NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Gatcomb kicked off the scoring in the third period and the New York Islanders scored three more times to defeat the Florida Panthers 4-2 on Sunday night.
Maxim Tsyplakov and Noah Dobson also scored and Simon Holmstrom added an empty-net goal to seal the win. Anthony DeAngelo added two assists, and Anders Lee earned his 499th career point with an assist. Ilya Sorokin made 22 stops for the Islanders.
On Tuesday, the Panthers also blew a 2-0 lead in the third period (in Boston) to lose in regulation.
Sam Reinhart and Aleksander Barkov each scored and added an assist for...
ATLANTA (AP) — Lionel Messi scored early and Fafà Picault scored the winner after subbing in late to rally Inter Miami to a 2-1 victory over Atlanta United at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday night.
Picault’s first goal this season came in his second appearance with an assist from defender Jordi Alba — his second — in the 89th minute. Messi scored the equalizer in the 20th minute. It was his first goal in two starts this season.
Brooks Lennon made his 200th career start and first this season and immediately had an impact in the 11th minute when he sent a crossing pass to Emmanuel Latte...
General Daily Insight for March 17, 2025
The universe is asking us to dive deep beneath the surface. The Moon slips into subterranean Scorpio at 3:30 am EDT, connecting us with the feelings and emotions we might keep hidden from everyone, ourselves included. The urge to dig even further will arrive when the Moon squares transformational Pluto in Aquarius. We can understand the value in all this depth once the Moon communicates with Venus in Aries for a quincunx. This reminds us that the best treasure often requires a bit of digging.
Aries
March 21 – April 19
A little bit of mystery can...
MONTREAL — Cole Caufield scored his team-leading 33rd goal and added an assist to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Saturday night.
Patrik Laine and Christian Dvorak — with his 100th career goal — also scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault made 21 saves, including a windmill glove stop on Carter Verhaeghe late.
Mackie Samoskevich scored for Florida, which lost for the second time in nine games. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 12 shots.
The Canadiens, who were coming off a 5-4 overtime loss to Seattle on Wednesday, remained within a point of being in playoff position with...
Observations and other notes of interest from Saturday night’s 125-91 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies:
– The lesson of recent weeks and even games such as Saturday is this: The Heat are good enough to compete for stretches against elite competition.
– And then reality hits home.
– As it did in Saturday night’s seventh consecutive loss.
– For stretches earlier this season, there at least were the occasional nights when the Heat had the best player on the court.
– Whether it was Tyler Herro or Bam Adebayo.
– Now those two routinely stand second (or worse) to an opposing player (or two or...
Not good enough. Again. For the seventh consecutive game.
Through all the lineup changes (including yet another one) and the alternating between falling behind early or collapsing late, defeat has become a constant for the Miami Heat, including Saturday night’s 125-91 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies at FedEx Forum, their most lopsided road loss of the season.
The losing streak now seven and the record 29-38, the Heat find themselves nine games below .500 for the first time since the 2016-17 season.
As in before Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro arrived.
As in before Jimmy Butler was added (and then...
By JIM DIAMOND
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Walter Clayton Jr scored 18 points, Will Richard and Alijah Martin added 17 apiece and the No. 4 Florida Gators defeated the No. 21 Missouri Tigers 95-81 in the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals Friday night.
The second-seeded Gators (28-4) never trailed and advance to the semifinals on Saturday against either Alabama or Kentucky. Florida shot 62% from the floor, including 38% from 3-point range.
Tamar Bates scored 16 points to lead the seventh-seeded Tigers (22-11). Bates was Missouri’s high scorer in both of its SEC Tournament games....
MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Friday night’s 103-91 loss to the Boston Celtics:
– Erik Spoelstra offered the breadcrumbs during his pregame media session.
–”I think for us, we’re simplifying,” the Heat coach said. “It really does become about us. You say that a lot, and sometimes that’s a cliche in this league. We have to take care of what we’re doing. We have to get to our identity. We have to really try to impact the game on our terms.”
– Identity, as in the known.
– As in experimentation on hold.
– So the big lineup?
– Kel’el Ware back to playing off the bench.
–...
MIAMI — Against an opponent 17 1/2 games ahead in the standings, the Miami Heat gave themselves a chance Friday night.
As did the Boston Celtics’ injury report.
So against an opponent lacking Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis, Erik Spoelstra’s team got back to stepping up against elite competition, fighting the good fight for extended stretches, just as it had in recent games against the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Minnesota Timberwolves.
The upshot, though, was troublingly familiar, this time a 103-91 loss that extended the losing streak to six and dropped the Heat eight...
TORONTO — Sam Bennett scored power-play goals late in each of the first two periods, Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves and the short-handed Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday night for their seventh victory in eight games.
Defenseman Niko Mikkola also scored for the defending champion Panthers. They lead the Atlantic Division, four points ahead of the second-place Maple Leafs. Toronto has lost four of five.
Florida played without Matthew Tkachuk (lower-body), newcomer Brad Marchand (upper-body) and defenseman Aaron Ekblad (suspension).
John Tavares had his 27th goal...