nt Leadbitter celebrate Middlesbroughs promotion to the Premier League I bumped into a couple of the Sheffield Wednesday players at the Cheltenham festival, they were waxing lyrical about the team

PHILADELPHIA -- Evgeni Malkin scored twice, including the tiebreaker in the third period, and Sidney Crosby also had two goals to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.Matt Cullen also scored for the Penguins, who scored three times in a 55-second span in the first period while opening a four-game trip with their fourth win in the last five. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 38 shots while making his ninth straight start (6-2-1).Malkins game-winner was his 300th career goal.Jakub Voracek scored twice for the Flyers, and Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds each had one for Philadelphia. Steve Mason started and gave up three goals on 13 shots in the first period. Michal Neuvirth replaced him to start the second and finished with 12 saves on 14 shots.CANADIENS 2, MAPLE LEAFS 1MONTREAL -- Shea Weber scored a power-play goal in the third period, lifting Montreal to its seventh straight victory.Alex Galchenyuk also scored for Montreal, which is 8-0-1 and the only NHL club without a regulation loss this season.Nazem Kadri scored for the Leafs, who were coming off a 3-2 win Thursday over Florida.Toronto outshot Montreal 37-31, but Carey Price made 37 saves for the Canadiens. Frederik Andersen had 29 stops for the Leafs.WILD 4, STARS 0ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Devan Dubnyk stopped 29 shots for his third straight shutout and 22nd of his career to lift Minnesota.Mikael Granlund, Nino Niederreiter, Eric Staal and Tyler Graovac scored for Minnesota, which improved to 6-2-1.Kari Lehtonen made 11 saves for Dallas, which has just four goals in its last four games.Dubnyk didnt have to make any spectacular saves in establishing a new personal best scoreless stretch of 180 minutes. The last goal he allowed was in overtime last Saturday.BRUINS 1, RED WINGS 0DETROIT -- Tuukka Rask made 23 saves for his 31st career shutout with Boston.Tim Schaller scored for the Bruins, who snapped a three-game losing streak and ended Detroits six-game winning streak.It was Rasks first game back after missing the previous three with a lower-body injury.Jimmy Howard stopped 35 shots for the Red Wings, who lost at home for the first time.BLUES 1, KINGS 0ST. LOUIS -- Jake Allen stopped 27 shots and Jaden Schwartz scored early in the third period, leading St. Louis over Los Angeles.It was the first shutout for Allen this season and the 12th in his career.Schwartz got the first goal by a Blues forward in 169 minutes, 22 seconds. He scored 3:43 into the third off a pass from Jori Lehtera, swiping the puck from in front past goalie Peter Budaj. Vladimir Tarasenko also assisted on Schwartzs first goal of the season.Los Angeles challenged the play for offsides, but the goal was upheld.Budaj had 24 saves. He had won five straight dating to last season.DEVILS 3, LIGHTNING 1NEWARK, N.J. -- Adam Henrique and Damon Severson set each other up for first-period goals and New Jersey ended a five-game losing streak against Tampa Bay.Cory Schneider had 32 saves following a rare night off and Devante Smith-Pelly got his first goal of the season, helping New Jersey rebound from an overtime loss to Chicago on Friday. Henrique scored his 100th career goal.Tyler Johnson scored in the third period for Tampa Bay, which has lost two straight. Andrei Vasilevskiy had 20 saves and lost for the first time in three starts this year.SABRES 3, PANTHERS 0BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Anders Nilsson made 33 saves in his second NHL shutout and Buffalo beat Florida.Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist for Buffalo. Johan Larsson and Kyle Okposo also scored. The Sabres snapped a four-game winless streak and earned their first home victory of the season.Roberto Luongo stopped 22 shots for Florida. The Panthers have lost five of six and are winless in the first three of a four-game trip.Nilsson, starting his third straight game in place of Robin Lehner, made 13 saves in the third period. Floridas Vincent Trocheck shot wide on a penalty shot with 57 seconds left in the third period. Custom USWNT Jerseys . 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He finished a disappointing campaign just 14-13 with a career-worst 4.Peter Taylor believes keeping players together is the key for relegated teams Aston Villa, Norwich City and Newcastle United if they are to bounce back to the Premier League at the first time of asking. Burnley won the Sky Bet Championship this season - and secured automatic promotion alongside Middlesbrough - as they made an immediate return to the top flight, while Hull City did the same after seeing off Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off final at Wembley.And Taylor reckons the Magpies, Villa and the Canaries should adopt the same policy as the Tigers as they contemplate next season in the second tier of English football. I think any manager that gets relegated out of the Premier League, the first thing he thinks of is will he lose his most important players, Taylor told Sky Sports News. The more you can keep hold of your squad, the stronger its going to be, the better chance youll have of getting back into the Premier League, because the Championship, its such a tough league.Youve got to have your best players. To be fair to Hull, they kept their players, so the owner deserves a lot of credit for that and theyve got a very experienced manager [in Steve Bruce].Former Fulham manager Kit Symons has first-hand experience of the Clarets successful season, noting the way they went about their business which helped them achieve promotion. Sean Dyche oversaw Burnleys return to the Premier League He said: In my second-last game, we narrowly lost up at Turf Moor, we put in a decent performance. But its the way they went under the radar for so long really, they just went about their business at the right time. They were solid, very organised. We spoke about Joey Barton - Andre Gray and Sam Vokes were excellent for them as well. The Championship will prove a tough challenge to negotiate once again next season and Symons expects third-placed Brighton, who missed outt in the play-offs, and Sheffield Wednesday, who lost to Hull in the play-off final, to both be in the promotion mix once again.ddddddddddddHe said: I think probably Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton were two of the surprise packages in the Championship this season. Both teams did exceptionally well. Aitor Karanka and Grant Leadbitter celebrate Middlesbroughs promotion to the Premier League I bumped into a couple of the Sheffield Wednesday players at the Cheltenham festival, they were waxing lyrical about the team camaraderie within the group and it is so vital to having a successful Championship season.Wigan, Burton Albion and Barnsley won promotion to the Championship from League 1, but Taylor feels that Burton may struggle to stay in the division.Its going to be tough, he said. Its going to be like Yeovil in that division. But the club has done marvellous and the owner has done marvellous. Every appointment he seems to make managerial-wise seems to be a success. Gary Rowett, Nigel Clough first of all, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, everybody has done well.. Rafa Benitez will need to keep his Newcastle players, says Peter Taylor Having spoken to Clough, Symons revealed the Brewers manager is up for the new challenge.I spoke to Nigel at the LMA dinner, he was obviously delighted, said Symons.He was there with his owner, delighted to have gained promotion, and he realises how tough its all going to be. But hes fully focussed on the job in hand. Also See: Fischer completes Boro move Diame fires Hull back to Premier League Barton completes Rangers move ' ' '