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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 , 2019. THE WASHINGTON POST EZ M2 D5


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Anthony Beauvillier scored twice for the Islanders, whose win over
Toronto improved their record over their past 13 games to 12-0-1.

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Evgeny Kuznetsov converts during the shootout vs. Flyers goalie Carter Hart as the Caps extended their point streak to 13 games (11-0-2).


BY MITCH STACY


columbus, ohio — Ohio State
star defensive end Chase Young
will be held out of one more
game as punishment for break-
ing NCAA rules by accepting a
personal loan.
The penalty was announced by
Ohio State in a statement
Wednesday. The school had
sought immediate reinstatement
from the NCAA.
The situation worked out as
well as it could have for the
second-ranked Buckeyes. Young,
a preseason all-American and
the nation’s leader in sacks, was
held out of the 73-14 rout of
Maryland last week and will miss
Saturday’s game against 50-
point underdog Rutgers.
He will return for showdowns
with No. 9 Penn State and No. 14
Michigan to end the regular
season.
Ohio State announced the day
before its game with Maryland
that Young would be held out
amid concerns he violated NCAA
rules by taking a loan last year
from someone he describes as a
“family friend” for living expens-
es. Young explained his “mis-
take” in a tweet and said the loan


had been paid back.
“This is the example of the
culture of compliance we have at
Ohio State,” Athletic Director
Gene Smith said Wednesday.
“I also want to commend
Chase Young and let him know
how proud we are of him,” Smith
said. “He took responsibility for
his actions, cooperated through-
out the process and understood
and accepted that there would be
consequences.”
Smith said that based on the
circumstances of the loan, the
NCAA “would use its leadership
capacity to take an understand-
ing approach on behalf of all
student-athletes who find them-
selves in a similar position, and it
certainly did just that.”
Smith declined to comment on
who reported the violation but
did say it was not another Big
Ten school. He also declined to
talk about how much Young
borrowed and from whom. The
player wasn’t made available
Wednesday.
Young tweeted in response to
the decision Wednesday: “Excit-
ed to be back on the field next
week! Thank you Buckeye Na-
tion for all the love and support.”
Young has been practicing

with the team all week and will
continue to do so.
“He’s exactly the way he was
before,” defensive tackle Davon
Hamilton said Tuesday. “Obvi-
ously, he’s going through the
situation, and he just continues
to be himself. We’ll support him
no matter what.”
Young last played Oct. 26
against Wisconsin and had a
performance that thrust him
into the Heisman Trophy conver-
sation.
The junior, a likely high first-
round pick in next year’s NFL
draft, had four sacks and two
forced fumbles in a blowout of
the Badgers.
The suspension was the first
hint of off-field trouble or any
significant adversity for the
Buckeyes, who are ranked sec-
ond in the current playoff rank-
ings in Coach Ryan Day’s first
season in charge.
A year ago, Ohio State dealt
with a three-game suspension to
start the season for then-coach
Urban Meyer, who was punished
by the university for his misman-
agement of domestic abuse alle-
gations against a former assis-
tant coach.
— Associated Press

Buckeyes’ Young to miss one more game for taking a loan for living expenses


CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ohio State defensive end Chase Young will miss Saturday’s game against 50-point underdog Rutgers.

hard-hitting asset the organiza-
tion sought. Gudas said this is
the best team he has been on in
his NHL career.
“A hundred percent. Guys are
having fun. We are winning
games. We are sticking with it.
We are going with the game plan
for 60 minutes,” Gudas said.
“There is no one is doubting the
system. Nobody is on their own
page, so it is fun to see from the
very beginning of the season.”
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Anthony Beauvillier scored
twice, Derick Brassard had a goal
and two assists, and the streaking
New York Islanders held off the
Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-4, on
Wednesday in Uniondale, N.Y.
Semyon Varlamov made
23 saves, and the Islanders earned
a point for the 13th straight game
— a span including 12 victories
and one overtime loss. Mathew
Barzal also had a goal and an
assist.
Kasperi Kapanen, William Ny-
lander, Justin Holl and John Tava-
res scored for Toronto in its third
straight loss. Frederik Andersen
had 25 saves in the Maple Leafs’
second game since they lost Mitch-
ell Marner for at least four weeks
because of a high-ankle sprain.
Tavares also picked up an assist
in the second period, his
100th point as a Maple Leaf since
leaving the Islanders in July 2018.
Wednesday marked Tavares’s
third trip to Nassau Coliseum as a
member of the visiting team.
SENATORS 4, DEVILS 2:
Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a hat
track, including the game-win-
ning goal with 2:01 to play, and
Ottawa rallied in the third period
to beat New Jersey in Newark.
Mark Borowiechi tied the score
with 6:30 to go in regulation, and
Pageau got the game-winner
when he put the rebound of a shot
off the post by Nick Paul into an
open net. Pageau finished off his
first regular season hat trick with
26 seconds left with a shot into an
empty net.
He has eight goals in his past
six games.
Craig Anderson made 21 saves
for Ottawa, including a break-
away stop on Taylor Hall midway

through the third period with the
Devils ahead 2-1.
Will Butcher and Wayne Sim-
monds scored for New Jersey,
which returned from a five-game
road trip. Mackenzie Blackwood
stopped 21 shots.
Blackwood made tremendous
saves in close on Chris Tierney,
Brady Tkachuk and Anthony Du-
clair late in the second and in the
first half of the third period to
keep New Jersey ahead 2-1.
The Devils took leads of 1-0 and
2-1 in the first period on goals by
Simmonds and Butcher.
STARS 3, FLAMES 1: Joe
Pavelski scored twice, and Dallas
continued its recent resurgence
with a win in Calgary.
The Stars improved to 8-1-1 in
their past 10 games after starting
the season 1-7-1.
Justin Dowling added his first
career goal in his 34th career
game for Dallas. Ben Bishop made
24 saves and allowed just one goal
for his third consecutive start.
Sean Monahan scored the lone
goals for the Flames, who con-
cluded a four-game homestand
2-1-1.

