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      s. Voracek leads the NHL

      (SportsNetwork. Darren ODay Jersey .com) - One night after setting a season high for goals in a game, the Philadelphia Flyers will try to keep their offense on point against the stingy Winnipeg Jets in Sundays clash at MTS Centre. The Flyers struggled early defensively versus the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday before pulling away for a 7-4 win. They trailed 2-0 and 3-2 in the first period, but ripped off five straight goals to pull away. Claude Giroux had a pair of goals and two assists, while Jakub Voracek tied a career high with four assists. Voracek leads the NHL with 42 points, three more than Giroux and Dallas Tyler Seguin, and his 30 assists also top the league. Giroux has 29 helpers on the season. Its great to get a lot of goals in one game, Giroux said. That was fun. Michael Raffl and Sean Couturier finished with a goal and an assist, while defenseman Nicklas Grossmann netted his career-high third goal of the season. Ray Emery allowed four goals on 25 shots in the victory, which snapped a two- game slide and came in the opener of an eight-game road trip. With No. 1 goaltender Steve Mason out for at least the weekend with a back injury suffered in practice on Friday, 33-year-old Rob Zepp is expected to make his NHL debut in net tonight. Zepp has gone 8-5-4 in 17 games with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League this season after spending the previous seven campaigns in the German Elite League. Flyers forward Zac Rinaldo also is questionable with an upper-body injury sustained versus the Leafs. Philadelphias offense will go up against a Winnipeg team that ranks fourth in the NHL with just 2.21 goals allowed per game. That comes despite the club currently missing four defenseman due to injury. Tobias Enstrom, Zach Bogosian and Mark Stuart are all out with lower-body injuries, while Jacob Trouba has an upper-body issue. Winnipeg has won two straight, including a 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Friday. Evander Kane and Mathieu Perreault scored the goals and Michael Hutchinson had 30 saves. Real good goaltending, said Jets coach Paul Maurice. Then just an awful lot of hard, scramble battles. Defenseman Jay Harrison had an assist in his Jets debut after being acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes the previous game. Winnipeg will close out a four-game homestand tonight and Ondrej Pavelec figures to draw the start in net tonight. He is 7-4-1 in his career versus the Flyers with a 3.14 GAA and .910 save percentage in 13 games with 12 starts. The Jets have lost four of their last six versus the Flyers, but have won the last two meetings in Winnipeg. Phil Niekro Jersey . The defeat leaves the 41-year-old Nestor to concentrate on the mixed-doubles event after winning 12 straight matches and winning Australian titles in Brisbane and Sydney with two different partners. "This was a little bit of a let down, but all credit to them," said Nestor. Luke Jackson Jersey . - The Cleveland Indians will place centerfielder Michael Bourn on the disabled list before their opener at Oakland on March 31.LIENZ, Austria -- Overcoming several injury-plagued seasons, Marlies Schild of Austria finally set the best mark for most World Cup slalom victories Sunday by winning her 35th race to overtake Switzerlands Vreni Schneider on top of the all-time list. The 32-year-old Schild is a four-time World Cup slalom champion, but she missed a host of races after breaking a leg in 2008 and then tore ligaments last year. That meant she was stuck on 33 slalom wins for close to two years until winning in Courchevel, France, this month. "My 34th win was a weight off my shoulders," Schild said. "Suddenly everything got easier in training though racing is still something different." Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que., just missed the podium with a fourth-place finish. Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 11th to lock up a spot for the Sochi Olympics. "As much as it would have been nice to be on the podium Im still happy with fourth," said Gagnon, who has been racing slalom, giant slalom and super-G this year. "By the end of the second run my legs were shot. Im doing all the disciplines and I think its finally catching up to me. "Im going to take a little break and then get back to business." Phelan needed a top-12 result to meet the alpine qualification criteria for Sochi. "It started off shaky and then I got faster and faster down the course," she said. "For the second run I knew I had to clean up the top and I think it went pretty well. I just kind of went for it." Schild got her record-setting win in impressive style. Lying 0.69 seconds behind in sixth after the opening leg, she used a blistering second run to finish in one minute 55.63 seconds and beat American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, who led the competition after the first run. Shiffrin finished 0.41 behind. Olympic slalom champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany was third, 0.63 behind Schild. "It was tough for me," said Schild, who celebrated her fourth career win in a Lienz slalom. "I had not a good feeling in the first run. In the second, my skiing felt really well and I just tried to point my skis down." The victory was Schilds 54th career podium in slalom. She is now tied with fellow Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell (downhill) for the second most podiums in one discipline. Only another Austrian skier, Renate Goetschl, has more, with 59 top-three finishes in downhill. Shiffrin has never made a secret of her admiration for Schild, making her defeat by the Austrian bearable. "I always want to win but she skied better and was faster," Shiiffrin said. Biff Pocoroba Jersey. "I am OK with taking second place. If she skies better, I am all for it. She is still one of my idols and she keeps inspiring me. As long as I am on the podium with her, I am happy." Shiffrin lost out on the chance to become the youngest winner of five slaloms in one calendar year. At 18 years and 291 days old, the American would have been 67 days younger than Janica Kostelic when the Croatian standout won five slaloms in 2000. However, the missed record didnt bother Shiffrin too much. "I am happy with a podium," Shiffrin said, adding "its a bit disappointing" to lose her first-run lead after failing to find her rhythm in the second. In two years since getting her first podium here in 2011, Shiffrin has 12 top-three finishes including five wins. She looked set for her sixth when she took the lead after the first run. In an increasingly heavy rain, Shiffrin was slowed by a mistake as she almost skied out four gates from the finish but still beat the field by 0.22. "I felt really good and the snow was awesome, so all good," said Shiffrin, who has been dominating slalom racing in 2013, winning the world title and the World Cup discipline title. Shiffrin maintained her lead in this seasons slalom standings with 202 points, two clear of Schild. Hoefl-Riesch went top of the overall standings with 611 points, edging Liechtensteins Tina Weirather by two as well. Many racers struggled with the rainy conditions, with Maria Pietilae-Holmner of Sweden and Kathrin Zettel of Austria, who were second and third respectively after the opening run, failing to finish. Hoefl-Riesch, fourth after the opening run, took full advantage. "Its a nice feeling," the German said. "Of course I benefited from others not finishing but I am just happy to get to the podium." Having won the overall title in 2011, Hoefl-Riesch is again one of the main contenders for this seasons crystal globe, with four-time champion Lindsey Vonn suffering from a knee injury and defending champion Tina Maze struggling to match her outstanding results from last season. The Slovenian finished more than three seconds off the lead in 15th. "The chance to compete for the overall title hasnt been as good for a long time as it is now," said Hoefl-Riesch, who is considering Weirather, Austrias Anna Fenninger en Switzerlands Lara Gut as her main challengers. "Regarding the overall title, its good to earn points here as my rivals dont do slalom." The womens World Cup continues with another slalom next Sunday in Bormio, Italy. ' ' '

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