Clutterbuck, Barzal help Isles end skid, top Jets
NEW YORK — Cal Clutterbuck scored twice, Mathew Barzal and Hudson Fasching each had a goal and two assists and the New York Islanders snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets Saturday.
Kyle Palmieri and Anders Lee also scored and Semyon Varlamov made 33 saves for the Islanders, who remain outside a wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 12 games left in the regular season.
Vladislav Namestnikov, Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti scored for Winnipeg, which has lost two in a row after an impressive win over the Rangers on Tuesday. Connor Hellebuyck gave up five goals on 26 shots before being relieved by Laurent Brossoit halfway through the second period.
Clutterbuck scored twice in the first period to give New York an early 2-0 lead.
Namestnikov pulled the Jets to within a goal as he snuck behind the Islanders defense and deftly danced around Varlamov at 11:20 of the first period.
The Islanders responded with four consecutive goals to take command.
Palmieri finished a crossice feed from Nelson at 15:47 to cap off a strong first period. Fasching, Barzal and Lee all scored in the middle frame to stretch the lead to 6-1.
Flyers 3, Bruins 2: At Philadelphia, Tyson Foerster scored with 1:29 left and the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a seven-game losing streak to Boston.
Travis Konecny scored two goals and Foerster also had an assist. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves in Philadelphia’s first victory over Boston since Oct. 20, 2021.
Justin Brazeau and Danton Heinen scored for the Bruins in the opener of a sixgame trip. Linus Ullmark made 26 stops.
Boston started play with an NHL-leading 97 points as it looks to repeat as the Presidents’ Trophy winners, which is awarded to the team with the best regular-season
Blues 5, Wild 4, OT: At St. Paul, Minn., Jordan Kyrou scored a hat trick and Brandon Saad tallied 2:05 into overtime to give St. Louis a victory over Minnesota.
Jake Neighbours also scored for the Blues, who are 6-1 in their last seven games. Pavel Buchnevich had three assists and Jordan Binnington made 30 saves.
Marco Rossi scored twice for the Wild. Marcus Johansson and Brock Faber also had goals for Minnesota, while Marc-Andre Fleury
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have to constantly have the pressure on them all the time.”
Richmond led UAlbany with four goals on six shots. He also ran down a crucial ground ball and celebrated with his teammates when UAlbany called a timeout with 3:09 remaining.
“I just played with a lot of energy today,” Richmond said. “I felt like it was a big ground ball for the time and I just wanted to give my team some energy.”
The Great Danes earned their second straight victory over Vermont after losing eight straight to the Catamounts. UAlbany defeated Vermont in last year’s America East semifinals.
“It’s awesome,” Piseno said. “It’s a great feeling, but I mean, we’ve got to just keep it going. We have two in a row here. It’s my first time ever beating them in the regular season, but the job’s not finished and I think we’re focused on finnating ishing the job this year.”
UAlbany plays Saturday at UMBC.
Marr wasn’t willing to call this victory over Vermont a statement win.
“I consider last year’s playoff game more of a statement win,” he said. “Vermont had been domito
Stephen Weaver/Special to the Times Union our conference. This year, I think they’re a very good team, very wellcoached. I don’t know it’s necessarily a statement win. I just know right now we’re 2-0 and the direction we’re going is a good direction.” UAlbany freshman Ryan Doherty had a hat trick and graduate midfielder Graydon Hogg added two goals. Great Danes senior faceoff specialist Regan Endres won 19-of-27.
“We’re improving every week,” said Marr, whose team lost 16-10 at No. 3 Virginia last Tuesday. “We’re playing smarter.”
The poor weather conditions didn’t slow the Siena women’s lacrosse team, which rolled past visiting Rider 22-4 on Saturday in Loudonville.
The Saints raced out to a 7-1 first quarter lead and never looked back on the way to a win in their Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference opener. Siena improved to 6-3 overall.
Kelly Logue scored three goals and added three assists and Grace Dobrzynski chipped in with two goals and six assists to lead the Saints attack.
Elena Bontatibus had a goal and an assist for Rider, which dipped to 6-3 overall and 0-1 in league play with the loss.
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turnovers in the first eight minutes, and also got popped in the nose on what was ruled an intentional foul on Holy Cross’ Bronagh Power-Cassidy.
“It was kind of just a stinger to the nose,” Clark said. “Honestly, I’m totally OK.”
Iowa had its own slow start. The Hawkeyes had a 10-0 run midway through the first quarter that didn’t bother the Crusaders, who were within 23-21 at the end of the quarter.
Iowa hadn’t played since winning the Big Ten Tournament championship on March 10, and coach Lisa Bluder said the long layoff was apparent.
“I think in the first quarter we showed a little rust,” Bluder said.
Kate Martin also had a doubledouble with 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Hawkeyes (30-4), who advanced to Monday’s second round to face either eighthseed West Virginia or ninth-seed Princeton.
“I think we had to knock some rust off,” Martin said. “I think we knew what we needed to do, and that was (play) defense.”
The Hawkeyes then outscored Holy Cross 25-9 in the second quarter, holding the Crusaders to just 1 of 12 shooting. Clark finally got her first 3-pointer with 3:26 left in the first half, shaking her head and rolling her eyes after making the shot.
“Our 3-point defense was really good, and that’s a key for us,” Bluder said.
“We really started running our offense in the second quarter,” said Clark, who had just one turnover over the final three quarters.
The Hawkeyes’ biggest lead was 84-53 with 4⁄ minutes to play.
Holy Cross (21-13) made 12 3pointers in Thursday’s 72-45 First Four win over UT-Martin, but were just 7 of 34 in 3-pointers in this game, with only three in the second half. The Crusaders, who missed their first 10 shots of the fourth quarter, shot just 32.4% from the field.
Holy Cross coach Maureen Magarity said her team wasn’t affected by playing in front of a sellout crowd of 14,324.
“I just can’t put into words how proud I was of our fight,” Magarity said. “We were trying to take it to them. We really were.”