Luongo gets front-office job
Roberto Luongo retired from
the Florida Panthers. He just nev-
er left.
And now the goaltender is offi-
cially part of the franchise again.
Florida’s all-time leader in
wins and shutouts has agreed to
become a special adviser to Gen-
eral Manager Dale Tallon, a move
that has been in the works for
some time and was formally an-
nounced Wednesday.
The 40-year-old Luongo re-
tired this past summer after
19 seasons in the NHL, 11 of them
with Florida, and indicated then
that he would be interested in
staying with the Panthers in some
capacity. His plan was to take
some time to figure out in what
role and how quickly.

NHL ROUNDUP

New York tops Toronto,


and point streak hits 13


ISLANDERS 5,
MAPLE LEAFS 4

hockey game.”
The Capitals struck early on
Brendan Leipsic’s goal at the 6:13
mark in the first period, during
which they outshot the hosts
16-5. The Flyers, riding a four-
game winning streak, seized con-
trol in the second period but
couldn’t convert a number of
quality scoring chances thanks
to Holtby.
“I thought Braden was out-
standing,” Capitals Coach Todd
Reirden said. “I thought our first
period was one of our best peri-
ods of the year in terms of really
tilting the ice, and it was all of
our lines. Third and fourth line,
fourth line getting a goal and
third line really chances and
opportunities. That was the best
game they had.”
Leipsic’s goal, which came off
a rebound from a shot off the
stick of John Carlson, held until
the third period, when Claude
Giroux knotted the game at 1
with a power-play goal with
13:22 remaining. The Flyers were
on the man advantage after Nic
Dowd was called for tripping.
Dowd left the game because of a
deep cut on his hand. He later
returned to the bench but did not
take another shift.
As the final frantic minutes of
regulation came up empty for
both teams, overtime produced
multiple chances for both teams
but no goals, sending the Capi-
tals to a shootout for the second
straight game.
“It’s finding ways to win and
gather points, and I felt like we
deserved those two points to-
night,” Reirden said.
Leipsic nearly scored his sec-
ond goal later in the first period
but was denied with a skilled
save by goaltender Carter Hart.


CAPITALS FROM D1


Holtby backstops the Capitals to a win


Capitals 2, Flyers 1 (SO)
WASHINGTON ................... 1 0 0 0 — 2
PHILADELPHIA .................. 0 0 1 0 — 1
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Washington, Leipsic 2 (Dowd, Carlson), 6:13.
Penalties: Niskanen, PHI, (holding), 9:23; Vrana, WSH,
(slashing), 15:26; Sanheim, PHI, (hooking), 19:02.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: None. Penalties: Panik, WSH, (high sticking),
5:46; van Riemsdyk, PHI, (tripping), 10:47; Vrana, WSH,
(slashing), 13:01.
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Philadelphia, Giroux 5 (Voracek, Provorov),
6:38 (pp). Penalties: Dowd, WSH, served by Vrana,
(tripping), 6:15.
OVERTIME
Scoring: None. Penalties: None.
SHOOTOUT
Washington 2 (Oshie G, Kuznetsov G), Philadelphia 1
(Voracek NG, Giroux G, Couturier NG).
SHOTS ON GOAL
WASHINGTON ................. 16 6 11 3 — 36
PHILADELPHIA .................. 5 12 10 4 — 31
Power-play opportunities: Washington 0 of 3; Philadel-
phia 1 of 4. Goalies: Washington, Holtby 9-1-3 (31
shots-30 saves). Philadelphia, Hart 6-3-2 (36-35).

per body, day-to-day), who has
missed the past three games.
Panik, signed to a four-year,
$11 million deal in the summer, is
still looking for his first point.
Reirden said he thought Wednes-
day night was the best he has
seen Panik play and that it
was “encouraging” moving for-
ward.
Another new addition to the
bottom six, Radko Gudas, re-
turned to Philadelphia for the
first time since he was traded in
the offseason for Matt Niskanen.
Gudas was with the Flyers for
four seasons.
Gudas contributed to the Cap-
itals’ solid first frame, with an
early scoring chance just over
five minutes in, but he couldn’t
finish past Hart. Gudas has five
assists and has been the physical,

Leipsic’s early goal was his sec-
ond of the season. With the
assist, Carlson has 30 points in
20 games, including an NHL-
leading 22 assists. He became the
eighth defenseman to reach the
30-point mark in 20 games or
fewer and first since Al MacInnis
(1990-91).
Spearheading the strong first
period was Richard Panik, who
led the Capitals with four shots
on goal in the first and finished
with six overall. It was Panik’s
second game back after he
missed 10 games while on long-
term injured reserve. He re-
turned to the team’s penalty kill,
which was aided heavily by Holt-
by on Wednesday, killing three of
four Flyers power plays.
The shorthanded unit is still
without winger Carl Hagelin (up-

Capitals goalie Braden Holtby made 30 saves against the Flyers. He
has an 8-0-1 record since he allowed three goals in an Oct. 14 loss.
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