Results - Mon, Dec 30, 2013

Washington @ Ottawa 1-3 - Mika Zibanejad drew Ottawa even at 13:49 of the first period with his first goal in 13 games. Turris scored his third goal in the past five games at 3:14 of the second to give the Senators a 2-1 lead. Anderson, who got a glove on Eric Fehr's shot from the slot with a little more than two minutes left in regulation to preserve Ottawa's lead, made several big stops during an offensive push by Washington late in the second period, beginning with a save on Mikhail Grabovski's shot on a 2-on-1 and capped moments later when he denied Alex Ovechkin's backhander as the Capitals captain drove the net. Joel Ward scored his 12th goal 2:11 into the game to put Washington ahead 1-0. Capitals goalie Philipp Grubauer made 35 saves in his fourth straight start. The 22-year-old German rookie, who is 1-2-1 over that stretch, stopped 16 of 17 shots and five of six shootout attempts in a 2-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday.

Senators forward Chris Neil left the game after receiving some of his own medicine, he attempted to injure Ovechkin midway through the first period and came off worse himself. Neil, who was favoring his left leg as he skated off the ice, sustained a lower-body injury and did not return.

"It doesn't appear like it's going to be day-to-day," Senators coach Paul MacLean said. "It could be longer than that, but we're going to re-evaluate it and see what it is."

Neil, who leads Ottawa with 99 penalty minutes, has five goals and one assist in 42 games. Ovechkin was understandably upset about the hit.

"I saw him; I thought he was going to hit me shoulder-to-shoulder and I was ready, but he hit me right in the head, right at the chin," Ovechkin said. "I asked the referee why he didn't see it, and he said, 'Ah, I didn't see it.'"

Zibanejad, who has moved to center in Jason Spezza's absence, took a return pass from Cory Conacher on a 2-on-1 and steered the puck into a wide-open net for his ninth goal; it was his first since Dec. 1. Senators right wing Eric Condra fired a shot off the right post in the opening minute of the second period. Bobby Ryan, who scored his team-leading 18th goal Saturday, got his 18th assist on Turris' 10th goal at 3:14. Referee Jean Hebert put his right arm up to signal a delayed penalty on Capitals defenseman Mike Green, who hooked Turris as the Ottawa center drove the slot after receiving a pass from Ryan. Turris made the call a moot point when he deked around Grubauer to stuff a shot into a gaping net. Ward scored with his back to the net to give Washington the early lead. The Capitals forward's backhand along the ice from the slot found its way into the net inside the left post. Anderson had a scare before his flurry of saves later in the second when he left his net to play Washington defenseman Karl Alzner's dump-in along the glass. The puck struck a stanchion and hit the outside edge of the wide-open net.

