Gameday 60 (Tue, 19 Mar) - Results

NY Rangers v New Jersey 3-2 - In a game that featured a little bit of everything, New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist proved to be the one constant in leading his team to victory against the New Jersey Devils. Lundqvist, who was making his fifth start in eight days and second in as many nights, turned in a splendid performance with 29 saves as the Rangers earned an entertaining 3-2 triumph Tuesday before 17,625 fans at Prudential Center. The Rangers took their third lead of the game 7:25 into the second period when Rick Nash scored his team-leading 10th of the season off a wicked wrist shot from the right circle that beat Devils goalie Johan Hedberg to the long side. That goal proved to be the difference as the Rangers buckled down defensively, yielding just seven shots in the third period after allowing 24 through the first two. Nash's goal was made possible after a series of spectacular saves by Lundqvist at the other end. With the Devils on the power play, Lundqvist denied Ilya Kovalchuk off a blistering shot from between the circles at 6:53 before stoning Steve Bernier and Alexei Ponikarovsky on consecutive rebound attempts 10 seconds later. Hedberg, who was making a personal-best 13th straight start, made 19 saves in defeat for the Devils. The Devils were given a golden opportunity to square the game at 9:03 of the third when Rangers defenseman Steve Eminger was whistled for tripping, but Lundqvist stopped a pair of point shots by Kovalchuk to keep the visitors in front. Devils coach Peter DeBoer opted to pull Hedberg with 1:39 left in the third, but New Jersey could not generate a quality scoring chance. Despite outshooting their opponents in 11 straight games, the Devils have been outscored 33-21 during that stretch while going 3-6-2. The victory by the Rangers was their second in a row following three straight defeats. It moved them into eighth place in the Eastern Conference with 15 wins and 32 points. The Devils dropped one spot to ninth with 13 wins and 32 points. The second period was also highlighted by a bizarre play three minutes in when Devils center Travis Zajac was skating hard to the net while being closely guarded by Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi. When Girardi skated past Lundqvist at the right post, he caught his goalie with his left elbow. Lundqvist immediately fell to the ice while Zajac was whistled for interference. The Devils opened the third period short a player after Ponikarovsky exited the game at 14:25 of the second and did not return. DeBoer said he would know more on Wednesday as to the extent of Ponikarovsky's injury. The teams, each entering the game averaging fewer than 2.5 goals per game, combined for four in the opening 20 minutes. Anton Volchenkov's first goal of the season off a rocket from the left point deflected off Rangers center Jeff Halpern and went past Lundqvist to pull the Devils into a 2-2 tie to close out the barrage at 17:13. Just 23 seconds earlier, Carl Hagelin had given the Rangers their second lead of the game when he took a perfect carom off the end boards from a Girardi attempt from the right point and beat Hedberg from the bottom of the left circle. The Rangers finished the game with 15 blocked shots, including a team-high three by Halpern. Zajac scored his first goal in 11 games at 15:15 when the Devils evened the score 1-1 on the power play. The Rangers opened the scoring 11:49 into the first in a most unusual fashion. First, Kovalchuk thought he had opened the scoring at 10:35 when his blast from the left point deflected off the knob of Lundqvist's stick before hitting the left post. The Rangers then responded 1:14 later with a shorthanded goal. Hedberg came far out of his crease along the boards to strip the puck from Stepan, but his clearing attempt to Harrold in the zone was stolen by Stepan. The center controlled the puck in the right corner and centered a pass through the crease that Del Zotto chopped out of the air into the net at the left post. Hedberg, who has started every game in Martin Brodeur's absence, is 3-8-2 in his stretch of 13 straight starts. Brodeur told reporters earlier in the day he expects to make his first start since Feb. 21 when the Devils travel to Carolina on Thursday. Brodeur, who has been sidelined with a pinched nerve in his neck/upper back that was causing numbness in his shoulder and arm, hasn't played since making 19 saves in a 3-2 victory against the Washington Capitals.

