|
TORONTO -- Goaltender James Reimer allowed six goals on 21 shots as the Columbus Blue Jackets blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-0 Monday night, two nights after he had a career-high 49 save performance. Kate Spade Outlet . Cam Atkinson and R.J. Umberger scored for Columbus (9-12-3) in a 20 second span in the first period. Then Jack Skille and Ryan Murray added goals 3:15 apart in the second period. Ryan Johansen scored twice in the third as the Blue Jackets won for the third time to conclude a five-game road trip (3-2-0). Sergei Bobrovsky made 18 saves for his fifth career shutout. Atkinson opened the scoring at 10:18 of the first period, knocking a Matt Calvert pass out of mid-air and putting it past Reimer for his sixth of the season. Twenty seconds later, Umberger picked up his sixth of the season putting home the rebound after Reimer made the initial save off Ryan Murrays wrap around attempt. James van Riemsdyk had Torontos (14-9-1) best chance of the first period, one-timing a Phil Kessel feed through Bobrovskys pads, but the puck trickled just wide of the Columbus net. The Leafs troubles continued in the second as Mark Letestu capitalized on a Mark Fraser turnover at the Columbus blue-line. Letestu fed Skille on a 2-on-1 break for his first of the season and first as a member of the Jackets at 3:07 of the period. Skille drew a hooking penalty 2:13 later. On the ensuing Columbus power play, Murray put a Johansen feed past Reimer. Monday was Murrays first career multi-point game. The Blue Jackets scored twice on their first four shots of the second period prompting the ACC crowd to jeer Reimer following a routine save. Johansen finished a 2-on-1 feed from Nick Foligno at 9:05 of the third making it 5-0. Johansen then added his team-leading eighth of the season at 11:25 of the third ending Reimers night early. Reimer entered Monday with a 6-2-0 record and a league-best .947 save percentage and a 2.10 goals-against average. Since allowing four goals to Ottawa and getting pulled in his second game of the season Oct. 5, Reimer had stopped 156 of 161 shots at home for a .969 save percentage. Reimer was 4-0-0 in five starts during that span. Monday was Reimers first career start and loss against Columbus. Bernier made one save in relief. At 10:50 of the third Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf was assessed a minor penalty illegal contact to the head as he caught Columbus forward Artem Anisimov with an open-ice hit. Anisimov left the game immediately and did not return. Adding to the Leafs poor showing, forward Joffrey Lupul left the game at the end of the second period and did not return for the third. Tyler Bozak made his return to the Leafs line-up Monday after missing 12 games with a hamstring injury. Bozak finished with a minus-2 rating. Notes: With the return of Bozak, Peter Holland was a healthy scratch Monday joining fellow centre, Trevor Smith. Leafs defenceman Paul Ranger was the odd man out on the blue-line. Columbus used an emergency recall to call-up Sean Collins from their AHL affiliate in Springfield Monday, but the forward did not get to Toronto in time for puck drop. Blue Jackets defenceman Dalton Prout was activated from injury reserve and returned to the lineup after missing five games with a back injury. The Blue Jackets placed Brandon Dubinsky (foot) on injury reserve retroactive to Nov. 19. Kate Spade Outlet Store ." Hextall was promoted to general manager by the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday to replace Paul Holmgren, who was elevated to president.Kate Spade Outlet Online .com) - Top-seeded former winner Novak Djokovic, who survived an injury scare, and defending champion Andy Murray highlighted Fridays third-round winners at Wimbledon.ACAPULCO, Mexico - Top seed David Ferrer and second-seeded Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro won through to the quarterfinals of the Mexican Open in contrasting styles on Wednesday. Ferrer beat Polands Lukasz Kobot 6-3, 6-3, setting up a quarterfinal against another Spaniard in Pablo Andujar, who upset fifth-seeded Florian Mayer of Germany 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Two-time champion Almagro had more of a struggle, coming from a set down to defeat Benoit Paire of France 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. The second-seeded Spaniard lost serve twice to drop the first set, but settled and took control of the match to win in it in more than two hours at The Fairmont Acapulco Princess. Almagro, who won the Mexican Open in 2008 and 2009 and was runner-up to Ferrer last year, will next meet Spanish compatriot Fernando Verdasco, who defeated Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 6-4, 6-2. The No. 7 seed Marcel Granollers of Spain fell 6-4, 6-3 to Santiago Giraldo of Colombia. Giraldo will next face Argentinas Carlos Berlocq, who was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Italys Potito Starace. Frenchman Jeremy Chardy also scraped into the last eight, turning around the match after a poor first set to win a tight second-set tierbreak then rolling oveer Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori in the final frame to win 1-6, 7-6 (8), 6-0. Kate Spade Outlet Online store. Chardys quarterfinal opponent will be Switzerlands Stan Wawrinka, who downed Spaniard Albert Ramos 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. In the womens tournament, the three top-seeded Italians all progressed. Top-seeded Roberta Vinci beat Stephanie Foretz Gacon of France 7-5, 6-4. She will next face Dutch player Michaella Krajicek, who edged Italys Alberta Brianti 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2). Second-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta had to fight harder than forecast to see off Swedens Sofia Arvidsson 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Pennettas quarterfinal opponent will be qualifier Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia, who upset sixth seed Johanna Larsson of Sweden 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. The other top Italian contender, third-seeded Sara Errani, cruised past Romanian qualifier Edina Gallovits-Hall 6-4, 6-1 and will next take on lucky loser Estrella Cabeza Candela of Spain, who downed Hungarian Melinda Czink 6-4, 7-6 (5). The No. 4-seeded Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania ousted Anna Tatishvili of Georgia 6-3, 6-1, setting up a third-round clash with Slovakias Magdalena Rybarikova, who prevailed over local wildcard Ximena Hermoso 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. ' ' ' |
