Hammond's best save came at 8:19 of the second period with the Senators leading 1-0, using his glove to stop a slap shot by Islanders defenseman Brian Strait from outside the left circle. The Islanders outshot the Senators 22-9 in the period. Matt Puempel gave Ottawa the lead with his second goal of the season at 6:32 of the second period. He took a pass from Mika Zibanejad, who was at the left circle and passed it to the slot, where Puempel one-timed it past Halak, who was screened by Bobby Ryan. There was a brief delay at 10:55 of the second period when a piece of Hammond's mask broke after taking a puck to his helmet on a Johnny Boychuk slap shot. Hammond appeared shaken up but remained in the game after his mask was repaired. Turris tipped an Erik Karlsson shot from the right side past Halak at 18:53 of the second period to give the Senators a 2-0 lead. New York's Tyler Kennedy tipped a Lubomir Visnovsky shot from the right point past Hammond for his sixth goal of the season at 11:59 of the third period. It was his second goal in three games since he was acquired in a trade from the San Jose Sharks on March 2. Hammond was 0-12-2 with a 4.30 goals-against average and .880 save percentage during his freshman season at Bowling Green State University before he acquired his nickname.
Dallas @ Washington 4-2 - On the edge of Stanley Cup Playoff contention, the Dallas Stars aren't going away. Dallas scored three power-play goals in a 4-2 win against the Washington Capitals, their sixth consecutive victory over a Metropolitan Division opponent. The Stars (32-27-10) have won five of their past six games, including 5-3 at the Carolina Hurricanes. Dallas is five points out of the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. Dallas went 4-1-0 on its Eastern Conference road trip. Shawn Horcoff, Colton Sceviour, Tyler Seguin and Fiddler scored for Dallas (32-27-10), which won its third game in a row. Lehtonen made 18 saves. Curtis Glencross and Evgeny Kuznetzov scored for Washington (36-23-10). Goalie Braden Holtby made 18 saves but was replaced by Justin Peters in the second period after allowing four goals. Peters made nine saves in relief. Horcoff scored a power-play goal at 3:25 of the first period to give Dallas a 1-0 lead. Ales Hemsky's drop pass set up the goal, which deflected past Holtby. It was Horcoff's 10th of the season. Glencross tied the game 1-1 at 11:24 of the first period. Lehtonen blocked Glencross' initial backhand try but he scored on the rebound for his 12th goal of the season and his fifth point in five games since being acquired in a trade from the Calgary Flames. Sceviour sent a snap shot past three Washington defensemen to give Dallas a 2-1 lead with 3:05 left in the period.
Sceviour's seventh goal of the season snapped a 17-game goal-less streak dating to Jan. 29. Seguin scored Dallas' second power-play goal of the game at 7:21 of the second period. The goal was his 32nd of the season and 10th on the power play, tying him for eighth in the NHL. Seguin has a point in each of the four games he's played against Washington with Dallas. A missed shorthanded chance by Washington's Eric Fehr led to Fiddler's 12th goal of the season. Hemsky led the 2-on-1 into Washington's zone and fed Fiddler, who scored on a wrist shot at 14:05 of the second. Kuznetzov scored his seventh goal of the season with 1:26 left in the third period. Holtby was replaced by Peters after Fiddler's goal. It was the second time this season Holtby was pulled from a game, the first time since Washington's third game of the season on Oct. 14.
Washington failed to score on its three power plays and allowed three power-play goals for the first time since Dec. 2, a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. Dallas was 3-for-6. Capitals defenseman Mike Green returned to the lineup after missing one game because of an upper-body injury.
Edmonton @ Columbus 4-5 SO - A trying rookie season for Blue Jackets center Alexander Wennberg got better when he scored the deciding goal in the shootout for a 5-4 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Nationwide Arena.
Wennberg was the only player to score in the tiebreaker; he put a wrist shot off Edmonton goaltender Ben Scrivens' glove and into the net to start the fifth round. It was Wennberg's first goal in three career shootout attempts. The goal came after Wennberg had two assists in regulation but was stopped on a break in the opening seconds of overtime. He was happy that Columbus coach Todd Richards gave him another chance. Nail Yakupov scored off a one-timer during a 5-on-3 power play at 3:26 of the third period to give the Oilers their first lead. He has 11 goals. It was the third power-play goal for the Oilers, the first time this season they've had that many in a game. Columbus left wing Scott Hartnell tied the game at 4-4 with 3:37 left in regulation when he scored off a goalmouth rebound. It was his fourth goal in three games and his 20th of the season, the eighth time in his career he's reached that mark. The combination of two unseasoned players and the veteran Hartnell seems to be clicking. The Oilers trailed 2-0 after one period, rallied to tie the game, then fell behind 3-2 before Ference scored at 19:11 of the second to make it 3-3. His third goal of the season came 2:20 after Anisimov had put the Blue Jackets ahead with his fifth goal of the season. Edmonton erased a 2-0 deficit with two power-play goals in the second period; Roy tied it at 12:56 when a fortunate bounce left him with the puck and an open net. A rim around the boards by Oscar Klefbom was about to be played in the trapezoid by Bobrovsky when the puck skipped out front to Roy for his ninth goal. Scrivens got the secondary assist. Edmonton's first goal came when Eberle snapped a cross-ice pass from Nugent-Hopkins top shelf past Bobrovsky at 6:18. Eberle has three goals and four assists in the past four games.