Detroit @ Nashville 4-6 - Mike Fisher had a Gordie Howe hat trick, a first-period assist, a second-period fight and a goal and an assist in the third period, and Wilson scored twice to lead the Nashville Predators past the Red Wings 6-4 at Bridgestone Arena in Detroit's final game before the 2014 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic. Howard, who hadn't played for nearly three weeks after being injured Dec. 10, was beaten by two of the first five shots he faced. Wilson and Craig Smith scored before the game was 10 minutes old, Nick Spaling added a goal early in the second period, and Fisher, Wilson and Roman Josi scored in the third to help the Predators end 2013 with back-to-back victories at home. Wilson gave the Predators the early lead by scoring on Nashville's first shot against Howard. He raced down the middle into the Detroit zone, was given room to shoot and let go a wrist shot that appeared to hit a defenseman's stick before sailing past Howard for his sixth goal of the season. Fisher got the second assist. The lead lasted all of 66 seconds. Abdelkader bulled his way out of the left corner with the puck and lifted a short backhander that beat Mazanec at 3:00 of the first. Abdelkader's fourth of the season came on Detroit's second shot. Nashville iced the puck as the first period neared the halfway mark, and Detroit coach Mike Babcock loaded up his forward line by putting Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg together. Nashville's Paul Gaustad won the draw in his own zone and got the puck to Smith, who went coast-to-coast before beating Howard from the left circle for his team-high 11th of the season at 9:50. Spaling gave the Predators a two-goal lead 4:24 into the second period when he called his own number on a 2-on-1 break and beat Howard from the right circle for his seventh of the season. The Red Wings stepped up their game at the start of the third period and made it a one-goal game 35 seconds after the opening faceoff. Nashville captain Shea Weber made a bad clearing attempt that was picked off by Niklas Kronwall at the left point. The defenseman's diagonal pass found Datsyuk near the right faceoff dot for a one-timer past Mazanec. It was Datsyuk's 15th goal of the season and his 799th NHL point. But Fisher, who fought Abdelkader late in the second period, made it 4-2 at 5:50 when he swept home a feed from Wilson, who had started the play with a takeaway in the Detroit zone. It was Fisher's third goal in two games. He scored twice in the final 3:18 on Saturday to give Nashville a 3-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings. Miller shoved home a loose puck at 11:30 to cut the margin to 4-3, but Wilson restored Nashville's two-goal lead 37 seconds later when he took a pass from Seth Jones, cut around the defense and found himself alone in front before lifting a backhander over Howard. Fisher, who started the play, earned his second assist of the night. That turned out to be the winner when Eaves scored his first of the season on a power-play one-timer with 5:08 remaining to make it 5-4. Josi hit the empty net with 18.6 seconds remaining.

Philadelphia @ Vancouver 4-3 SO - Brayden Schenn picked up brother Luke by tying the game in the final minute of regulation, and Vincent Lecavalier completed the comeback with the only goal in the shootout, lifting the Flyers to a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night. After Luke Schenn accidentally knocked a rebound into his own net to put the Canucks ahead with 2:48 left in regulation, younger brother Brayden scored his first goal in 17 games with 46.8 seconds remaining and Mason pulled for the extra attacker. After a scoreless overtime, Lecavalier beat Eddie Lack with a nice deke and forehand shot over the blocker in the first round of the shootout, and Mason stopped Mike Santorelli, Ryan Kesler and Daniel Sedin to preserve the comeback as the Flyers improved to 6-1-1 in their past eight games. It was fitting that the younger Schenn got the Flyers even after older brother Luke accidentally knocked a rebound from a long Daniel Sedin shot off Mason's blocker, up over the goalie and into the net. The lead lasted just over two minutes. After Sean Couturier won a draw in the Vancouver end, Scott Hartnell won a battle atop the Canucks' crease and fed across Brayden Schenn for a tap-in. Fourth-line wing Tom Sestito, who was claimed off waivers from the Flyers in March, and Jannik Hansen scored second-period goals to put the Canucks ahead, but Flyers captain Claude Giroux scored on a partial break with 68 seconds left in the period to tie it 2-2. Defenseman Mark Streit opened the scoring the Flyers, who had lost five straight road games before winning the first two of a six-game trip that continues Tuesday against the Calgary Flames. The Flyers have scored 30 of them in the past eight games, led by a top line of Giroux, Jakub Voracek, and rookie Michael Raffl, who had two assists against the Canucks. Voracek had his nine-game point streak snapped, but the trio has 40 points in the past 10 games. Giroux tied it two minutes later after Raffl sent him in on a partial break, holding off the check of Hamhuis and drawing a penalty before slipping the bouncing puck between the legs of Lack. Already down to their ninth defenseman with the loss of Andrew Alberts on Sunday and the Monday morning recall of Frank Corrado from the American Hockey League, the Canucks got another scare when Kevin Bieksa was hit in the face by a clearing attempt with seven minutes left in the first period. Bieksa left clutching a towel to his face and the Flyers scored while he was in the locker room, but he was back before the period ended.