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4 Devils with goal and assist in 6-3 victory over Blackhawks

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Dougie Hamilton, Erik Haula, Jesper Boqvist and Timo Meier each had a goal and an assist and the New Jersey Devils beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-3 on Saturday night for their second straight victory.Ryan Graves also scored and Dawson Mercer added a empty-netter for the Devils. They improved to 104 points and remained one behind first-place Carolina in the Metropolitan Division. New Jersey’s leading scorer, 21-year-old Jack Hughes, added two assistsAndreas Athanasiou had a goal and assist for last-place Chicago in its eighth straight loss. Tyler Johnson scored for the third straight game and rookie Lukas Reichel deflected in a goal.Hamilton, a defenseman, scored his 20th goal to reach that mark for the first time in his 11-year career. Haula connected for the third straight game.New Jersey backup Mackenzie Blackwood made 14 saves. Chicago’s Alex Stalock stopped 34 shots.Longtime Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews returned from two-month medical leave of absence.Toews, 3...

Cincinnati blanks Inter Miami 1-0 behind Celentano

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Yerson Mosquera scored during first-half stoppage time and Roman Celentano made it stand up as FC Cincinnati blanked Inter Miami 1-0 on Saturday night.Cincinnati (4-0-2) has won three straight at home for the first time in club history. Inter Miami (2-4-0) is the third club in league history — joining the Chicago Fire (1998) and DC United (2022) — to lose four straight after opening a season with back-to-back victories.Mosquera took a pass from Álvaro Barreal and scored in the fifth minute of stoppage time for the only goal of the match.Celentano made three saves to earn the clean sheet for Cincinnati. Drake Callender stopped three shots for Inter Miami.The victory vaults Cincinnati into first place in the Eastern Conference, one point in front of Atlanta United and the New England Revolution.Josef Martínez has gone five matches without a goal for Inter Miami, the longest drought of his career. Cincinnati lost its first four matches with Inter Miami, but has gone 2...

High winds warning: Potential for scattered storms and power outages Saturday in DC area

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP Meteorologist Chad Merrill with the latest weather forecast for the D.C. metro area. $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Listen to WTOP on the 8s for the full forecast, traffic and weather updates.April has kicked off with some showers and high winds, knocking out power on Saturday throughout the D.C. area. Here’s what you need to know.High wind warning is in effect until 1 a.m. SundayWind Advisory...

Twins open with 2 shutouts for 1st time, beat Royals 2-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sonny Gray and four relievers combined on a four-hitter, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Saturday to open with consecutive shutouts for the first time in franchise history.Jose Miranda had an early RBI single, and pinch-hitter Kyle Farmer added a sacrifice fly. Byron Buxton scored twice.Gray (1-0) allowed three hits and had a strikeout and four walks, all of which came in full-count situations. Jorge Alcalá, Griffin Jax, Caleb Thielbar and Jorge López also held the Royals scoreless. Thielbar struck out three, and López got his first save of the year.The Twins and original Washington Senators had never opened with consecutive shutouts.“How can you not be pleased with not giving up any runs, pitching and defense?” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “I couldn’t be happier with all the guys we’ve brought into the game and how they have been pitching. Combine that with the plays the guys are making behind them and it has looked goo...

Lightning beat Islanders 5-0, earn playoff berth

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 38 saves, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos scored 1:48 apart midway through the second period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning earned their sixth straight playoff berth with a 5-0 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.Tampa Bay will play Toronto in the first round of the postseason. The Maple Leafs hold a four-point advantage, with two games at-hand, over Tampa Bay for home-ice advantage.“Obviously it gives us peace of mind,” Vasilevskiy said of making the playoffs. “It gives us some more confidence moving forward.”The Lightning, who have appeared in the Stanley Cup Final each of the past three years and won back to back in 2020 and 2021, have reached the playoffs in nine of coach Jon Cooper’s 10 full-seasons with the team.“You have no chance to win the Stanley Cup unless you make the playoffs,” Cooper said. Mikhail Sergachev, Tanner Jeannot and Brayden Point also scored for the Lightning.Sergachev left in the third after hurting ...

