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Heres our weekly look at the fortunes of some of the games brightest young stars. Behold, the latest under-24 player rankings.HotConnor McDavid, C, Edmonton OilersThe Oilers are in a dogfight atop the Pacific Division, where theyre tied with the?Calgary Flames and trying to hold off the San Jose Sharks and Anaheim Ducks.?But Edmonton is hanging tough thanks in large part to the play of captain and resident superstar McDavid, who has three goals and eight assists in his past eight games. The 19-year-old continues to lead the NHL with 38 points and is threatening to turn the scoring race into a one-horse affair. Through Thursday, he had a nine-point edge over his nearest competitor. He even threw a little shade at?Philadelphia Flyers?defenseman?Brandon Manning after Thursdays wacky 6-5 loss, which proves McDavid is human after all.Patrik Laine, RW, Winnipeg JetsSo whats the over/under on how many goals the Finnish sniper finishes with this season? Forty? Forty-five? Its going to be hard for rookie-of-the-year voters to ignore Laine if he keeps up this pace. The 6-foot-5 18-year-old has potted five goals and added two assists in his past eight games, and his 17 goals are one off the league lead, as he continues to joust with?Pittsburgh Penguins?captain Sidney Crosby as the leagues dominant goal scorer. Laines contributions are one of the main reasons the Jets are remaining in the wild-card race in the Western Conference.David Pastrnak, LW, Boston BruinsTalk about catching fire. The Bruins 20-year-old winger has been white-hot, scoring eight goals and adding two assists in his past eight games. Pastrnaks two-goal effort in a loss to the?Colorado Avalanche?on Thursday moved him into a tie for the league lead with 18 -- the same number collected by Crosby. Pastrnaks 14 even-strength goals are tops in the league. The emergence of Pastrnak, the 25th-overall pick in 2014, as an elite sniper has been a welcome tonic for a team that has struggled to consistently score.NotNoah Hanifin, D, Carolina HurricanesThe Hurricanes have struggled to stay in the playoff hunt, which is a function in part of how young this team is, especially on the back end. Take Hanifin, for instance. The fifth-overall pick in 2014 has one goal and zero assists in his past 11 games. The doesnt mean the 19-year-old isnt ready. It just means that the learning curve is steep. Carolina is tied for 21st in goals scored per game and is 12th place in the Eastern Conference. Its hard to imagine the Hurricanes closing the gap unless they get more offense from Hanifin and their other promising youngsters, as they did in an impressive 3-1 win over the?Los Angeles Kings?on Thursday.William Carrier, LW, Buffalo SabresInjuries and slumps have presented a mighty challenge for head coach Dan Bylsma, who has tried to coax enough offense out of his talented roster to keep the Sabres in the hunt. At one point, Bylsma gave Carrier, a 21-year-old power forward whod had success at the AHL level, a chance to play top-six minutes for a Sabres team that ranks dead last in the league in goals per game. Lets just say that the experiment has yet to bear fruit for the hard-nosed winger, who has one assist in his past seven games and has one goal in 16 games played in the NHL.Vincent Trocheck, C, Florida PanthersIt hasnt exactly been a smooth transition for the Panthers in the wake of the controversial dismissal of coach Gerard Gallant. Florida is outside the playoff bubble and offense has been hard to come by -- especially for Trochek, who was looking to build on last seasons impressive 25-goal campaign. The 23-year-old has one assist in his past nine games and just six goals on the season. Hes also minus-11.Young guns showdownMatt Murray, G, Pittsburgh Penguins versus Andrei Vasilevskiy, G, Tampa Bay Lightning, Saturday, 7 p.m. ETThis game in Tampa features a tasty little rematch of last springs Eastern Conference finals and again pits the two young goalies who squared off in that seven-game set after Tampa Bay veteran Ben Bishop was injured. Murray, 22, has picked up where he left off in guiding the Penguins to a Stanley Cup last June, running his record to 9-2 with a .934 save percentage after he missed time early in the season with a hand injury. The Lightning, meanwhile, are struggling and head into the weekend outside the playoff bubble. 