SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Travis Konecny scored his team-leading 17th goal, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the San Jose Sharks 4-0 on Tuesday.
Nick Seeler, Ryan Poehling and Egor Zamula also scored for Philadelphia.
Samuel Ersson made 15 saves and combined with Aleksei Kolosov for the shutout. Kolosov replaced an injured Ersson at the start of the third period and had seven saves.
Second-period goals by Poehling and Konecny gave the Flyers a 3-0 lead heading into the third.
The game featured two of the league’s top rookies in the Flyers’ Matvei Michkov, who leads all rookies with 29 points, and the Sharks’ Macklin Celebrini, the first overall pick in this year’s draft who is two points behind Michkov. Celebrini had six shots and an attempt off the post, while Michkov had two shots.
Flyers: The Flyers are 2-2 on a season-long six-game trip, this time holding onto a multi-goal lead after giving up three unanswered goals in 5-4 loss to the Kings on Sunday.
Sharks: The Sharks have lost eight straight and are one away from matching their nine-game losing streak to start the season. Celebrini was not too interested in the matchup with Michkov, saying before the game that he just wants to “stop losing.”
Ahead 1-0, the Flyers took control in the second with two quick goals. After Poehling’s goal at 12:09, captain Sean Couturier drew a tripping penalty minutes later. The Flyers converted on the power play within eight seconds to snap an 0-for-16 skid when Owen Tippett found Konecny with a cross-ice feed for a one-timer.
The Flyers, who lead the league in blocked shots, had 20 blocks and held the Sharks to 22 shots on goal.
Both teams are in action on Thursday, with the Flyers at the Golden Knights and the Sharks hosting the Lightning.
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San Jose Sharks goaltender Alexandar Georgiev (40) can't stop a shot by Philadelphia Flyers center Ryan Poehling during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)
Philadelphia Flyers center Ryan Poehling (25) celebrates after his goal against the San Jose Sharks during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)
San Jose Sharks goaltender Alexandar Georgiev drinks during a break in play against the Philadelphia Flyers during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)
Philadelphia Flyers left wing Joel Farabee (86) attempts to score against San Jose Sharks goaltender Alexandar Georgiev (40) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
Congress had mandated that the platform be divested from China by Jan. 19 or barred in the U.S. on national security grounds, but Trump moved unilaterally to extend the deadline to this weekend, as he sought to negotiate an agreement to keep it running. Trump has recently entertained an array of offers from U.S. businesses seeking to buy a share of the popular social media site, but China’s ByteDance, which owns TikTok and its closely-held algorithm, has insisted the platform is not for sale.
“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” Trump posted on his social media platform. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”
Trump added: “We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal.”
TikTok, which has headquarters in Singapore and Los Angeles, has said it prioritizes user safety, and China’s Foreign Ministry has said China’s government has never and will not ask companies to “collect or provide data, information or intelligence” held in foreign countries.
Trump’s delay of the ban marks the second time that he has temporarily blocked the 2024 law that banned the popular social video app after the deadline passed for ByteDance to divest. That law that was passed with bipartisan support in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.
If the extension keeps control of TikTok’s algorithm under ByteDance’s authority, those national security concerns persist.
Chris Pierson, CEO of the cybersecurity and privacy protection platform BlackCloak, said that if the algorithm is still controlled by ByteDance, then it is still “controlled by a company that is in a foreign, adversarial nation state that actually could use that data for other means.”
“The main reason for all this is the control of data and the control of the algorithm,” said Pierson, who served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee for more than a decade. “If neither of those two things change, then it has not changed the underlying purpose, and it has not changed the underlying risks that are presented.”
The extension comes at a time when Americans are even more closely divided on what to do about TikTok than they were two years ago.
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that about one-third of Americans said they supported a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023. Roughly one-third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage said they weren’t sure.
Among those who said they supported banning the social media platform, about 8 in 10 cited concerns over users’ data security being at risk as a major factor in their decision, according to the report.
FILE - The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
