Results - Sat, Feb 01, 2014

Edmonton @ Boston 0-4 - The Bruins' determination to wipe out the memories of one of their worst losses of the season was greater than Ben Scrivens' recent impenetrability in the Oilers' goal. Coming off a sound loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday, the Bruins received goals from four players and 22 saves from Chad Johnson in a 4-0 victory at TD Garden on Saturday. Scrivens, who set an NHL record for saves in a regulation shutout with 59 in the Oilers' prior game against the San Jose Sharks, finished with 37 saves Saturday. His saves streak, which dated to a game against the Nashville Predators on Jan. 26, was snapped at 102 straight and his shutout streak stopped at 126:41 when David Krejci scored a second-period goal. The Oilers (18-33-6), who were playing their first of four straight on the road, last beat the Bruins on Oct. 17, 2000; they haven't won in Boston since Nov. 7, 1996, a stretch of nine games. The loss snapped Edmonton's three-game winning streak. It took until 2:06 of the second period to make sure Scrivens wouldn't keep up his record-breaking pace. Scrivens took a tripping penalty on Brad Marchand before Krejci's slap shot from the high slot deflected off a skate in front and went into the net for a 1-0 lead on the Bruins' 14th shot of the game. The Bruins thought they solved Scrivens again at 8:32 when Matt Bartkowski's pass to the top of the crease deflected off Loui Eriksson and past Scrivens. But the puck hit off Eriksson's right skate, and after video review the goal disallowed because the puck was ruled to have been directed into the net with a distinct kicking motion. Hamilton gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the third period by setting up his goal. First he snapped a shot at Scrivens on the rush and retrieved the rebound. Hamilton then beat Scrivens with a wraparound off the goaltender's right pad and in at 6:43. Carl Soderberg and Torey Krug added insurance goals. The Bruins outshot the Oilers 9-2 in the first period, but one of Edmonton's two shots was on an Ales Hemsky breakaway that Johnson thwarted at 5:12. The highlight of a scoreless first period was a video tribute to Edmonton captain Andrew Ference, who left the Bruins for the Oilers as a free agent last summer. Ference was a key member of the Bruins for several seasons, including the Stanley Cup championship team in 2010-11.


Tampa Bay @ Montreal 2-1 OT - The Lightning have become masters of moving forward without taking too many steps back. The resilient Lightning, still awaiting the return of center Steven Stamkos from a broken right tibia, exhibited that quality again Saturday when Nate Thompson's second goal of the game, with 23.1 seconds remaining in overtime, gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 win against the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre. The Lightning spent most of the overtime in their own zone while being outshot 5-0 until forward Alex Killorn came down right wing and sent the puck behind the Montreal net. Defenseman Victor Hedman picked it up off the end boards and sent it out in front to Thompson, who tapped it in the open side for his fifth goal of the season. Daniel Briere scored in the third period for the Canadiens, whose first two-game winning streak of 2014 ended. Montreal had an excellent opportunity to win the game when Tampa Bay defenseman Eric Brewer took an interference penalty at 18:55 of the third period, giving the Canadiens a 4-on-3 advantage for the first 55 seconds of overtime. Not only did the Canadiens fail to score, they didn't generate a shot on goal despite all the room on the ice. The Lightning was missing second-line center Valtteri Filppula, who sustained a lower-body injury in a 5-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday. There were also some questions whether goaltender Ben Bishop would be able to play after he left that game with a head injury. Not only did Bishop play, he made 28 saves to earn his 27th victory of the season. Bishop made five saves in OT. Earlier in the game, he got into an altercation with Montreal forward Brandon Prust during a television timeout. Carey Price was outstanding in the Montreal net, making 34 saves with much of the play during regulation taking place in the Canadiens' end. There was nothing he could do about the winning goal, and Thompson's second-period shorthanded goal was tipped past Price by Subban. There was a penalty shot called at 4:41 of the first period when Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov was hooked by Montreal rookie defenseman Nathan Beaulieu during a partial breakaway. Price denied Kucherov with a pad save. Then there was the back-and-forth between Prust and Bishop during a timeout in the second period, which resulted in a scrum that led to offsetting minor penalties to Bishop and Price, 10-minute misconducts to Montreal's George Parros and Tampa Bay's Radko Gudas, and a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct to Prust. The Lightning took the lead at 5:58 of the second period with a shorthanded goal credited to Thompson when his centering pass to J.T. Brown was tipped by Subban and went past Price. The Canadiens tied it at 7:25 of the third period when Briere took a pass in the left circle and beat Bishop high with a wrist shot for his ninth goal of the season.
