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Posted: 17 Nov 2015 03:55:13
PHILADELPHIA -- Claude Giroux scored the tying and winning goals in the final minutes of the third period, rallying the Philadelphia Flyers past the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-4 on Thursday night. Giroux scored two of the Flyers five third-period goals as Philadelphia stormed back from a 3-0 hole. Girouxs 100th NHL goal was perhaps his most amazing, a backhanded and blind shot that beat Curtis McElhinney up high with 1:39 left. The Flyers captain had tied it with 4:39 left. Jakub Voracek, Braydon Coburn, Erik Gustafsson also scored goals for the Flyers. Steve Mason got the win in his first game against his former team. The Blue Jackets traded Mason to the Flyers, and his strong season has helped keep Philadelphia afloat through its offensive struggles. Cam Atkinson, Jack Skille, Nick Foligno and Blake Comeau had goals for Columbus. Giroux had no view of the net when he beat McElhinney for the stunning goal. Giroux is starting to come around after a lengthy goal drought to open the season. The Flyers snapped their scoreless skid and started their rally with a pair of quick goals to open the third. Voracek, a former Blue Jackets forward, scored his sixth goal in six games with a wrister from the circle to make it 3-1. Coburn swiped the puck at the blue line, knocked a low liner toward the net, and the puck one-hopped its way past McElhinney to make it 3-2. The Blue Jackets, in control for 40 minutes, called timeout to regroup and stall Philadelphias momentum. It worked -- for a few minutes. Columbus centre Artem Anisimov hustled for a loose puck off a turnover behind the net and kicked it out to Comeau, who was alone for the nice feed and scored his third goal to make it 4-2. Gustafsson scored his second of the season with 4:39 left, and Giroux came streaking down the right side and finished off a rush with 3:45 left for the tying goal, sending the crowd into a frenzy. He was just getting started. The Flyers were heavily booed off the ice at the end of the second period, and the familiar chants of "E-A-G-L-E-S!" echoed throughout the Wells Fargo Center. The fans were unhappy with a sloppy end to the second in which Columbus took a 3-0 lead. With only 7.5 seconds left, Jack Johnson cleared the puck from behind the net, and Foligno was there to knock in his 10th goal. The Flyers recorded only nine shots in the period. Columbus has been hit hard by injuries, but McElhinney made the early lead stand. Atkinson opened the scoring midway through the first with a short-handed goal. Voracek was stripped of the puck at Columbus blue line, setting up a 2-on-1 for Atkinson to bust loose with his 10th goal. The Blue Jackets caught the Flyers off-guard against the boards on a shift change, setting up yet another 2-on-1 break. This time, Skille connected from the circle. Mason had 12 wins and a shutout for the Flyers in his first full season with the franchise. Mason had it all figured out when he went 33-20-7 with 10 shutouts and won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 2008-09, the only season the Blue Jackets made the playoffs. He posted a goals-against average over 3.00 each of the next three seasons and was out the door upon the emergence of Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky. Notes: Voracek has a point in six straight games. ... The Flyers are 15-8-4 since a 1-7 start.
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He played like an All-Star when the Pacers really needed it. After 48 hours of questions and criticism, Roy Hibbert scored a season-high 28 points, grabbed nine rebounds, blocked two shots and altered a handful of others to help the Pacers get even in the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 86-82 victory over Washington.
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. Some of his Saginaw Spirit teammates are among the mourners at todays service in east-end Toronto. An autopsy determined Trafford died of self-inflicted asphyxiation. The Toronto natives body was found last Wednesday in his SUV in a parking lot in Saginaw Township, Mich.
