Vegas Golden Knghts, Philadelphia Flyers earn top NHL playoff seeds
Alex Tuch scored 4:44 into overtime, Jonathan Marchessault had two goals and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 in Edmonton, Alberta, to earn the No. 1 seed in the NHL’s Western Conference playoffs.
The Golden Knights will face Chicago in the first round. The second-seeded Avs take on Arizona.
In Toronto, Rookie Nicolas Aube-Kubel scored twice, and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 to clinch the Eastern Conference’s top seed.
The Flyers will next face the Montreal Canadiens. The Lightning, which lost defenseman Victor Hedman to an ankle injury in the first period, will face the winner of Sunday’s Game 5 of a best-of-five preliminary round series between Toronto and Columbus.
Soccer: Buoyed by a successful MLS is Back tournament and confident of its coronavirus protocols, Major League Soccer will resume its regular season with teams playing in their home cities.
The league’s 26 teams will each play 18 games. The Earthquakes, who made the quarterfinals of the MLS tournament, resume Aug. 26 with a home match without fans against the Portland Timbers.
• Just when it looked like Lionel Messi had nowhere to go, the Argentine great bamboozled half of Napoli’s team before scoring from an exquisite solo effort that helped host Barcelona reach the Champions League quarterfinals. The 3-1 victory sent the Spanish side past Napoli on a 4-2 aggregate score.
Also, Robert Lewandowski had two goals and two assists as host Bayern Munich cruised into the quarterfinals with a 4-1 win over Chelsea, completing a 7-1 victory on aggregate.
Golf: With two late birdies, Lydia Ko had a 3-under-par 68 and doubled her lead in the Marathon Classic in Sylvania, Ohio, four shots ahead of Danielle Kang (70), at 16-under 197 as the former...