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Blues ruin Smyth's Islanders debut with OT win

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03/02/2007 - Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lee Stempniak's power-play goal 25 seconds into overtime sent the St. Louis Blues past the New York Islanders, 3-2, at Nassau Coliseum.

Jay McClement and Petr Cajanek also scored for the Blues, who have won five of their last six games. Doug Weight and Jeff Woywitka picked up two assists each, and Curtis Sanford made 25 stops to earn the win.

Mike Sillinger and Marc-Andre Bergeron tallied for the Islanders, who had their four-game win streak snapped. Rick DiPietro lost despite a 36-save performance.

The game-winner came as a result of DiPietro's holding-the-stick penalty late in regulation, which found the Blues on a four-on-three man advantage in the extra session.

Set up in the New York zone, defenseman Eric Brewer held the puck at the point and slipped a pass across to Stempniak, whose one-timer from the left circle zipped along the ice and beat DiPietro on the short side.

The contest was the Long Island debut of Ryan Smyth, acquired Tuesday for a pair of prospects and a draft pick, and he wasted little time in having an impact on his new team.

On the power play, Smyth collected a loose puck in his own zone and started on a 2-on-1 break up the left side. The gritty winger held until reaching the left circle before slipping a pass to Sillinger, and the well-traveled veteran slid a backhander into an open net at 10:16.

40 seconds into the second period, Bergeron's 40-footer from along the goal line near the left boards deflected off Blues defenseman Bryce Salvador and past Sanford for a 2-0 Isles lead.

Facing the ugly specter of a shutout loss, the visitors struck twice to pull even late in regulation and shock the Islanders, who appeared to have the game well in hand.

McClement's score off a loose puck in front with 2:31 to go made it a one-goal contest, then 38 seconds later Cajanek tipped in Weight's wrister from the bottom of the left circle and the game was knotted, 2-2.

The meltdown continued when DiPietro was penalized with 20.4 seconds to play, and the Islanders barely held on to send the game into overtime.

Game Notes

The Blues have won four of the last six meetings...Already playing without Keith Tkachuk and Bill Guerin due to recent trades, St. Louis was also without forward Martin Rucinsky, who is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a hip problem...The Blues went 1-of-5 on the power play, and the Islanders scored on their lone chance.

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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).

Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.

A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.

Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.

"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.

De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.

The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.

The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.

De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.

Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.

But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.

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