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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Carolina” – “Washington” – 0:3 – Ovechkin “B” (0+1), “Tampa Bay” – “Pittsburgh” – 5:3, “Chicago” – “Los Angeles” » -- 3:1, "Rangers" -- "Atlanta" -- 4:6, "Montreal" -- "Islanders" -- 5:3, "San Jose" -- "New Jersey" -- 5 :2.
For Washington, Swedish forward Nicklas Backstrom scored twice in the final period. In the first case, he was assisted by Russian national team striker Alexander Ovechkin, and in the second, the Scandinavian sent the puck into an empty net one and a half minutes before the siren to end regular time, when the hosts' goalkeeper Ward was replaced by an extra field player. Also two goals plus another assist on the account of Tampa Bay hockey player Martin Saint-Louis, and he, like Backstrom, hit the target in the third period and shot into the empty net. Joe Thornton, who recently extended his contract with San Jose, pleased his fans with a hat-trick, assisted his teammates twice when scoring goals, and finished the match with a plus-4 rating. New Jersey suffered its third defeat in a row.
Kosheleva is the best volleyball player in Russia in the 2009/10 season
According to the results of a survey of coaches of women's super league teams conducted by the All-Russian Volleyball Federation, forward Tatyana Kosheleva, who in the offseason replaced Zarechye-Odintsovo near Moscow with Dynamo Kazan, was recognized as the best player in the country.
Kosheleva is a solid starter for the women's national team, which begins its participation in the World Cup early this morning Moscow time. The first game in Japan for the team of head coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin is against the Dominican Republic team, which has sharply improved in the last two seasons.
“Khimki” suffered defeat in “Hala Pioneer”
In the second round of the group stage of the ULEB Euroleague, the Khimki men's basketball team suffered its first defeat in the tournament, having previously won seven victories in a row, including a three-stage qualifying cycle. The Moscow region club, on the road in the mecca of team sports of the union Yugoslavia, Belgrade, “Hala Pionir”, failed to cope with the local “Partizan” - 68:72.
Before the start of the final quarter, the guests were in the lead, but they failed in the last ten minutes - 15:23. The most productive among the losers were American legionnaire Keith Langford (19 points), Croatian shooting guard Zoran Planinic (16), who transferred from CSKA, and his compatriot Kreshemir Loncar (13 plus 9 rebounds). Naturally, the presence of Croats in Khimki’s lineup evoked a special reaction from Serbian basketball fans.
The start of the FIBA Women's Euroleague did not go well for our clubs. Orenburg "Nadezhda" was defeated at home by the powerful Spanish club "Ros Casares" - 68:76. Four times in a row, the holder of the title of the strongest team of the Old World, the Moscow region “Sparta & K” sensationally lost on the road to the Lithuanian “Visi Aistes” (Kaunas) - 79:81, and only the Ekaterinburg UMMC achieved victory, having dealt away with the modest Croatian “Gospić” from the same name cities -- 87:73.