Results - Wed, October 09, 2013

Montreal @ Calgary 2-3 - Sean Monahan opened the scoring finishing off his own play. Picking up a turnover in the neutral zone, he dropped the puck to Lee Stempniak on a 2-on-1. Carey Price denied Stempniak's shot, but Monahan deposited the rebound to give Calgary a 1-0 lead at 9:09, extending his goal-scoring streak to three games. Monahan set up another with 1:27 remaining. After Jiri Hudler knocked Jarred Tinordi off the puck behind the Canadiens net, Monahan scooped up the rebound and quickly fed Baertschi at the far post for a tap-in and a 2-0 advantage. The Canadiens tried to answer before the period ended but couldn't beat MacDonald. Travis Moen found Ryan White heading for the net, but the former Calgary Hitmen forward couldn't redirect the puck behind the Flames goaltender. In the second period, Montreal's Daniel Briere picked Shane O'Brien's pocket a foot in front of the crease and forced MacDonald to make a quick toe save at 1:30. MacDonald then made back-to-back highlight-reel saves on Andrei Markov, stacking the pads twice to rob the Canadiens defenseman after stopping Subban's initial one-timer from the point with five minutes remaining. The saves allowed the Flames to counter on the power play with Francis Bouillon in the penalty box for boarding. Drawing the penalty, Curtis Glencross capitalized on the man-advantage, redirecting a Dennis Wideman point shot between Price's legs at 16:22 to put Calgary up 3-0. Subban would cut that lead to two on a power play for Montreal, one timing a feed from Max Pacioretty past MacDonald's blocker with 2:14 remaining in the period. Markov collected his 400th NHL point with an assist. Monahan went back to work in the third period, setting up Baertschi and Glencross for consecutive chances five minutes in, but neither forward could beat Price. The saves helped Montreal pull within one when Lars Eller scored at 10:40. After MacDonald made an initial blocker save on a deflection, the Canadiens worked the puck to Subban at the point. His shot went wide, but the puck came off the end boards right to Eller parked on the opposite post to cut Calgary's lead to 3-2. A pair of Subban rushes followed, but the Canadiens couldn't convert, and the comeback fell short when the reigning Norris Trophy winner was whistled for cross-checking with 1:49 remaining, his second penalty of the period.


Ottawa @ Los Angeles 3-4 OT - This wasn't the train the Los Angeles Kings usually take to victory. Fortunately for them, the Mike Richards-Jeff Carter line was simply running late. Carter deflected Richards' shot 28 seconds into overtime to give L.A. a 4-3 win Wednesday night against the Ottawa Senators at Staples Center to end an uncharacteristic Kings game in which they blew a 3-0 lead. Ottawa, without captain Jason Spezza, stormed back with third-period goals by Bobby Ryan (his first as a Senator) and Milan Michalek before Carter scored with Clarke MacArthur serving the remainder of a third-period hooking penalty on Drew Doughty. Ryan's first goal as a Senator was a beauty, a wicked snap shot over Jonathan Quick's left shoulder at 5:58 to pull Ottawa to 3-2. A former Anaheim Duck, Ryan was expectedly booed in a building where he has had considerable success, and familiarity with the Kings. Michalek delivered the tying goal when he grabbed the puck and shot it through heavy traffic with 4:27 remaining in the third. Quick never had a chance. Until the third period, Brown was leading the way to a much-needed, bounce-back win with two opening-period goals after Kings coach Darryl Sutter tweaked his lineup with the insertions of Daniel Carcillo and Alec Martinez. Brown came out of the penalty box in time to collect Ryan's missed-shot rim-around and beat Senators goalie Craig Anderson by the far post at 6:39 of the first period. Brown, who also induced two penalties, easily tipped home from the top of the crease Carter's feed just as a 5-on-3 penalty expired for a 3-0 lead just over 14 minutes later.