Nhl

NEW YORK: NHL results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)

Dallas 3 COLUMBUS 2 (o.p.)

New Jersey 5 PITTSBURGH 4

St. Louis 3 CHICAGO 1

ANAHEIM 3 Nashville 1 Standings:

Atlantic Division

W L Otl Gf Ga Pts

Philadelphia 4 1 0 21 10 8

New Jersey 3 3 0 18 20 6

NY Islanders 3 3 0 14 20 6

NY Rangers 2 3 0 10 10 4

Pittsburgh 2 3 0 18 20 4

Northeast Division

Ottawa 6 1 0 22 14 12

Buffalo 3 2 0 24 16 6

Boston 3 2 0 15 14 6

Montreal 2 1 2 11 13 6

Toronto 2 3 2 26 29 6

Southeast Division

Carolina 4 1 1 21 11 9

Tampa Bay 3 1 0 14 10 6

Washington 3 2 0 11 12 6

Florida 3 3 0 15 16 6

Atlanta 0 6 0 9 27 0

Western Conference

Central Division

Detroit 4 2 1 23 20 9

St Louis 4 1 0 18 9 8

Chicago 3 3 0 11 12 6

Columbus 2 2 1 12 11 5

Nashville 2 4 0 18 21 4

Northwest Division

Minnesota 5 0 1 14 8 11

Colorado 4 2 0 21 18 8

Vancouver 3 3 0 18 21 6

Calgary 2 2 2 21 22 6

Edmonton 2 4 0 13 20 4

Pacific Division

Anaheim 4 4 1 22 24 9

Dallas 3 2 2 19 18 8

San Jose 3 2 1 14 15 7

Phoenix 2 3 0 12 14 4

Los Angeles 2 5 0 20 30 4

Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the

standings and are not included in the loss column (L)

Soccer

Euro 2008 qualifying

PARIS: Collated Euro 2008 qualifying results on Wednesday:

Group A

At Brussels

Belgium 3 (Sonck 63, Dembele 68, Geraerts 75) Armenia 0

At Almaty

Kazakhstan 1 (Byakov 90) Portugal 2 (Makukula 84, Ronaldo 90)

At Baku

Azerbaijan 1 (Aliyev 26) Serbia 6 (Tosic 4, Zigic 22, 42, Jankovic 41, Jovanovic 75, Lazovic 84)

Standings:

Group A

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Poland 7 3 2 20 10 24

Portugal 6 5 1 23 10 23

Serbia 5 5 2 19 9 20

Finland 5 5 2 11 6 20

Belgium 4 3 5 13 14 15

Armenia 2 3 5 4 11 9

Kazakhstan 1 4 7 10 20 7

Azerbaijan 1 2 7 5 25 5

Group B

At Nantes, France

France 2 (Henry 79, 81) Lithuania 0

At Tbilisi

Georgia 2 (Mchedlidze 16, Siradze 64) Scotland 0

At Kiev

Ukraine 5 (Kalinichenko 40, 49, 64, Gusev 43, 45) Faroe Islands 0

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

France 8 1 2 23 3 25

Scotland 8 0 3 20 10 24

Italy 7 2 1 17 7 23

Ukraine 5 1 4 16 12 16

Lithuania 3 1 6 7 13 10

Georgia 3 1 7 16 17 10

Faroe Islands 0 0 11 3 40 0

Group C

At Istanbul

Turkey 0 Greece 1 (Amanatidis 79)

At Ta'Qali, Malta

Malta 2 (Scerri 71, Mifsud 84-pen) Moldova 3 (Bugaiov 24-pen, Frunza 31, 35)

At Sarajevo

Bosnia 0 Norway 2 (Hagen 5, BH Riise 75)

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Greece 8 1 1 18 9 25

Norway 6 2 2 22 8 20

Turkey 5 3 2 22 10 18

Bosnia 4 1 6 16 21 13

Hungary 4 0 6 10 17 12

Moldova 2 3 6 9 19 9

Malta 1 2 7 9 22 5

Group D

At San Marino

San Marino 1 (Selva 73) Wales 2 (Earnshaw 13, Ledley 36)

At Munich, Germany

Germany 0 Czech Republic 3 (Sionko 2, Matejovsky 23, Plasil 63)

