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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Andrei Kuzmenko scored in the shootout and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Calgary Flames 3-2. Elias Pettersson and Cole McWard — with his first NHL point — scored for the Canucks. Thatcher Demko made 41 saves. Elias Lindholm and Nazem Kadri put away third-period goals for the Flames to force

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denis Malgin scored twice and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory. Brad Hunt and Alex Newhook also scored, Alexandar Georgiev made 37 saves and the Avalanche kept pace with Dallas for first place in the

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Brian White scored in the second half and the Vancouver Whitecaps edged the Portland Timbers 1-0. White broke a scoreless tie when he took a pass from Julian Gressel and scored in the 74th minute. The Whitecaps’ Simon Belcher was held without a goal. He was trying to become the

By MARK MOSCHETTI Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Jordan Eberle, Jared McCann and Daniel Sprong each had a goal and an assist and the Seattle Kraken beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 on Saturday night for their fourth straight victory. The second-year Kraken, who clinched their first Stanley Cup playoff spot Thursday, also got goals from

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Israel Adesanya won his middleweight championship rematch against Alex Pereira with a knockout at 4:21 in the second round of UFC 287 in Miami. Pereira (7-2) landed a knee that pushed Adesanya (24-2) into the cage in the second round. Adesanya came off the cage with

HOUSTON (AP) — Amine Bassi became the first player in MLS history to score on a penalty kick in four straight matches, helping the Houston Dynamo defeat the LA Galaxy 3-0. Bassi’s goal came in the 65th minute and gave Houston (3-3-0) a 2-0 lead. Bassi has needed just six matches to pull within one

SEATTLE (AP) — Joshua Atencio and Raúl Ruidíaz scored second-half goals to spark the Seattle Sounders to a 3-0 victory over St. Louis City. The Sounders (5-1-1) improved to 6-1-4 all-time against expansion teams at home. Seattle’s only loss against first-year teams came against LAFC in 2018. Seattle handed St. Louis City (5-2-0) its second

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Diego Rubio scored in the second half, William Yarbrough made it stand up and the Colorado Rapids earned their first win of the season with a 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City. Neither team scored until Rubio took a pass from Darren Yapi and found the net in the 68th

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ronald Holland had 15 points, and USA Basketball rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat Team World 90-84 in the men’s game at the Nike Hoop Summit on Saturday night. Bronny James made his USA Basketball debut and scored 11 points. The son of NBA great LeBron James iced the game

By MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Stone Garrett had four hits and five RBIs, homering and doubling twice to help the Washington Nationals beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6. Garrett was a triple shy of the cycle and set career highs for hits and RBIs as the Nationals built a 7-2 lead and held

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Pablo Ruiz, Anderson Julio and Jefferson Savarino scored goals over a six-minute span of the second half to rally Real Salt Lake to a 3-1 victory over Charlotte FC. Charlotte led 1-0 at halftime on a goal by Karol Swiderski in the 27th minute. Benjamin Bender and Enzo Copetti had assists

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo each hit two-run homers, Alek Thomas had four hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame an early four-run deficit to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 12-8 on Saturday night. The D-backs came into the game hitting just .230 as a team but

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels rallied from a four-run deficit for a 9-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Shohei Ohtani doubled and scored in the fourth before Trout capped a four-run rally in the

CHICAGO (AP) — Kei Kamara had a brace by halftime to spark the Chicago Fire to a 2-1 victory over Minnesota United. Kamara scored unassisted in the 24th minute to give Chicago (2-1-3) the lead. Kamara took a pass from Arnaud Souquet and scored again 12 minutes later to put the Fire up 2-0 at

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins tied an NHL record with their 62nd win of the season. Boston got two goals from Pavel Zacha in the first five minutes and held on to beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1. The Bruins have three games left to try to top

MADISON, Ala. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels’ Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas allowed one hit in a doubleheader and only got a split. Three pitchers combined on a seven-inning, no-hitter for the Trash Pandas only to lose 7-5 to the Cincinnati Reds’ Chattanooga Lookouts in the opener after wildness caused a seven-run top of

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Egor Sokolov scored his first NHL goal and the Ottawa Senators beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-4 on Saturday night. Drake Batherson, Julien Gauthier, Patrick Brown, Alex DeBrincat, Mark Kastelic and Claude Giroux, into an empty net, also scored for Ottawa. Cam Talbot made 19 saves. Alex Killorn, Brandon Hagel, Victor

By ALLAN KREDA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Mayfield, Brock Nelson and rookie defenseman Samuel Bolduc each scored and Ilya Sorokin made 27 saves as the New York Islanders kept pace in the Eastern Conference wild-card race with a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Hudson Fasching also scored for the Islanders who

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lucas Zelarayán scored on a first-half penalty kick, Christian Ramírez added a goal after halftime and the Columbus Crew blanked D.C. United 2-0. Zelarayán staked Columbus (4-2-1) to a 1-0 lead in the 39th minute and has had a hand in nine goals (seven scores and two assists) in eight career matches

By SAMMI SILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk scored the tiebreaking goal with 1 minute left in regulation and had two assists as the Florida Panthers beat the Washington Capitals 4-2 for their sixth straight win. Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist, and Carter Verhaege and Aaron Ekblad also scored for