Football:
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers selected Iowa defensive lineman Faith Ekakitie first overall in the Canadian Football League draft Sunday night. Ekakitie is from Brampton, Ontario.
Johnny Gaudreau scored twice, J.T. Compher scored the winner, and Jimmy Howard stopped 39 shots as the United States came back three times to beat Sweden 4-3 at the ice hockey world championship in Cologne, Germany.
Former Argentina star Diego Maradona, 56, was named coach of second division Al-Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
Eugenie Bouchard defeated Maria Sharapova 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 in the second round at the Madrid Open. Bouchard, an outspoken critic of the Russian player’s return to tennis following a doping ban, jumped up and down after converting her second match point. The players casually shook hands at the net without any words. Also, Angelique Kerber beat Katerina Siniakova 6-2, 1-6, 7-5 to regain the world No. 1 ranking.
Hockey: Soccer: Tennis:
Andre Burakovsky PITTSBURGH — scored twice, Nicklas Backstrom got his sixth goal of the playoffs and the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 Monday night to force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference semifinal.
John Carlson and T.J. Oshie also scored for the Capitals. Braden Holtby stopped 16 shots to send the series back to Washington for the deciding game Wednesday night.
Jake Guentzel picked up his playoff-leading ninth goal and Evgeni Malkin added another 52 seconds later in the third period for the Penguins, but the Capitals controlled play throughout. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 21 saves and received little help in front of him.
This is the fourth time the Penguins and Capitals will meet in a Game 7. Pittsburgh has won each of the three previous deciding games, the last in 2009 in Washington on its way to the Stanley Cup.
The Capitals appeared on the verge of another unceremonious exit at the hands of the Penguins going into the third period of Game 5. The Presidents’ Trophy winners responded with a three-goal barrage over the final 20 minutes that extended their season.
The momentum carried over two days later and 250 miles northwest.
Washington systematically dismantled the defending Stanley Cup champions, who looked listless as they struggled to generate any kind of sustained pressure.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was a nonfactor for a second straight game after sitting out Game 4 with a concussion. He took a nasty spill in the first period when he was slammed into the end boards head-first while he tangled with Carlson. He remained in the game but found little room to work.