38 shots as Oshawa handed the Spirit

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The Los Angeles Kings jumped out to a 3-0 first-period lead and the Chicago Blackhawks couldnt catch them, with the Kings taking a 5-2 decision in Game Four to take a 3-1 lead in the series. Kings D Jake Muzzin scored the first of two power play goals for the Kings. Playing more than 21 minutes per game in the playoffs, Muzzin now has 11 points, placing him third among defencemen in the postseason. Not bad for a guy who didnt hook on with an NHL club until the Kings signed him during his overage junior season in Sault Ste. Marie. Four years later, Muzzin is on the top defence pairing for a team closing in on the Western Conference title. Muzzin is paired with Drew Doughty, who also had a goal and an assist in Game Four (though his goal appeared to be deflected in by Dwight King) and leads defencemen with 14 points in the playoffs. Game Four was so well in hand for the Kings that they could limit Doughtys ice time; 23:55 was Doughtys lowest ice time since Game Two of the playoffs (after which he complained about his lack of ice time). For once, the Blackhawks didnt get burned by the line of Jeff Carter, Tanner Pearson and Tyler Toffoli, until Pearson scored into an empty net, though Pearson had a team-high seven shot attempts and tied Carter with a team-leading four shots on goal. The bad news for Chicago is that the Kings other top scorers got on track. Marian Gaborik scored a goal while Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams each picked up a couple of assists; Kopitar extending his playoff scoring lead with 22 points and Gaborik leads all playoff goal-scorers, with 10. In their ultimately fruitless attempt to come back, the Blackhawks chances were created by their power forwards. Marian Hossa, Bryan Bickell and Brandon Sadd had nine, eight and seven shot attempts, respectively, to lead the Blackhawks. Saad and Bickell scored Chicagos goals. Chicagos leaders, C Jonathan Toews and RW Patrick Kane, skated together for most of the game, as the Blackhawks tried to shake up lines and it didnt really work. While both assisted on Bickells third-period goal, Toews didnt register a shot on goal (though, immediately preceding Bickells goal, Doughty basically blocked a Toews shot in the crease to prevent a goal), the second time in the series Toews has been held without a shot on goal. The Blackhawks need their big guns to be firing, but they also need G Corey Crawford to perform better. After allowing four goals on 20 shots in Game Four, Crawford has stopped 69 of 82 shots (.841 SV%) in the last three games. The goals against arent all on Crawford, to be sure but, no matter how you slice it, .841 isnt good enough to win. Blackhawks C Michal Handzus played a game-low 4:28, not seeing the ice beyond six minutes into the second period. This isnt the first time in the playoffs that a team, on the verge of elimination, has looked like they were on the way out, and thats the situation in which the Blackhawks find themselves now. More than 90% of teams with a three-game-to-one lead in an NHL playoff series go on to win, so the Blackhawks have a steep hill to climb. But, they can look across the ice and take heart, knowing that the Kings had to overcome a three-games-to-none deficit in Round One against San Jose to get turned loose on this playoff run. Right now, the Kings look invincible, but hockey is a funny game sometimes and if the Blackhawks are better on home ice in Game Five, maybe they still have a way to dig out of this hole. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. 