Buffalo @ Colorado 1-7 - Teenage rookie Nathan MacKinnon showed again Saturday that he can more than hold his own in the NHL. The 18-year-old center collected a goal and two assists to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 7-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres at Pepsi Center. MacKinnon, the first pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, leads all rookies in scoring with 40 points (20 goals, 20 assists) in 54 games. The Avalanche have won three in a row, are 9-2-1 in their past 12 games and have beaten the Sabres seven consecutive times since Dec. 4, 2005. It was the first time the Avalanche scored seven goals in a game since March 6, 2012, against the Minnesota Wild. MacKinnon's play more than made up for the absence of forwards Paul Stastny (ankle) and Alex Tanguay (knee). Centering a line with Gabriel Landeskog and PA Parenteau, who was a healthy scratch the previous two games, MacKinnon completed the first three-point game of his NHL career. Landeskog and Jamie McGinn scored two goals apiece and Erik Johnson matched his career high for points in a game with three assists. Goalie Semyon Varlamov, who is on a 12-1-1 roll, made 27 saves. The Avalanche have had trouble protecting third-period leads, but that wasn't the case Saturday. Colorado took a 5-1 lead into the third and added to it on goals by Landeskog and McGinn. MacKinnon, who has three goals and four assists during a four-game point-scoring streak, set up goals by Tyson Barrie and Landeskog in the first period when the Avalanche took a 3-0 lead, then scored during a power play at 16:29 of the second to make it 5-1. McGinn and Marc-Andre Cliche, who scored his first NHL goal in 49 games, also put pucks behind Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, who was replaced by Jhonas Enroth to begin the third period. The Avalanche took their first-period lead on goals by Barrie, McGinn on a power play and Landeskog. Barrie scored at 7:37 after MacKinnon flubbed a shot. The puck went to Barrie, who scored from a sharp angle on the right side. Barrie has two goals and three assists in a four-game point-scoring streak. McGinn tipped in Johnson's shot at 11:49 with 14 seconds remaining on a double minor to Buffalo's Mike Weber for high-sticking Matt Duchene. McGinn was at the edge of the crease when he tipped the puck past Miller's left pad. Landeskog scored 58 seconds later at 12:47 to cap a 3-on-2 Avalanche rush. MacKinnon skated down the right side and waited until the last moment before sliding the puck to Landeskog driving down the middle. Landeskog, who has two goals and five assists in a five-game streak, scored into a half-open net. Cliche, who played in one NHL game in his six seasons with the Los Angeles Kings organization, scored at 6:05 of the second period for a 4-0 lead. After taking a carom off the end boards, Patrick Bordeleau passed through the goalmouth to Cliche, who tucked the puck inside the right post. Bordeleau made sure to retrieve the puck for Cliche, who was claimed on waivers from the Los Angeles Kings on Sept. 22. The Sabres got on the board at 11:45 on a power-play goal by Matt D'Agostini, who put in the rebound of Tyler Ennis' shot. MacKinnon answered off a drop pass by Johnson. Varlamov made a save and got the puck to Johnson, who weaved into the Sabres end and passed the puck to MacKinnon, who scored from the high slot. Landeskog increased the lead to 6-1 at 7:36 of the third period with a shot past Enroth from the left circle. McGinn scored into a wide-open net at 10:07 off a pass from Ryan O'Reilly.