Ottawa v NY Islanders 5-3 - The Ottawa Senators keep losing players and winning games. Sergei Gonchar's goal with 1:00 remaining broke a tie as the Senators rallied to beat the New York Islanders 5-3 on Tuesday at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Ottawa's forecheckers dominated the Islanders for nearly a minute before Gonchar blasted a slap shot from the high slot that went through a screen and past Evgeni Nabokov for his second goal of the season. The play that resulted in the winning goal was allowed to continue, although Ottawa's Jakob Silfverberg appeared to have been the first player to touch the puck after Senators' forward Mika Zibanejad played it with a high stick. Guillaume Latendresse hit the empty net in the final 10 seconds to give the Senators their third straight win. The Islanders, who got goals from Keith Aucoin, Josh Bailey and Lubomir Visnovsky, have allowed an NHL-high 44 goals in the third period. The Islanders continue to have problems closing out opponents, and Capuano wasn't happy with his team's latest third-period collapse. The Senators, already without Jason Spezza, Erik Karlsson, Craig Anderson and Milan Michalek, lost defenseman Mark Methot to a lower-body injury in the first period and trailed 3-1 after 40 minutes. But they tied the game by scoring twice in 68 seconds early in the third period. Silfverberg deflected Peter Wiercioch's slapper past Nabokov at 1:07 following an Islander giveaway. Zach Smith tied it at 2:15 when he picked up a deflected shot after Sergei Gonchar broke his stick on a right-point slap shot, whirled in the right circle and beat Nabokov. The Islanders appeared to have gone back in front at 7:22 when the puck went into the net off Aucoin's skate. But a video review determined that Aucoin had directed the puck into the net with a kicking motion, and the goal was waved off. Instead, the Senators found a way to earn another improbable victory; they are fifth in the Eastern Conference with 38 points. The Islanders dominated the early going, but the Senators grabbed the lead at 6:23 when Gonchar's innocent-looking shot from the right point was deflected out of the air by Matt Kassian and bounced through Nabokov's legs. It was Kassian's first goal since being acquired by Ottawa from Minnesota earlier this month and just the third of his career. Gonchar's helper extended his assist streak to eight games. New York generated little on a pair of first-period power plays, but the Islanders tied it at 17:53 during a line change. Kyle Okposo carried down the left wing and pulled up behind the net before finding Aucoin, who had just jumped on the ice, coming through the slot. Aucoin took a step to the right and beat Bishop through the five-hole for his fifth of the season and first since Jan. 31. The Islanders wasted no time grabbing the lead in the second period. After a neutral-zone turnover, Okposo carried into the Ottawa zone and slid a pass that sprung Bailey behind the defense. Bailey swept in front and beat Bishop with a backhander just 14 seconds after the opening faceoff for his third goal of the season. Bishop kept the Senators within a goal 80 seconds later when he robbed Mark Streit on a backdoor one-timer during a power play. But he had no chance on a similar play midway through the period when Visnovsky snuck down from the right point and tapped in Matt Moulson's cross-crease pass at 11:49 for a power-play goal after Kassian took a needless roughing penalty. It was his second goal of the season.

