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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Sam Gagner scored twice, Nick Foligno got a goal and two assists and 13 Blue Jackets had at least a point, helping Columbus beat the St. Louis Blues 8-4 on Saturday night.Eight days after whipping NHL-leading Montreal 10-1, Columbus had its fans chanting We want 10! with its team ahead 7-1 late in the second period.Alexander Wennberg, Brandon Dubinsky, Markus Nutivaara, William Karlsson and Zach Werenski also scored for Columbus. The Blue Jackets rebounded from a tough loss Thursday night in Boston and have points in six of their last seven games (5-1-1), winning four straight at home. Cam Atkinson added a career-high four assists, and Brandon Saad, Scott Hartnell, Lukas Sedlak and Boone Jenner each had two.Sergei Bobrovksy, pulled in the first period against the Bruins, stopped 33 shots for the Jackets.Robby Fabbri scored twice and Vladimir Tarasenko and Kevin Shattenkirk also score for St. Louis.Jake Allen stopped eight of 12 shots and was pulled early in the second period. Carter Hutton finished with 14 stops.PENGUINS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1PITTSBURGH -- Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust scored in the third period to help Pittsburgh pull away from Toronto.Evgeni Malkin and Chris Kunitz also scored and Matt Murray stopped 34 shots as Pittsburgh won for the seventh time in nine games.Zach Hyman scored for the Maple Leafs and Frederik Anderson had 45 saves in his second start in two nights. Toronto has won just once in its last eight on the road.Rust made it 3-1 at 6:58 of the third period when he took a feed from Crosby at the faceoff dot and put a shot on Andersen. He got his own rebound and darted to the net, sweeping a shot past Andersens outstretched pad.CANADIENS 5, RED WINGS 0MONTREAL -- Carey Price made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season and Montreal beat Detroit to extend its winning streak to four games.Phillip Danault, Paul Byron, Shea Weber, Andrew Shaw and Max Pacioretty scored to help NHL-leading Montreal improve to 13-1-1. Shaw added two assists for his first multipoint game with the Canadiens.Jimmy Howard gave up five goals on 25 shots for Detroit before being replaced by Petr Mrazek at the start of the third period. Mrazek made 12 saves in relief. The Red Wings dropped to 8-7-1.Montreal has opened with 10 straight victories at Bell Centre, a franchise record for consecutive home victories to start a season. The previous record was established in 1953.PANTHERS 3, ISLANDERS 2, OTSUNRISE, Fla. -- Jonathan Marchessault tied the game with 13.6 seconds left in regulation and Denis Malgin scored late in overtime, helping Florida beat New York.Florida trailed 2-0 in the third period before getting goals from Kyle Rau and Marchessault.Marchessault tied it when Jaroslav Halak blocked a shot but let the puck trickle through his pads and in.Malgin poked in a rebound with 45.8 seconds left in overtime.Brock Nelson and Nick Leddy scored for New York and Halak had 40 saves.Roberto Luongo made 17 saves to win his second straight start after losing the previous four. James Reimer entered with 50.4 seconds left in regulation and made one save, but Luongo re-entered after it was tied and played in overtime.SHARKS 3, LIGHTNING 1TAMPA, Fla. -- Patrick Marleau had a goal that required two video reviews, Martin Jones made 25 saves and San Jose beat Tampa Bay.Tommy Wingels and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for the Sharks, who are 3-0 midway through a six-game road trip. San Jose is 11-3-1, including 6-1-1 on the road, against Tampa Bay since 2006.Tampa Bay got a goal from Anton Stralman. Ben Bishop had 17 saves.FLYERS 3, WILD 2PHILADELPHIA -- Brayden Schenn scored the tiebreaking goal at 8:43 of the third period, lifting Philadelphia over Minnesota.Brandon Manning and Michael Del Zotto also scored to help the Flyers snap a three-game skid. Michael Neuvirth started and stopped six of seven shots before leaving after the first period due to an apparent injury. Steve Mason replaced him and finished with 19 saves, including a left pad save on Eric Staal in the closing seconds.Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund scored for the Wild, who lost for the third time in four games. Devan Dubnyk had 33 saves.On the go-ahead score, Wayne Simmonds put a between-the-legs pass from behind the net onto Schenns stick and Schenn waited for Dubnyk to go down before firing the puck over him for his third of the season -- all on the power play.HURRICANES 5, CAPITALS 1RALEIGH, N.C. -- Rookie Sebastian Aho scored his first two NHL goals, Jordan Staal had a goal and three assists and Carolina beat Washington.Aho added an assist, Teuvo Teravainen had a goal and three assists and Victor Rask also scored for Carolina. Cam Ward made 20 saves.Washington was coming off an overtime win in Chicago on Friday night.Evgeny Kuznetsov scored with 7:58 left in the first period to put Washington ahead 1-0, but backup Philipp Grubauer stopped only 33 of 37 shots.DEVILS 4, SABRES 2NEWARK, N.J. -- Nick Lappin and Kyle Palmieri scored in the second period to lead New Jersey over Buffalo.Kyle Quincey and John Moore also scored for the Devils, and Cory Schneider stopped 21 shots. Taylor Hall, Adam Henrique and Damon Severson had two assists each as New Jersey completed a sweep of the two-night, home-and-home set and won its season-high fourth straight.Marcus Foligno and Matt Moulson scored for the Sabres, who have lost four straight. Robin Lehner finished with 23 saves. Keyshawn Johnson Jets Jersey . White came in fourth place in the event. He was the two-time defending gold medallist. The gold medal went to Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov. 