Los Angeles Times - 24.02.2020

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D2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 LATIMES.COM/SPORTS


TIME EVENT ON THE AIR
BASKETBALL
10 a.m. Kobe and Gianna Bryant Memorial Service TV:SpecSN,
ESPN, NBA, E!,
2, 7, 9, 11,
KVEA
4 p.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia TV:NBA
7:30 p.m. Memphis at Clippers TV:Prime, NBA
R:570, 1330
BASEBALL EXHIBITIONS
10 a.m. Baltimore vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla. TV:MLB
Network
Noon Angels vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix TV:FSW
Noon Chicago White Sox vs. Dodgers at Phoenix TV:SNLA
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
4 p.m. Louisville at Florida State TV:ESPN
4 p.m. Women, Duke at North Carolina State TV:ESPN
4 p.m. West Virginia at Texas TV:ESPNU
4 p.m. Women, Baylor at West Virginia TV:FS
5 p.m. Nebraska at Illinois TV:Big Ten
6 p.m. Oklahoma State at Kansas TV:ESPN
6 p.m. Women, Oregon at Stanford TV:ESPN
SOCCER
11:30 a.m. Portugal, Gil Vicente vs. Benfica TV:GOLTV
11:30 a.m. Germany, Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Union Berlin TV:TUDN
Noon England, Liverpool vs. West Ham United TV:NBCSN,
Unvso
1:45 p.m. Mexico, women, America vs. Toluca TV:TUDN
4:15 p.m. Ecuador, Tecnico Universitario vs. Aucas TV:GOLTV
TENNIS
3 a.m. Dubai, Santiago and Doha tournaments, early-round
play

TV:Tennis

TODAY ON THE AIR


PRO CALENDAR


MON TUE WED THU FRI
24 25 26 27 28

LAKERS

NEW
ORLEANS
7
TNT

at Golden
State
7:
TNT, SpecSN

CLIPPERS

MEMPHIS
7:
Prime

at Phoenix
6
Prime

DENVER
7:
Prime

KINGS

PITT.
7:
NBCSN

DUCKS

EDMONTON
7
Prime

PITT.
7
FSW

Shade denotes home game


LAFC:Thursday vs. Club León (Champions League), 7 p.m.
GALAXY:Saturday at Houston, 12:30 p.m., Univision


COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Favorite Line Underdog
West Virginia 4 at Texas
at Florida State 21 ⁄ 2 Louisville
at Illinois 131 ⁄ 2 Nebraska
at Kansas 141 ⁄ 2 Oklahoma State


NHL
Favorite Underdog
at Columbus -200 Ottawa +

ODDS


WESTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific W LOLPtsGFGA
Vegas 34 22 8 76 208 196
Edmonton 33 22 7 73 198 192
Vancouver 33 22 6 72 203 187
Calgary 32 25 6 70 187 196
Arizona 31 26 8 70 181 174
San Jose 26 32 4 56 159 203
DUCKS 24 30 8 56 161 197
KINGS 22 35 6 50 156 203
Central W LOLPtsGFGA
St. Louis 36 17 10 82 200 174
Colorado 36 18 7 79 212 166
Dallas 36 20 6 78 167 159
Winnipeg 32 27 5 69 193 191
Nashville 30 23 8 68 195 196
Minnesota 29 25 7 65 186 197
Chicago 27 27 8 62 182 197
Note: Overtime or shootout losses worth one point.

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Metropolitan W LOLPtsGFGA
Washington 38 18 6 82 218 190
Pittsburgh 37 18 6 80 201 168
Philadelphia 35 20 7 77 206 183
NY Islanders 35 20 6 76 176 164
Carolina 35 22 4 74 201 172
Columbus 30 19 14 74 162 163
NY Rangers 33 24 4 70 203 188
New Jersey 24 27 10 58 167 210
Atlantic W LOLPtsGFGA
Boston 39 12 12 90 208 159
Tampa Bay 40 17 5 85 221 171
Toronto 32 23 8 72 220 210
Florida 32 24 6 70 217 212
Buffalo 29 25 8 66 182 193
Montreal 29 27 8 66 194 195
Ottawa 21 30 11 53 164 212
Detroit 15 45 4 34 130 240

NHL STANDINGS


RESULTS
EDMONTON 4
AT KINGS 2

Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists in his return
from injury. The Kings took their third loss in four games.
VEGAS 6
AT DUCKS 5 (OT)

Ex-Ducks defenseman Shea Theodore scored in overtime
to lift Vegas after two late goals by Adam Henrique.
AT BUFFALO 2
WINNIPEG 1

Kyle Okposo scored both Sabres goals and Jonas
Johansson stopped 25 shots to earn his first NHL win.
AT DALLAS 2
CHICAGO 1

Tyler Seguin scored the tiebreaking goal in the second
period and Anton Khudobin stopped 31 shots.
AT WASHINGTON 5
PITTSBURGH 3

T.J. Oshie got the deciding goal and John Carlson became
the Capitals’ franchise leader in points by a defenseman.
AT N.Y. ISLANDERS 4
SAN JOSE 1

Anders Lee recorded his first two-goal game of the season
and Semyon Varlamov made 29 stops to lead New York.
CALGARY 4
AT DETROIT 2

Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan scored in the first
period and the Flames began a five-game trip with a win.
ST. LOUIS 4
AT MINNESOTA 1

Jordan Binnington made 32 saves for the Blues, who have
given up just two goals over the last four games.

