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Vladimir Tarasenko scored his first goal for his new team 2:49 into the first period as the host New York Rangers recorded a 6-3 victory over the slumping Seattle Kraken Friday night.
Tarasenko was placed on the top line with Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad after being obtained from the St. Louis Blues Thursday afternoon. He meshed seamlessly with New York’s stars and scored on his second shift.
Kaapo Kakko and Vincent Trocheck also scored in the three-goal opening period as the Rangers improved to 5-0-1 since revamping their lines in the wake of a 3-1 home loss to the league-best Boston Bruins on Jan. 19. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren added a short-handed empty-net goal.
Defenseman Jacob Trouba and Zibanejad added power-play goals as the Rangers also improved to 19-4-3 in their past 26 games.
New York’s Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves and stopped Brandon Tanev on a short-handed breakaway late in the third.
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the second period while Jared McCann and Tanev tallied 22 seconds apart in the third as the Kraken dropped to 3-6-1 since winning eight straight Jan. 1-14.
Seattle goalie Martin Jones allowed five goals on 27 shots.
After a giveaway by Seattle’s Ryan Donato in the neutral zone, Panarin gained possession and sped down the right side. Tarasenko skated through the slot and easily turned Panarin’s centering feed into a 1-0 lead.
About 2 1/2 minutes later, Kakko crashed the net and made it 2-0 by tipping in a shot by Filip Chytil past Jones.
New York got to the front of the net for its third goal with 5:31 remaining. Jones initially made a left pad stop on Trocheck but could not cover up, the puck trickled to the goal line and Trocheck easily tapped it in for his 15th goal.
Trouba made it 4-0 by sweeping a backhander from the red line that caromed off Seattle defenseman Will Borgen’s skate into the vacated right side of the net 63 seconds in.
Bjorkstrand got Seattle on the board by finishing off a breakaway when the Rangers were slow to complete a line change a little over a minute after Trouba scored.
After Zibanejad buried a one-timer from the left side early in the third period, McCann blasted a wrister over Shesterkin and Tanev scored on a breakaway with 13:39 remaining.
Clinging to the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, the slumping Minnesota Wild will try to snap a three-game losing streak when they host the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.
It’s the fifth time this season the Wild have lost three consecutive games, but so far they haven’t dropped four in a row. To keep that streak alive they’ll have to bounce back from an ugly 5-1 home loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday that saw them get booed off the ice.
It won’t be easy. New Jersey owns the best road record in the NHL at 19-3-2.
It’s the second game of a seven-game homestand for Minnesota, which is tied in points with third-place Colorado in the Central Division with 58 points. The defending Stanley Cup champions have a game in hand on the Wild.
“We’re still in the thick of it and we can’t be down on ourselves,” Wild captain Jared Spurgeon said.
Minnesota allowed four goals in the second period of Thursday’s loss, including three in a span of 2:26. The final one came when Jack Eichel cruised alone down the right wing and fired a shot past Marc-Andre Fleury’s blocker side and inside the far post. Fleury, who was eventually lifted after the second period, then slammed his stick against the post before tossing it toward center ice.
“I shouldn’t do that, probably,” Fleury said. “I was just mad for giving up another goal. There was a lot in that period. I felt like I didn’t make a save. Just angry, and it came out that way.”
Fleury finished with 18 saves on 23 shots. The first two Vegas goals came on deflections off Minnesota players near the net. Another came on a penalty shot by Reilly Smith, who had been slashed on a breakaway by defenseman Alex Goligoski.
“It’s hard not to win and to lose this way, too, especially for me as a goalie (against) my old teammates,” Fleury said. “It’s a little embarrassing.
“It’s better to have a rough patch now than later on. Once we get out of this, we’re going to be better for it.”
New Jersey begins a nine-day, four-game road trip that also includes stops at Columbus, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. The second-place Devils have won three in a row and trail Metropolitan-leading Carolina by four points.
New Jersey comes in off a 3-1 victory over Seattle on Thursday. Defenseman Dougie Hamilton led the way with a pair of power-play goals to extend his point streak to six games and also give him a career-high 51 points (15 goals, team-high 36 assists) after just 51 games. Backup goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves.
The win over the Kraken was the first game this season missed by All-Star center Jack Hughes, who is listed as week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Hughes is third in the NHL with 35 goals and leads the team with 67 points.
“It’s been about the team all year, really,” New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff told reporters. “(Jack) had a great first 50 games, you can’t disguise that at all. But at the same time, we’ve made this about the team, and we need the other guys.”
