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JETS 4 RANGERS 2

NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Scheifele scored three goals, Connor Hellebuyck made 38 saves and Winnipeg beat the New York Rangers 4-2.

Kyle Connor also scored for the Jets, who have won three straight and four of their last five. Winnipeg is 14-5-0 since Feb. 8 and 19-5-4 against the Eastern Conference this season. Hellebuyck improved to 16-4-2 against the East this season and is 32-15-3 overall.

Alexander Wennberg and Alexis Lafreniere scored for the Rangers, who lost for the second time in seven games.

Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:

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RED WINGS 4 BLUE JACKETS 3

DETROIT (AP) — Patrick Kane scored 48 seconds into overtime as the Detroit Red Wings rallied to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3.

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DEVILS 5 PENGUINS 2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jake Allen made 36 saves, and Timo Meier and Dawson Mercer each scored twice to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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FLYERS 4 MAPLE LEAFS 3

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Owen Tippett scored 19 seconds into the game and added an assist, and Morgan Frost had a goal and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3.

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BRUINS 6 SENATORS 2

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored two goals less than three minutes apart in the first period and then completed his hat trick in the third to lead Boston past Ottawa 6-2.

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HURRICANES 4 ISLANDERS 1

NEW YORK (AP) — Seth Jarvis scored twice and Carolina raced to a three-goal lead in the first period on the way to a 4-1 win over the New York Islanders.

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PREDATORS 8 SHARKS 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Michael McCarron scored two goals, Roman Josi and Filip Forsberg each had a goal and two assists and the Nashville Predators beat the San Jose Sharks 8-2, extending the team’s point streak to a franchise record-tying 15 games.

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AVALANCHE 4 BLUES 3

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored three goals to lead surging Colorado to a 4-3 victory over St. Louis. Casey Mittelstadt also scored for the Avalanche, who won four straight on their current road trip and their seventh straight overall.

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OILERS 3 CANADIENS 2 (OT)

EDMONTON, Alta. (AP) — Connor McDavid scored and set up Leon Draisaitl’s game-winning power-play goal at 3:18 of overtime to lead Edmonton to a 3-2 victory over Montreal.

Adam Henrique also scored and Mattias Edholm added two assists as the Oilers won for the eighth times in 11 games (8-1-2). Calvin Pickard had 23 saves.

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WILD 4 DUCKS 0

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Filip Gustavsson recorded his third shutout this season, Kirill Kaprizov extended his point streak to eight games with the 150th goal of his NHL career and Minnesota beat the Anaheim for the second time in six days.

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KINGS 6 BLACKHAWKS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anze Kopitar had two goals and an assist, Cam Talbot made 22 saves and Los Angeles defeated Chicago.

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LIGHTNING 5 GOLDEN NIGHTS 3

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brayden Point scored two third-period goals and Nikita Kucherov had a four-point night to lift the Tampa Bay to a 5-3 victory over Las Vegas Golden Knights in a battle of teams fighting for playoff positioning. Anthony Cirelli and Anthony Duclair scored the other goals for the Lightning, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves. Steven Stamkos had two assists, giving him a six-game point streak.

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CANUCKS 3 SABRES 2

VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) — Elias Pettersson had two goals and an assist as Vancouver moved atop the Western Conference standings with a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres.

• Chris Simon, once one of hockey’s most feared enforcers, has died at the age of 52. The NHL Players’ Association confirmed the news via Simon’s family that he died Monday night. The cause of death wasn’t provided. The six-foot-three, 232-pound forward from Wawa, Ontario, compiled one-thousand-824 penalty minutes in 782 games with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders and Minnesota Wild.

WHL

Jeremy Hanzel had a goal and an assist as the Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the Kamloops Blazers 3-1 in the only Western Hockey League game on Tuesday.

The Thunderbirds (26-37-2-0), who outshot the British Columbia visitors 51-32, also got goals from Nishaan Parmar and Nathan Pilling.

Zach Pantelakis scored for the Blazers (20-40-3-3), who were tied 1-1 after the first period at accesso ShoWare Center, but trailed 2-1 heading into the third. Netminder Logan Edmonstone stopped 48 of 51 shots for the Blazers.

The Thunderbirds went 0-for-2 on the power play, while the Blazers were 0-for-5.

WORLD WOMENS CURLING

Rachel Homan and her unbeaten Canadian team picked up two more wins on Tuesday at the World Women’s Curling Championship in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Homan, who has a six-and-oh record in Sydney, extended her overall win streak to 22 games. She edged Italy’s Stefania Constantini 8-7 in her first game, and followed with an 8-5 win over Silvana Tirinzoni of Switzerland. Tirinzoni, who has earned four straight world titles, had her 42-game win streak at this competition halted. It was her first loss in seven games in Sydney.

HOOPLA OVER HOOPLA

REGINA – The Saskatchewan government is set to release its 2024 budget Wednesday, a day expected to be overshadowed by teacher protests and heightened hullabaloo over the fate of Hoopla.

Hoopla, the provincial high school basketball championship tournament, is one of Saskatchewan’s signature sports events, drawing hundreds of students and thousands of fans every year.

Teachers are the backbone of Hoopla — coaching, organizing and volunteering — but this year they’ve announced they are opting out to up the ante in an escalating labour dispute with the province.

Saskatchewan Finance Minister Donna Harpauer is to deliver the budget in the afternoon, around the same time tournament organizers have to decide if it’s a go or no-go to start on Thursday.

Hanging in the balance are dreams of student athletes, along with packed hotel rooms and big business for the host city of Moose Jaw.

On Tuesday, students rallied in Regina and Saskatoon calling on both sides to save Hoopla.

MLB

South Korean police say they’ve found no explosives at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome after searching the site following a reported bomb threat against Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. Police say about 150 officers used sniffer dogs and X-ray detectors to search the stadium but no suspicious objects were discovered. Major League Baseball’s opening game between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres is today at the stadium.

(Canadian Press)