Florida v Carolina 4-1 - Florida Panthers forward Shawn Matthias spent Tuesday sleeping, almost all of Tuesday. Knocked out with flu symptoms, the hard-working center didn't take the morning skate, and he wasn't awake long enough to consider the possibility of playing against the Carolina Hurricanes. Matthias recovered well enough to supply the last of three goals in the middle of the third period, breaking open a scoreless game on the way to a 4-1 Panthers win against the Hurricanes. The victory halted a six-game winless streak (0-5-1) that left the Panthers struggling to salvage many positives from the season. The teams traded chances in the first period, relying on the goaltenders to keep the game scoreless. Florida's Jacob Markstrom stopped 33 shots overall for the win, and Carolina's Dan Ellis was called on for 40 saves. The Hurricanes, playing back-to-back after losing 2-1 at the New York Rangers Monday night, had a golden opportunity to take control of the game in the second period. Florida forward Scottie Upshall was whistled for a high-sticking double minor. But the Hurricanes squandered the opportunity, generating one shot on the power play. The best scoring chance came shorthanded when Florida's Marcel Goc was thwarted on a breakaway by Ellis. The Carolina power play has been an issue recently, sinking to 29th in the NHL with a 12.6 percent conversion rate. On a night when the weary Hurricanes could have gotten the upper hand with four minutes of advantage time, there were no solutions in sight. Tomas Fleischmann put Florida on the board at 7:39 of the third period. Tomas Kopecky picked off a pass from Hurricanes defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti near the goal line and fed it to Fleischmann for his sixth goal of the season. A few minutes later, the Panthers had an ideal scenario to close out the game. Just 25 seconds after Carolina defenseman Jamie McBain took a slashing penalty, Jay Harrison joined him in the box for chipping the puck over the glass. Florida quickly extended the lead to 2-0 with the 5-on-3 advantage when Goc redirected Filip Kuba's pass from the point. The Panthers took advantage of the remaining 5-on-4, with Matthias cleaning up the rebound of Kuba's shot from the point. The win lifted the Panthers to 8-16-6, still far from the Stanley Cup Playoff picture, particularly in the 48-game season. But starting a five-game road trip with a win gives the team something positive to focus on. After a solid first half of the season that put the Hurricanes in command of the Southeast Division, the team is 0-3-1 in its past four, scoring five goals. Carolina might face a little more adversity in the coming days after losing defenseman Justin Faulk in the second period. He left the game after a check into the end boards and did not return.

Nashville v Columbus 3-4 - This being the Columbus Blue Jackets, it had to be a one-goal game. Columbus held on for a 4-3 victory against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday at Nationwide Arena after taking a 4-1 lead into the final three minutes. The Blue Jackets extended their franchise-record points streak to 11 games (7-0-4). Columbus (12-12-6, 30 points) is one of 11 Western Conference teams bunched within 34-28 points. The regulation win, the Blue Jackets' second since Feb. 21, broke a tie with the Predators. Columbus, which played in its 21st one-goal game of the season, scored twice in the third period to extend a 2-1 lead. It was their first game in five that did not go to a shootout, after playing nine of 10 that went at least to overtime. Nashville's Chris Mueller and Mike Fisher scored in the final 2:01 to become the first team in seven games to score three times against Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. Second-period goals by Fedor Tyutin and Letestu put the Blue Jackets ahead 2-0, and Nikita Nikitin and Derick Brassard scored in the third. Gabriel Bourque also scored for Nashville, which lost is fourth in a row and is in a 3-9-1 slide. Nashville is without injured forwards Paul Gaustad, Patric Hornqvist and Colin Wilson, and defensemen Scott Hannan and Hal Gill. And forward Sergei Kostitsyn was a healthy scratch after his poor line change led to a shorthanded goal by the Edmonton Oilers in the previous game. Tyutin opened the scoring 4:08 into the second period. He got the puck where the offensive blue line meets the left-wing boards, and his shot from there deflected off a Predators player