Hughes had two goals and an assist in 21:44 of time on ice in New Jersey’s 5-4 overtime victory over Vancouver on Monday. He missed practice on Tuesday and then left Wednesday’s practice early before Ruff announced he would be sidelined.
“It’s going to need a little time,” Ruff said. “When somebody goes down, we really have the next man up. … Every team has to deal with key injuries, key injuries to key players, and other players have to step in and have the ability to provide what Jack was bringing.”
The Florida Panthers won their first eight games of 2021-2022, and they finished the regular season with the best record in the NHL.
This season has been a struggle by comparison. The Panthers didn’t win three straight games for the first time until Thursday.
That says it all for the Panthers, who will play host to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night in Sunrise, Fla.
The Panthers are 6-1-0 in their past seven home games, and they believe they have finally turned the proverbial corner. In fact, they have outscored their past three opponents by a combined 15-5.
“We know we need to get on a bit of a run here,” Panthers forward Sam Reinhart said after scoring twice in Florida’s 4-1 win over the visiting San Jose Sharks on Thursday. “We’ve got to take care of home ice, especially with all of the opportunities we have ahead of us.”
The Panthers won on Thursday without their captain, Aleksander Barkov, who is one of the best two-way centers in the NHL. Barkov suffered an injury to his right hand in Florida’s win over Tampa Bay on Monday, and he is questionable to return on Saturday.
In Barkov’s absence, Eetu Luostarinen dished two assists for just his second multi-point game this season.
A 24-year-old native of Finland, Luostarinen has 25 points — one short of his career high.
“He’s such a smart player,” Reinhart said of Luostarinen. “I don’t know many guys in this league that are going to fill in for ‘Barky,’ but his game has really elevated this season.”
Matthew Tkachuk leads the Panthers in assists (44) and points (71). Carter Verhaeghe tops Florida with 28 goals, and Brandon Montour is No. 1 among Panthers defensemen with 44 points.
Montour had a 10-game points streak — a record for Panthers defensemen — snapped on Thursday. Tkachuk had a seven-game points streak snapped on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Avalanche, who have lost two straight games, have played this entire season without Gabriel Landeskog, who is due to return soon from knee surgery. It’s a big loss given that Landeskog has posted at least 20 goals in five straight seasons.
Colorado’s Cale Makar, who won the Norris Trophy last season as the league’s best defenseman, missed Thursday’s game due to an upper-body injury.
The Avalanche also lost forward Evan Rodrigues (11 goals) in the third period on Thursday when he took a puck to the face and did not return. Josh Manson and Darren Helm, two primary penalty-killers, are out due to lower-body injuries.
In addition, Nathan MacKinnon, who scored 32 goals last season, has just 14 goals this season while missing 11 games due to injury. MacKinnon still leads Colorado with 41 assists.
Colorado has flopped since returning from the All-Star break, scoring just one goal in two losses. The Avalanche were blanked 5-0 by Tampa Bay on Thursday.
“We’ve had two bad games,” acknowledged winger Mikko Rantanen, who leads Colorado in goals (34) and points (61). “Offensively, we have to be better.”
If the first-string goalies play on Saturday, the matchup would feature Colorado’s Alexandar Georgiev against Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky.
Georgiev, in his first season with Colorado after five years playing for the New York Rangers, is 20-12-3 with a 2.67 goals-against average.
Bobrovsky is 14-13-2 with a 3.09 GAA. He is 7-2-1 in his past 10 decisions.
The new roster includes two players who competed with TYLOO briefly last year, according to Dexerto. Those players are Vayne and WEIRDO, whose full names were not available.
Also on the roster are Yiyee, TryTryz, Yuquan “K1te” Shi and Pengzhi “Coldfish” Xiang.
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Tencent will operate the Valorant league in China, perhaps launching it as early as this summer.
Valorant hasn’t been available to amateur gamers is China, but Dot Esports reported in December that its sale had been approved by the country’s video game regulatory body.
With the NHL All-Star break and their bye week behind them, the Boston Bruins return to the ice for a Saturday contest against the Washington Capitals.
Boston is a league-best 39-7-5 (83 points) this season despite going just 1-2-1 in its final four games before the break, concluding a five-game road trip with a 5-2 win in Toronto on Feb. 1. The team’s win total is the highest in NHL history through the first 51 games of the season.
“You can tell the energy here (Thursday). The break was good for everybody,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said following the team’s first practice of the unofficial second half of the season. “Looking at what’s ahead, we know it’s going to get harder here in the regular season and then, obviously, in the playoffs it gets even harder and we’re getting ready for that.”
