Score board
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)
