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BOSTON -- After the final out and the last long walk back to the clubhouse, after the speech from his manager and his parting words for his teammates, David Ortiz had only one thing left to do.He had to salute the fans.And make no mistake, they were waiting for him. After the Boston Red Sox were swept out of their best-of-five American League Division Series with a 4-3 loss to the Cleveland Indians on Monday night, while the victors partied on the field in front of the largest Fenway Park crowd since at least 1945, the fans stood and chanted.Papi! Papi!Thank you, Papi!We want Papi!It went on for nearly 15 minutes. Finally, members of the Red Soxs media relations staff approached Ortiz and told him about the scene outside, and Big Papi had to see it for himself. He needed closure.I definitely always want to show love to the fans, Ortiz said. I started thinking, I have my moment once I walk onto the mound, start looking around. And that moment, that hits you. You know youre never going to be able to be performing in the baseball world in front of all this. No disrespect to anyone, but I think we have the best fans worldwide. Its something that, it kind of hit me a little bit -- Im not going to lie to you.And thats when the tears came. Ortiz always knew it would end. He just never figured it would be like this.After 93 wins and an AL East title, the Red Sox had designs on making one more long playoff run for Ortiz, their iconic slugger who had one of the greatest farewell seasons of all time. He led the majors in doubles (48), extra-base hits (87), slugging (.620) and OPS (1.021), tied for the league lead in RBIs (127), and belted 38 home runs, most ever by a player in his final season.But Ortiz went only 1-for-9 with a double in the three-game ALDS. Like the rest of the highest-scoring offense in the majors, he was neutralized by Indians pitching. The Red Sox led in the first inning of Game 1, then never again in the series ensuing 26 innings.Ortizs final plate appearance, with a runner on base in the eighth inning, resulted in an anticlimactic four-pitch walk by Indians closer Cody Allen. Two batters later, after Hanley Ramirez singled in Mookie Betts to draw the Red Sox within one run, manager John Farrell called on Marco Hernandez to pinch run for Ortiz, who gave his young teammate an emotional pat on the helmet and trotted off the field.With Ortiz standing on the top step of the dugout, clapping and screaming and going out of his mind, the Red Soxs rally fizzled. They put two runners on base with two out in the ninth inning, too, but Travis Shaw flied out to right field to end it -- the series, the season and Ortizs career.Fenway fell eerily silent. The Red Soxs clubhouse was equally funereal. But when Ortiz reappeared on the field, it was one last chance for the fans and Ortiz to say a mutual farewell.What made me happy and proud about walking home the way I am right now is that as long as I play in front of these fans, I never take anything for granted, Ortiz said. I give everything I have, do something special while I play. And the fans respect that. The fans love that. The fans, they live through it. And thats all that matters to me.And everywhere I go, everywhere I bump into our fans, it doesnt matter if you bump into two of them or you bump into a thousand of them. They show the same love. And thats why I got better, thats why I got the opportunity to have the career that I had. Air Max 270 React Canada . Olli Jokinen, Mark Scheifele, and Bryan Little each had a goal and an assist as Winnipeg won 5-2, handing Calgary its record-setting seventh consecutive loss on home ice. Nike Air Max Flair Canada . 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LOUIS -- Maybe a goal by right winger Vladimir Tarasenko provided the jumpstart needed by the St. Louis Blues offense.Tarasenko, St. Louis leading scorer, had not recorded a goal in seven consecutive games before his overtime goal Saturday night gave the Blues a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.The Blues wont have to wait long to see if that happens as they will be back in action Sunday afternoon when they host the Colorado Avalanche.Tarasenkos streak without a goal has coincided with a total offensive slump by the Blues, who have not scored more than two goals in their last six games and in eight of their previous nine.It was the longest streak for Tarasenko without a goal since going eight games with no goals early in the 2013-14 season.The amount of time that weve been pouring into meetings the last few days, it hasnt been a great feeling around this locker room, defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said. Finally to have sometime positive to build off it ... we have to bring that hunger into tomorrows game that we had tonight.The Blues scored 26 goals in their 12 games this season.The Avalanche also are coming off a low-scoring win, getting a power-play goal from Gabriel Landeskog midway through the thhird period and a shutout from Calvin Pickard to beat the Minnesota Wild 1-0 on Saturday afternoon for their second win in six games.ddddddddddddWhile the Blues got a good game from backup Carter Hutton, who stopped 20 of 21 shots, and the Avalanche got the shutout from Pickard, each team is expected to have their regular goaltender in net for Sundays game as the Blues Jake Allen opposes Semyon Varlamov.Allen allowed nine goals in last two games, regulation losses agalnst the Rangers in New York and the Stars in Dallas. Its only the fourth time in Allens career he has allowed four or more goals in consecutive games.Varlamov has struggled as well, going 2-5-0 to start the season.Were setting our goalie plan week to week, Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. Varly is getting a good opportunity early but were not setting our schedule month by month or season long.We said this week were going with Varly, Pick and back to Varly and play a rested goalie in back to backs because we believe in both of them. Well get to a point where we need results so we can ride a hot goalie for a little bit. ' ' '