Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA ó Mathieu Schneider scored on a power play at 3:21 of overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night.
Exactly a minute after Scottie Upshall was sent off for goalie interference, Schneider ó recently acquired from Atlanta to quarterback the power play ó scored his seventh goal of the season on a wrist shot from the right circle.
Red Wings 2, Kings 1
DETROIT ó Chris Osgood made 30 saves in his return to Detroit’s lineup after a four-game break, and Derek Meech and Tomas Kopecky scored for the Red Wings.
– TORONTO ó New York Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt was suspended five games by the NHL on Friday for elbowing Toronto Maple Leafs forward Niklas Hagman in the head.
– BOSTON ó The Boston Bruins placed forward Petteri Nokelainen on injured reserve on Friday and recalled forward Vladimir Sobotka on an emergency basis from their AHL affiliate in Providence.
SEC … HOCKEY?
PELHAM, Ala. ó Imagine the SEC on ice. The Frozen Tide vs. the Ice Vols.OK, go ahead and laugh. But while Southeastern Conference sports won’t include ice hockey anytime soon, there could come a day when it joins the ranks of SEC football, basketball and baseball.
Non-scholarship club teams from eight SEC schools opened their first-ever tournament Friday at an ice rink in suburban Birmingham. The opening-day lineup pitted Tennessee against Mississippi State, South Carolina vs. LSU, Alabama vs. Florida, and Arkansas against Georgia.
A football game featuring any one of those matchups would likely be a sellout come fall. A crowd of a few dozen turned out for the noon opener of the Southeastern Hockey Conference Championship, which has no official connection to the SEC.
GOLF
CHARLOTTE ó One of the most successful tournaments on the PGA Tour is getting a new name as a result of the fallout from the financial crisis.
The Wachovia Championship at Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club was renamed the Quail Hollow Championship on Friday. Even though Wells Fargo, which recently purchased Wachovia, is under contract to sponsor the tournament through 2014, the company decided to take the name off the event.
– MARANA, Ariz. ó Teenage sensation Rory McIlroy did his part to put some excitement back into the Accenture Match Play Championship, crushing the player who knocked out Tiger Woods to advance to the quarterfinals.
The same could not be said for Phil Mickelson, who failed to reach the weekend for the fifth straight year.
McIlroy, the 19-year-old from Northern Ireland who keeps adding credentials to be the next young star, built a 4-up lead after six holes and never gave Tim Clark a chance to catch up in a 4-and-3 victory.
WOODEN
LOS ANGELES ó Basketball coaching great John Wooden is recovering from pneumonia.
UCLA said in a statement Friday that the 98-year-old Wooden was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Feb. 13 but is now in the final stages of recovery.
BOXING
HOUSTON ó Shane Mosley wants to face the winner of the upcoming Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight before taking a rematch with Miguel Cotto.