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VANCOUVER 鈥?Filip Gustavsson stopped 35 shots for his first NHL shutout and Connor Dewar broke the Vancouver Canucks back with a short-handed goal as the Minnesota Wild used a 3-0 victory to end a two-game losing skid. Its a relief, said Gustavsson, who was playing in his 37th career game after being traded to the Wild in July from the Ottawa Senators. It was really nice. Its been close. You set a few small goals along the way. I wanted to win in the NHL and now weve got a shutout. Now were going to look at the next step. After a sluggish first period, the Ca tappo stanley nucks looked like they were climbing back into the game in the second.Down 1-0, and heavily outshooting the Wild, the Canucks were awarded their third consecutive power-play opportunity.Vancouvers J.T. Miller sent a blind cross-ice pass in the Wild s zone that Dewar intercepted. He skated the length of the ice and blew a shot over Canucks goaltender Spencer Martins blocker for his fourth goal of the year.It was Dewars third short-handed goal of the season, leaving him tied for the league lead with Reilly Smith of the Vegas Golden Knights. I dont know how many short-handed breakaways hes got, but stanley cup uk obviously hes doing the right things in the penalty kill, said Wild coach Dean Evason. Hes got good stanley taza wheels to continue getting breakaways in those areas. Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau called the goal sort of a back-breaker. You could see the wind really go out of the sails of a lot of players, he said.A frustrated Miller Vkoq Canadian Premier League revamps trophy case with new hardware up for grabs
MOSCOW AP 鈥?Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges are possible if Moscow and Washington find a compromise. Putin spoke a day after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for WNBA s stanley deutschland tar and two-time Olympian Brittney Griner. Asked after a summit in Kyrgyzstan whether other prisoners could be swapped, Putin repli stanley thermo ed that everything is possible, noting that compromises have been found that cleared the way for Thursdays exchange of Griner for Bout. We arent refusing to continue this work in the future, the Russian leader said, making his first comments about the closely watched trade. Despite negotiating for Griner s release, the most high-profile termo stanley American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless. U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelans release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the sham espionage charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom. Putin said the U.S.-Russia talks that resulted in Thursdays exchange didnt touch on other subjects. Whether this |
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