Philadelphia @ Los Angeles 2-0 - If there seemed to be something extra in Wayne Simmonds' goal celebration, there's a reason. The Philadelphia Flyers forward let loose with a big fist pump after his 100th NHL goal came against his former team Saturday. It was the game-winner in Steve Mason's 22nd career shutout, a 2-0 victory against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center. Simmonds scored 39 of those goals for Los Angeles from 2008-11. Mason made 34 saves, and Claude Giroux scored with 1:59 left to lift the Flyers out of a 1-4-1 slide in their previous six games and give them a split in the first two games of their California trip. The Flyers are 7-1-1 all-time at Staples Center. Mason made 27 saves in the final two periods. Los Angeles usually lives on low-scoring games, but the Flyers managed to keep the Kings on the perimeter. Los Angeles were shut out for the third time in five games and is 1-7-1 in its past nine. The Kings have have three goals in six games, all by Anze Kopitar, and their scoreless streak is at 110:28. They outshot the Flyers 35-13, not including a wraparound by Justin Williams that hit the post. Simmonds completed a tic-tac-toe play to give the Flyers a 1-0 lead at 7:48 of the second period. Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin committed a turnover trying to get the puck out of his end, and Vincent Lecavalier and Giroux set up a wide-open Simmonds for his 18th goal of the season. Mason kept Philadelphia clinging to the 1-0 lead during a big push by the Kings at the end of the period. He made 14 saves and stopped Slava Voynov from the slot. The Kings had at least two other prime chances, but Dustin Brown shot the puck wide after a takeaway in the high slot and Doughty missed a tip shot. Giroux converted a power-play goal for his 17th. Kings coach Darryl Sutter tweaked his lines again and put Tyler Toffoli up with Kopitar and Jeff Carter on the top line. Philadelphia defenseman Kimmo Timonen was scratched with a lower body injury and is day-to-day, the team announced. Timonen had played in all previous 55 games this season. Kings defenseman Robyn Regehr played in his 1,000th game. The Kings play the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.
Ottawa @ Toronto 3-6 - Phil Kessel completed his fifth career hat trick by scoring the go-ahead goal with 5:58 remaining in regulation, leading the Maple Leafs to a 6-3 victory against the Senators at Air Canada Center on Saturday night. Kessel's third goal of the night and 30th of the season came after he took advantage of a misplayed puck behind the net by Senators goalie Craig Anderson and snapped a 3-3 tie. He reached the 30-goal mark for the sixth time in his career and moved into second place in the goal-scoring race behind Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, who has 38. The line of Kessel, Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk combined for four goals and eight points. Kessel also set up Bozak's 11th goal of the season with 1:23 left in regulation before Nazem Kadri hit the empty net with 29 seconds left to complete a four-goal third period for Toronto, which has won nine of its past 11 games. Kessel has 23 points in his past 12 games. Joffrey Lupul scored the other goal for the Maple Leafs, who got 23 saves from Jonathan Bernier. Resident goon, Chris Neil scored twice and set up Colin Greening's goal for Ottawa, which couldn't hold an early two-goal lead. Anderson stopped 30 shots. The Maple Leafs, are third in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of the Montreal Canadiens, seven ahead of the Detroit Red Wings and eight in front of the Senators (24-21-10), who fell out of the final wild-card playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. Neil put the Senators in front with 53 seconds left in the first period when he used defenseman Morgan Rielly as a screen and beat Bernier. Greening doubled the lead 6:46 into the second period when he finished off Neil's pass on a 2-on-1 break. Kessel finally woke up the packed house at Air Canada Centre at 13:01 when he got the Maple Leafs on the board. Van Riemsdyk sent a pass across the crease and Kessel beat defenseman Jared Cowen to the front of the net before snapping the puck into the net. Lupul tied it 1:38 later with his 17th of the season, a one-timer from in front after a quick pass by Kadri behind the net. Kadri got the puck loose after delivering a hit on Senators defenseman Cody Ceci.

"I know he went in and finished his check," Lupul said. "Obviously he irritated a couple of guys as they came after him and then got it out to me and I was able to get it under Anderson's arm. Good play by him getting in on the forecheck." The Senators viewed the play differently."I just kind of showed my back a bit hoping he'd slow up and ended up face-first in the boards and then they scored right on the play," Ceci said. "It was a tough play, tough play for me. It was unfortunate I didn't get a call on the play and they ended up tying the game with that." No penalties were called on the play or the scrum that followed the goal.

Kessel gave the Maple Leafs their first lead with a power-play goal 7:34 into the third period. With defenseman Patrick Wiercioch off for holding, Kessel skated into the slot and fired a wrist shot over Anderson's glove for his second goal of the game. The Senators tied the game at 9:06 when Neil managed to sneak the puck across the goal line. Bernier thought he had Neil's quick shot trapped under his pads. But a video review determined that the puck crossed the goal line before the whistle, giving Neil his eighth goal of the season and third point of the night.

