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Kusal Mendis first run after lunch takes him to 87. It is 13 short of a hundred. It is the number men in the opposition will say is unluckiest for a batsman. But Mendis doesnt know that. Or at least, he doesnt play like he does.Soon, he squirts a single to square leg. Soon after, he puts a Josh Hazlewood ball through midwicket with that homespun punch-pull. When he sweeps Nathan Lyon for six in the following over, he has moved clean through the nineties in eight balls. He owns 72% of the teams runs. He is living out the fantasy of anyone to have held a bat. If at the time Mendis knows that, he doesnt celebrate like he does.The defence has been immaculate since his amble to the crease. To the spinners, he pushes feet forward, sticks bat close to body, watches and waits. Here is a player who drags his feet at the non-strikers end. Who lets his blade trail along the ground when strolling to his partner, mid-pitch. In so much of his demeanour, he is the teams kid brother - he is the youngest man on the field. But if a ball is to be blocked, Mendis is the Michelin-starred joint just as doors open for dinner service. He is the Special Forces unit, awaiting orders to move in.Hes one of our guys who really has a technique, coach Graham Ford had said of him last month. How rare that is in a nation where pure technique is a breakthrough, rather than a birthright. There were at least seven years in international cricket before Kumar Sangakkara worked out a set-up that satisfied him. Aravinda de Silva needed a summer with Kent to unlock his gifts. Yet, seven Tests in, and 21 years old, Mendis sees through the dip and away-spin from Steve OKeefe in the morning. He milks the turn into his body from Lyon. He pushes away and picks off Hazlewoods full length. Then in the afternoon, when the ball begins to reverse-swing, the drives come fresh and flowing, like a scent on the breeze. Hazlewood is drilled past his right foot. The straight drive off Mitchell Starc is more delicate, but as delectable - teasing fielders who nearly collide, and give chase all the way in vain.Only in the stroke to get to a hundred, and in one other shot in the day, was there violence. Starc had venom for him all morning, of the verbal variety as much as with ball in hand. But when the bowler went wide, Mendis upper-cut him behind point. Next ball, the overcorrection skidded past fine leg.Late in the day, there is that lofted on-drive flick too - the one that had the crowd sitting up and taking notice on a bleak afternoon in Leeds. Yet it was not Headingley, but Hyderabad that made a man of Mendis. Having led an unsuccessful Under-19 World Cup campaign in 2014, Mendis breezed to 156 in the little-loved Moin-ud-Dowlah three-day tournament last year, then suddenly found himself in the Test XI against West Indies, just one first-class hundred and a fifty to his name.If he has layered improbability upon improbability in producing this innings - defusing the spinners where others have lunged and groped, scoring quickly off the fast men who have had team-mates prodding and jerking, it is because he has stacked improbabilities all his life. The son of a Moratuwa three-wheeler driver, Mendis became Sri Lankan cricket royalty when he was named 2014s Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year. Two years later, today, he put a three-hour frown on the captain of the worlds top Test team. He threaded balls through the gaps of a five-man leg-side infield. He turned the Test in a new direction, and along the way, the oppositions mouthy spearhead into a mute.Angelo told us that they come at you very hard in the first few spells and the main thing is to get them bowling into their third and fourth spells, Mendis said after play. So we stuck at the wicket in the best way we could. During the last couple of hours, they came with a plan to have more fielders on the leg side. We also knew that, and played the situation well.By the time he went to stumps on 169*, the team 196 runs ahead, Sri Lanka fans had begun to hope Mendis is the man they have been waiting for. Following perhaps the bleakest seven months for this team since the turn of the century, there is a reason to fry up the fish cutlets in celebration, to break out the arrack for joy (Mendis brand, why would you even ask?).As composed after the day, as he was against OKeefe, or Lyon or Starc, Mendis didnt know he was playing one of Sri Lankas great innings. 