Tuch’s hat trick leads Sabres to 6-3 win over Flyers

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alex Tuch had his second career hat trick, Jeff Skinner had a goal and an assist, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Saturday night.Jordan Greenway and Kyle Okposo also scored, and Casey Mittelstadt added three assists for Buffalo in its fourth win in five games. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 39 saves. “Good team win all around,” Tuch said. Morgan Frost scored twice for Philadelphia, and Travis Konecny also had a goal in his return to the lineup after a 16-game absence due to an upper-body injury. Felix Sandstrom had 23 saves.The loss officially eliminated the Flyers from the playoffs. They entered with the seventh-fewest points in the NHL.The Sabres turned the contest with four goals in under four minutes over the first and second periods.“It was fun to watch,” Buffalo coach Don Granato said. Okposo finished a 2-on-1 with a shot over Sandstrom’s glove side to tie the score at 1-all with 9.3 seconds left in the first period.The Sabres then eru...

Picault, Mukhtar lead Nashville over Orlando City 2-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Fafà Picault scored in the first half, reigning MVP Hany Mukhtar added some second-half insurance and Nashville SC defeated Orlando City 2-0 on Saturday night.Picault took a pass from Mukhtar and scored in the 28th minute to give Nashville (3-2-1) a 1-0 lead at halftime.Mukhtar picked up his first goal of the season, scoring in the 74th minute with assists from Shaq Moore and Dax McCarty.Orlando City (2-2-2) had an 18-7 advantage in shots and a 6-3 edge in shots on goal.Joe Willis totaled six saves to earn the clean sheet for Nashville. Pedro Gallese turned away one shot for Orlando City.Six of the nine previous meetings between the clubs ended in draws. Orlando City, which snapped a five-match winless streak with a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union last week, won the first meeting with Nashville and hasn’t won since. Nashville returns home to host Toronto on Saturday. Orlando City is idle.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitt...

Verhaeghe scores 4 goals, Panthers beat Blue Jackets 7-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe scored four goals to reach 40 for the season, Alex Lyon made 21 saves for his first shutout and the Florida Panthers beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-0 on Saturday night to move into the final Eastern Conference playoff spot.Sam Reinhart added a goal and two assists, Nick Cousins and Eric Staal also scored and Anthony Duclair and Aleksander Barkov each had three assists in the Panthers’ third straight road victory. Florida moved a point ahead of Pittsburgh for eighth place in the conference, with five games left on the Panthers’ schedule. “The resiliency is the most important part of this journey we’ve been on since January,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “We’re able to bounce back out after tough losses or tough injuries. We’ll have to keep grinding.” Michael Hutchinson stopped 42 shots for Columbus, which was shut out for the fifth time this season and has lost four straight. The Blue Jackets are tied with Chicago for the worst reco...

UConn puts Final Four beatdown on Miami 72-59

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) — UConn doled out another drama-free basketball beatdown Saturday, getting 21 points and 10 rebounds from Adama Sanogo to dispatch Miami 72-59 and move one win from the school’s fifth national title.Jordan Hawkins overcame his stomach bug and scored 13 for the Huskies, who came into this most unexpected Final Four as the only team with any experience on college basketball’s final weekend and with the best seeding of the four teams in Houston — at No. 4.Against fifth-seeded Miami, they were the best team on the court from beginning to end. Starting with three straight 3s — one jumper from Hawkins and two set shots from Sanogo — UConn took a quick 9-0 lead and never trailed.On Monday in the title game, the Huskies will face San Diego State, which became the first team to hit a buzzer-beater while trailing in a Final Four game for a 72-71 victory over Florida Atlantic.That was an all-timer. This one — more of the same from the Huskies (30-8). The double-digit victory over ...

Local teachers decry DeSantis’ school policies at downtown Miami protest

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:19 GMT

South Florida teachers voiced their outrage against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ policies that affect the classroom at a protest held in downtown Miami.Educators on Saturday morning were joined by parents, students and other community groups to rally at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center.Demonstrators pushed back on legislation restricting what they can teach, like the Parental Rights in Education Act, referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” law, as well as the Stop Woke Act.“Laws [are] being passed to ban books and not allow teachers to teach a complete and true history of this country, so we are beating back those laws,” said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, “not only by coming out and lifting up our voices, but by activism and legal action.”On Saturday, DeSantis was in Pennsylvania to attend a conference. He threw his support behind former President Donald Trump in the wake of his recent indictment.