and past goalie Pekka Rinne. Letestu gave Columbus a 2-0 lead thanks to a keep-in by Dalton Prout. The defenseman was able to reach a weak clearing attempt with his backhand and get the puck to Vinny Prospal, who sent a diagonal cross-ice pass to Letestu near the left circle. Letestu's wrist shot beat Rinne between his blocker and armpit at 9:39, with the assist giving Prout his first NHL point. Since Prout was recalled from Springfield of the American Hockey League on March 1, Columbus is 6-0-3. Prospal's assist gave him 500 for his career, and his three-assist game pushed his total to 501. Nashville made it 2-1 after the Columbus defense failed to approach Predators defenseman Roman Josi. David Legwand sent a pass to Josi at the blue line, and as he skated toward the net between the circles, two Columbus players let him do so, and his wrist shot was deflected by Bourque past Bobrovsky with 5:15 left in the second period. The goal ended Bobrovsky's shutout streak at 128:00. He wound up with 32 saves, and his goals-against average went up for the first time in nine games. Earlier in the second, Bobrvosky took a Kevin Klein slap shot off his mask, shaken up to the point he required smelling salts on the ice. In the first period, Bobrovsky had his mask lifted by the stick of Predators forward Craig Smith. The Blue Jackets restored their two-goal lead on a third-period power play. Jack Johnson passed to Prospal from the blue line; Prospal sent it back to Nikitin at the line, and his high slap shot went over Rinne at 10:00. It became 4-1 when Brassard finished a 3-on-2, converting passes from Letestu and Prospal with 7:19 remaining. Mueller scored his first NHL goal at 17:59 when Rich Clune's forecheck pass from behind the net found him in front for a tap-in. Fisher got a rebound past Bobrovsky with a spinning backhand 47 seconds later. Columbus ends a five-game homestand Friday against the Calgary Flames. Nashville starts a four-game homestand against Calgary on Thursday and Columbus on Saturday after ending this five-game road trip 1-4-0.

Buffalo v Montreal 3-2 - The Buffalo Sabres have been a fragile team for most of the season, so perhaps Tuesday night could be a turning point in that regard. Steve Ott's second goal of the game came on a power play in overtime to give the Buffalo Sabres a desperately needed 3-2 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday. The Sabres had jumped out to a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes but then went into a total shell, getting outshot 26-5 from the start of the second to the 17:29 mark of the third period and allowing the Canadiens to come back to tie it. Were it not for goaltender Jhonas Enroth, the Sabres definitely would not have even made it to overtime. Interim Sabres coach Ron Rolston saw his team's play over the final 40 minutes of regulation as indicative of the nightmarish season it has gone through. But with the end result being positive he hopes this is the start of a turnaround. Tyler Ennis also scored and Enroth made 32 saves, including 24 in the second and third periods to allow the Sabres (11-15-4) to earn just their second win in eight games (2-3-3). Max Pacioretty and Colby Armstrong scored third-period goals to get the Canadiens (19-5-5) to overtime, snapping a five-game winning streak but earning a point for the 17th time in their past 18 games (13-1-4). With just two seconds remaining in P.K. Subban's penalty for high-sticking, Jordan Leopold took a shot from the left circle that Carey Price stopped with his pad. But the rebound bounced right to Ott, who fired it home for the win. Subban's penalty came when he tried to lay a big hit on Sabres defenseman Mark Pysyk at the Canadiens blue line but got his stick up. Subban had been on the ice for 2:06 of the final 2:44 of regulation and was sent right back out to start overtime before being called for the penalty 17 seconds into the extra period. The Sabres lost forward Thomas Vanek in the second period after he was hit with a Christian Ehrhoff slap shot during a Buffalo power play. Vanek was hunched over on the bench in pain after he was hit with the shot and went to the dressing room at the next whistle. He did not return with what the team called an upper-body injury, but Rolston later said it was in fact a lower-body injury. Down 2-0 after the first period, the Canadiens completely dominated the second and the third, outshooting the Sabres 26-8 over the final 40 minutes of regulation.