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Holtby made 28 stops, but allowed three goals in the shootout.RANGERS 5, ISLANDERS 3NEW YORK -- Chris Kreider scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 25 shots in the New York Rangers victory over the New York Islanders.Michael Grabner, Mats Zuccarello, Brandon Pirri and J.T. Miller also scored for the Rangers at Madison Square Garden in the opener for both teams.Lundqvist beat goalie Jaroslav Halak for the first time since Jan. 17, 2010, ending Halaks eight-game winning streak in the matchup -- including the last five since joining the Islanders.Nick Leddy, Cal Clutterbuck and Brock Nelson scored for the Islanders.Islanders captain John Tavares briefly left the game after getting whacked on his left hand in the opening minute of the third.PANTHERS 2, DEVILS 1, OTSUNRISE, Fla. -- Aleksander Barkov scored at 2:48 of overtime to lift Florida past New Jersey.Barkov took a pass from Michael Matheson and one-timed the winner past Cory Schneider. Matheson knocked Damon Severson off the puck behind the net, then found Barkov unmarked in the right circle.Roberto Luongo stopped 23 shots for Florida, including two huge saves in the final minutes of regulation. Schneider stopped 32 shots for the Devils, including all 16 he faced in the third period.P.A. Parenteau, claimed off waivers from the New York Islanders earlier this week, scored for the Devils. Jonathan Marchessault opened the scoring for Florida.The Panthers wore No. 16 jerseys with Fernandez on the back for warmups, a tribute to Jose Fernandez -- the Miami Marlins ace pitcher who died in a boating accident off Miami Beach last month. The team also presented a $35,000 check to his foundation in a pregame ceremony.STARS 4, DUCKS 2DALLAS -- Antoine Roussel scored the tiebreaking goal for Dallas against Anaheim.Roussel scored on a pass from Adam Cracknell 1:23 into the third period, 22 seconds after Andrew Coglianos second goal for the Ducks tied it at 2. Cracknell later added a goal.Lauri Korpikoski and Stephen Johns also scored for the Stars. Antti Niemi Niemi stopped 33 shots, 16 in the first periid when the Stars were outshot 17-1.Randy Carlyle, who led the Ducks to their only Stanley Cup title in 2007, coached his first game in his return. He was re-hired to replace Bruce Boudreau nearly five years after being fired.LIGHTNING 6, RED WINNGS 4TAMPA, Fla.dddddddddddd -- Tyler Johnson scored the go-ahead power-play goal off a nifty pass from Steven Stamkos midway through the third period and Tampa Bay beat Detroit.Johnson was positioned at the right circle and redirected Stamkos feed past Petr Mrazek at 8:34 to put the Lightning up 4-3, just 5 seconds after Detroit was called for too many men on the ice.Jonathan Drouin, Cedric Paquette, Brian Boyle, Alex Killorn and Valtteri Filppula also scored for the Lightning. Thomas Vanek scored twice for the Red Wings, and Frans Nielsen and Danny DeKeyser added goalsCANADIENS 4, SABRES 1BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Brendan Gallagher scored twice, including a tip-in on Shea Webers shot, in new-look Montreals victory over injury-depleted Buffalo.Al Montoya made 30 saves in place of starter Carey Price, who was sidelined by the flu. Andrew Shaw, who was acquired in a trade with Chicago in June, and Torrey Mitchell also scored for Montreal.Injuries continued to mount for Buffalo after Evander Kane was taken to the hospital for evaluation after he slammed heavily into the end boards late in the second period. The Sabres were already playing without second-year star center Jack Eichel, who is out indefinitely with a sprained left ankle.Matt Moulson scored a power-play goal for Buffalo to briefly cut Montreals lead to 2-1 in the opening minute of the third period.JETS 5, HURRICANES 4, OTWINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Mark Scheifele scored at 2:41 of overtime to give the Winnipeg Jets a 5-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night in the opener for both teams.After the Jets overcame a 4-1 deficit in the third period, Scheifele took a pass from captain Blake Wheeler and beat goalie Cam Ward.Jets rookie Patrik Laine scored his first NHL goal and added an assist.The crowd roared when Laine, the second overall pick in the draft, scored on the power play in the third period to close Carolinas lead to 4-3.Mathieu Perreault made it 4-4 with 1:29 left, with Laine assisting on the goal.Blake Wheeler had a goal and two assists, and Shawn Matthias also scored.Jeff Skinner, Lee Stempniak, Jordan Staal and Victor Rask also scored for Carolina.BRUINS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Brad Marchand had two goals and three assists and Boston overcame a 2-0 first-period deficit to beat Columbus.David Pastrnak had two goals and two assists, David Backes also scored twice and had an assist, and Tuukka Rask made 28 saves.Backes, shifting to the first-line center position for injured Patrice Bergeron, scored both of his goals in a 3:36 span of in the second period to tie it at 3.Alexander Wennberg, Cam Atkinson and Seth Jones scored for Columbus.BLUES 3, WILD 2ST. LOUIS -- Nail Yakupov had a goal and an assist and Jake Allen made several big stops and finished with 18 saves to help St. Louis beat Minnesota.Alexander Steen and Magnus Paajarvi also scored, and Patrik Berglund had two assists.Ryan Suter and Charlie Coyle scored for the Wild. ' ' '