Florida @ Columbus 1-4 - The Columbus Blue Jackets won't play in Nationwide Arena the rest of February, so they wanted to leave a lasting impression with the home fans. It was mission accomplished when the Blue Jackets received a standing ovation in the final minute of a 4-1 win against the Florida Panthers on Saturday night. Columbus is 13-4-1 in its past 18 games and in the thick of a second Stanley Cup Playoff appearance in history. Goals by Boone Jenner and Johansen gave Columbus (28-23-4) a 2-0 lead in the first period with linemate Nathan Horton getting an assist on each. Jenner and Johansen each had an assist for a line that played together for the first time Thursday against the Washington Capitals. The Blue Jackets were dominated for long stretches but won for the second time in row after losing three straight. An inability to get the puck out of the zone led to the Panthers' goal that made it 2-1; Boyes scored at 7:41 of the second period after unrelenting pressure. Florida forced Columbus to take a timeout after an icing, but the Blue Jackets iced the puck again without making a line change. The Panthers took advantage when the Blue Jackets finally cleared the zone and tried to switch up, but Florida brought the puck into the offensive zone. Brian Campbell connected with Boyes on the left side and passed to an unmarked Nick Bjugstad at the back door. Columbus defenseman David Savard reached for the puck but deflected it into his goal, and Boyes had his team-best 15th. Savard and defense partner Fedor Tyutin had been on the ice more than two minutes by the time the goal was scored. Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was otherwise flawless making 36 saves, 29 coming in the last two periods; he is 11-2-0 in his past 13 games. Bobrovsky, the 2013 Vezina Trophy winner, outplayed Tim Thomas, who won the award in 2009 and 2011 with the Boston Bruins. Thomas inadvertently helped the Blue Jackets take a 1-0 lead in the first period when he couldn't corral the puck and Jenner scored. Thomas also should have stopped Foligno's wrist shot in the second period after the Boyes goal. Columbus went ahead 1-0 at 15:33 of the first period when Johansen skated to the right of the net behind the goal line and tried to cut a pass back that Thomas blocked. The puck rolled away, and Thomas tried to push it into his glove while lying on his stomach. He instead slipped it under the glove to the crease area where Jenner gathered it and deposited his ninth goal of his rookie season. Columbus struck again 2-1/2 minutes later with Jenner setting up Johansen for his 22nd, third in two games. Jenner drew attention as he skated past the crease, suddenly spun, and fed a backhand to the paint where an unchecked Johansen had an easy tap-in. The goal by Foligno at 17:46 of the second period rebuilt a two-goal edge for the Blue Jackets after the Boyes goal gave the Panthers momentum. Foligno sped down is off wing and snapped a shot from the right circle that went under the right arm of Thomas at 17:46 for a 3-1 lead before Mark Letestu added a goal in the third. With that, a trip for Florida that started with a 5-4 shootout win at the Detroit Red Wings ended with three straight losses while being outscored 16-6.
Nashville @ St Louis 3-4 SO - Vladimir Tarasenko took a play out of his father's playbook to help the St. Louis Blues win a game Saturday night. Tarasenko's shootout winner in the fourth round against the Nashville Predators produced a 4-3 victory when he skated in hard on goalie Carter Hutton and whipped a quick wrister stick side. Tarasenko, who had a goal and an assist in regulation, scored in similar fashion in the third period to tie the game 3-3 after the Blues had coughed up a two-goal lead. Tarasenko and T.J. Oshie scored shootout goals for the Blues, who improved to 6-2 in shootouts this season. The Predators got a shootout goal from Ryan Ellis, but Brian Elliott stopped Mattias Ekholm on the Predators' final attempt trying to get it to a fifth round. Jaden Schwartz and David Backes scored for the Blues, who improved to 3-5-1 in the second of back-to-back games. They've beaten the Predators, eight of the past nine times the teams have met. The Blues are now 14-0-1 against Central Division foes this season. They are one point behind the first-place Chicago Blackhawks in the Central Division but have three games in hand. It was Schwartz, Tarasenko and Derek Roy that carried the Blues when the team really needed a boost. Paul Gaustad, Mike Fisher and Roman Josi scored for the Predators, who also played Friday when they defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-2 in overtime at home. Down 2-0, the Predators got some life back when Gaustad pounced on an Ian Cole turnover and beat Elliott from in tight with 3:12 left in the period to cut the Blues' lead to 2-1. With the puck in the left