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Mark Gastineau Womens Jersey . -- The goal posts lying flat on the field, Arizonas fans lingered on the field, congregating around the locker room entrance nearly 30 minutes after rushing out of the stands. Match factsThursday July 10 to Monday 14, 2008 Start time 11.00 (10.00GMT)Big PictureAfter 19 consecutive fixtures against the lowly New Zealanders, the tempo is about to be cranked up several notches. England and South Africa are among the most consistently thrilling opponents in the modern Test arena - two elite nations that have scrapped themselves to a standstill over the course of six series since South Africas readmission in 1994. Invariably, the jousts in that time have centred around the pace bowlers on each side - from Devon Malcolm in 1994 to Allan Donald in 1998, Makhaya Ntini in 2003 and Englands Ashes-winning quartet 18 months later. That pattern seems set to continue this summer, as Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel join Ntini in a formidable South African line-up that is already inviting lofty comparisons with the West Indian attacks of the 1980s.Form guideEngland WWDWWSouth Africa LWDWWWatch out for...Morne Morkel Steyn is South Africas current Boy Wonder, having harvested 78 wickets in a stellar 12 months, but the 66 Morkel has the capacity to be the discovery of the summer. He has played six Tests to date, but five of those have been on the pancake-flat strips of the subcontinent. Englands lush zippy tracks will be much more to his liking, as he seeks to emulate Steve Harmison in his pomp, and batter Englands bat-handles with vicious, leaping bounce off a good length.Kevin Pietersen This is the series that Pietersen was born to take part in. Hes had to wait 39 Tests and three years since making his Test debut in the 2005 Ashes, in which time he has played against every Test opponent except for Bangladesh. But all of South Africa will remember the manner in which he announced himself on the international stage, with a phenomenal run of three hundreds in six innings on Englands one-day tour of South Africa in 2004-05. His cocky, abrasive nature is sure to get under the skin of his former countrymen, not least Graeme Smith, whom Pietersen dismissed as a muppet in his autobiography. Expect fireworks.Team newsEngland have set a new world record by naming an unchanged side for the sixth match in succession, although the fa?ade of stability is all set to crumble with the impending return of Andrew Flintoff. He trained with the England squad on the eve of the match, and if he comes through Lancashires championship match at the Rose Bowl next week, he seems certain to be named in the squad for Headingley. Therefore, as Mickey Arthur has helpfully pointed out, there will be three or four players with an axe dangling over them at Lords, not least Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood, who mustered 77 runs between them against New Zealand.England 1 Alastair Cook, 2 Andrew Strauss, 3 Michael Vaughan (capt), 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Ian Bell, 6 Paul Collingwood, 7 Tim Ambrose (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Ryan Sidebottom, 10 Monty Panesar, 11 James AndersonSouth Africa themsselves are on a bit of a selection roll.dddddddddddd Although Andre Nel remains in the frame as a fourth out-and-out quick, they are likely to name an unchanged side for the fourth match in a row, having settled on a squad that has won six of their last seven Test series. The one that got away was no disgrace either - a 1-1 draw in India in April. The newly updated ICC rankings reflect their current hot streak, and they are now the undisputed second-best side in the world, clear of India in third place and England in fourth. If there is a fragility about their side, it is in the batting, where four of the top six have never yet played a Test in English conditions. A huge amount rests on the experience of Smith and Jacques Kallis.South Africa 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Neil McKenzie, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Ashwell Prince, 6 AB de Villiers, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Morne Morkel, 9 Paul Harris, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Makhaya Ntini.Umpires: Billy Bowden and Daryl HarperPitch and conditionsIts going to be a damp week in St Johns Wood. Near-incessant rain has forced both teams into the indoor nets for the past three days, and the covers have been camped on the wicket. Thursday, however, does promise to be sunny in places, and the phenomenal drainage of the Lords outfield means that there may yet be more play than one could normally anticipate in such conditions. Nevertheless, if the match gets underway amid heavy cloud cover, it could well be a good time to bowl first.Stats and TriviaSouth Africa enjoy a phenomenal record at Lords since readmission. Theyve played there three times, and have won on each occasion - by 356 runs, ten wickets and an innings and 92 runs.England, meanwhile, have been confounded in their recent fixtures at Lords. Since beating Bangladesh by an innings in 2005, they have lost to Australia, and drawn each of their next five matches.Only three South Africans remain from the side that won their last match at Lords in 2003 - but two of them are Graeme Smith, who scored 259, and Makhaya Ntini, who took 10 for 220.Michael Vaughan has scored six centuries in 11 visits to Lords, and needs 28 more runs to pass 1000 Test runs at the venue.Vaughans maiden Test as England captain came in the corresponding fixture in 2003.QuotesAgainst New Zealand, [England] were very good and very steady, and did a good job as a unit, but what they did lack was the genuine pace of a Flintoff, Steve Harmison, or even a Simon Jones. South Africas coach, Mickey Arthur damns Englands attack with faint praise.I think the South Africa series is nearly up there with the Ashes. Its always a really big series, always hard-fought and really tough. Its what Test cricket is all about.Michael Vaughan relishes the challenge on the eve of the Test. ' ' '