NHL Results - Fri, Dec 19, 2014

Tampa Bay @ New Jersey 2-3 SO - Kinkaid made 26 saves and stopped Lightning forwards Nikita Kucherov, Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Drouin in the shootout. Patrik Elias won it with his goal in the third round. Elias beat Tampa Bay goalie Evgeni Nabokov with a backhanded shot off a deke. The Lightning forced overtime when Kucherov scored his 13th goal and fourth in the past five games with 40.1 seconds remaining in regulation. New Jersey got goals from Adam Henrique and Elias to take a 2-0 lead in the first period. Elias gave the Devils the two-goal lead at 15:17 when he beat Nabokov over the blocker on the far side with a fluttering backhanded shot off a spin-o-rama from the right-circle faceoff dot. Elias' shot fluttered after it tipped off Lightning defenseman Matt Carle's stick. The first goal came off of Henrique's stick during a power play at 3:01 of the first period. Henrique scored from the slot after Lightning defenseman Jason Garrison attempted to clear the puck away from the blue paint only to have it bounce off the end boards come right back to the area. Nabokov was slightly off his post and the puck went behind him to Henrique. Stamkos' 19th goal cut the Lightning's deficit to 2-1 with 5:05 to play in the second period, but Tampa Bay was 0-for-5 on the power play, including a failed four-minute man advantage in the final eight minutes of the third period. New Jersey forward Michael Ryder was issued a double-minor for high sticking at 12:18, but the Lightning had two shots on goal and seven total attempts on the power play. New Jersey had multiple chances to take a 3-0 lead before Stamkos scored, but Nabokov made point-blank glove saves on Ryder and Elias, and Zajac hit the crossbar. Zajac also hit the post early in the second period.
Anaheim @ Ottawa 2-6 - Sucks captain Ryan Getzlaf scored two goals 2:33 apart late in the second period and early in the third to cut the Ottawa lead to 4-2. There was a power-play goal by Milan Michalek, an even-strength goal by Mark Stone, and then two goals in 41 seconds, a shorthanded goal by Kyle Turris, and Hoffman's first late in the second period. Hoffman's second goal of the game at 5:40 of the third period thwarted the Sucks' push. Getzlaf made it 4-1 and broke the shutout streak of Senators goaltender Craig Anderson at 115:14 with 44 seconds left in the second period. Getzlaf made it 4-2 1:49 into the third period when he skated through the neutral zone, went around MacArthur, and then forced his way by the stick check of Senators defenseman Eric Gryba to cut to the Ottawa net. Getzlaf forced the puck by Anderson for his 12th goal of the season. Hoffman charged up the slot and put a pass by Bobby Ryan by Bryzgalov to make it 5-2, and Mika Zibanejad scored his ninth of the season at 16:32.
NY Islanders @ Detroit 2-1 - Each Islanders goal came off a rebound. Red Wings forward Gustav Nyquist hit the goal post about 3:30 into the third period, and Detroit forward Darren Helm shot wide on a shorthanded breakaway with 2:28 left. Lee gave the Islanders a 2-1 lead 10:41 into the second period. He swept in a puck that came out from under Mrazek after Nelson had been stopped on a breakaway off a turnover by Red Wings center Riley Sheahan. The goal went to video review because Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson cleared the puck out of the net after it was about a foot or so over the goal line. Mrazek made a spectacular save on Nelson 2:25 into the second with New York on the power play. After a cross-crease pass, Mrazek got over to make the stop after it appeared that Nelson had the open side of the net. Halak stopped Pavel Datsyuk, who was cutting in off the right wing, with a blocker save with a little more than 6:30 remaining in the second. Zetterberg opened the scoring 8:49 into the game with his sixth goal. He beat Halak with a one-timer from the top inside area of the left circle. It came off a pass from the left corner by Helm.
Nelson tied the game 1-1 with 3:57 left in the first with his team-leading 14th goal. He dove to poke in a rebound between Howard's pads before the Detroit goalie could cover the puck.
Boston @ Winnipeg 1-2 - Dustin Byfuglien set up the game-winning goal and led Winnipeg’s makeshift defense with 27:04 of ice time. Byfuglien took a high stick late in the third period that the Jets do not believe is a serious injury. Since returning full-time to the Winnipeg blue line Dec. 5, Byfuglien has two goals and four assists. Jets defenseman Jay Harrison had an assist in his first game since being acquired in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday and played 20:10, the third-most among Winnipeg defensemen. Defenseman Torey Krug scored for the Bruins, and Tuukka Rask made 25 saves. Rask failed to control Jets defenseman Grant Clitsome's point shot, and it set up a 1-0 lead for Winnipeg 3:12 into the game. Kane grabbed the rebound and stuffed it into the net for his sixth goal of the season.  Taking advantage of an ill-timed pinch inside the zone by Winnipeg, Krug finished an odd-man rush by Chris Kelly and Carl Soderberg by pushing a rebound under Hutchinson at 4:49. The goal, Krug's sixth, gave him three goals in his past seven games. The Jets went ahead when Byfuglien’s wrist shot through four players in front of Rask caromed off Perreault and into the net for a 2-1 lead with 23 seconds remaining in the second period. The goal was Perreault’s fifth and extended his point streak to six games (two goals, four assists). The Bruins pressed a Winnipeg defense that looked overmatched at times late in the game and broke through to post their 16-shot third period. However, they could not beat Hutchinson again and have 10 goals in their past five games. Boston scored 3.15 goals per game last season; this season, the Bruins have 2.42 goals per game.