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Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles is upbeat about the chances of the NBA soon staging an exhibition game in Australia.Ingles believes that given Australias record contingent of eight NBA players and the success of this years NBA Basketball Without Borders event in Victoria, the next step was to host a game Down Under.He floated the idea of an all-Australian team of NBA players taking on a U.S. select squad and predicted tickets would sell out within minutes by fans hungry to see the worlds best basketball players.I think it can happen, Ingles told Australian reporters on a conference call on Thursday.I think with eight of us playing over here it is a great time to do it.Play it however you want. Aussies versus Americans or split them up.I think it is a great idea and will sell out really quickly - within minutes really.The NBA has taken pre-season games around the globe and even regular-season games to Japan, England and Mexico, but are yet to reward Australias rabid NBA fanbase.Australias NBA players - Ingles, Dante Exum, Patty Mills, Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova, Thon Maker, Ben Simmons and Aron Baynes - are leading the way for a game in their homeland.In May, Dellavedova said a NBA game in Australia?could fill a football stadium.But Scott Levy, NBA Managing Director Asia, said the league had no immediate intention of bringing a game to Australia.We dont have any plans to bring a game now and I dont think wed be willing to put a timeframe on that right now, but we do appreciate theres a lot of fans in Australia that are passionate about that, Levy said.Ingles said they pushed for Basketball Without Borders, which involved camps and promotions with NBA players and within months it became a reality.The Jazz are tipped by bookmakers and NBA analysts this season to make the playoffs for the first time since 2012.The team - despite stars Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Alec Burks out with injuries - was impressive early in Tuesdays opening game in Portland against the Trail Blazers, leading 83-77 going into the final quarter before falling 114-103.Portlands All-Star guard Damian Lillard was unstoppable in the last period, scoring 16 of his 39 points.Exum, who missed last season with a torn ACL suffered while playing for the Boomers, played just eight minutes in Portland and said coach Quin Snyder was easing him back in.They dont want to throw me into the deep end straight away, Exum, who joined Ingles on the conference call, said.I think it is just going to be a process of making sure Im ready to step into that.The Jazz play their next game on Friday (Saturday AEDT) in Utah against the Los Angeles Lakers. 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PAUL, Minn. -- Mikael Granlund scored with 44.5 seconds left, Devan Dubnyk stopped 25 shots for his league-leading fourth shutout, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Boston Bruins 1-0 Thursday night.Granlund took a pass from Jonas Brodin circled below the end line and came out to the right of Tuukka Rask. His centering pass went off the skate of Adam McQuoid and trickled into the Boston net.Dubnyk has had to carry the Wild lately as Minnesotas offense has mustered just 10 goals in its past seven games, winning three. He has allowed nine goals in his last nine games, stopping 274 of 283 shots in that span to account for a .965 save percentage.Minnesota has allowed an NHL-low 29 total goals in 16 games this season, including 10 in its last nine games, dating back to the 5-0 shutout Oct. 25 in Boston.LIGHTNING 4, SABRES 1BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Alex Killorn had a goal and assist and Tampa Bay won its first game without captain Steven Stamkos.Nikita Kucherov, Nikita Nesterov and Brayden Point also scored, and Valtteri Filppula set up two goals with no-look passes in helping the Lightning win their third straight and improve to 6-2-1 in their past nine. The spread-out offensive contributions came in Tampa Bays first game since Stamkos tore a ligament in his right knee during a 4-3 win at Detroit on Tuesday.During the game at Buffalo, the Lightning announced Stamkos had surgery and is expected to miss four months.Cody Franson scored for Buffalo, which dropped to 0-4-2 in its past six. Its a stretch in which the teams offense has dried up in managing just six goals.BLUES 3, SHARKS 2ST. LOUIS -- Jaden Schwartz scored twice and David Perron added the game-winner to lift St. Louis past San Jose.Jake Allen had 29 saves -- holding off the Sharks 6-on-4 advantage over the final 55 seconds -- as the Blues won their second straight.Kevin Labanc got his first NHL goal and Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, who lost their second straight after winning the first three on a season-high six-game trip.Perron broke a 2-2 tie with a power-play tally late in the second period. San Jose had killed off its previous 26 penalties over an 11-game stretch.STARS 3, AVALANCHE 2DALLAS -- Patrick Eaves capped Dallas three-goal first period and the Stars held off Colorado.Johnny Oduya and Brett Ritchie also scored in the first for Dallas, and Kari Lehtonen finished with 34 saves.Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an assist and Mikhail Grigorenko allso scored for the Avalanche, who nearly rallied after trailing 3-0 after the first.dddddddddddd Semyon Varlamov stopped 19 shots and snapped an 11-game winning streak against the Stars.Lehtonen stopped MacKinnon on a breakaway midway through the second period and again on a rebound with 10 minutes left in the game.FLYERS 5, JETS 2PHILADELPHIA -- Michael Raffl and Sean Couturier scored 34 seconds apart in the first period on Philadelphias initial two shots, and the Flyers went on to beat Winnipeg.Mark Streit, Wayne Simmonds and Brandon Manning also scored for the Flyers, who had 12 players register points.Blake Wheeler and Dustin Byfuglien had the goals for the Jets, who opened a season-high five-game, nine-day road trip with just their second loss in the last six.Couturier got Philadelphia on the board 9:13 in when he capitalized on a Winnipeg turnover and beat Connor Hellebuyck high to the glove side from close range. Raffl doubled the lead just over a half-minute later with his third of the season.Steve Mason made 30 saves to improve to 6-0-1 in his career against Winnipeg.Hellebuyck stopped 17 shots.PREDATORS 5, SENATORS 1OTTAWA, Ontario -- Ryan Ellis scored the tiebreaking goal late in the first period and Pekka Rinne stopped 30 shots to lead Nashville.Mike Ribeiro had a goal and assist, and Colton Sissons, Pontus Aberg and James Neal also scored to help the Predators sweep the two-game series series against the Senators.Derrick Brassard scored for Ottawa, and Mike Condon finished with 35 saves in his third start. The Senators havent scored more than two goals in their last 11 games.Ellis beat Condon on the far side with about 4 1/2 minutes left in the opening period to put the Predators up 2-1.MAPLE LEAFS 6, PANTHERS 1TORONTO -- Connor Brown had two goals and two assists to lead help spoiling James Reimers first start in Toronto since leaving the Maple Leafs in the offseason.Mitch Marner had another impressive goal, and Leo Komarov, James van Riemsdyk and Jake Gardiner also scored as Toronto improved to 7-2-0 at home. Nazem Kadri had two assists and Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots.Aaron Ekblad scored the lone goal for Florida and Reimer finished with 24 saves.The Maple Leafs got to their former goalie quickly, scoring three times in the first period -- including two by Brown. ' ' '