Washington v Pittsburgh 1-2 - The 269th consecutive sellout crowd in Pittsburgh sensed it. So did the Penguins. Nine seconds after the Penguins prevented Washington's potent power play from scoring on a double-minor, Niskanen scored the winning goal to give the Penguins their 10th consecutive victory, 2-1 against the Capitals on Tuesday night. Niskanen's wrist shot with 8:02 to play in regulation came off a 3-on-2 rush with assists from Matt Cooke and Sidney Crosby, as he beat Washington goalie Braden Holtby high to the glove side. That ramped up the roar from a crowd that moments earlier was in a frenzy when Pittsburgh cleared its zone to end sustained Capitals pressure after Marc-Andre Fleury made consecutive saves. Crosby also assisted on Martin's second-period goal for the Penguins, who are on the fifth winning streak of at least 10 games in franchise history. Pittsburgh, which has also won eight in a row at home, has the second-longest winning streak in the National Hockey League this season. They can tie the Chicago Blackhawks' 11-game run with a win Friday night when they visit the New York Islanders. Alex Ovechkin scored for the third time in four games for Washington, which has lost five of seven and is seeing its hopes of a sixth consecutive playoff berth slipping. The Penguins (23-8-0) have no such worries; they lead the Eastern Conference standings and have opened up a 14-point lead over the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers in the Atlantic Division. Before the game, Crosby was marveling at the way it's been a different hero or unit deserving of the credit every night of the winning streak. Against the Capitals, it was the much-maligned penalty killers who played a pivotal role. Pittsburgh entered Tuesday with the League's 22nd-ranked penalty kill despite not allowing a power-play goal in its previous three games. Washington's four-minute power play began with 12:11 left in regulation when Cooke was called for boarding and unsportsmanlike conduct. That figured to benefit the Capitals, who entered the game with the NHL's third-ranked power play and had scored their only goal with the extra man in the second period. But instead of using this opportunity to snap the winning streak of what many Washington players called their biggest rival, the Penguins seized the momentum with a strong penalty kill. The Penguins played their first full game this season without either Evgeni Malkin or Kris Letang. The NHL's reigning MVP and its leading scorer among defenseman, respectively, are out due to injury. Letang left Sunday's win against the Boston Bruins with a lower-body ailment while Malkin missed his sixth consecutive game because of an upper-body injury. Malkin participated in the morning skate and expressed hope he could play Friday on Long Island. Fleury made 28 saves to win his sixth straight start for the Penguins, who have allowed just six goals in their past six games. Ovechkin opened the scoring 8:14 into the second period during a power play when he fired a loose puck that had squirted to him in the left circle past Fleury for his 12th of the season. Martin tied it 2:53 later with a power-play goal of his own, he stepped into a puck set up for him by Crosby in the high slot and slapped it high past Holtby's glove for his sixth of the season. Washington was playing the first of four games in six days on the road, its longest trip of the season. Ovechkin and other Capitals made no secret of the make-or-break aspect of this stretch. Washington remained seven points out of a playoff spot. The Capitals welcomed back versatile forward Brooks Laich, who made his season debut after sustaining a groin injury before the season began. He was quickly promoted from the fourth line, played on the penalty-killing and power-play units and had one shot and three hits in 12:51 of ice time. Dmitry Orlov also made his season debut for Washington, the latest defenseman to play for a team that has been hit hard by injuries on the blue line. Orlov had one blocked shot in 11:58 and was on the ice for 1:07 of the failed power play that decided the game. Even before the Penguins scored, their partisan crowd roared. Bylsma and Martin said it was the loudest they'd heard the three-year-old building this season. The Penguins' metamorphosis during the midst their winning streak is striking. They scored at least four goals during each of the first five victories, but have not scored more than three in a game since. Defensively, they averaged more than four goals against per game in the first four wins of the streak, but only 1.00 per contest in the six that have followed.