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The World Anti-Doping Agency provisionally suspended the Moscow Antidoping Center on Sunday, saying its operations must improve or a six-month ban on the facilitys accreditation will be imposed. Andre Dawson Jersey Large . Burris threw two TD passes, including a key 15-yard fourth-quarter strike to Bakari Grant that effectively countered a Toronto comeback bid and led Hamilton to a 33-19 victory.ARLINGTON, Texas - Leonys Martin and Elvis Andrus know how to get things going at the top of the Texas Rangers lineup. Against the Houston Astros, they werent alone in making things happen. Martin and Andrus each scored three runs for AL West-leading Texas, including twice each in an 11-run inning that was the biggest in the majors this season, in a 16-5 victory Monday night. "We went up and down the lineup," manager Ron Washington said. "When we can do that is when we can be at our best." Martin got the Rangers big third inning started with his majors-leading 11th bunt single before a single by Andrus. The top two hitters in the lineup came home on a single by A.J. Pierzynski, and both got on base and scored again before the Astros finally got the third out. "Any time we can get those guys on base obviously it usually leads to runs," Pierzynski said. "Leonys has been doing a great job, and Elvis hitting behind him, hitting-and-running, putting pressure on the other team. Thats fun. Thats the way baseball is supposed to be." All nine Rangers scored in the third, when they sent 15 batters to the plate and had seven hits — six singles and a double — along with three walks, two Houston errors and a sacrifice bunt. Only five of the 11 runs were earned. The last team in the majors with as many runs in an inning was St. Louis, with a 12-run seventh in a 12-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on July 21, 2012. Texas last 11-run inning was in the fifth of a 15-3 win at home against Tampa Bay on Sept. 26, 2009. The Rangers have won 12 of their last 13 games against Houston (41-83), the first-year American League team now 30 1/2 games back in the division. Martin, in his 19th start as the leadoff hitter, had an infield single to start the Texas first before Andrus had a single on a perfectly executed hit-and-run play. Ian Kinsler had a sac fly and Adrian Beltre got his first intentional walk of the game before a double steal. Andrus swiped home for a 2-0 lead. "Every time we get on base, put ourselves in scoring position, it makes things easier," Andrus said. Matt Garza (3-1) struck out eight in 6 2-3 innings. But the right-hander allowed five runs, becoming the first Texas starter in 22 games to allow more than four. Lucas Harrell (6-14), getting another start after four consecutive relief appearances, allowed nine runs (seven earned) in 2 1-3 innings. He was initially sent to the bullpen after also giving up nine runs in 3 2-3 innings at Texas in a 10-5 loss July 5. Texas finished with a season high for runs, two nights after a 15-3 victory over Seattle thhat is its highest-scoring game without a home run in the 20 seasons of Rangers Ballpark.dddddddddddd Texas had 15 runs without a homer again before Pierzynski connected in the seventh off reliever Philip Humber, who last season threw a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox with Pierzynski as his catcher. Pierzynski finished with four hits and four RBIs. After Martin and Andrus got the third started, Kinsler had a sac bunt before Adrian Beltre, hitting .437 over the previous 19 games, got his second intentional pass. Singles by Pierzynski and Alex Rios re-loaded the bases, Mitch Moreland hit a two-run doubled to deep centre and Jurickson Profar walked to load the bases again, and end Harrells night. Wade LeBlanc, recalled by Houston earlier Monday, got David Murphy to hit a grounder. Second baseman Jose Altuve made a nifty stop going toward the middle of the infield and flipped the ball with his glove, only for shortstop Jonathan Villar to drop it and allow two runs to score. Martin then walked and Andrus reached on an error before Kinslers two-run single. Pierzynski drove in another run with a single to cap the scoring. Astros infielder Jake Elmore, who made his first major league appearance at catcher when taking over in the fourth after Carlos Corporan got hit by a foul ball, later pitched a 1-2-3 eighth. Elmore was the only of four Houston pitchers with a scoreless outing. "They told me early in the game that I was going to pitch because the game was out of hand. I was expecting that, but out of nowhere (Corporan) got hurt. I had told them I could catch like 2 weeks ago," Elmore said. "Ive never done both in the same game." Houston was within 2-1 when Jason Castro and Chris Carter had consecutive doubles to start the second. The Astros then fell behind 15-1 before scoring four times in the seventh. "Its real simple, we didnt play well," manager Bo Porter said. "Weve got to let this one go." Notes: The Rangers have stolen home 29 times in team history. The last three have been by Andrus, who did it twice in 2011. ... One of the previous Texas players with a steal of home was Porter on June 11, 2001. ... Beltre was the first Rangers starter since Oscar Gamble on June 22, 1979, to be intentionally walked in his first two plate appearances. ... LHP Travis Blackley, acquired by Texas from Houston last week, will be brought up from Triple-A Round Rock to start Tuesdays game against his former team. ... Preliminary research by the Astros media relations staff found just 14 other instances of a player pitching and catching in the same major league game. ' ' '