TUESDAY SPORTS: KNIGHT TIME
Photo: Vegas Golden Knights
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Jonathan Marchessault scored 49 seconds into overtime and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 Monday night for their third straight win.
Pavel Dorofeyev also scored and Logan Thompson stopped 30 shots to help Vegas win for the sixth time in its last eight games. The Golden Knights moved five points ahead of the Blues for the final Western Conference wild card.
Brandon Saad scored and Jordan Binnington finished with 32 saves for St. Louis, which had won two straight games and five of its last seven.
KINGS 3, CANUCKS 2
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist to help Los Angeles Kings beat the Vancouver their fourth straight win.
Blake Lizotte and Kevin Fiala also scored for the Kings, and Cam Talbot finished with 21 saves.
Brock Boeser and Sam Lafferty had goals for Vancouver, which snapped a three-game win streak. Casey DeSmith had 16 saves.
THREE STARS
Washington Capitals left-wing Alex Ovechkin, Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews and Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
Ovechkin scored in all four of his outings, leading the NHL with seven goals and adding one assist as the Capitals went 3-1-0 and took hold of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Matthews was second in the NHL with 10 points (three goals, seven assists) as the Leafs went 2-2-0 on the week and remain in third place in the Atlantic Division.
McDavid paced the league with 10 assists and 11 points, becoming the first NHL player to reach the 90-assist milestone in a season since Joe Thornton in 2006-07. He is on pace to become the fourth player in league history to reach the 100-assist mark.
The Calgary Stampeders hired Beau Baldwin as their quarterbacks coach Monday.
Baldwin replaces Ryan Williams, who has accepted a U.S. college position.
Baldwin had two tenures covering 13 seasons as a coach at Eastern Washington University – offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach (2003-06) and head coach (2008-16).
As head coach, Baldwin led the Eagles to an 85-32 record, five Big Sky Conference championships and one Division I FCS national title in 2010. The quarterback of that squad was current CFL player Bo Levi Mitchell, who began his career in Canada with Calgary in 2012.
Former CFL quarterbacks Vernon Adams Jr. and Matt Nichols also played for Baldwin at the school.
Baldwin also served as head coach at Central Washington, his alma mater, in 2007. His quarterback that year was future CFLstar Mike Reilly.
“I’m excited to bring on Beau,” said Stampeders head coach/GM Dave Dickenson. “He’s had great success working with and developing quarterbacks who have had a lot of success in the CFL and I’m glad he has decided to bring his coaching talents north of the border.”
The Toronto Raptors season took another turn for the worse as backup centre Jontay Porter became the subject of a gambling investigation. Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic confirmed that Porter is the subject of an NBA investigation into irregularities on prop betting involving him. Rajakovic said the allegations caught him off guard when he learned of the investigation before Toronto’s 96-88 loss to the Brooklyn Nets.
MARCH MADNESS
Women’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark scored 32 points and Number 1 seed Iowa survived one of its worst offensive performances of the season to beat Number 8 seed West Virginia 64-54 in an NCAA Tournament second-round game. The Hawkeyes advance to play Number 5 seed Colorado in March Madness.
(Canadian Press)
