Aho extends goal streak as Hurricanes beat Bruins
Sebastian Aho scored a goal for the fourth straight game and the host Carolina Hurricanes beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Sunday in a matchup of the teams with the two best records in the NHL.
Paul Stastny scored on a second-period power play, Seth Jarvis posted a goal in the third, and Jordan Staal added a short-handed empty-netter as the Hurricanes won their fifth game in a row and extended their points streak to eight games (7-0-1).
Pavel Zacha scored for the Bruins, who lead the NHL with 81 points but have lost three games in a row for the first time this season. Linus Ullmark stopped 32 shots.
• Morgan Rielly scored his first goal of the season for Toronto in the Maple Leafs’ 5-1 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals. Leafs captain John Tavares played the 1,000th regularseason game of his NHL career.
ELSEWHERE Shiffrin record quest on hold for five weeks
Mikaela Shiffrin will have to wait for at least five more weeks before tying the World Cup record for most career wins with victory No. 86.
The American skier finished runner-up to Germany’s Lena Dürr in a slalom at Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, the last World Cup race before the world championships, and remained one victory short of Ingemar Stenmark’s total on the all-time overall winners list among men and women. The Swede competed in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Even though it didn’t happen Sunday, Shiffrin has returned to winning races at a similar pace to that of the 2018-19 season. She racked up a record 17 victories that year, and has picked up 11 wins from 23 starts in the current season, including three in the past week.
• Swiss skier Marco Odermatt overcame a tricky course setting to win a men’s World Cup super-G in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, for his second victory in two days.
Odermatt extended his lead in the overall and super-G standings, as his closest challenger, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, was among the 10 racers in the top 30 who failed to finish.
Baseball: Free-agent infielder Josh Harrison and the Philadelphia Phillies have reached agreement on a one-year deal, his MSM Sports agency announced. The 35-year-old Harrison batted .272 with seven home runs and 27 RBIs in 119 games for the Chicago White Sox last season . ... The New York Yankees have agreed to a $9.95 million, one-year contract with Gleyber Torres, avoiding an arbitration hearing with the infielder. The 26-year-old Torres hit .257 with 24 homers and 76 RBIs in 140 games last year.
Motor sports: Acura dominated the debut of hybrid engines in North American sports car racing with a 1-2 finish at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in Florida, where Helio Castroneves and the automaker won the prestigious endurance race for a third consecutive year.
Castroneves got emotional after the victory. “It’s a very tough sport. You lose more than you win,” Castroneves said. “It did touch me. That’s why I love this sport so much. It is very hard and when you get it, you celebrate.”