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Niese pitched seven steady innings on a rainy Tuesday night and Daniel Murphy had three hits to lead New York to a 6-1 victory over the Phillies.BARRIE, Ont. -- Darby Llewellyn scored three times, including two on the power play, as the Kitchener Rangers downed the host Barrie Colts 5-3 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League play. Justin Bailey and Frank Hora also scored for the Rangers (10-14-1) while Ryan MacInnis tacked on two assists. Andreas Athanasiou, Jake Dotchin and Aaron Ekblad scored for the Colts (14-10-3) and Zach Hall assisted on all three of his clubs goals. Kitcheners Matthew Greenfield made 25 saves for the win as Daniel Gibl turned away 38-of-42 shots for Barrie. The Rangers went 2 for 6 on the power play while the Colts scored once on five chances with the man advantage. --- OTTERS 7 STEELHEADS 1 ERIE, Pa. -- The Otters scored five times in the second period en route to crushing Mississauga for its fourth straight victory. Andre Burakovsky had two goals and two assists for Erie (23-4-1) while Connor McDavid scored once and set up three others. Dane Fox had a goal and two assists for the Otters and Hayden Hodgson, Adam Pelech and Michael Curtis added a goal apiece. Austin Gerhart scored the lone goal for the Steelheads (13-15-2), who are winless in four outings. Eries Oscar Dansk made 18 saves for the win as Mississaugas Spencer Martin gave up seven goals on 32 shots. --- FRONTENACS 6 BULLS 4 BELLEVILLE, Ont. -- Spencer Watson scored three times and set up one more as Kingston earned its third straight win by defeating the Bulls. Lucas Peressini gave the Frontenacs (14-9-3) an opportunity to win by stopping 46-of-50 shots while Ryan Kujawinski, Henri Ikonen and Sam Bennett added a goal each. Jake Worrad scored twice for Belleville (6-18-4) and Cameron Brace and Aaron Berisha had the others. Braydon Banitsiotis kicked out 31-of-36 shots for the Bulls. --- KNIGHTS 4 PETES 2 PETERBOROUGH, Ont. -- Josh Anderson had two goals and an assist and Bo Horvat set up three goals as London doubled up the Petes. Alex Basso had a goal and an assist for the Knights (19-6-2) while Santino Centorame scored once. Greg Betzhold and Nick Ritchie supplied the goals foor Peterborough (11-15-3).dddddddddddd Londons Anthony Stolarz made 28 saves for the win as Michael Giuovas stopped 32 shots for the Petes. --- SPITFIRES 6 STING 3 WINDSOR, Ont. -- Josh Ho-Sang and Ben Johnson each scored twice as the Spitfires doubled up Sarnia. Remy Giftopoulos and Ty Bilcke also scored for Windsor (16-10-0), which halted a three-game slide, and Alex Fotinos made 31 saves for the victory. Anthony DeAngelo, Vladislav Kodola and Nikolay Goldobin scored for the Sting (9-17-1). Sarnias Brodie Barrick stopped 36-of-41 shots in a losing cause. --- GREYHOUNDS 5 ICEDOGS 3 SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. -- Sergey Tolchinsky scored once and set up three more as the Greyhounds beat Niagara. Andrew Fritsch, Blake Speers and Jared McCann each had a goal and an assist for Sault Ste. Marie (19-5-3) and David Miller scored once. Vince Dunn, Eric Ming and Aleksandar Mikulovich supplied the offence for the IceDogs (7-18-4). Brandon Halverson made 25 saves for the Greyhounds. Niagaras Brent Moran stopped 34-of-39 shots in defeat. --- GENERALS 5 SPIRIT 2 SAGINAW, Mich. -- Hunter Smith scored twice and Ken Appleby stopped 38 shots as Oshawa handed the Spirit their first regulation-time loss in seven outings. Bradley Latour and Scott Laughton each had a goal and two assists for the Generals (21-6-1) and Michael DalColle had a goal and an assist. Saginaw (15-9-4) got goals from Terry Trafford and Kristoff Kontos. Jake Paterson gave up four goals on 10 shots for Saginaw in just 20 minutes of action. Nikita Serebryakov stopped all seven shots he faced in relief. --- ATTACK 3 WHALERS 2 (SO) OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- Thomas Schemitsch scored the shootout winner as the Attack slipped past Plymouth. Holden Cook and Danial Milne had a goal and an assist apiece for Owen Sound (13-10-1), who are 3-0-1 in their last four contests. Victor Crus Rydberg and Gianluca Curcuruto scored for the Whalers (11-16-2). Brandon Hope made 33 saves for the Attack while Alex Nedeljkovic turned away 46 shots in a losing cause. 23:24ET 30-11-13 ' ' '