Pesky Blazers refuse to go away quietly

Roman Basran made 32 saves, but the Kelowna Rockets couldn’t reward him in a 2-1 shootout loss to the Kamloops Blazers on Friday night in the WHL.

The victory keeps the Blazers’ slim playoff chances alive, but they’ll have to win again tonight when they meet again at Prospera Place.

Game time is 7 p.m. Kelowna’s Nolan Foote and Martin Lang of Kamloops did the scoring.

Dyland Garand made 26 saves for the Blazers.

Foote and Kyle Topping both missed their shootout attempts while Connor Zary and Orrin Centazzo each scored for Kamloops.

The Blazers outshot the Rockets 3327.

The Blazers are fourth place in the B.C. Division and outside the playoffs, five points back of the Rockets (7-305-2).

Henrique leads Ducks to 8-2 rout of Habs

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Adam Henrique scored twice, rookie Troy Terry had a goal and two assists, and the Anaheim Ducks interrupted Carey Price’s pursuit of the Canadiens’ career wins record with an 8-2 victory over Montreal on Friday night.

Corey Perry and Devin Shore had a goal and an assist apiece during the Ducks’ highest-scoring performance of their miserable season.

Daniel Sprong and Rickard Rakell also scored and John Gibson made 35 saves for the Ducks, who have won three of four for only the second time since mid-December.

Rookie Max Jones even scored his first NHL goal with 10.4 seconds to play.

Shea Weber had a power-play goal and an assist for the Canadiens, who have lost five of eight.

Paul Byron also scored and Price stopped 21 shots as Montreal completed a three-game California road swing with two losses while giving up a whopping 14 goals.

Raptors break slide against Pelicans

NEW ORLEANS — Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points and Toronto snapped a two-game skid by beating undermanned New Orleans.

Pascal Siakam had 19 and Jeremy Lin added 14 for the Raptors, who began to pull away late in the third quarter and cruised to the finish against a Pelicans squad missing Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday and E’Twaun Moore.

Frank Jackson scored 20 points for the Pelicans, who’ve lost two straight. Julius Randle had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Cheick Diallo had 16 points and 12 boards for New Orleans.

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