The Bruins will play just three of their remaining nine February games on home ice, hitting the road for Dallas and Nashville following Saturday’s game.
The upcoming road-heavy stretch made Boston’s extended break that much more important.
“I think the greatest purpose is to kind of take some time mentally to reflect on the first half of the season and prepare for the next half and the battles that we’re going to be facing going forward,” Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo said. “I think we recognized that each team’s giving us their best effort. That’s exactly what we want because that’s only going to prepare us further for our mission down the road.”
Before breaking for All-Star festivities, the Bruins expected forward Jake DeBrusk to be fully healthy and return from his hand and lower-body injuries.
DeBrusk was not at Thursday’s practice after dealing with travel issues home from Edmonton, but results from recent tests indicated that he would likely not be healthy enough to play until at least next week. Jakub Lauko was recalled from Providence of the American Hockey League on Thursday.
Washington was off one day more than Boston, last playing in a 4-3 overtime win Jan. 31 at Columbus.
The Capitals have won two of their last three games, in overtime and a shootout, but have won just four of their last 10 overall. They are being thrust right into a back-to-back, with a Super Bowl Sunday matinee against the San Jose Sharks at home.
“It’s a good challenge especially coming out of the break,” Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said. “We’re going to have to play well going into a building where they’ve had an incredible amount of success this year, so our game is going to have to be on point.”
Washington is still dealing with its own lingering injuries as forward Tom Wilson (upper-body) has remained out since Jan. 24 and Nic Dowd (lower-body) since Jan. 16. Wilson is day-to-day after skating on his own before and after Thursday’s practice.
Laviolette shook up the lines as a result, moving Nicolas Aube-Kubel up to the first line.
Following the back-to-back, the Caps will host the Carolina Hurricanes (Tuesday) and Florida Panthers (Thursday) before facing the Hurricanes Feb. 18 in the NHL Stadium Series in North Carolina State’s Carter-Finley Stadium at Raleigh, N.C.
The newly-expanded PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL) will commence later this month in Southeast Asia to kick off the 2023 pro-tier PUBG Mobile Esports schedule, it was announced Friday.
After the Southeast Asia division, the PMPL will turn to the Americas with the North American division competing in March and April and the Brazil and Latin America subregions playing from March to May. The Middle East & Africa Championship is slated for March and April and the Arabian subdivision is May to June.
Dates were not yet announced for the European Championship, which encompasses Europe and Turkey.
Then come the two global PUBG Mobile competitions. The PUBG Mobile World Invitational (PMWI) will be contested in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in July. The tournament will invite the top two teams from Southeast Asia and one apiece from South Asia, Middle East & Africa, Europe and the Americas.
The 48-team PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) will begin with the “PMGC League” from November to December and proceed to the grand finals stage later in December.
The esport’s organizers also promised format changes to these two global events, though details were not yet released.
“Following an excellent start to 2023 with the conclusion of the 2022 PMGC, we’re pleased to share the full schedule of our amazing line-up of pro-tier competitions for this year,” PUBG Mobile global esports director James Yang said in a statement. “… our competitive ecosystem has never been stronger and we can’t wait to see the reaction from our fans.”
Robin Arzon walk the New York Jets Uniform Reveal Green Carpet at Gotham Hall in Manhattan. Shutterstock/Arturo Holmes
Celebrity and wellness icon Robin Amelia Arzón is used to carving a space of influence with all her different activities. The ultramarathon runner, author and fitness trainer are known for the milestones she achieves and motivates others to achieve. Now, the Peloton VP and fitness instructor is ready to enter Web3 with a new community. The influencer, with an enormous fan base, is looking to engage with her community via blockchain.
According to a report in Forbes, wellness icon Robin Arzón is gearing up to launch a community called Swagger Society using blockchain, the technology behind Web3. In an interview with the outlet, she said that she wanted to set up “the first lifestyle membership club in Web3.”
Author of bestsellers such as Shut Up and Run and Strong Mama, Robin who started her career as a corporate lawyer, shifted industries and rose to prominence as the VP of fitness programming and head instructor at Peloton.
The icon also told the outlet that her husband, who is investor Drew Butler, had entered Web3 a while ago and was helping her navigate Swagger Society. She mentioned that this was the first time that the couple had found an intersection between both their successful careers.
She elaborated her plans to Forbes and said that the “central piece” of Swagger Society was its “lifestyle piece.” She said that holders of NFT in the Web3 community she created would be able to unlock membership privileges. The society would include a leaderboard, events, rewards and other activities on the blockchain.
