Toronto @ NY Islanders 5-2 - Kessel started a four-goal outburst at 9:04 when he beat Jaroslav Halak from the right circle and finished it at 17:53 by using his speed to outrace the defense and score his fourth goal of the season. The Islanders missed the net on two superb scoring chances in the first couple of minutes, but cashed in at 2:48 when Leddy took a feed from Josh Bailey inside the Toronto blue line, eased down between the top of the circles and beat Bernier with a wrist shot over his catching glove. Toronto tied the game at 8:44 with some help from a fluke bounce. Hamonic's pass behind the Islanders net took a strange carom out of the right corner and came to Kessel. He found van Riemsdyk for a quick shot from the slot that beat a surprised Halak for his third of the season. New York went back in front at 15:02 on a fortunate bounce of its own. Five seconds after Joffrey Lupul's slashing penalty put the Islanders on the power play, Johnny Boychuk's left-point blast missed the net, hit the end boards and came right to Tavares, who rifled home his third of the season with a shot from the right faceoff dot. It was Tavares' League-leading 10th point. The Maple Leafs got even again with 10:56 remaining in the second period when Mike Santorelli started a 3-on-2 break that Kessel finished with a snap shot from the right circle. Toronto didn't need long to take the lead. After a ferocious forecheck, Polak scored his first goal of the season by whipping a wrist shot from the slot past Halak at 11:11. The Maple Leafs continued to dominate play and made it a two-goal game at 16:21 when Clarkson's wrist shot from the high slot sailed through a screen and into the net for his second of the season. It became a three-goal game 92 seconds later when Kessel outraced Thomas Hickey to chase down van Riemsdyk's clearing pass and beat Halak again to make it 5-2. Hickey went to the dressing room early in the third period, holding a towel to his face, after falling along into the side boards in the neutral zone and being clipped by Santorelli's skate. He was cut and did not return.
Detroit @ Montreal 1-2 OT - David Desharnais scored 56 seconds into overtime to give Montreal a 2-1 win. Desharnais put a backhand of Max Pacioretty's shot over goalie Jimmy Howard from the right side of the net to give Montreal its third win in a row. Canadiens forward Alex Galchenyuk scored on a wraparound with 3:09 remaining in the third period to tie the game 1-1. Galchenyuk worked free of Red Wings defenseman Kyle Quincey at the left side of the net while Montreal's Alexei Emelin shot from the left point. The left wing retrieved the rebound behind the goal and went behind to stuff the puck into the right side of the net for his third goal. Galchenyuk, who scored for a second game in a row, had an ongoing battle with Quincey after the latter was called for roughing during a heated scrum at 17:28 of the second. Pavel Datsyuk made his season debut for the Red Wings and assisted on Zetterberg's goal at 13:41 of the second period. Zetterberg scored his second goal of the season when he broke down the right side of the Montreal zone before cutting inside on Emelin. Zetterberg's shot went in off Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban's skate before quickly exiting the net. Datsyuk was denied a spectacular backhand goal at 11:51 of the third period. Referee Greg Kimmerly immediately waved his arms to deny the goal, ruling that Abdelkader had come into contact with Price when Datsyuk spun around in the slot and put a shot into the right corner.
Phoenix @ Nashville 3-4 SO - The Coyotes took a 3-2 lead on a power-play goal by former Predators forward Martin Erat at 7:42 of the third period. Nashville's James Neal tied the game 21 seconds later when he one-timed a pass on the rush from Mike Ribeiro, who played for the Coyotes last season. Ellis scored the game-winner in the shootout after he had a goal and two assists in regulation. He was active on the rush offensively for Nashville. The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead at 3:21 of the first period when Rob Klinkhammer was able to convert on a 2-on-1 rush. Klinkhammer received the pass from David Moss and one-timed the puck past Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne for his second goal. Ribeiro tied the game at 12:05 of the first on a 4-on-1 rush by the Predators. He made a pass to Ellis and got the puck right back to one-time it past Phoenix goaltender Devan Dubnyk. Ellis gave the Predators a 2-1 lead at 5:12 of the second period, three seconds after a Nashville power play expired. He pinched down to the high slot and fired a wrist shot past Dubnyk. Phoenix defenseman Keith Yandle tied the game 2-2 at 11:48 of the period on a wrist shot from the slot. Yandle got the puck off a faceoff in the Nashville end and shot it past Rinne for his first goal of the season. Nashville had four power-play chances in the second period and was unable to convert on any of them. Dubnyk made his second start of the season for Phoenix, falling to 1-0-1 on the season. He stopped 23 of the 26 shots he faced and helped the Coyotes earn a key point.
