Columbus @ Ottawa 4-1 - The Columbus Blue Jackets had their power play firing on all cylinders to begin a five-game Canadian road trip, while the Ottawa Senators needed a late two-man advantage to finally break through and spoil Sergei Bobrovsky's shutout bid. Ryan Johansen and Fedor Tyutin each had a goal and an assist, and Bobrovksy came within 2:27 of his first shutout of the season, as Columbus scored three power-play goals in a 4-1 win Sunday against Ottawa at Canadian Tire Centre. Johansen scored his sixth goal at 4:50 of the first period, and assisted on RJ Umberger's goal at 4:13 of the second, as the Blue Jackets converted each of their first two opportunities with the man advantage. Tyutin, who assisted on Umberger's goal, scored the Blue Jackets' third straight power-play goal on a 5-on-3 at 12:07 of the middle period. Derek Mackenzie scored at 5:27 of the third period for Columbus, which won for just the second time in 10 games. Bobrovsky made 30 saves. The 2012-13 Vezina Trophy winner lost his shutout bid at 17:33 of the third when Erik Karlsson scored on a two-man advantage. Columbus opened the scoring 12 seconds after former Blue Jackets defenseman Marc Methot was called for holding at 4:38 of the first. Johansen took a backhand pass from Ryan Murray in the right faceoff circle and dragged the puck back to evade Senators defenseman Jared Cowen before putting a low wrist shot past Anderson. Umberger scored Columbus' second goal just eight seconds after Ottawa defenseman Mark Borowiecki was sent off for roughing. Johansen won a faceoff in the Senators' end and drew the puck back to Tyutin before circling back to take a return pass. Anderson stopped Johansen's shot, but Umberger batted home the rebound for his fifth goal. Tyutin increased the lead to 3-0 with his second goal 24 seconds after Borowiecki took a tripping penalty with Ottawa defenseman Eric Gryba already in the penalty box. Borowiecki ended the game with 24 penalty minutes, including an elbowing major and a game misconduct for his open-ice hit on Jarret Boll at 5:44 of the third. Wisniewski, who also got a minor penalty and a misconduct for instigating the fight with Borowiecki, assisted on Johansen's goal for his 13th point in his past 13 games. He has two goals and 11 assists during that span, and assists in 10 of those games. Ottawa right wing Chris Neil went to the dressing room briefly at 15:41 of the first after he collided with Johansen along the boards. He was back on the bench before the end of the period.
St Louis @ Washington 1-4 - Ovechkin tied Steen for the NHL goal-scoring lead with two first-period goals, and the Capitals held Steen scoreless for only the fifth time in the Blues' first 19 games, snapping his 13-game point streak as well en route to a 4-1 win, their sixth straight at home. Ovechkin's first goal opened the scoring at 7:17. Steve Oleksy corralled Chris Stewart's clearing attempt and quickly reversed the flow by feeding Backstrom, whose crafty one-touch pass freed a hard-charging Ovechkin. With plenty of space, Ovechkin wound up and fired a slap shot past Jaroslav Halak. It took a little more than five minutes for Ovechkin to score his second of the game and 17th of the season. Halak was able to knock down Karl Alzner's rising slap shot, set up by a rink-wide pass from Backstrom, but Ovechkin pounced on the rebound before Halak could, backhanding the puck over the goaltender's catching glove to extend Washington's lead to 2-0. Mikhail Grabovski made it 3-0 at 15:41 when he chipped a Jason Chimera rebound past Halak, who was then pulled for Brian Elliott after allowing three goals on six shots. Vladimir Sobotka cut St. Louis' deficit to 3-1 when he beat Holtby high to the stick side with a wrist shot from the slot at 5:29. Washington responded less than four minutes later on a power play of its own when John Carlson's slap shot from the high slot eluded Elliot. In front of USA Hockey brass, Carlson, a 2014 Sochi Olympics hopeful, scored his fifth goal of the season, all of which have come within the past eight games.
Los Angeles @ NY Rangers 1-0 - Ben Scrivens made 37 saves for his second consecutive shutout to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 1-0 win against the New York Rangers on Sunday night. Tyler Toffoli scored the game's lone goal against Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who made 29 saves. It was Toffoli who got the bounce 1:23 into the second period when his point shot deflected off the left skate of Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman and past Lundqvist for his third game-winning goal in five games. The Rangers had what they thought was the tying goal overturned with 2:41 left in regulation, when a video review concluded that Dominic Moore had kicked the puck with his right skate past Scrivens. New York's power play, which came into the game having scored in six of the previous nine games, got some quality chances in the first after Willie Mitchell was called for interference 8:18 into the game. But the Rangers got their best chance to contribute in the second with the Kings up 1-0. Mitchell was off for interference when the Rangers earned a 5-on-3 advantage after the Kings were whistled for too many men with 8:50 remaining in the second. It was a prime opportunity to tie the game for a team that leads the NHL with three goals while enjoying a two-man advantage. L.A. killed off Mitchell's minor, but Trevor Lewis was then called for delay of game when he shot the puck out of play with 16 seconds remaining in the bench minor. But the Rangers couldn't convert despite 5:10 of consecutive power-play time that included 50 seconds of 5-on-3 play. Despite having played the night before, New York (10-10-0) carried the play in the opening minutes of the third, but Scrivens and L.A.'s stifling defense kept them at bay. They thought they tied the game in a mad scramble around Scrivens. The play was initially signaled a goal but was quickly overruled by the video review, a call Vigneault did not dispute.
Winnipeg @ Minnesota 1-2 - Mikko Koivu's second goal of the night broke a 1-1 tie with 3:12 remaining in regulation to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory against the Winnipeg Jets at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday night. Wild goaltender Josh Harding continues to shine; he made 21 saves to stay undefeated at home this season (10-0-0). Harding has allowed 20 goals in 17 games. Minnesota opened scoring late in the first when Zach Parise beat a pair of Jets to a loose puck behind the net and fired a no-look pass to Koivu in the slot, where he beat Ondrej Pavelec for his third goal of the season at 16:37. The Wild held the Jets to two shots in the first period, their fewest allowed in any period this season. Winnipeg was better in a scoreless second and finally tied the game 56 seconds into the third when Dustin Byfuglien tipped an initial shot by Bryan Little from the left faceoff dot for his fourth of the season. All of Byfuglien’s goals have come in the Jets' past four games. Pavelec stopped 22 shots for the Jets. The Wild have now gained at least a point in 12 of their past 13 games and has points in eight straight games for the first time since 2007-08.
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