She also spoke of her aim to make it inclusive especially for women who have not really made as much a mark on Web3 as men, to date. She also mentioned that that she bristled at the thought of boxes and lived for the moments when she could take a hammer and smash the box after she grew bigger than the box that made other people comfortable.
Robin Arazón is not only a pioneer in the Web3 space with her community called Swagger Society but also remains an ultra-marathoner who runs with her dreams. She told Forbes, “My dreams wake me up before an alarm clock every morning, and if that resonates with you, you’re welcome to come with me.”
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Christina Applegate says following her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, she is contemplating doing voiceover work. While filming the Netflix Dead to Me Series, Christina Applegate said “I was a wreck every day, but most of that wreck would take place in my trailer by myself,” she told Los Angeles Times reporter Lisa Rosen. “But there were times I’d break down on set and be like, ‘I can’t, we have to take a break, I need a half-hour,’ and everyone was so loving that it was OK.”
In order to continue to earn money as a working actor with multiple sclerosis, Christina Applegate told the Los Angeles Times that she is thinking about switching from acting to voiceover work full-time. Applegate broke the news about her MS diagnosis in August 2021. We did not see the actress in public until her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in November 2022. It was a huge hardship for Applegate to film the final season of her Netflix comedy series “Dead to Me” with MS, and she has no immediate plans to continue the series or perform in acting roles on screen at this time.
Right now, Applegate stated, “I couldn’t picture getting up at 5 in the morning and working 12 to 14 hours on a set.” At this time, I don’t have this in me at this moment.”
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), MS is a neurological condition that can have a range of symptoms but usually impairs vision, speech, and mobility. It can also result in cognitive problems, such as challenges with concentration, memory, and attention.
“I was a wreck every day, but most of that wreck would take place in my trailer by myself,” Applegate recalled for Los Angeles Times reporter Lisa Rosen. “But there were times I’d break down on set and be like, ‘I can’t, we have to take a break, I need a half-hour,’ and everyone was so loving that it was OK.”
Applegate might play Kelly Bundy again in the 1990s sitcom “Married with Children.” If the series by the works at Sony Pictures Television. gets picked up. Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, and David Faustino, members of her fictionalized family, would also provide the voices for The Bundy family cartoon version.
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The prospect of rescuing more people in Turkey and Syria trapped under the rubble of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake is dwindling, but on Friday – four days after the quake hit – several survivors were pulled from the ruins in Hatay province in Turkey’s south, including a 10-day-old boy and his mother.
Officials say the death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck the border region between Turkey and Syria on Monday is now more than 21,000, making it the world’s deadliest seismic event since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people in Japan.
Rescue crews have been hampered in efforts to find survivors due to a lack of equipment.
A six-truck United Nations aid convoy could not reach Syria until Thursday through the Bab al-Hawa crossing, the only crossing the U.N. is authorized to use, to move humanitarian supplies from Turkey into areas outside of Syrian government control in the country’s north. The road leading to the crossing on the Turkish side was damaged in the quake and had just reopened.
Hundreds of thousands of people across the region have been left homeless in below-freezing temperatures.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad and his wife visited quake victims at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria’s second city that has already suffered extensive damage from years of bombardment during the country’s civil war. It is Assad’s first visit to quake-devastated areas of his country.
Assad appeared on television chairing emergency meetings on the quake but has neither addressed the country nor held a press conference about the disaster.
Turkey’s disaster management agency said Thursday that about 110,000 personnel are involved in rescue efforts and 5,500 vehicles, such as tractors, cranes, bulldozers, and excavators, have been shipped to assist the country, reeling from the earthquake.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the area near the quake’s epicenter close to the city of Gaziantep and the Turkey-Syria border.
He faced the mounting frustration of survivors looking for their loved ones or for aid from the government by acknowledging problems with the emergency response to Monday’s quake.
“It is not possible to be prepared for such a disaster,” Erdogan said. “We will not leave any of our citizens uncared for.” He pointed to the winter weather and how the earthquake had destroyed the runway at Hatay’s airport as things that disrupted the response.
In Hatay, Erdal Kahilogullari, whose wife and two children were under the rubble of a collapsed building, shared his frustration with VOA’s Turkish Service. More than 3,300 people died in Hatay province.
“OK, everyone is a human being. But aren’t 80 provinces enough? How can 80 provinces not help 10 provinces? Being 10 hours late is OK, but being late for two days to help? We don’t even have water,” he said, referring to the provinces of Turkey.
Rescuers were still finding people alive but were unable to reach them without the needed equipment and expertise, even as they could hear cries for help.