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. Amaro broke the NCAA all-time record for receiving yards in a season for a tight end with 1,352 during his junior campaign, eclipsing the mark of 1,329 set by Rices James Casey in 2008.TEMPE, Ariz. -- Albert Pujols stepped inside the netted cage, clawed the dirt with his cleat and eyeballed left-hander Brad Mills, who was about to get rocked. Pujols exhaled and waited. Then, everything changed. With a few magnificent swings, Pujols sent Mills pitches screeching into the outfield of Tempe Diablo Stadium and delighted owner Arte Moreno, who is paying the superstar slugger $240 million over the next 10 years, and some spellbound teammates. "Unbelievable," right fielder Torii Hunter said in the clubhouse after witnessing Pujols session. "His bat was explosive. He said he hadnt hit outside in a while, but hes hitting the ball like hes been hitting it forever. Its amazing. Hes awesome." Pujols hasnt connected for his first homer with the Angels, and hes already had a powerful impact on them. After just one week of spring training, the man who helped St. Louis to a World Series title last year has shown his new team why hes the games best hitter. Pujols has been one of the first players at the teams complex each morning, arriving shortly after 7 a.m. to begin his regimented day. At least twice he has been the last to leave. On Monday, as the Angels prepared for their first full-squad workout of camp, Pujols tucked away some personal belongings when Hunter walked in. He immediately wrapped his arms around Pujols, his new next-locker neighbour. The two had spoken several times since December, when the Angels signed Pujols to the second-largest contract in history. But Hunter hadnt seen Pujols in two months and perhaps wanted to grab him and make sure it was truly him wearing Angels red. Hunter, on the eve of his 16th major league season, understands the addition of Pujols will dramatically influence what pitches all the Angels see at the plate. "It changes the dynamic of the lineup, man," said the 37-year-old Hunter, one of the majors most personable players. "Just him being in there is going to change everything. Not just for me, but for Vernon (Wells), for (Erick) Aybar, for everybody. The pitchers game plan has to change with us now because hes in the lineup. "Instead of pitching to him, you may have to come to me or you might have to come to Kendrys Morales or (Mark) Trumbo. "Im telling you, Im excited." Though not as outwardly enthusiastic as Hunter, Angels manager Mike Scioscia is thrilled to have Pujols around. It hasnt taken long for the two-time MVP to make a favourable impression on his new boss. "This guy works very hard," Scioscia said. "He understands where he needs to be when the season starts in all aspects of the game -- the defensive end, running, obviously swinging the bat and he works hard at it." But beyond his massive presence in the lineup, Pujols can have a positive effect on the Angels just by being around young, impressionable players on aa daily basis.dddddddddddd He exudes confidence in everything he does -- on and off the field -- and Scioscia believes some of it can rub off on the Angels. "Everybody in that clubhouse is confident," he said. "But its one thing in being confident and another thing having a deeper team thats going to be able to turn that confidence into some tangible wins. I think were a better team now. We have a clubhouse full of guys getting after it -- with a dominant piece in the middle of the lineup." It wont all be rosy for the Angels, who are expected to play into Octobers last days. Before some high winds from the desert kicked up some dust clouds near the stadium Monday, the club had already withstood a small storm of controversy -- for now. Outfielder Bobby Abreu, who last week said the Angels should trade him if hes not going to play every day, softened his stance after an early-morning meeting with Scioscia and general manager Jerry Dipoto. "We talked and they said they would find a way to get me about 400 at-bats, maybe more," Abreu said. "They said Im not going to be on the bench for the whole week. Thats fine with me. I just want to be on the field. It doesnt matter how its going to be -- in left field, right field, as a DH. "Just help the team win, and whatever way I can help, Im going to do it." There were reports last week that the Angels were close to trading the 37-year-old Abreu to the New York Yankees, his team in 2007-08. Abreus eyes lit up when he was asked about the possibility of again wearing pinstripes, but he insisted hes committed to the Angels. "Im an Angel right now, Ive been an Angel for the last three years, four years, and all the fans know the way that I feel, how I play the game," he said. "I throw everything on the field to try to just win the games, help the team, help the young guys. Its a business sometimes, and you dont know where youre going to be tomorrow. Right now, Im an Angel." Its going to be impossible for Scioscia to keep everyone happy, the price for having a talent-loaded team transformed by Pujols. Theres a cost that comes with expectations. Hunter wouldnt have it any other way. "I always wanted to be on a team with high expectations," he said "I didnt want to be on a team that didnt have expectations at all. Its your dream to be on a team like this, where you have a chance to win." With Pujols, that chance is heightened. Notes: INF Mark Trumbo, forced to move from first to third base to accommodate Pujols, will be in Los Angeles on Tuesday to have planned tests on the stress fracture that cut short his rookie season in 2011. ... DH Kendry Morales did some agility drills as he continues to recover from a broken ankle that sidelined him all last season. Scioscia thinks Morales will be running the bases within two weeks.
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