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CHICAGO - Semyon Varlamov was busy all night, but he was thankful his teammates made sure he could see the puck.Nathan MacKinnon scored and set up a goal by Maxime Talbot in the opening 1:17, Varlamov finished with 54 saves for his third shutout of the season and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 on Tuesday night.Colorado was outshot by 30 but held on for its third win in four games behind Varlamovs 16th career shutout. The Avalanche improved to 7-3-2 in their last 12 as they avoided screening their goalie and quickly cleared loose pucks.The good thing is, the guys werent staying in front of me, Varlamov said. They were giving me a chance to see the puck all the time. That was key.And they played very well on the rebounds, he added. The Ds and forwards played very well in front of me.Varlamov has three straight wins against Chicago and has won four of his last five games against the Blackhawks. In the four wins, hes allowed just five goals.(Varlamov) had plenty of work out there, Colorado coach Patrick Roy said. If we want to have a chance to get back in the playoff picture, its going to start from him.MacKinnon, who won the Calder Trophy last season as the NHLs rookie of the year, scored 53 seconds into the game with just his second goal in his last 22 games. He had 24 goals and 39 assists in 2013-14 as an 18-year-old, but has just seven goals and 17 assists this season.We pressed early, MacKinnon said. Maybe we got a couple of shots that werent really quality shots, but thats OK.Corey Crawford finished with 22 saves for the Blackhawks, who had a season high in shots and dominated the pace as the game progressed. However, Chicago was blanked for the third time this season.The Blackhawks have given up the first goal in five straight games, and they admit poor starts have become an issue.Just a slow start, a couple of chances against and its in the back of the net, Chicago forward Patrick Sharp said. Its been a couple of games weve done that and we need to fix it quickly.After defenceman Johnny Oduya fell down, John Mitchell sent MacKinnon in alone and he opened the scoring on a rising shot.The first shot goes in a lot lately, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. Weve got to make sure than cant happen.Colorado made it 2-0 just 24 seconds later as MacKinnon got past Niklas Hjalmarsson and broke in alone on Crawford again. He skated to edge of the crease and slipped a short pass to Talbot, who buried a shot from only a few feet out.The Blackhawks picked up their pace midway through the period and outshot the Avalanche 17-11 for the period.Chicago dictated the play for most of the scoreless second, outshooting Colorado 20-5, but the Blackhawks had limited close-in, screened and rebound attempts.Chicagos best chance came 5:40 into the period during a power play when Varlamov stopped Bryan Bickell on a rebound of Brad Richards shot from the blue line.Chicagos Brandon Saad hit the post with a shot 10 seconds into the third. The Blackhawks had the puck for most of the period, but Varlamov continued to stop initial shots and Avalanche cleared loose pucks.The third period, we put everything at the net, including bodies, which we didnt do a good job of the first 40 minutes, Quenneville said. But he made a couple of big saves in the third period with traffic.Saad poked a rebound under Varlamov with 2:17 left in the third, but the goal was disallowed because the whistle had blown.NOTES: Blackhawks F Kris Versteeg missed his second game with a left hand injury thats expected to keep him out a month. According to a statement from team physician, Dr. Michael Terry, Versteeg underwent a procedure today to further stabilize a metacarpal fracture in his left hand. We do not anticipate any significant changes in his return to play timetable and we continue to anticipate a full recovery. ... F Daniel Carcillo was a healthy scratch for the second straight game after not recording a point in his previous eight. His pace hasnt been the same as it was most of the year, Quenneville said. ... D Tim Erixon also was a healthy scratch. ... Colorado D Zach Redmond was a healthy scratch after skating in the warmups. 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Mikkel Boedker Senators Jersey .com) - Novak Djokovic captured a mens Open Era-record fifth Australian Open title on Sunday by defeating rival Andy Murray in the final in Melbourne.KELOWNA, B.C. - Canadian ice dancing, it seems, is in good hands.Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won ice dance gold to lead Canada in a 1-2 finish at Skate Canada International on Saturday.With Canadas Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir watching on from the broadcast boost, Weaver and Poje scored 171.10 points for the victory, and had the Prospera Place crowd cheering through the final 30 seconds of their four-minute long program to Vivaldis Four Seasons.Its great, I think that this has always been our goal but now it feels attainable, and it doesnt take a miracle for us to get here, Weaver said. Even though saying that, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves, we were pretty nervous for this event, but now this can serve as a great confidence booster.Virtue and Moir, who are taking the season off, had won five of the previous seven Skate Canada events.Piper Gilles of Toronto and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., won the silver with 152.60, while Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue finished third with 148.23.It just shows how deep the field is, Weaver said. Canadian ice dance I think is at its strongest in recent history, especially last season with us, Tessa and Scott, and the teams that were fighting for third. Its an amazing thing, success breeds success.Canadians Meaghan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the pairs for their first Grand Prix victory, while Japans Takahito Mura landed two quadruple jumps to win the mens singles gold. Anna Pogorilaya of Russia won the womens singles title.The victory was a first for Weaver and Poje, who finished second to Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte by just 0.02 points at last springs world championships.The Canadians found themselves in an unfamiliar spot coming into Skate Canada as the No. 1-ranked team.The thing that felt different and felt a little strange was not having Tessa and Scott in the changing rooms and on practices, because weve become accustomed to that, Poje said. It felt different, a little strange. Their not being there made us realize that we need to step into the spotlight and we need to be confident.Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., meanwhile, roared to gold after executing their quadruple throw Salchow for the first time in a major international competition.The throw, which comes as advertised — Radford launches Duhamel for four rotations through the air — is almost never performed by any of the worlds pairs skaters. Its something theyd wanted to do since they teamed up four seasons ago.Its kind of been in our back pocket waiting, Duhamel said.The quad throw wasnt perfect — Duhamel stepped out of the landing. But the gutsy move was part of a strong overall performance that saw them win by a huge 26-point margin, and bring the crowd to its feet.The two-time defending world bronze medallists scored 210.74 points for their program to music by Muse, while Chinas Sui Wenjing and Han Cong were second with 184.64, and Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov won the bronze with 175.45.Our goal this summer was to try (the quad) in every competition so when we got to the big events like Four Continents and world championships, we had tried it enough and got enough experience on it that it would become very easy to land, Duhamel said. So for us it was still a success today to go for it and to stand up on it. The landing was. . . just miss, so close. So for us, thats a success.The pairs victory was not only Canadas first at a Grand Prix since Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison won Skate America, but should stacck the Canadian team up well against the best in the world.dddddddddddd.Every year we go into the Grand Prix series and its always our goal to win a gold medal, and its taken us a lot of years and it feels really great to finally have this achievement, Duhamel said. Its encouraging, that was personal best long program score ever, but we still had a lot of room to make it better.Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Michael Marinaro of Waterloo, Ont., who just teamed this past summer, were sixth. Brittany Jones of Toronto and Joshua Reagan of Waterloo, Ont., were seventh.Moore-Towers announced after last season that her and partner Dylan Moscovitch were splitting; Moore-Towers wanted to compete in two more Olympics, and Moscovitch couldnt commit to that.When we made this decision, there was a lot of talk and a lot of skeptical people and I havent regretted it once, I havent doubted it once, Moore-Towers said. You can say what you want about the mark were getting . . . but it doesnt matter, and thats what people arent getting.We are happy. I am so happy in this situation, we have great days every day in training, we are always making gains, and thats what skating is about for me right now.Skating to The Phantom of the Opera, Mura scored a total of 255.81 points, and buried his head in a towel in tears after his marks went up. Mura called it his best-ever performance.I was a little bit surprised how well I was able to do, until now I was lacking a bit of confidence, Mura said through an interpreter. While I was skating, I was thinking, Im doing really great. Very comfortable.Javier Fernandez of Spain, the leader after the short program, dropped to second with 244.87 points. Fernandez had trouble on his three quad attempts, falling on one of them.American Max Aaron was third with 231.77. Liam Firus of North Vancouver, B.C., was ninth, while Andrei Rogozine of Newmarket, Ont., was 10th.Pogorilaya won the womens title with 191.81, while American Ashley Wagner was second with 186.00 and Satoko Miyahara of Japan won bronze with 181.75.Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., was seventh, while Veronik Mallett of Sept-Iles, Que., was 10th, and Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., was 12th.The mens event started unusually early at 11 a.m. local time. Mura called the early start a refreshing feeling.Fernandez wasnt so sold on it.I saw Javi this morning shuffling down the hallway, and I said, You waking up? Aaron said. He said, I dont remember the last time I woke up this early. I started cracking up. It is funny.I dont know if its a Spanish thing, but I really dont like the early practice at all, said Fernandez, who was up at 6:20 a.m. for the morning session.The field was missing Canadas top two skaters in Patrick Chan and Kevin Reynolds.Chan, whod won four of the six previous Skate Canada events, is taking the season off while Reynolds pulled out of the event a few days ago citing skate troubles. Reynolds has been searching for skates that fit properly for more than a year.Firus was pleased with his skate after a shaky short program.I came in here fighting, really pushing, Firus said.The 22-year-old had a disappointing Sochi Olympic experience finishing 28th, and he admitted it took him a while to get over it.Sochi was tough, it really hurt me, but the support was awesome, he said. Its what brought me back to skating, I didnt realize how much I love it.It was tough coming back from such a hard fall, such a letdown. Its pushed me in ways and been really tough as well, but I finally feel good. ' ' '