Kuwait Times

Kane paces Chicago past Ducks 3-2 in Black Friday rivalry

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Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and the Chicago Blackhawks hung on to beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 for their fifth consecutiv­e win in the clubs’ Black Friday rivalry game. Artem Anisimov and Ryan Hartman also scored as the Blackhawks snapped their two-game skid even without captain Jonathan Toews. He missed his first game of the season due to an upper-body injury. Corey Crawford made 34 saves for the Western Conference leaders. They have won five straight regular-season games in Anaheim since March 2013. Nick Ritchie and Jakob Silfverber­g scored and John Gibson stopped 22 shots for the Ducks. They wrapped up a five-game homestand on a three-game skid. The Ducks fell to 4-4-2 against the Blackhawks on Black Friday. They haven’t won this rivalry game since 2009.

SHARKS 3, ISLANDERS 2

Patrick Marleau scored with 22.5 seconds left and San Jose rebounded after allowing the tying goal to New York in the closing minute. Nick Leddy had tied it for New York with a one-timer off a feed from John Tavares with 57.1 seconds left but the Sharks bounced back quickly. Brent Burns took a shot from the point that Marleau deflected in the slot past Thomas Greiss for the winner that helped San Jose improve to 7-2 at home this season. Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns scored 34 seconds apart in the second period and backup Aaron Dell made 26 saves for the Sharks. Dell has earned both of his wins this season against the Islanders Anders Lee also scored for New York, and Greiss made 25 saves.

RED WINGS, 5, DEVILS 4, OT

Defenseman Mike Green scored from the right circle at 3:18 of overtime and Detroit handed New Jersey a rare home loss. Frans Nielsen added two goals, and Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha scored one apiece as the Red Wings won their second straight despite losing goalie Jimmy Howard to a lower-body injury in the first period. Petr Mrazek finished and allowed three goals in relief. John Moore, Mike Cammalleri, Pavel Zacha and Adam Henrique scored for the Devils. They are 7-0-2 at home.

WILD 6, PENGUINS 2

Charlie Coyle scored twice in the first period to set the tone as Minnesota matched its season high for goals, and Nino Niederreit­er had two of the Wild’s three goals on the power play on their way to the victory over Pittsburgh. Zach Parise also scored with the man advantage and Mikael Granlund added a goal to build 5-1 lead by the second intermissi­on. Penguins goalie MarcAndre Fleury’s career record against the Wild fell to 2-7, with 30 goals allowed in those nine alltime matchups. Phil Kessel and Bryan Rust had goals for the Penguins.

STARS 2, CANUCKS 1

Esa Lindell scored his first NHL goal and had an assist to help Dallas beat Vancouver. Playing in his 17th game for Dallas, Lindell at first was Chicago St. Louis Minnesota Nashville Dallas Winnipeg Colorado

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