Utes easily roll past Sun Devils
UTAH 98 ARIZONA STATE 59
SALT LAKE CITY — Mikael Jantunen and Alfonso Plummer each scored 15 points as Utah cruised past Arizona State 98-59 on Saturday.
Utah built a 28-point lead in the second half, going on a 19-4 run with seven points from Branden Carlson and six by Timmy Allen.
The Utes (11-12, 8-11 Pac-12) shot 59% from the field overall and held Remy Martin, leading the conference at 20.5 points per game, to eight points on three-ofseven shooting for the Sun Devils (10-13, 7-10).
DENVER — Ryan Getzlaf scored on a power play 1:59 into overtime and the Ducks beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-4 on Saturday night to snap a nine-game winless streak.
Troy Terry had two goals, Rickard Rakell had a goal and two assists and Kevin Shattenkirk added a goal and an assist to help the Ducks win for the first time since Feb. 11. They were 0-6-3 in that span.
Ryan Miller made 29 saves for his 389th career win, tying him with Dominik Hasek for 14th place in NHL history. Miller is the winningest American-born goaltender and ranks second among U.S. goaltenders in games played (785) and shutouts (44).
The Ducks got the winner after Mikko Rantanen took a penalty early in the overtime. Rakell’s pass to the front of the net was tipped in by Getzlaf to end it.
Rantanen had two goals, and Brandon Saad and Logan O’Connor scored for the short-handed Avalanche. Hunter Miska stopped 29 shots.
Colorado center Nathan
MacKinnon missed his second straight game following a hit to the head at San Jose on Wednesday. Center J.T. Compher was a late scratch with what the Avalanche listed as an upper-body injury. Matt Calvert, Cale Makar, Bowen Byram and Erik Johnson also are out with upper-body injuries.
Rantanen made it 3-2 with a shot from the top of the zone that got by Miller at 6:03 of the third. Saad made it 4-2 just 24 seconds later when he crashed the net to tip in a centering pass from Andre Burakovsky.
Terry scored his second of the game and fourth of the season at 13:03, and Shattenkirk tied it with his first on the power play with 2:50 to go. The Ducks lost Max Jones in the first period when teammate Jakob Silfverberg’s shot hit him in the face.
Anaheim went ahead on goals by Rakell in the first and Terry in the second but Colorado rallied to tie it before the second break.