Boston v Washington 1-3 - The Winnipeg Jets continued their improbable march toward the Stanley Cup Playoffs by rallying to beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Tuesday and reclaim first place in the Southeast Division at MTS Centre. The Jets struck twice in 57 seconds to erase Boston's 1-0 third-period lead and send the Bruins to their third straight road defeat. Former Bruin Blake Wheeler ended Tuukka Rask's shutout bid when he tied the game by scoring a power-play goal with 8:16 left in regulation before Evander Kane put the Jets ahead 2-1. Taking out an opponent the likes of the Bruins left Jets coach Claude Noel feeling that his club had passed a major test against one of the League's elite clubs. The Winnipeg franchise has not reached the postseason since 2007, and Boston provided the Jets a taste of what playoff hockey means. Winnipeg also won for the first time this season when trailing after the second period. Wheeler, who has six goals in his past five games, added an empty-netter in the final seconds as the Jets (16-12-2) moved two points ahead of the Carolina Hurricanes, who lost 4-1 to Florida at home, into the Southeast Division lead and third overall in the Eastern Conference. Boston's loss, combined with the Pittsburgh Penguins' 2-1 home win against Washington, leaves the Bruins (19-6-3) two points behind the Northeast Division-leading Montreal Canadiens and five points behind Pittsburgh for the Eastern Conference lead. Strong work by Jets goaltender Ondrej Pavelec kept a sluggish Winnipeg club within a goal deep into the third period. Only a second-period goal from Boston's Brad Marchand, playing his 200th NHL game, dented Pavelec's performance. Pavelec delivered a 27-save evening that included a third-period sliding stop on Zdeno Chara's bid for an insurance goal with the Bruins leading 1-0. Jets captain Andrew Ladd extended his scoring streak to a season-high five games for the Jets, who have won four of their past five games.Winnipeg's ability to move past an ineffective second period pleased Noel, and he viewed the Bruins as a good benchmark for his club. However, Boston's trademark ability to strangle opposing comeback bids has abandoned the Bruins at times this season. Late breakdowns continue to bedevil Julien's club, and it is irritating the Bruins' veteran dressing room. The Bruins have lost six games in regulation; they've had a third-period lead in five of them. The late-game failings are new to a Bruins' club that had made composed defensive play and ability to shut down opponents part of its identity. Boston closed out all 32 of its leads that it took into the third period last season and went 25-0-1 during the 2010-11 regular season en route to winning the Stanley Cup. Jordan Caron's hooking penalty midway through the third period sent the Jets' 27th-ranked power play to work against the League's top penalty kill. But Jets defenseman Zach Bogosian fired a long, skipping shot from the right point that Wheeler deflected high past Rask to tie the game. Kane needed less than a minute to put the Jets ahead by jamming home the rebound of Grant Clitsome's shot from the edge of Rask's crease with 7:19 to play. Wheeler's empty-netter in the final minute tied him with Ladd for the club lead in goals with 14. Boston found itself in trouble early after losing defenseman Adam McQuaid two minutes into the contest when Eric Tangradi delivered a heavy corner hit to the right of Rask's net. McQuaid did not return, leaving the Bruins with five defensemen for the rest of the game against a speedy Winnipeg attack. Boston jumped ahead just eight seconds into the second period when Marchand forced a Bogosian turnover, out-raced the defenseman to the loose puck and slipped his team-high 15th goal past a surprised Pavelec.

St Louis v Vancouver 2-3 - Vancouver Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider was hoping to get some shots early to find his rhythm in his first start in nine days. His teammates obliged, and then some, against the St. Louis Blues. The Canucks were outshot 15-3 in the opening period, but Schneider made a couple of highlight stops in tight to keep them in the game and let Vancouver find its legs. Jannik Hansen and Daniel Sedin responded with goals 1:42 apart early in the second period, Dale Weise added another midway through the period, and the Canucks held on in the third for a 3-2 win against the Blues on Tuesday night. After watching Roberto Luongo start four straight games, there was no standing around early for Schneider. He kept the game scoreless with a great glove save off a wide-open Alex Pietrangelo from the slot at the tail end of a power play, then sprawled to get his left pad on Andy McDonald alone in the front. Schneider was, and his teammates joined him in the second, matching their shot total from the first period