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BOSTON - If the Washington Captials can combine Alex Ovechkins scoring with strong defence every game, coach Barry Trotz will be enjoying a lot of victories this season.Ovechkin scored his first two goals of the season, Braden Holtby stopped 29 shots and Trotz earned his first win with the Capitals in a 4-0 victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday night.Trotz, the longtime coach of Nashville, was hired during the off-season after Washington missed the playoffs for the first time in seven years and fired Adam Oates.Trotz talked during the preseason about the team a€” and Ovechkin a€” needing to pay more attention to defence.We played the way he wanted us to play, Ovechkin said of the new system. Of course guys are putting a little bit of pressure upon themselves. We played how he wanted us to play, especially in the D zone.The Capitals lost Trotzs first game, 2-1 in a shootout to Montreal at home Thursday.As a coach you go into a season and you dont relax until you get that first win, he said.He was also happy with how his team concentrated on the defensive end.They threw a lot of pucks at our net. We did a good job of clogging it up, he said. I thought the special teams were key for us tonight, obviously with the two power play goals, but we got some big kills.The three-time league MVP Ovechkin, who led the NHL with 51 goals last season, scored Washingtons first two of the game. Defenceman Mike Green had a power-play goal and Joel Ward added a late score.Holtby stopped eight shots in the initial 8 1/2 minutes en route to his 12th career shutout, sending Boston to its second straight loss after a season-opening victory.They were moving the puck around in the first finding some cross seems, but I think we made an adjustment and it was good from there on, he said. We did a great job in shot lanes. Thats what wins you games.Bostons Tuukka Rask made 17 saves. Last seasons Vezina Trophy winner has played all three of the Bruins games.The Bruins have scored just three goals in their three games.Were not off to a good start, Boston coach Claude Julien said. Even our veteran guys have to be better. We have to be better in a lot of areas.The Bruins, who won the Presidents Trophy last season, didnt lose consecutive regular season games after dropping contests Jan. 7 and 9.We cant be really saying the offence is struggling, Boston captain Zdeno Chara said. We all are struggling.Eight seconds after Boston rookie Bobby Robins was sent to the penalty box for kneeing, Ovechkin one-timed John Carlsons pass from the point past Rask from the left circle to move the Capitals ahead 1-0 at 11:26.Ovechkins second goal of the game, coming off a nice feed from along the boards from Nicklas Backstrom, made it 2-0 at 18:39. Backstrom hustled from the right corner and outworked a Bruins player along the left boards before making a backhand pass to Ovechkin, who blistered a shot by Rask.Holtby had a pair of nice stops a€” both on Chris Kellys bids from the slot a€” in the opening period. The first came at the 11-minute mark when he flashed his glove and the second was a left-pad stop.Bostons best chance came early in the third when Carl Soderberg broke in alone, shifted Holtby out of position, but he lost control of the puck just as he was attempting a shot.Washington made it 3-0 when Green one-timed Evgeny Kuznetsovs cross-ice pass by Rask 10:34 into the second.NOTES: Green was back in the lineup after missing the opener with an upper body injury. ... Bostons top-line centre David Krejci missed his third straight with an undisclosed injury. ... Bruins C Patrice Bergeron needs three points for 500 in his career. ... Ovechkin also led the league last season with 24 power play goals and shots on goal with 386. ... It was the Capitals only regular season visit to Boston. ... Last season Ovechkin had two PP goals and collected his 800th career point in Boston. David Montgomery Jersey . 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The Los Angeles Clippers showed them just how ugly that life could be. Jared Dudley scored a season-high 21 points, Chris Paul added 16 points and 17 assists, and the Clippers jumped all over the Bulls in Roses absence for a 121-82 victory Sunday.ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The last time the Toronto Blue Jays won a series at Tropicana Field was back in 2007 and Dioner Navarro was the catcher for the losing Tampa Bay Rays. Now he helped the Blue Jays clinch their first series victory since then, homering for the second straight game as Toronto won 7-4 on Wednesday night. "Better later than never, right?" Navarro said after spotting the Blue Jays an early 2-0 lead with a two-run homer off Chris Archer. They went to win their fourth straight game. By winning the first two games of the three-game series, the Blue Jays clinched their first series victory at Tropicana Field since April 6-8, 2007, breaking a string of 21 straight non-winning series here. They had lost 17 consecutive road series against the Rays (including one in Orlando) before splitting a four-game series on May 6-9, 2013. "For one series we were able to get the monkey off our back," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "Now weve got to get greedy and go out and win that one tomorrow, come up with a great series." Edwin Encarnacion also homered for Toronto, and Adam Lind had four straight hits and scored twice. Encarnacions 29th homer completed a three-run run fifth inning off Archer (8-8) that gave Toronto a 6-0 lead. Marcus Stroman pitched five shutout innings before giving up two runs on four hits in the sixth. Stroman (9-5) gave up seven hits and two runs in six innings, winning his second straight start. "Were starting to put it together," he said. "The offence and the confidence have been there all year. Its just starting to finally click, I feel. Aaron Saanchez pitched the ninth for his second save.dddddddddddd Archer (8-8) gave up six runs in six innings and yielded 10 hits for the second straight time. "My job is to get people out and I didnt do a good job of that, didnt execute the pitches," he said. "Both (homers) I had two strikes on. Didnt execute, period." Evan Longoria drove in Tampa Bays first run with a two-out single in the sixth, then hit his 18th home run off Dustin McGowan in the eighth. TRAINERS ROOM Blue Jays: Encarnacion was the DH for the second straight game due to minor back discomfort. . . . RHP R.A. Dickey, Tuesday nights winning pitcher, was hit in the head by a line drive during batting practice. The Jays said he is not injured. Rays: CF Desmond Jennings (bruised left knee) was out of the lineup for the sixth consecutive games and could miss a few more games. ... LHP Matt Moore, coming back from elbow ligament replacement surgery in April, could play catch for the first time next week. ON DECK Rays RHP Jake Odorizzi (10-11) and Blue Jays LHP Mark Buehrle (11-9) are the scheduled starters in the finale of a three-game series Thursday night. Odorizzi is coming off a 7-0 win over Boston Saturday in which he allowed one hit in seven innings. DELAYS OF GAME The game was held up for 30 minutes during the third inning when lightning struck a nearby power station, knocking out a bank of lights. There was a delay of 3 minutes, 21 seconds when an umpire review confirmed Encarnacions home run, and another delay if 1:24 when a replay challenge gave the Rays James Loney an RBI single after he had been called out. ' ' '