Under French law, if no candidate wins an absolute majority, the two top candidates faceoff.
The save was upheld by video review, but Nash netted the tying goal off the ensuing faceoff.
He was the best faceoff man in the NHL, winning 62.1 percent of them in the regular season.
Christian Ehrhoff scored 17 seconds into the third period after a faceoff to the left of the Flyers net.
The ceremonial faceoff saw former world boxing champions Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute approach center ice from opposite directions.
Shouldn't the faceoff be in the end zone, instead of at center ice?
Bruno Gervais won the faceoff back to Giroux, who one-timed it off Voracek and past Lundqvist, who finished with 32 saves.
During the NBA China Games, the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers will faceoff in two games in Beijing and Shanghai.
Then, 47 seconds later, Richards gathered a loose puck outside the right faceoff circle and fired the puck toward Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller.
Zibanejad won the faceoff in the Devils end, got it to Mike Lundin who passed it to Phillips whose wrist shot beat Brodeur.
The Sabres moved back in front when Hecht beat Fleury with a shot from just inside the left faceoff dot 6:11 into the third.
The Rangers got off to a sluggish start after losing the opening faceoff, and didn't mount any kind of early surge fueled by the excited home crowd.
Either way, there will be little time for preparation with the opening faceoff set for about 24 hours after the Rangers wrapped up their Game 6 victory.
But the real star for the Blue Devils was junior faceoff man Brendan Fowler, who won 13 straight at one point to give Duke possession for long stretches.
The Pioneers' Chase Carraro won the faceoff and Denver coach Bill Tierney called a timeout with seven seconds left, but the Pioneers couldn't get a last shot off.
The Capitol Hill faceoff takes place exactly one week after the Justice Department refused to allow Gallagher to testify voluntarily at a Senate hearing on the same subject.
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The smile grew wider seconds later, when the Penguins won the ensuing faceoff, and Pascal Dupuis' crossing pass gave Crosby a wide-open net for the goal at 12:06.
Miller was pulled before the faceoff, replaced by Jhonas Enroth.
With 53 seconds remaining, Buczek made it interesting on his third goal, drawing Cornell to within 15-14, but Duke's Brendan Fowler won the ensuing faceoff, setting up Duke's clincher.
Getzlaf could barely get out of bed with a case of the flu, lasting just five minutes at the morning skate and taking only one faceoff during the game.
Anaheim missed two of the previous three postseasons, and Honda Center was packed well before the opening faceoff with hungry fans waving orange glow sticks and whipping towels above their heads.
Each candidate could participate in a weight-lifting faceoff, executing a progressively heavier clean and jerk with barbells illustrated, for motivational purposes, with the faces of, say, Kim Jong-un and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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That's how long it took for the Penguins to win the next faceoff and have Crosby skate behind the net, then roof a shot by Nabokov from just above the goal line.
Brad Richards, benched for all but one shift in the third period of the Rangers' shootout loss to the Islanders on Thursday, won a faceoff and then made a pass to Michael Del Zotto in the right circle.
Instead, the main diplomatic legacy of the Himalayas faceoff will be permanent damage to the Sino-Indian border accords of 2005, in which both states agreed to "strictly respect and observe" the de facto border known as the Line of Actual Control.
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During a visit to the construction site for the new arena, Labeaume, the Quebec mayor, waded through cold, gray mud, stopping at a spot where one of the rink's faceoff circles will likely be, and pointed to a Nordiques flag flying from an industrial crane.
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