At Dublin

Republic of Ireland 1 (Finnan) Cyprus 1 (Okkaridis 80)

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Germany 7 2 1 31 7 23

Czech Republic 7 2 1 22 4 23

Republic of Ireland 4 4 3 15 12 16

Cyprus 4 2 4 17 18 14

Slovakia 4 1 5 27 20 13

Wales 4 1 5 16 17 13

San Marino 0 0 11 2 52 0

Group E

At Moscow

Russia 2 (Pavluchenko 69-pen, 72) England 1 (Rooney 29)

At Skopje

Macedonia 3 (Naumoski 30, Sedloski 44, Pandev 59) Andorra 0

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Croatia 8 2 0 25 4 26

England 7 2 2 22 4 23

Russia 6 3 1 16 5 21

Israel 5 2 3 17 11 17

Macedonia 3 2 5 10 11 11

Estonia 1 1 9 3 21 4

Andorra 0 0 10 2 39 0

Group F

At Copenhagen

Denmark 3 (Tomasson 7-pen, Laursen 27, Rommedahl 89) Latvia 1 (Gorkss 80)

At Vaduz

Liechtenstein 3 ( Frick 27, Beck 80, 83) Iceland 0

At Solna, Sweden

Sweden 1 (Mellberg 15) Northern Ireland 1 (Lafferty 71)

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Sweden 7 2 1 21 5 23

Spain 7 1 2 19 8 22

Denmark 5 2 3 17 9 17

Northern Ireland 5 2 3 15 12 17

Latvia 3 0 7 10 14 9

Iceland 2 2 7 10 24 8

Liechtenstein 2 1 8 8 28 7

Group G

At Tirana

Albania 1 (Kishishev 32-og) Bulgaria 1 (Berbatov 87)

At Luxembourg

Luxembourg 0 Romania 2 (Petre 42, Marica 61)

At Eindhoven, Netherlands

Netherlands 2 (Sneijder 14, Huntelaar 87) Slovenia 0

Standings:

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Romania 8 2 0 20 5 26

Netherlands 7 2 1 13 3 23

Bulgaria 5 4 1 15 7 19

Albania 2 5 3 9 8 11

Slovenia 3 2 6 9 14 11

Belarus 2 1 7 11 20 7

Luxembourg 1 0 10 2 22 3

Friendly international

LOS ANGELES: Result here on Wednesday in a friendly international football match:

Guatemala 3 (Gomez 5, Anull 64, 73) Mexico 2 (Vela 30, Cesar 31)

In GENEVA: Switzerland 0 United States 1 (Bradley 4)

In INNSBRUCK, Austria: Austria 3 (Kuljic 30-pen, Ivanschitz 64-pen, Standfest 74) Ivory Coast 2 (Drogba 53, 90-pen)

In ROME: Italy 2 (Lucarelli 82, 90) South Africa 0

Tennis

Madrid Masters

MADRID: Collated results from the third day of the Madrid Masters here Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

2nd rd

Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x5) bt Nicolas Almagro (ESP) 7-6 (13/11), 7-5; Guillermo Canas (ARG x13) bt Agustin Calleri (ARG) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt David Ferrer (ESP x7) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5; Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Oscar Hernandez (ESP) 7-5, 6-2;David Nalbandian (ARG) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x9) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2);Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x10) 7-6 (10/8), 7-5;Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) bt Carlos Moya (ESP x14) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4; Novak Djokovic (SRB x3) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 6-7 (7/9), 6-3, 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-4, 6-4; Mario Ancic (CRO) bt James Blake (USA x6) 6-3, 6-4; Stefan Koubek (AUT) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO x12) 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 7-5; Nicolas Kiefer (GER) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x16) 6-1, 6-3; Juan Del Potro (ARG) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP x8) 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-3.

Zurich Open WTA

ZURICH: Results from the 1.34-million-dollar WTA Zurich Open here on Wednesday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Elena Dementieva (RUS) 4-6, 6-1, 4-2 retired

2nd rd

Alona Bondarenko (UKR) bt Amelie Mauresmo (FRA x8) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Tatiana Golovin (FRA) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x5) 6-3, 6-1; Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB x3) 6-4 6-4; Marion Bartoli (FRA) bt Michaella Krajicek (NED) 6-4, 6-1.

(China Daily 10/19/2007 page22)