“I hear voices saying, ‘Daddy, save me,’” Kahilogullari said. “How could I not struggle here? I am desperate. I cannot do anything. I’m just waiting here. Walk there, come back here.”
Search sites also have been the scene of some celebrations as people are found alive and taken away for medical care. But uncovering the rubble has also meant frequent increases in the number of casualties.
Erdogan declared seven days of national mourning and a three-month state of emergency in the 10 provinces directly affected by the quake.
Search teams and emergency aid from throughout the world poured into Turkey and Syria as rescue workers dug through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors. Some voices that had been crying out for help fell silent.
“We could hear their voices, they were calling for help,” said Ali Silo, whose two relatives could not be saved in the Turkish town of Nurdagi.
More than 8,000 people have been pulled from the debris in Turkey, Vice President Fuat Oktay said, and about 380,000 have taken refuge in government shelters or hotels. They huddled in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centers, while others spent the night outside wrapped in blankets gathering around fires.
The earthquake struck a region enveloped on both sides of the border by more than a decade of civil war in Syria. On the Syrian side, the swath affected is divided between government-held territory and the country’s last opposition-held enclave, which is surrounded by Russian-backed government forces. Turkey, meanwhile, is home to millions of refugees from the conflict.
‘A crisis on top of a crisis’
The U.N. resident coordinator for Syria said Wednesday that 10.9 million people have been affected across the country by the earthquake. Before the quake, there were already 15.3 million in need of humanitarian assistance in the country, due to more than a decade of civil war.
“So, it’s a crisis on top of a crisis,” El-Mostafa Benlamlih told reporters at the U.N. in New York during a video briefing from Damascus.
He said in Aleppo alone, a third of homes are estimated to have been damaged or destroyed, displacing around 100,000 people.
Humanitarians are coping with a shortage of fuel for their operations, as well as freezing temperatures and damaged roads and infrastructure.
The World Food Program has prepositioned food stocks in the area, which Benlamlih said are enough to feed 100,000 people for one week. The World Health Organization has two planes with medical supplies coming from its hub in Dubai to Damascus. More supplies, however, are urgently needed.
The WFP appealed Wednesday for $46 million to provide food assistance to half a million people in Turkey and Syria for the next three to four months.
Additionally, the main road the U.N. uses to get aid from Gaziantep in Turkey to the transshipment point into northwest Syria was damaged in the quake and closed.
“So, we couldn’t send any relief items; we were looking for alternative routes,” Muhannad Hadi, U.N. regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, told reporters from Amman, Jordan. He said they had word Wednesday that the road is opening, and they could start delivering some supplies as early as Thursday.
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Margaret Besheer contributed to this report. Some material for this article came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
Mischa Barton attends the ‘Loving’ premiere during the 69th Cannes Film Festival.Shutterstock/Andrea Raffin
Celebrity actress Mischa Barton’s interview from 2005 further emphasizes the recent backlash against celebrity actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s dating practices. DiCaprio was criticized for being seen out with the 19-year-old this month. The 48-year-old DiCaprio being linked to celebrity model Eden Polani highlights the actor’s propensity for dating younger women. The actor has come under fire from many people for dating women who are much younger than him while highlighting the alleged fact that he has never dated anyone older than 25.
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In the historic interview, the ‘Notting Hill’ claimed that she was told to sleep with him when she was 19 and he was 30. In an old Barton interview from The O.C. that recently turned up online, Mischa talks about a meeting with a publicist during which she claims she was instructed to “go and sleep” with the Titanic actor.
The now-37-year-old OC actress recalled an incident in which she and her then-publicist Craig Schneider saw DiCaprio at a photo shoot in Malibu when she was known for her role in the teen drama. Oscar-winning actor DiCaprio had just ended a six-year on-and-off relationship with Gisele Bundchen at the time. Mischa claimed in the 2005 interview that Craig advised her to sleep with the celebrity for the benefit of her career. Mischa claimed that she had no interest in older men.
Since 2005, DiCaprio, who was already an A-List star, has seen his career progress steadily. Since then, the actor has appeared in numerous movies, including The Wolf of Wall Street and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and has won an Oscar. The actor and film producer has dated several famous people but has never wed. As the actor approaches his 50th birthday, his decision to date women in an age range that is static has drawn criticism, accusations, and scrutiny from a few media outlets.
After the celebrity actor and celebrity model were spotted next to each other at a party, sources close to Leo denied rumors that the two were dating, but they would not say whether there had ever been a romantic relationship between them.
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