Anaheim @ Minnesota 2-1 - Gibson made 16 saves in the first period, keeping the game scoreless until Beauchemin's goal late in the period. It was a solid bounce-back game for Gibson, who allowed six goals on 23 shots in a 6-3 loss to the Calgary Flames. Beauchemin capped a 3-on-2 rush into the Wild zone by one-timing a drop pass in the high slot through a screen past goalie Devan Dubnyk with 46.6 seconds remaining. The goal was Beauchemin's ninth, a career high. The Wild tied it 1-1 at 11:31 of the second when Thomas Vanek's shot from a bad angle got through Gibson's legs to Zach Parise on the doorstep for a tap-in.
The Ducks regained the lead 2:14 later by capitalizing on a turnover from behind the Wild net that ended up on the stick of Simon Despres at the blue line. His shot was deflected in front by Jakob Silfverberg for his 11th goal, a career high. Gibson was in control after Parise's goal, smothering shots and limiting rebound opportunities. He made nine saves in the third period, stopping quality chances by Ryan Suter, Jared Spurgeon and Nino Niederreiter in the final minute to preserve his 10th victory. The stop on Niederreiter came near the right post with less than 30 seconds to play. Minnesota got Dubnyk to the bench for an extra attacker with 1:35 remaining and put the three shots on Gibson.
Toronto @ Calgary 3-6 - The trio of Sean Monahan, Jiri Hudler and Johnny Gaudreau combined for four goals and nine points to pace the Flames 6-3 against the Maple Leafs. Drew Shore and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames, who haven't let the loss of captain Mark Giordano dampen their Stanley Cup Playoffs aspirations. Calgary improved to 5-1-1 in the absence of Giordano, who sustained a torn biceps muscle in late February that required season-ending surgery. During their individual six-game point scoring streaks, Monahan, Hudler and Gaudreau have combined for 16 goals and 30 points. Hudler's three-point night gave him a team-high 60, two more than his previous career-high, and Monahan has extended his career-high to 27 goals and 51 points. Gaudreau, in his first season, is tied for the rookie lead in scoring alongside Filip Forsberg of the Nashville Predators with 53 points. It didn't take long for Calgary's top threesome to get going against Toronto. On their third shift of the game, Hudler one-timed a pass from Monahan and beat Reimer but hit the post. However, Gaudreau circled out from behind the net and swatted the rebound into the net at 5:06 for his 19th of the season and a 1-0 lead.
Shore scored his first as a member of the Flames two minutes later, but Panik deflected Morgan Rielly's power-play point shot behind Jonas Hiller at 8:47 to cut Calgary's lead to one. The Maple Leafs received an excellent opportunity to pull even or perhaps go ahead when Calgary's Lance Bouma was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct at 10:05 for kneeing Brandon Kozun. Instead, the Flames blew the game open with a pair of shorthanded goals. Backlund broke up a zone entry between Peter Holland and Jake Gardiner at Calgary's blue line and raced up ice on a breakaway, beating Reimer to stick side at 11:40 to give the Flames a 3-1 lead. About three minutes later and with the Flames still down a man, TJ Brodie sprung Monahan, who deked Reimer before lifting a wrist shot over the goaltender to give Calgary a 4-1 lead. It took the Flames 1:29 into the second period to build on that lead. Knocking down a stretch pass at the blue line, Gaudreau dropped the puck to Hudler, who in turn fed Monahan. The second-year center snapped his second of the game and team-leading 27th of the season past Reimer to give Calgary a 5-1 lead. Booth got one goal back when his shot redirected off Flames defenseman David Schlemko and between Hiller's legs at 4:56. But the Flames struck again at 8:16 when Hudler redirected a slap-pass from Dennis Wideman behind Reimer for a power-play goal. Booth got his second of the night and sixth of the season 29 seconds into the third period, skipping a shot that rode up Hiller's stick and into the net to cut Calgary's lead to three goals.
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