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Alberta (AP) ¡ª Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn took full advantage of a poor
defensive effort by the Calgary Flames.Seguin scored 24 seconds into overtime,
with an assist from Benn, to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 victory over Calgary on
Wednesday night.Benn knocked the puck into the slot, where Seguin was wide open
and put a shot inside the post on David Rittich.¡°I mentally kind of knew I was
shooting there already,¡± Seguin said. ¡°Earlier I had a play, a chance, and I saw
low glove open and said if I got the chance in the slot I¡¯d shoot there
again.¡±Rittich argued Benn interfered with him, but the goal stood up after a
video review.It was redemption for Benn, the Dallas captain, who took two minor
penalties in the third period. The second one led to Johnny Gaudreau¡¯s goal at
9:41 that made it 2-all.¡°Obviously he played that overtime with a little guilt,¡±
Seguin said. ¡°I¡¯m happy how hard he worked. He¡¯s our leader and captain and
everyone follows him.¡±Benn scored his team-leading 10th goal on a power play at
18:02 of the second period, steering in a perfect feed from Seguin to give
Dallas a 2-1 lead heading into the third.¡°I like to think everybody follows me.
I take pride in being the captain of this team and trying to do the right things
all the time,¡± Benn said. ¡°When I¡¯m doing
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they¡¯ve got someone to follow.¡±Jason Spezza and Gavin Bayreuther added goals to
help Dallas snap a four-game road losing streak. Anton Khudobin made 30 saves.¡°I
thought our effort was great. Our execution was poor,¡± Stars coach Jim
Montgomery said. ¡°The way the guys dug in and kept battling was pretty
impressive.¡±Garnet Hathaway and Mark Giordano also scored for Calgary. The
Flames are 4-1-1 in their last six.¡°We¡¯re fortunate to get a point out of the
game tonight,¡± coach Bill Peters said. ¡°I didn¡¯t think we were very good. I
didn¡¯t think our attention to detail was very good and our commitment to doing
it right wasn¡¯t where it needs to be to get two points.¡±After trailing 2-1, the
Flames took their first lead midway through the third period on goals 1:10
apart.Gaudreau fired a shot top corner for a power-play goal. Giordano made it
3-2 with a similar-looking shot from a similar spot, again beating Khudobin with
a rising shot over his glove.The Stars tied it less than three minutes later.
Matthew Tkachuk¡¯s clearing attempt went onto the stick of Bayreuther and the
rookie defenseman fired his second of the season past Rittich.¡°We had complete
control when we took the lead,¡± Giordano said. ¡°We gave them the tie and just
cost ourselves a point with a couple bad plays. It¡¯s tough to swallow right now,
honestly. I thought we should have won that one.¡±Gaudreau and Sean Monahan each
finished minus-3 for the Flames. They were on the ice when Spezza slipped into
the slot undetected and one-timed Radek Faksa¡¯s pass behind Rittich just 41
seconds into the game. It was their missed coverage in overtime, too.¡°Losing
(stinks), obviously. Losing that way, it¡¯s even worse,¡± Monahan said. ¡°You come
back in a game and get a lead, then give it back and give them an easy one there
in overtime. That¡¯s on us, that¡¯s on me and I take the fall for that.¡±NOTES:
Khudobin started again in the absence of Ben Bishop (lower
body)
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last five games. ¡ Rittich finished with 24 saves. He dropped to 8-2-1. ¡ The
Stars improved to 6-1-1 in their last eight games at the Saddledome. ¡ Calgary
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NEXTStars: Wrap up their four-game road trip Saturday night in Vancouver.Flames:
Host the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night. WASHINGTON (AP) Nicklas Backstrom
dreamed about the road less traveled.Driving down Constitution Avenue on his way
to each home game since his NHL debut in 2007, he imagined the street lined with
overjoyed Washington Capitals fans.¡±It always popped up in my head that one time
we¡¯re going to have a parade here, and finally that day is here,¡± Backstrom
said.It all becomes reality Tuesday when Backstrom and the Stanley Cup-champion
Capitals give the city its first parade for a major pro sports team since the
NFL¡¯s Redskins in 1992. The parade is 26 years in the making for Washington
sports fans who endured long, lean years of heartbreak.¡±I don¡¯t think anyone
