use surrendered four goals on 27 shots.FLEURY BLANKS BLACKHAWKSAt Pittsburgh, Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves to lead the Stanley C

SEATTLE -- After weeks of mostly poor performances, Marco Estrada once again flirted with a no-hitter for Toronto.And just when the Blue Jays needed that quality of a performance.Estrada took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Edwin Encarnacion hit his 41st home run and the Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Monday night in the opener of a critical three-game series.Estrada (9-9) had allowed only two walks before Robinson Cano led off the seventh with a line drive up the middle on a 2-1 pitch. Cano and Nelson Cruz walked in the fourth -- an inning that ended on Kevin Pillars sliding catch to save a run -- but Estrada otherwise kept the Mariners off the bases before Canos single.Estradas outing was exactly what the slumping Blue Jays needed. They arrived in Seattle having dropped two straight and four of six, and their wild-card lead dwindled in the process. Estrada was partly to blame for the September swoon. In his previous six starts, he was 1-4 with a 7.53 ERA. In September alone, Estrada had allowed 12 earned runs in 12 2/3 innings.But he was brilliant against the Mariners, keeping the thousands of Blue Jays fans that made the trip south from British Columbia cheering all night as Toronto pulled even with Baltimore for the first wild-card spot. Both teams are 2 1/2 games clear of Detroit and three ahead of Seattle and Houston.Im not really sure whats been going on, as the game gets going I start to struggle a little bit, Estrada said. We looked at video and there have been little things here and there that we caught. We changed it up and felt pretty good today.Estrada was pulled after walking Leonys Martin leading off the eighth inning, leaving to a standing ovation from the huge Blue Jays contingent. He struck out eight and walked three before being replaced by Jason Grilli.The final six outs were trying for the Blue Jays. Pinch-hitter Ben Gamel walked to put two runners on with no outs in the eighth, and Seth Smith walked on a nine-pitch at-bat with two outs to load the bases for Cano.Closer Roberto Osuna entered and got Cano to line out to the warning track in right field where Ezequiel Carrera was playing. Martin hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth off Osuna, but Gamel struck out looking to cap Osunas 34th save.We know whats ahead of us, and we arent going to back away from it, Seattle manager Scott Servais said. I thought our guys gave a really good effort tonight, just wasnt enough.Encarnacions two-run homer off starter Taijuan Walker (6-11) came with two outs in the third on a 0-1 pitch that was left up in the strike zone. Pillar added a two-out RBI single in the fourth inning after Troy Tulowitzki led off with a double.NEAR MISSESEstrada has never completed a no-hitter, but hes been close. He lost a no-hit bid in the eighth inning against Boston on June 5, and also pitched hitless ball into the eighth inning in consecutive starts in June 2015.Its not something that I was focused on. Obviously if it would have happened it would have been incredible but it didnt. Cano hit a pretty good pitch, Estrada said.DONALDSON TOSSEDTorontos Josh Donaldson was ejected in the seventh inning arguing with plate umpire Chris Conroy after being called out on strikes. Donaldson was already upset about a check-swing Conroy called a strike earlier in the at-bat and flipped at being called out on a fastball on the outside corner. Donaldson immediately got in Conroys face and was quickly tossed.UP NEXTBlue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ (19-4) goes for his 20th win. Happ would join Bostons Rick Porcello as the only two pitchers in baseball with 20 wins this season. Happ has won 13 of his last 14 decisions.Mariners: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (16-11) looks for his third straight victory. 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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Matt Hunwick and Peter Holland each scored twice to help the Toronto Maple Leafs rout the Buffalo Sabres 8-1 on Friday night in exhibition play.William Nylander, Kasperi Kapanen, Rich Clune and Jake Gardner also scored for Toronto, coming off a 1-0 shootout loss to the Sabres on Thursday night in St. Catherines, Ontario. Frank Corrado had three assists.Jhonas Enroth and Antoine Bibeau each played half the game in goal for Toronto. Enroth started and made eight saves on nine shots, and Bibeau stopped 14 shots.Derek Grant scored for Buffalo. Jason Kasdorf started for the Sabres and allowed four goals on 13 shots. He was replaced by John Muse at the start of the second, Muse surrendered four goals on 27 shots.FLEURY BLANKS BLACKHAWKSAt Pittsburgh, Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves to lead the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins to a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.Scott Wilson scored 25 seconds into the second period. Larss Johansson and Mac Carruth split time in net for Chicago. Johansson made 18 saves on 19 shots, and Carruth stopped all nine shots he faced.PALAT LEAD LIGHTNING PAST HURRICANESAt Raleigh, North Carolina, Ondrej Palat scored at 1:38 seconds of overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.Palau also had the primary assist on Tyler Johnsons goal first-period goal.Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves, allowing only yielding Jeff Skinners power-play goal with 1:05 left in regulation.Eddie Lack started for Carolina, and made 11 saves on 12 shots in two periods. Michael Leighton made four saves in the third and overtime.KHUDOBIN, BRUINS STOP RED WINGSAt Detroit, Ryan Spooner scored 34 seconds into overtime, and Anton Khudobin made 34 saves in the Boston Bruins 2-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.Bostons Danton Heinen tied it with 7:29 left in regulation.Detroits Riley Sheahan opened the scoring with a powerr-play goal in the second.ddddddddddddJimmy Howard made 26 saves for Boston.BLUES TOP STARSAt St. Louis, Petteri Lindbohm had a goal and an assist in the St. Louis Blues 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars.Colton Parayko, Jordan Schmaltz and Dmitrij Jaskin also scored for the Blues.Jake Allen made 15 saves in the opening 40 minutes before giving way to Pheonix Copley in the third. Copley stopped all eight shots he faced.Jason Spezza scored Dallas lone goal on a power play 8:49 into the game. Kari Lehtonen made 18 saves.JETS OVERPOWER OILERSAt Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mark Scheifele had a goal and three assists and Winnipeg had four power-play goals in a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.Adam Lowry, Joel Armia, Toby Enstrom, Kyle Connor also scored. Michael Hutchinson made 33 saves, allowing only Oscar Klefboms second-period goal.FORMER BLUES BROUWER, ELLIOT SPARK FLAMESAt Calgary, Alberta, Troy Brouwer had a goal and an assist former St. Louis teammate Brian Elliott stopped 17 of 18 shots in two periods in the Calgary Flames 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.Matthew Tkachuk also scored for the Flames, and Tyler Parsons stopped all seven shots he faced in the third.Guillaume Brisebois scored for Vancouver. Richard Bachman made 15 saves in two periods, and former Boston College star Thatcher Demko stopped all 11 shots he faced in the third.GRIGORENKO, AVS BEAT KINGSAt Denver, Mikhail Grigorenko scored twice to help the Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-1.Nathan McKinnon also scored, Rene Bourque had two assists, and Semyon Varlamov stopped 33 shots.Trevor Lewis scored for the Kings. Jeff Zatkoff and Jack Campbell split time in net for Los Angeles. Zatkoff started the game and allowed all three goals. Campbell stopped all 12 shots he faced. ' ' '