corner, Cole was bunched with teammate Brenden Morrow and a Predators player when he tried to play a puck through the middle of the ice that Gaustad picked off. Fisher fired a shot from the right corner off Elliott and into the net 3:25 into the third period to tie the game 2-2. Josi put the Predators ahead after Gabriel Bourque stole the puck from Barret Jackman near center ice. On the ensuing 3-on-2 turned, Josi fired from the left circle and beat Elliott to the short side at 7:33 to give Nashville its first lead at 3-2. After the goal, it was Tarasenko who went to his goalie and told him that the Blues would get the goal back. Tarasenko needed all of 16 seconds to make his claim come to fruition. He brought the puck into the middle of the ice and beat Hutton with a wicked wrister high to the glove side. Schwartz tied Tarasenko for third on the team in goals with 17 after be buried a backhand feed from Chris Stewart past Hutton 9:11 into the first period for a 1-0 lead. The power-play goal came with Predators captain Shea Weber in the penalty box for high-sticking Maxim Lapierre. Backes scored his second goal in as many nights and tied Joe Mullen for 11th on the all-time franchise goal-scoring list with his 151st by deflecting Jay Bouwmeester's one-timer from the right point past Hutton 3:31 into the second to make it 2-0. That's when the Blues lost it for a bit. Michael Del Zotto nearly got his first goal as a Predator, but his shot from close range hit the crossbar with 2:26 remaining in regulation.

Minnesota @ Calgary 3-4 OT - The Calgary Flames might want to delay their Olympic break. Mikael Backlund scored 2:25 into overtime to give the Flames a 4-3 victory against the Minnesota Wild at Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday night. It was their fifth consecutive win during a perfect homestand; they play three road games next week before breaking for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Calgary's next home game is Feb. 27 against the Los Angeles Kings. It's the first time in almost a year the Flames have put together five straight wins on home ice; their last such streak came from Feb. 23 to March 27, 2013. It's also the first time since Feb. 7-15, 1997, that Calgary has swept a five-game homestand. The hot stretch at home comes after the Flames set a franchise record by losing seven straight in their own building. Backlund won it when he batted Sean Monahan's rebound out of midair and behind Darcy Kuemper for his second of the night and 13th of the season. Backlund has had two points in each of the Flames' past four games. The Wild, who play their final two games before the break at Xcel Energy Center, scored twice in the final 10 minutes of the third period to force OT and earn a point to conclude a four-game road trip that ended with a 1-1-2 record. With Flames forward Joe Colborne in the penalty box for holding, Calgary product Dany Heatley scored his first in nine games to pull Minnesota within one goal with 9:29 remaining. With 4:05 left, Keith Ballard crashed the net and scored his second of the season to push the game past regulation. Calgary's TJ Galiardi opened the scoring at 12:36 of the first period and in doing so, snapped a lengthy personal scoring drought. He gained the Wild zone and took a return pass from Kevin Westgarth before spinning and firing a backhand that made its way past Kuemper for his first in 38 games to put the Flames up 1-0. The goal came just over a minute after Flames starter Karri Ramo bailed out Mike Cammalleri, who made his return after missing nine games with a concussion. Cammalleri's drop pass at the Minnesota blue line turned into an odd-man rush the other way for the Wild, with Charlie Coyle stepping around the Flames forward before Ramo sprawled to make the save. Ramo left the game six minutes later with a lower-body injury and did not return. It's the third time in four games the Flames have had to use both goaltenders but the first time due to injury. It took the Wild a while to test Reto Berra in relief, but Matt Cooke made the most of his shorthanded opportunity in the second. Cooke barreled down left wing and ripped a shot over Berra's shoulder at 14:03 to tie the game 1-1. The goal came on the Wild's 10th shot of the night and the third against Berra. Dennis Wideman restored Calgary's lead with 1:36 remaining in the period by deflecting Chris Butler's point shot past Kuemper seven seconds after Zach Parise's slashing minor expired. Backlund's shorthanded goal a minute into the third period gave the Flames a two-goal cushion. Lee Stempniak raced down the left side on a 3-on-1 break and shoveled the puck on net. With Kuemper spun around, Mark Giordano tapped the puck back to Backlund who hit a virtually empty net. The assist extended Giordano's point-scoring streak to nine games, the longest of any defenseman this season.