TODAY’S GAME
Ottawa at Columbus, 4 p.m.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Edmonton at DUCKS, 7 p.m. Calgary at Boston, 4 p.m.
Dallas at Carolina, 4 p.m. N.Y. Rangers vs. N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.
San Jose at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.
Vancouver at Montreal, 4 p.m. Winnipeg at Washington, 4 p.m.
New Jersey at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis, 5 p.m.
Columbus at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Nashville, 5 p.m.
Florida at Arizona, 6 p.m.

KYLE OKPOSO(21) is exultant after his game-
winning goal for the Buffalo Sabres against Winnipeg.

Jeffrey T. BarnesAssociated Press

William Karlsson got his
third career hat trick, Shea
Theodore scored in over-
time, and the Vegas Golden
Knights extended their win-
ning streak to a season-high
six with a 6-5 victory over the
Ducks on Sunday night.
Theodore’s winner 3 min-
utes 50 seconds into over-
time came after the Golden
Knights squandered a two-
goal lead late in the third pe-
riod. Mark Stone picked up
his fourth assist on Theo-
dore’s goal.
Vegas’ 5-3 lead appeared
safe until Adam Henrique
forced overtime with goals
1:42 apart. Both came when
the Ducks brought on an ex-
tra attacker.
Henrique got the Ducks
to within a goal with 2:57 left
when he knocked in a re-
bound after Nick Ritchie
was stopped by Vegas’ Mal-
colm Subban, then sent it to
overtime with 1:15 left when
the Ducks crashed the net.
“You play to win,” Hen-
rique said. “I thought we did
a good job pushing back.”
The Ducks (24-30-8) lost
their fourth straight.
“Big two points,” Golden
Knights coach Peter DeBoer
said. “We knew this was go-
ing to be a tough game at the
end of a hard week.”
Ritchie scored twice, in-
cluding a tying goal 21 sec-

onds into the third period,
before Karlsson put Vegas
ahead 4-3 6:28 into the third.
He completed his hat trick
at 11:05 with a backhand past
goalie John Gibson. Karls-
son entered Sunday without
a goal in his last 20 games.
Alec Martinez — ac-
quired from the Kings on
Tuesday — had a goal and an
assist for Vegas, and Max Pa-
cioretty added two assists.
Patrick Brown also scored
and Subban stopped 25
shots for the Golden
Knights (34-22-8), who lead
the Pacific Division.
Ritchie and Henrique
each also had two assists.
Devin Shore also scored for
the Ducks, and Gibson had
22 saves.
Ducks center Derek
Grant, who could be dealt
before Monday’s trade dead-
line, was a healthy scratch.

Ducks rally late,


fall in overtime


VEGAS 6, DUCKS 5 (OT)

wire reports

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 6, DUCKS 5 (OT)
Vegas..............1 2 2 1 — 6
DUCKS............1 1 3 0 — 5
FIRST PERIOD: 1. Vegas, Brown 1 (Quinney, Reaves),
12:49. 2. Anaheim, Shore 4 (Guhle), 19:58.
Penalties—None.
SECOND PERIOD: 3. Anaheim, Ritchie 7 (Henrique),
10:03. 4. Vegas, Martinez 3 (Stone, Pacioretty), 15:51.


  1. Vegas, Karlsson 11 (Pacioretty, Stone), 19:03.
    Penalties—None.
    THIRD PERIOD: 6. Anaheim, Ritchie 8 (Henrique,
    Terry), 0:21. 7. Vegas, Karlsson 12 (Stephenson, Mar-
    tinez), 6:28. 8. Vegas, Karlsson 13 (Stone, Smith),
    11:05. 9. Anaheim, Henrique 22 (Rakell, Ritchie),
    17:03. 10. Anaheim, Henrique 23 (Ritchie, Del Zotto),
    18:45. Penalties—Jones, Ana (Tripping), 4:24; Stone,
    LV (Tripping), 8:47; Martinez, LV (Interference), 19:13.
    OVERTIME: 11. Vegas, Theodore 9 (Stone), 3:50.
    Penalties—None.
    SHOTS ON GOAL: Vegas 10-11-6-1—28. Anaheim 7-
    11-10-2—30. Power-play opportunities—Vegas 0 of 1;
    Anaheim 0 of 2.
    GOALIES—Vegas, Subban 9-7-3 (30 shots-
    saves). Anaheim, Gibson 17-24-5 (28-22). Att—15,
    (17,174). T—2:39. R—Francois St Laurent, Justin St Pi-
    erre. Linesmen—Bevan Mills, Pierre Racicot.


