei
Bobrovsky had 32 saves in Columbus’ victory over Philadelphia.Atkinson’s goals,
both set up with on-target passes from Artemi Panarin, were part of a three-goal
flurry in a seven-minute span that gave Columbus the lead.Anthony Duclair, Nick
Foligno, Josh Anderson and Sonny Milano also scored for the Blue Jackets. Travis
Konecny had a goal and an assist for the Flyers, and Oskar Lindblom and Sean
Courturier also scored.COYOTES 4, BLACKHAWKS 1CHICAGO (AP) — Vinnie Hinostroza
scored twice against his former team, Antti Raanta made 33 saves and Arizona
spoiled Chicago goalie Corey Crawford’s season debut.Clayton Keller had a goal
and an assist to help Arizona improve to 1-1 on a four-game trip. The Coyotes
entered with just four goals on the season. Lawson Crouse also scored.Erik
Gustafsson scored for Chicago.OILERS 3, BRUINS 2, OTEDMONTON
http://www.officialsabres.com/authentic-adidas-rasmus-ristolainen-jersey , Alberta (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored in overtime to give the Edmonton Oilers a
3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night in their home opener.Connor
McDavid set up the winner at 37 seconds of the extra period, and Kailer Yamamoto
and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored to help the Oilers win their third
straight.David Krejci and David Pastrnak scored for Boston. The Bruins have
dropped two in a row.JETS 4, CANUCKS 1WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Patrik Laine and
Bryan Little scored power-play goals to help Winnipeg beat Vancouver.Dustin
Byfuglien had a goal and two assists, Andrew Copp added a goal, and Connor
Hellebuyck made 26 saves. Bo Horvat scored for the Canucks, and Anders Nilsson
stopped 28 shots.SHARKS 5, SABRES 1SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Logan Couture had his
third career hat trick and San Jose scored three times on the power play to beat
Buffalo in the Sharks’ first game back from a five-game road trip.Couture and
Joonas Donskoi scored power-play goals 27 seconds apart in the first period
following a double-minor against Kyle Okposo for high sticking. Couture added an
even-strength goal in the third period off a feed from Evander Kane and capped
the night with an empty-net goal.Joe Pavelski also scored on the power-play in
the third, giving the Sharks three goals with the man advantage after having
just two in the first six games.Martin Jones made 24 saves for the Sharks.Jake
McCabe scored the lone goal for the Sabres, who fell to 1-2 on their five-game
Western swing. Carter Hutton made 34 saves.ISLANDERS 7, KINGS 2LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Valtteri Filppula scored twice and the Islanders snapped a two-game road
losing streak.Filppula, Matt Martin, Leo Komarov and Andrew Ladd each had a goal
in the third period as the Islanders had a season high in scoring.Casey Cizikas
had a goal for the second straight game, and Josh Bailey scored on the power
play. Robin Lehner made 28 saves for the Islanders.Jonathan Quick made his first
start for the Kings after missing five games because of a lower-body injury, but
was pulled with 10:40 remaining after allowing six goals on 29 shots. Tyler
Toffoli and Jeff Carter each scored on the power play, and Los Angeles lost its
third straight game. LAS VEGAS (AP) The bookies in this gambling city have to be
getting a bit nervous.Hockey fans, though, are nothing short of ecstatic.They
screamed, danced and cheered as the goals came one right after another in a
first period blitz Thursday night as the Vegas Golden Knights remained
undefeated in the playoffs by dominating the San Jose Sharks 7-0 in the opening
game of the Western Conference semifinals.The hottest show on the Las Vegas
Strip got even hotter as the Knights – who were 200-1 at many sports books to
win the Stanley Cup before the season began – opened their second playoff series
with a rout of the Sharks that was over before the Zambonis hit the ice.This had
nothing to do with the so-called Vegas Flu that has overcome some visiting teams
who might have not resisted some of the pleasures on the Las Vegas Strip. This
was a simple beat down, by a group of players who had never been together on the
ice before the season began.”It’s not going to be like this every night,”
Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury said. ”We’re going to enjoy this and move
on.”Once again, the Knights played like no expansion team ever before. Once
again, they showed that perhaps the fantasy of bringing the Stanley Cup to the
Las Vegas Strip may not be such a fantasy after all.And once again, 18,444 fans
sang ”Viva Las Vegas” and went home happy – but not before watching Fleury join
them in doing the wave in the closing minutes.”It’s a great home
crowd
Womens Robin Lehner Jersey ,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. ”We like them a lot.”There’s a lot to like about a team that a year ago was nothing more
than an expansion project with an uncertain future. Now the Knights are tearing
through the playoffs like a hot dice thrower at the craps table.That might be a
problem at the sports books, which are on the hook for possibly millions if the
Knights should win it all. But it’s playing out nicely around the rest of Las
Vegas, which is awash in Knights merchandise as the city that has never had a
major sports team eagerly embraces one that is its very own.If getting to the
playoffs was seen as almost impossible before the season began, the Knights are
5-1 in sports books on the Strip to win it all, just behind Nashville and Tampa
Bay as favorites.With good reason. The Knights are the only remaining unbeaten
team in the playoffs, and have the hottest goalie around. Fleury, picked up from
Pittsburgh in the expansion draft, got his third shutout of the playoffs and has
allowed only three goals in five games.He didn’t allow any against the Sharks,
stopping 33 shots to record the shutout.”I don’t go looking at my stats,” Fleury
said. ”A win is a win and I’ll try my best to get my team a win. That’s what
it’s all about.”The team that proudly declares itself Vegas Born thrilled a
raucous crowd at the T-Mobile arena, scoring three goals within a span of 1:31
in the first period to pretty much put the game away early.Against a team that –
like the Knights – swept their opening series, they turned the game into a rout
early. Seven players scored goals, though with Fleury in net there was no way
seven would be needed.”You don’t get extra points for winning by a touchdown
like they did,” San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. ”We just have to be
better.”Earlier, Knights general manager George McPhee talked about how good the
team he put together might be. But even he had to be surprised at the ease the
Knights, coming off a nine-day layoff after sweeping the Los Angeles Kings, won
their second-round opener.”We think we’re a pretty good club but we’ll keep
trying to do what we do and see where it takes us,” McPhee said. ”We haven’t
really looked at the season in its totality before it started, or the playoffs
in its totality.”The formula for the Knights has been as simple as it has been
effective. With some top talent there for the taking in the expansion draft the
Knights combined a fast, swarming attack with stellar work of Fleury to win
their division.Nothing changed in the opening game against the Sharks except the
goals came early and often.”We play fast, we play quick, we play direct hockey,”
Gallant said. ”So far it’s worked for us.”The Knights have done all of that, and
more to move into the serious conversation about what teams can win the Stanley
Cup.If any more proof was needed, even the bookies are believers now.—-Tim
Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him
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