Hall’s OT winner lead Devils over Swiss club
Ducks claim LW Aberg off waivers from Oilers
BERN, Switzerland, Oct 2, (Agencies): Taylor Hall’s goal with 1:03 left in overtime lifted the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 win over SC Bern of the Swiss National League on Monday.
The game was part of the NHL’s Global Series Challenge. Edmonton will conclude the exhibition season Wednesday when it meets Kolner Haie in Cologne, Germany.
New Jersey and Edmonton will meet Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the season opener for both teams.
Andy Greene and Ben Lovejoy also scored for the Devils, and Keith Kinkaid played the entire game in goal for New Jersey, left wing waivers from the
on Monday. Aberg, 25, registered four goals and 12 assists last season while splitting time between Edmonton and the
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The Predators’ 2012 secondround pick has 18 points in 68 career NHL games. Aberg played in six Stanley Cup Final games for Nashville in 2017.
The Ducks had depth concerns at forward with right wing
sidelined for five months after knee surgery. Veterans (shoulder) and (hip) are also recovering from injuries.
Anaheim opens the regular season Wednesday at San Jose.
The put defenseman injured reserve.
The Red Wings also announced Monday that they assigned left wing and defenseman to Grand Rapids of the AHL, and assigned right wing to of the WHL. Detroit right wing and defenseman
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Green has been dealing with a virus. The Red Wings open the season Thursday night against Columbus.
forward will miss eight to 10 weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a broken ankle, the team announced Monday.
Wilson was injured during practice on Sunday.
Wilson, 26, had 14 points (six goals, eight assists) in 49 games last season for the Sabres after being acquired from the
Wilson was scoreless in 17 combined games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit earlier last year.
He appeared in parts of four seasons with the Penguins, who selected in the seventh round of the 2011 draft. Wilson has 19 goals and 27 assists in 172 career NHL games.
Buffalo also assigned forward Alexander Nylander to Rochester of the American Hockey League. The 2016 first-round draft pick has appeared in just seven NHL games and has one goal and one assist.
Defensemen and sent to Rochester.
Buffalo opens Thursday when
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the season it hosts the David Dahl #26 of the Colorado Rockies is tagged out at second by Manny Machado #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers after he is caught stealing in the
fourth inning of the game at Dodger Stadium on Oct 1, in Los Angeles, California. (AFP) Atlanta Braves. The Rockies, who will travel to Chicago to play in the NL wild-card game against the Cubs, will start second-year left-hander Kyle Freeland (17-7) on three days’ rest against left-handed veteran Jon Lester (18-6).
“I’m looking forward to the battle in Chicago,” Freeland said. “I’ve done everything I could to get my arm feeling good from my last start, and it feels good right now. I’m ready to go, and I’m not too worried about being on short rest.”
The Dodgers became the first team to win six consecutive division titles since the New York Yankees won nine consecutive American League East titles from 1998-2006. The Dodgers had never won more than two consecutive division titles before the current run.
Buehler not only allowed just one hit, he had a hit of his own and even collected his first career RBI on his single in the sixth inning. The righthander walked three with three strikeouts.
Buehler (8-5) did not give up a hit until Charlie Blackmon singled with one out in the sixth inning. The rookie finished the season with a 2.15 ERA against the Rockies over 37-2/3 innings and a 2.62 ERA overall in 1371/3 innings.
“This is the loudest I’ve ever seen this place. We need this the whole (bleeping) playoffs,” Buehler said on the field during the celebration after the game, apologizing for the profanity.
Asked if he knew he was going to win Monday’s game, Buehler said, “I won’t say ‘Yes.’ (pause) But, yes.”
Bellinger got the Dodgers’ offense going with a two-run home run in the fourth inning, his 25th of the season. Muncy followed in the fifth inning with his own two-run home run, his 35th of the season. The Dodgers finished the season with an NL-leading 235 home runs.
Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story hit ninth-inning back-to-back home runs for the Rockies off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen. It was Arenado’s NL-leading 38th, while Story hit his 37th.
Rockies starter German Marquez (14-11) gave up four runs (two earned) on five hits over 4-2/3 innings with two walks and nine strikeouts. The right-hander finished the regular season with at least nine strikeouts in seven of his final eight starts and had 230 strikeouts on the season, fourth
Walker Buehler #21 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches in the fourth inning of the game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Oct 1, in Los Angeles,
California. (AFP)
most in the NL.
The Dodgers won their fifth consecutive game against the Rockies going back to Sept 9 and won the season series 13-7. The Dodgers closed out the season with 25 victories in their last 35 games. Despite the loss, the Rockies won nine of their last 11 games.
Meanwhile, two days out from the American League wild-card game, the host New York Yankees and the Oakland A’s still weren’t prepared to declare a starting pitcher for the Wednesday contest.
First-year Yankees manager Aaron Boone, a former ESPN analyst, texted his former television colleague Karl Ravech on Monday while Ravech was calling the Milwaukee BrewersChicago Cubs tiebreaker game that determined the National League Central champion.
“I know who’s starting. My lips are sealed,” Boone reportedly told Ravech.
The likely candidates to start for New York (100-62) are Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka and J.A. Happ.
As for the A’s (97-65), manager Bob Melvin might employ an all-bullpen approach to his Wednesday pitching staff. Multiple media outlets reported that Liam Hendriks could serve as an “opener” with other bullpen arms following him to the mound.
Eight of Hendriks’ 25 outings this year came as a starter, but he never pitched more than two innings. A 29-year-old Australian right-hander, Hendriks would be an extremely unusual starting pitcher for a team’s playoff opener considering he had no wins this year. He went 0-1 with a 4.13 ERA.
Of the prospect of starting the wildcard game, Hendriks said Saturday, “Whatever they need me to do – whether they want me to relieve, whether they want me to start, whether they want me to be ready in the first – I’m just going to take it as it is. If they tell me I’m starting, I’m going to start. If they tell me going to relieve, I’m going to stay out in the bullpen and wait for that phone call.”
He added of the team potentially taking an all-bullpen approach, “I think there’s definitely going to be a lot more scrutiny on it. It’s one of those things where if it doesn’t work, it’s going to be the reason, where if it does work, it will be the reason as well. Everything’s going to be amplified.”
Oakland’s lone double-digit-winning pitcher this season, Sean Manaea, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left (pitching) shoulder on Sept 19, ruling him out for the year.
The Athletics’ other regular rotation members, with their record for Oakland this year, are Trevor Cahill (7-4), Mike Fiers (5-2), Edwin Jackson (6-3) and Brett Anderson (4-5).
The Yankees’ rotation features Severino (19-8), Tanaka (12-6), Happ (7-7) and C.C. Sabathia (9-7), but there is a chance New York could play a bullpen game Wednesday, too.
“I think that’s absolutely a consideration,” Boone said Sept 26 on ESPN Radio’s “The Michael Kay Show”. “I
could see them pitching well and not necessarily going deep in the game because, of course, we do have those guys (in the bullpen). They’ll be rested. They’ll be lined up to go. It’s conceivable that we could get two, three, four, five innings out of our starter pitching well and then roll it out.”
The winner of the AL wild-card game will face the AL East champion Boston Red Sox (108-54) in the bestof-five AL Division Series beginning Friday.