GOLDEN KNIGHTS defenseman Shea Theodore
scores the winner past Ducks goalie John Gibson.

Chris CarlsonAssociated Press

John Gardner still laughs
when describing his first im-
pression of Tyler Madden:
“A skinny little kid,” the
Connecticut prep hockey
coach says.
That was five years ago,
when Madden arrived at
Avon Old Farms boarding
school — where Gardner
coaches — as a newly
enrolled ninth-grader on the
junior varsity team, even
smaller than his current 5-
foot-11, 155-pound size.
His stature, however, was
deceiving.
Madden quickly built up
his own pedigree, making his
once-uncertain long-term
potential immediately clear.
“I could see his talent,”
said Gardner, who once
coached Kings goalie Jona-
than Quick at Avon. “We put
him on the varsity team at
the end of the season. He
was tearing up the junior
varsity team.”

Thus began a path that
reached a major milestone
last week, when Madden,
now 20 years old and
counted among hockey’s
most promising prospects,
had his rights traded to the
Kings from the Vancouver
Canucks.
In the last five years, the
puck-possessing, play-mak-
ing centerman became the
captain at Avon and excelled
in the U.S. Hockey League.
He was picked by the
Canucks in the third round
of the 2018 NHL draft and
represented the U.S. in the
World Junior Champi-
onships that winter. He has
spent the past two seasons
starring at Northeastern,
tied for fourth nationally in
goals this season before be-
ing sidelined by a recent
thumb injury.
With the Kings, who lost
to the Edmonton Oilers 4-
on Sunday despite Anze Ko-
pitar’s team-leading 18th
goal, Madden is the newest
potential piece of the fran-
chise’s future, the biggest
prospect the Kings acquired
in their series of trades lead-

ing up to today’s deadline.
“[He was] upbeat, pos-
itive, excited about the op-
portunity with L.A.,” said
Northeastern coach Jim
Madigan. “He had some
good conversations with
L.A. leading into the draft
[in 2018], so to him it made
sense.”
Gardner and Madigan
each lauded Madden’s
trademark puck skills, but
were equally impressed with
the two-way development of
the son of former Selke Tro-
phy winner John Madden.
“He was always a work in
progress,” Gardner said.

“The good thing about him
was, there was a lot of prog-
ress. He loved the game, and
he worked at it. He’s one of
those guys who really
wanted to be on the ice all
the time.”
It’s too soon to know if
Madden will sign a contract
this offseason with the
Kings, who entered deadline
day having already com-
pleted their major moves.
Trevor Lewis and Derek
Forbort are rumored as the
two most-likely Kings who
could be dealt. But it’s
doubtful either will demand
a prospect as promising as
Madden in return.
“He’ll adjust to the NHL
game,” said Madigan, who
compared Madden to
Canucks forward Adam
Gaudette, a former Hobey
Baker Award winner at
Northeastern. “Certainly
the offensive part is his call-
ing card, but he’ll adjust to
being more thorough — and
he’s thorough already for us
— but he’ll understand he’s
not going to have that lati-
tude that we give him. He’ll
adapt his game.”

EDMONTON GOALIE Mike Smith stops a shot by Adrian Kempe in the Kings’ final game before today’s
trade deadline. L.A. has already made moves but Trevor Lewis and Derek Forbort could still be in play.

Mark J. TerrillAssociated Press

Kings’ future is Madden-ing


EDMONTON 4
KINGS 2

By Jack Harris

OILERS 4, KINGS 2
Edmonton ................................1 2 1 — 4
KINGS.....................................0 1 1 — 2
FIRST PERIOD: 1. Edm., Draisaitl 36 (McDavid,
Jones), 19:29 (pp). Penalties—Archibald, Edm. (Slash-
ing), 17:22. Walker, KINGS (Hooking), 17:54.
SECOND PERIOD: 2. Edm., Nugent-Hopkins 18 (Ya-
mamoto, Jones), 5:27. 3. Edm., McDavid 31 (Russell),
16:14. 4. KINGS, Kopitar 18 (Iafallo, Kempe), 18:
(pp). Penalties—Draisaitl, Edm. (High Sticking), 17:56.
THIRD PERIOD: 5. KINGS, Brown 13 (Kempe), 0:49.


  1. Edm., Archibald 10 (Sheahan, McDavid), 19:10 (en).
    Penalties—Brown, KINGS (Tripping), 12:08. Khaira,
    Edm. (Holding), 19:38.
    SHOTS ON GOAL: Edm. 7-12-12—31. KINGS 4-15-4—

  2. Power-play Conversions—Edm. 1 of 2. KINGS 1 of 3.
    GOALIES: Edm., Smith 17-10-5 (23 shots-21 saves).
    KINGS, Petersen 1-3-0 (30-27). Att—18,230 (18,230).
    T—2:28. R—Dean Morton, Kyle Rehman. L—Scott
    Driscoll, Kiel Murchison.


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