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Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Jake Muzzin scored the game-winning goal with 3:37 to play as the Los Angeles Kings rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday. Tyler Toffoli returned to the lineup after a six-game absence due to mononucleosis and delivered the game-tying goal and Jeff Carter finished with two goals and an assist for the Kings, who halted a four-game slide. It was huge, Toffoli said. It was the last game at home for a while, and playing against a really good team like Chicago. I think we played really well tonight. Jonathan Quick stopped 26-of-29 shots in the win. Patrick Sharp and Patrick Kane each finished with a goal and an assist, Andrew Shaw also lit the lamp and Corey Crawford allowed four goals on 27 shots for the Blackhawks, who won their two previous games. I think we might have sat back a little bit and waited for them to come to us, said Kane. Usually when we do that, bad things happen. The Kings tied the game with 6:11 to play. After Carter took the puck off the boards, Dwight King shuffled a backhander to Toffoli, who wristed a shot past a screened Crawford for a 3-3 game. Muzzin put the Kings in front after his shot from the point deflected off the stick of Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson before going past Quick. Hossa threatened on a wraparound and Jonathan Toews rang a shot off the post with under a minute to play, but Quick covered up the puck to halt the frenetic sequence. Chicago also pulled Crawford, but was unable to force overtime. Kane started the scoring just 1:58 into the game. David Runblad took a cross- ice pass from Sharp and fired a shot from the right side. The puck was blocked by a Kings defender, but Kane was there to wrist it into the net. Carter emerged from behind the net, skated toward the left circle and turned around to beat Crawford with a short-side wrister for a tie game at 8:42 of the first period. Three minutes later, Sharp took Kanes feed and beat Quick with a quick shot from the left circle to give the Blackhawks a 2-1 edge. On the power play, Carter score his second of the night on a rising wrister from the right circle for a 2-2 game 1:45 into the middle stanza. Shaw put Chicago in front 2:25 into the third. Teuvo Teravainen skated through the neutral zone and into the slot before passing the puck to Shaw, who scored on a wrister over the glove of Quick. Game Notes Los Angeles now has 38 points at home this season (16-6-6) tying the 1980-81 and 1990-91 teams for the most points through 28 home games in franchise history ... The Kings are now 10-0-0 when Jeff Carter records a multi- point game ... Carter and Kane each had a game-high five shots ... The two teams will meet again on March 30 on Chicago. Avonte Maddox Jersey . 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Haloti Ngata Eagles Jersey .com) - World No. 1 Rafael Nadal, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and four-time Australian Open titlist Roger Federer were among Mondays fourth-round winners at Melbourne Park.NEW YORK, N.Y. - The long-awaited Mueller report was released Thursday with no unexpected findings: the NFL initially botched the Ray Rice case and had a weak domestic abuse policy, but investigators found no evidence league officials saw tape of Rice hitting his fiancee before it was released.Owners and executives were quick to say the league had learned from its mistakes and is solidly behind Commissioner Roger Goodell and changes he has made.The report from a former FBI director hired to investigate said the leagues investigative system relied too much on information from law enforcement after the Ravens running back knocked out his fiancee in an elevator at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City.The 96-page report by Robert S. Mueller III said Goodell and his investigators might have seen the video of Rice hitting Janay Palmer before handing down the suspension had they tried harder.The NFL should have done more with the information it had and should have taken additional steps to obtain all available information about the Feb. 15 incident, Mueller said in a statement after releasing his report.The report said a review of phone records and emails of NFL employees showed no evidence that anyone in the league had seen the graphic video before it hit the Internet in September. A law enforcement official showed The Associated Press videos of the incident and said he mailed a DVD to NFL headquarters in April.The private investigation, without subpoena power, did not include any contact with the law enforcement official who showed the AP the videos. The officer played the AP a 12-second voicemail from an NFL office number dated April 9, in which a woman verifies receipt of the DVD and says: Youre right, its terrible.The official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to share the evidence, told the AP on Thursday he didnt speak with investigators.I took steps to ensure a call from any person at the NFL wouldnt be traced back to me and I was never contacted by the team of investigators hired by the NFL to investigate the NFL, he said. I still dont know who confirmed receiving the video and I dont know what that person did with it.We have reviewed the report and stand by our original reporting, said Kathleen Carroll, the APs executive editor.The Mueller team did ask us for source material and other newsgathering information, but we declined. Everything that we report and confirm goes into our stories. We do not offer up reporters notes and sources.Giants owner John Mara and Steelers President Art Rooney, the men appointed by Goodell as liaisons to the investigation, said the 32 team owners were briefed in a conference call Thursday morning. They all expressed theeir belief Goodell told the truth throughout the investigation.ddddddddddddhey reiterated their backing of Goodell, whose job never appeared in jeopardy despite the missteps by the league in the Rice case and calls for scrutiny of him from outside groups.There was resounding support for Roger, Rooney said. Theres a very strong confidence in Roger going forward in terms of him being the commissioner of the league.Still, Mueller found the NFLs deference to the law enforcement process involving Rice led to deficiencies in the leagues collection and analysis of information during its investigation. He added such an approach can foster an environment in which it is less important to understand precisely what a player did than to understand how and when the criminal justice system addresses the event.Muellers report details some of the efforts the NFL made in obtaining the video, but said the league should have taken additional steps.League investigators did not contact any of the police officers who investigated the incident, the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office, or the Revel to attempt to obtain or view the in-elevator video or to obtain other information, the report said. No one from the league asked Rice or his lawyer whether they would make available for viewing the in-elevator video they received as part of criminal discovery in early April.The report also said the league didnt follow up on initial conversations with the Ravens to determine whether the team had more information.The official showed the AP multiple videos from the casino the night Rice was arrested. Those videos included security cameras from inside and outside the elevator and two cellphone videos that included some audio.The league said it considered the video published by TMZ in September to be new evidence meriting an indefinite suspension. Its emergence drew renewed backlash to the league from womens organizations, members of Congress and players — all calling for more detail on how the NFL handled the case.Mara and Rooney said Mueller made six recommendations that the owners will review. They agreed that the leagues policy on domestic violence was insufficient.We were slow to react, and in the case of Ray Rice, the original punishment was insufficient, their statement said. In addition, the steps taken by the NFL to investigate this matter were inadequate. Since then, a new policy concerning domestic violence and other rules for conduct violations have been put into place.___Golen reported from Boston; AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner reported from New York. 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