in the first 2:30, when Hansen wired the third shot of the period over the right shoulder of rookie Jake Allen. Sedin doubled the lead on Vancouver's next shot, cutting unchecked into the slot to one-touch twin brother Henrik Sedin's backhand pass from behind the net. Weise made it 3-0 midway through the period, tucking the puck between Allen's legs after a pretty spinning pass from Jordan Schroeder put him in alone. For a team that had scored more than two goals just once in the last eight games, it was a welcome outburst, especially for Sedin, who hadn't scored in eight games, and Weise, who went 10 without a goal. It might not have mattered if not for Schneider's play early and late. It was just the third win in nine games for a Canucks team coming off a tough 3-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild the night before. The Blues took advantage of those tired legs in the third period, with Jaden Schwartz scoring early and Patrik Berglund making it 3-2 with 6:22 left as St. Louis outshot Vancouver 13-2 in the final 20 minutes. It wasn't enough to prevent the end of the Blues' three-game winning streak, however, leaving them even with Vancouver in the Western Conference playoff race with 34 points. Allen, playing a fourth straight game ahead of veterans Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott, finished with 16 saves but had his personal five-game winning streak snapped and lost for just the second time in 11 appearances this season (8-2-0). That was all Hitchcock said before ending his short post-game media session without taking any questions. He didn't point out anyone in particular, but you didn't have to look past the top line, with David Backes, Chris Stewart and Alexander Steen each finishing minus-3, to know who the coach was talking about. Despite catching Minnesota atop the Northwest Division, it wasn't all good news for the Canucks. Defenseman Christopher Tanev went straight to the locker room after Kris Russell's point shot hit him in the side of the face and bounced straight to Berglund for the second St. Louis goal. Forward Zack Kassian lasted only one period into his return after missing the previous two games with a back injury, he re-aggravated it during a spirited fight with Stewart just 2:41 into the game.

Phoenix v Los Angeles 2-3 - The scoring drought of the Phoenix Coyotes reached several proportions Tuesday. Historic. Epic. The Los Angeles Kings added ironic to the mix. Minutes after Drew Doughty scored his first goal this season, Phoenix etched a dubious donut in club history when it set a franchise-record scoreless streak. And minutes after Shane Doan ended that slump at 245 minutes, 33 seconds, Jarret Stoll added the game-winner in a 3-2 victory at Staples Center. Stoll and unlikely scorers Doughty and Dustin Penner helped back up Jonathan Bernier's career-high 40-saves as L.A. completed the back-to-back home sweep. Doughty, a former Norris Trophy finalist, had let on that his 31-game regular-season slump wasn't concerning him, but the truth came out in the locker room. It wasn't L.A.'s cleanest win on this dominant homestand, as it had allowed a season-high 42 shots and saw big pushes by the Coyotes at the start of the first and third periods. Doan scored with 42 seconds left to make it 3-2, but L.A. held them off with Mike Smith pulled for an extra attacker. The Coyotes were in danger of getting shut out for the fourth straight game until Doan tipped Keith Yandle's long wrist shot during 4-on-4 play at 11:28 of the third. Stoll scored on the power play goal at 13:46. Phoenix eclipsed the club record streak of 226 minutes, 21 seconds set from 1998. Radim Vrbata returned from a 14-game absence, but the Coyotes went 0-for-3 on the power play. Doan, who went after Jake Muzzin after an accidental collision, spoke about his team's state after they threw 42 shots on goal in another loss. The weight off Doughty's back manifested itself with a huge smile after he ripped a slap shot from the left circle at 6:28 of the second. Doughty's shot appeared to have been tipped by Tyler Toffoli, but no one was sweating the details. Doughty is seeing a lot of ice time this season and his partner, Muzzin, has taken scoring pressure off him. Doughty tied Garry Galley for seventh all-time among franchise defensemen with 44 goals. Penner's second goal this season ended an 11-game drought when he slipped behind the Phoenix defense to tap in Justin Williams' perfect pass from behind the goal line at 14:38 of the first. L.A. was otherwise skating uphill at the start because Phoenix looked like a team ready to wipe the bagel off its slate with 15 shots in the first 13 minutes. But it couldn't get a shot on goal in the final six minutes, even though it had a power play. Sutter's 451st win tied brother Brian for 22nd place on the all-time career coaching list.