doubted what this city would do,¡± longtime Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman
said. ¡±It¡¯s just a matter of getting there and having the ability to do it. They
definitely held up their end of the bargain.¡±Tens of thousands gathered for
viewing parties of road playoff games on the way to the Capitals¡¯ first
championship since beginning play in 1974. They camped out on the streets to
watch on giant video screens ¨C the kinds of scenes more germane to presidential
inaugurations in this town than sporting events.¡±I thought it was really cool
when we were even at home and everyone was outside and going nuts and they would
show that right after we would score a goal,¡± defenseman John Carlson said. ¡±I
think that was probably one of the coolest moments of the playoffs for me and
just seeing the support. ¡ I think we deserve it, and so do the fans.¡±It has
been a long time coming. Since the Redskins won the Super Bowl in January 1992,
the 1998 Capitals were the only Washington team in the NHL, NBA, NFL or Major
League Baseball to reach a league semifinal until this spring, a drought of 74
combined seasons without a championship.When the Capitals took the Cup into the
Nationals¡¯ clubhouse on Saturday, coach Barry Trotz wanted players to know:
¡±There¡¯s no curse or anything. It¡¯s all gone.¡± All they had to do to know that
was look around the past two months to see the doubt being chipped
away.Nationals manager Davey
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first real taste of Washington sports in the playoffs with the Chicago Cubs last
year when he came out of the dugout seeing 50,000 fans in red and couldn¡¯t hear
himself think because it was so loud.¡±Right then and there I said, `Hey, these
people, they¡¯re in, they love it,¡±¡¯ Martinez recalled. ¡±This is exciting. And
the city then rallied this year around the Caps. I get it. It was awesome. It
was good for the city. Good for us. I know our boys were all in, they were
excited about everything. I told them yesterday, `Let¡¯s just keep it rolling.
The city¡¯s all-in.¡±¡¯Washington isn¡¯t a city accustomed to being all-in because
of the scars of so many playoff failures over the years. Longtime Capitals
season-ticket holder Jimmy Patterson said fans became reluctant to get together
to watch games because the mood at the end of the night wasn¡¯t something anyone
wanted to endure in a group setting.That¡¯s part of what made the public
gatherings for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final and throughout the Stanley
Cup Final so remarkable. Exorcising franchise-long demons by beating the
Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round seemed to free fans to actually enjoy
themselves.¡±It showed what they were capable of and shows if you get to that
level, they¡¯re going to match it or even step it up a little bit more than the
actual players,¡± Zimmerman said.Fans celebrating the Capitals beating the
Penguins led ESPN¡¯s Michael Wilbon ¨C a former Washington Post columnist ¨C to
call D.C. a ¡±minor league sports town.¡± It¡¯s not the first knock on Washington,
though 14 years of playing baseball in the city has given Zimmerman some clarity
on explaining that it¡¯s not
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Chicago, New York or Philadelphia, and he doesn¡¯t think it has to be.¡±This is
such an interesting city because not many people are from here, so it¡¯s hard to
be a Boston or a Chicago,¡± Zimmerman said. ¡±That¡¯s a generational sports town.
So it¡¯s nothing against (Washington). They shouldn¡¯t be like that. They have no
reason to be like that.¡±A lot of these people move here for work in their early
to mid-20s or come here even later than that and they adopt a team. This is what
happens nowadays: Everyone compares everything. Just let it be. Let it be what
it is. We have great fans and obviously if you make the playoffs and get to a
Stanley Cup finals, you have really great fans just like any city
would.¡±Thousands of fans are expected to watch the parade, from 17th to 7th on
Constitution. Trotz has been thinking about something like this since he arrived
in 2014.¡±You start thinking about, `Well, what would it mean?¡¯ and then you
think about a possible parade on one of the most famous streets in all the
world, really, and it¡¯s sort of now coming into play,¡± Trotz said. ¡±It¡¯s going
to come true.¡±¡ªMore Stanley Cup coverage:
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