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Team Jacobs rebounds for key wins at Brier – SooToday.com
In the blink of an eye, Team Northern Ontario, which consists of Sault Ste. Marie’s Brad Jacobs and his team from the Community First Curling Centre, is back in the mix at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier in Kingston, Ont.
After dropping to 1-3 on Monday night with a loss to Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue, the Jacobs rink rebounded with a pair of wins on Tuesday to move to 3-3.
The Jacobs rink, which includes third Marc Kennedy, second E.J. Harnden, lead Ryan Harnden, and alternate Lee Toner picked up wins over Quebec’s Alek Bedard and Jamie Murphy of Nova Scotia.
Jacobs called the win over Bedard “a great performance” in an interview posted on the Curling Canada website.
With the hammer to start, Jacobs jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opening end.
After Bedard blanked the second and scored one in the third to get on the board, Jacobs took over.
The Jacobs rink increased the lead with a pair in the fourth to go up 4-1 then picked up steals of one each in the fifth and sixth ends before stealing three in the seventh to go up 9-1.
Bedard capped off the scoring with a single in the eighth end.
Jacobs spoke of the start to the tournament being interesting as the northern Ontario rink sat with a 1-3 record entering Tuesday despite playing well.
“It was kind of a funny start for us,” Jacobs said. “Things just didn’t go our way. We didn’t play poorly and we’re not throwing the rock poorly. We’re throwing the rock very well and we’re just on the wrong side of the inch.”
“A little bit of adversity early on in events is never a bad thing,” Jacobs also said. “We’re been a pretty resilient team all year and we welcome that.”
In the evening draw, the Jacobs rink beat Murphy 6-2.
After blanking the opening end, Jacobs got on the board in the second end with a pair and, after Murphy blanked the third and scored a single in the fourth, added to the lead with two more in the fifth end.
Murphy scored one in the seventh end before Jacobs sealed the win with two in the ninth end.
“Our life was on the line and we put together a really good day,” Kennedy said in an interview with Curling Canada. “We didn’t have a lot of panic. We just came out and did our thing and played really well both games.”
Heading into the final day of round robin action on Wednesday, the Jacobs rink will face Nunavut’s Jake Higgs.
Round robin action in the nine-day event wraps up on Wednesday night.
Following action on Wednesday, the top four teams in each of the eight-team pools will move on to the Championship Pool, which begins on Thursday afternoon and will see the eight teams carry over their records from round robin action.
Following two days of Championship Pool action, the top four teams will move on to the playoff round, which begins with Page Playoff action on Saturday afternoon.
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Canucks place goalie Thatcher Demko on long-term injured list – CBC.ca
The Vancouver Canucks have placed all-star goalie Thatcher Demko on the long-term injured reserve list retroactively.
“It’s just cap related,” coach Rick Tocchet said after practice Wednesday. “We get some cap relief, that’s all it is.”
The 28-year-old netminder has been considered week to week since being sidelined with a lower-body injury midway through Vancouver’s 5-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on March 9.
That injury designation hasn’t changed, Tocchet said.
Demko boasts a 34-18-2 record this season, with a .917 save percentage, a 2.47 goals-against average and five shutouts.
Casey DeSmith has taken over the starting job for Vancouver, going 3-2-1 since Demko’s injury. He has a .899 save percentage on the season with a 2.73 goals-against average and one shutout.
The earliest Demko could be back in the Canucks’ lineup is April 6 against the Kings in Los Angeles.
He’s expected to be a key piece as Vancouver (45-19-8) prepares for its first playoff appearance since the COVID-shortened 2019-20 campaign.
Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin also announced Wednesday that the club has called up forward Arshdeep Bains from the Abbotsford Canucks of the American Hockey League.
“I’d like to see where [Bains is] at,” Tocchet said, noting he isn’t sure whether the 23-year-old winger will slot into the lineup when the Canucks host the Dallas Stars on Thursday.
WATCH | Bains makes NHL debut
Bains played five games for the NHL team in February before being sent back to Abbotsford.
“He went down, he’s done a couple of things that we like, and he’s got some speed,” Tocchet said.
Vancouver may get another forward back in the lineup Thursday.
Dakota Joshua practised in a full-contact jersey on Wednesday for the first time since suffering an upper-body injury in Vancouver’s 4-2 win over the Blackhawks in Chicago on Feb. 13.
The physical winger, who’s set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, has a career-high 26 points (13 goals, 13 assists) this season.
Sitting out injured “hasn’t been fun,” Joshua said.
“It feels like forever,” he said. “But at this point, that’s behind me and I’m moving forward.”
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Senators score 5 in 1st, cruise past Sabres – NHL.com
“I thought that we were ready to go,” Ottawa coach Jacques Martin said. “We got some pucks at the net, we got people at the net. Took advantage of our opportunities and, I think, built a nice lead. And then I thought, in the third period, we continued again. Our goaltending was good. Made some key saves. But I thought we shut them down in the third period good.”
Shane Pinto had a goal and three assists, and Brady Tkachuk, Boris Katchouk, Jakob Chychrun and Drake Batherson each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (31-36-4), who have won three in a row. Korpisalo made 34 saves.
“If you want to win, you need balance,” Pinto said. “And we had that tonight and it’s going to be big for the back-to-back tomorrow (against the Chicago Blackhawks) to have that same thing. So, going to need all the guys on board.”
JJ Peterka and Connor Clifton scored for the Sabres (34-34-5), who have lost four of six. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed four goals on nine shots before he was replaced by Devon Levi, who made 31 saves in relief.
“We wanted, I guess, to play as individuals,” Clifton said. “I’m disappointed we let ‘Upie’ down, he’s the heart and soul of this team. He’s kept us in so many games, and just to not show up and play that careless style, give them freebies all over the place. … Yeah, obviously, the first 20 really dictated the rest of the game.”
Artem Zub gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 2:37 of the first period. He stuffed in a loose puck on the goal line after Katchouk’s shot was redirected by Mark Kastelic between Luukkonen’s pads.
Katchouk made it 2-0 at 4:56, tipping Parker Kelly’s shot from the top of the right face-off circle past Luukkonen.
“It’s keeping the consistency with good effort, right habits,” Katchouk said. “The small things matter so much in this game. And obviously, it worked out tonight with the tip. But kudos to my linemates. ‘Kels’ and ‘Kassy,’ they worked hard to get the puck as well. Those two battle hard every night as well. We feed off each other, and it’s good to play with them.”
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Vasilevskiy stops 23 as surging Lightning beat Bruins – Sportsnet.ca
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