Carolina @ Winnipeg 1-3 - Winnipeg began the game having scored twice in those four consecutive losses. But Andrew Ladd and Adam Lowry scored their first goals of the season for a 2-0 lead 2:37 into the game. Tlusty's goal helped Carolina to linger in the game late into the second period before Dustin Byfuglien's breakaway goal shut down the Hurricanes' comeback bid. Ladd scored 1:57 into the game when he jabbed a bouncing puck that squeezed between Khudobin's right pad and the post. Forty seconds after Ladd's goal, Lowry tipped Grant Clitsome's shot from the right point between Khudobin's pads for his first NHL goal. Consecutive Winnipeg penalties 2:04 apart set up Carolina's first goal. Tlusty scored his fourth of the season when he knocked a loose puck that Pavelec had bobbled into the net on the power play at 7:03.But Byfuglien restored the Jets' two-goal lead with 3:34 remaining in the second period, breaking loose from Carolina defenseman Justin Faulk and finishing off a breakaway for his second goal of the season. The Jets moved Lowry to back to his natural center position after a brief stint at left wing, and the rookie has settled in on Winnipeg's third line.
Philadelphia @ Chicago 0-4 - Chicago went 2-for-4 on power plays, outshot the Flyers 43-32, continued to control puck possession and stormed the net the way Quenneville demanded. Raanta dazzled in his first regular-season action since April 12. Chicago's second-year backup goalie made 32 saves filling in for Crawford, who is day-to-day with an upper-body injury and might not join the Blackhawks for the start of their two-game road trip Thursday against the Nashville Predators. Raanta was sharp from beginning to end, making several key stops to preserve the three-goal lead he was given. Patrick Kane, Brandon Saad and Bryan Bickell scored in the first period for the Blackhawks. Each goal came with traffic around the net, something that was noticeably lacking in previous games. Quenneville challenged his team to get better at the dirty work down low, and they responded, hounding loose pucks around the net and creating traffic in front of Mason most of the game. Saad's goal, scored at 11:54 of the first for a 1-0 lead, was a classic blue-collar goal. After Mason made a save on his initial attempt, Saad hung around while Mason made two more saves off rebounds. The puck slid slowly between Mason's pads after his third save in the sequence and came to a stop just outside the goal line without the goalie noticing. Saad, standing just to the left of the crease, saw it right away. He and Bickell charged for it, with Saad barely beating his teammate to the puck for his first goal of the season. Kane scored 32 seconds later to make it 2-0 off a power play created when Philadelphia forward Michael Raffl was whistled for a kneeing penalty in the Flyers offensive zone. A long slap shot from the blue line by Patrick Sharp missed wide, and the puck caromed out to Kane, who put it into the net from close range. Philadelphia coach Craig Berube used his timeout after Kane's first goal, but Bickell made it 3-0 64 seconds later, at 14:00. After Saad hit him in stride with a pass off the rush, Bickell scored his first goal of the season with a hard wrist shot from the slot. It was the second goal for Chicago's third line, which Quenneville first put together in practice Monday by sliding Saad from left wing on the second line to right wing with Bickell and center Brad Richards. The new third line paid immediate dividends, with two goals, five points and six of Chicago's 19 shots in the first period. The Flyers came out with more energy in the second and earned more time with the puck in the offenzive zone. They outshot the Blackhawks 10-8, but Raanta came up big with several saves to keep it 3-0 headed to the third. Raanta was strong in goal again in the third, making 13 saves. Kane put on the finishing touch with his second power-play goal at 3:50. It was his third goal of the season.
Florida @ Colorado 4-3 OT - Brad Boyes whistled a shot behind goalie Reto Berra at 2:23 of the period 63 seconds after Avalanche defenseman Brad Stuart was penalized for tripping Aleksander Barkov in the corner in Colorado's end. The Panthers were in a 2-for-24 drought with the man advantage before Boyes found the back of the net off a pass from Jonathan Huberdeau. The Panthers took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Brandon Pirri and Barkov, matching their season high for goals in a game. They didn't score a goal in the first period in their previous five games. The Avalanche scored three times in the second period, two on power plays 31 seconds apart, to grab a 3-2 lead before the Panthers tied the game at 17:41 on a goal by Sean Bergenheim. Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo collected his 375th career win to move past John Vanbiesbrouck into 13th place on the all-time list. A giveaway led to Bergenheim's tying goal. He corralled the puck in front of the Avalanche goal despite being checked by Nathan MacKinnon after a point shot by Dylan Olsen and poked it past Berra. The Avalanche got a goal from Tyson Barrie on a two-man advantage at 10:51 of the second period and one from Gabriel Landeskog at 11:22 on a 5-on-4 situation. Barrie became the first Colorado defenseman to score a goal this season when he beat Luongo with a one-timer from the left point with Boyes (high sticking) and Erik Gudbranson (delay of game) sitting side-by-side in the penalty box. Landeskog scored when he drove to the front of the net and chipped the puck over Luongo's right shoulder. The Avalanche took a brief 3-2 lead at 14:41 on Alex Tanguay's team-leading third goal. Tanguay stripped the puck from Florida defenseman Aaron Ekblad in the neutral zone and took a shot that went in off Bergenheim's skate. Pirri opened the scoring at 4:43 with his first goal. Jussi Jokinen was in the left circle when he intercepted Avalanche defenseman Ryan Wilson's clearing attempt and fed Pirri in the high slot for a quick blast past Berra. Barkov scored his first goal of the season at 13:03 to complete a pretty passing play with Boyes and Ekblad. Ekblad passed to Barkov cutting to the net for a tap inside the left post. Wilson sustained a shoulder injury in the second period and didn't return.
Tampa Bay @ Calgary 2-1 OT - Palat gathered a rebound off the pad of Karri Ramo to end the game with two minutes remaining in overtime. Palat’s winner came after Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Drouin couldn’t convert on a 2-on-0.Both were in behind Calgary's defense when a neutral zone turnover sprung Stamkos, who fed a cross-crease pass to Drouin but he couldn't beat the outstretched pad of Ramo 1:39 into the extra period. The Flames outshot Tampa Bay 8-5 through the opening 20 minutes, a period that was lacking in intensity until Calgary captain Mark Giordano caught Lightning forward Kucherov with a hit in the neutral zone before obliging J.T. Brown with a fight that followed 12 seconds later. Giordano and Brown served nearly 10 minutes for their fight after a long stretch of action without a whistle held them in the penalty box. Giordano's first shift back came at 8:54 of the second period and he and Brown watched their teams exchange the best opportunities to get on the board in the second. Calgary tested Nabokov with Mike Blunden also in the penalty box for tripping, but the Tampa Bay goaltender was equal to the task in flashing a quick glove save off Giordano's one-timer from the point with 7:52 remaining in the period. The opportunity came moments after Palat's chance on a shorthanded, odd-man rush was denied by Ramo. Ramo was equally good with the glove too, snatching a Brown shot out of mid-air with four minutes remaining in the period. Dennis Wideman's goal, his third in the past four games, came courtesy a gift from Gaudreau and opened the scoring 1:12 into the third period. With a Valtteri Filppula minor for interference carrying over into the third period, Kris Russell dropped a pass to Gaudreau in the neutral zone. Gaudreau picked through three members of the Tampa Bay penalty kill before throwing the puck back across the slot for Wideman, who beat Nabokov to complete the highlight-reel play and put the Flames up 1-0. Filppula avenged the penalty on Wideman's goal with 2:16 remaining in regulation. Jason Garrison's blast from the point managed to squeak through Ramo and started to roll through the crease before Filppula swatted the puck over the goal line to tie the game 1-1, end Ramo's shutout bid and force overtime.
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