Ottawa v Pittsburgh 2-4 - Matt Cooke had an assist while fitting in nicely
during his first extended action of the season as Evgeni
Malkin's left wing. But the Senators weren't impressed, not after
losing star defenseman Erik
Karlsson long-term as the result of a collision with Cooke. James
Neal scored twice, and Sidney
Crosby had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who defeated
the Senators for the second time this season. Karlsson, the Senators'
22-year-old reigning Norris Trophy winner, sustained a laceration to
his left Achilles. It will require surgery to repair, leaving him out
indefinitely, perhaps for the season. Karlsson was killing a penalty
when Cooke came from behind to pin him against the left-wing boards.
Cooke's left skate made contact with the back of Karlsson's lower
left leg, leaving Karlsson in sharp pain. He immediately headed to
the locker room. There was no penalty called on the play on Cooke,
who has a history of supplemental discipline from the NHL. Karlsson
isn't the only high-profile injury for the Senators, who lost for the
fifth time in their past seven games. The team learned shortly before
faceoff they would be without top-line wing Milan
Michalek, who sustained a lower-body injury during warm-ups. The
Senators already were without center Jason
Spezza, who had back surgery this month. Pascal
Dupuis scored, Paul
Martin had two assists, and Neal added an assist to give him his
first three-point game of the season for the Penguins, who were
coming off a being swept in a home-and-home by the New Jersey Devils.
Stephane Da
Costa and Jim
O'Brien scored for the Senators. Neal's first of the game was his
NHL-best sixth of the season on the power play, tying the game 2-2 at
6:23 of the second period off a feed from Crosby. The Penguins have a
power-play goal in six consecutive games. Neal gave the Penguins the
lead, 3-2, 1:52 into the third when he pounced on a rebound of a
Deryk
Engelland shot from the point that had been deflected by Cooke.
Neal has 10 goals this season. Only Buffalo Sabres forward Thomas
Vanek, with 12, has more. The Penguins scored first for the 11th time
in 14 games this season when Dupuis finished a set-up from Crosby
16:23 into the contest. Pittsburgh closed the scoring when Crosby got
his goal seconds after a holding penalty to Chris
Phillips had expired 11:42 into the third. It was Crosby's sixth
of the season, the second in his past six games. Ottawa scored twice
in a 24-second span midway through the second, each a soft one
against Penguins goalie Marc-Andre
Fleury. Da Costa scored the instant a Senators' power play
expired and 40 seconds after Pittsburgh had killed 1:20 of Ottawa's
5-on-3 time. Da Costa was against the boards and over Fleury's right
shoulder behind the net when he flipped the puck toward him that
somehow found its way through Fleury's equipment and bounced in for
Da Costa's first of the season and fourth career goal in 31 games.
Shortly thereafter and on the next shot of the game, O'Brien beat
Fleury with a wrist shot from the left wing for his seventh career
goal in 47 games, his fourth of the season. A day after Ottawa goalie
Craig Anderson
registered his second shutout of the season, he allowed a season-high
four goals on 30 shots. He was the NHL leader in goals-against
average and save percentage entering the game. Fleury made 27 saves
to win for the fourth time in his past five starts. He did it against
a depleted Senators lineup. Pittsburgh, conversely, welcomed back
defensemen Kris
Letang and Matt
Niskanen. Each had missed time due to a lower-body injury.
St Louis v Detroit 4-3 - They might not be all the way there yet, but
Wednesday's overtime win in a building that's been difficult on them
certainly lifted the spirits of the St.
Louis Blues. Alex
Steen's goal 52 seconds into overtime helped the Blues break a
five-game losing streak with a 4-3 win against the Detroit
Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. Steen banked a shot in off Jimmy
Howard when Barret
Jackman threw a puck at Howard that caromed into the low slot.
Steen was on the doorstep and popped in his third goal in as many
games helping the Blues snap an 0-4-1 slide. Chris
Stewart tallied a goal and an assist, Patrik
Berglund and Vladimir
Tarasenko added goals and Jake
Allen, making his first NHL start, stopped 15 shots, and it was
Allen's clutch left pad stop on Detroit's Damien
Brunner in overtime seconds before the Blues rushed to the other
end to get the winner after falling behind 2-0 early in the game.
Detroit, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, got goals
from Tomas
Tatar, Drew
Miller and Pavel
Datsyuk. Howard, after stopping 45 shots in a 3-2 win against Los
Angeles on Sunday afternoon, stopped 21 shots Wednesday. Tatar added
his first goal of the season and second of his career, winning a
battle near Allen, then going forehand-backhand and roofing the puck
in just 2:17 into the game. Miller scored his first of the season,
the 19th time the Blues have allowed a player to score their first
goals of the season, on a give-and-go with Jordin
Tootoo and slipping a puck through Allen 7:54 into the opening
period. But the Blues, who have fallen behind in five of the last six
games, got a huge goal when Berglund notched his team-leading sixth
of the season with a shorthanded tally after T.J.
Oshie beat Brunner and Justin
Abdelkader before feeding Berglund for a one-timer with 4:42 left
in the period. And the Blues thrived off the big goal, coming out
firing and tilting the ice in their favor. They grabbed a lead by
scoring twice in 1:45 when Tarasenko and Stewart both caught Berglund
with their sixth goals of the season for a 3-2 lead. Tarasenko took
Stewart's saucer feed and beat a screened Howard at 7:12 on the power
play, giving the Blues an 8-for-14 conversion rating against Detroit
this season, and Stewart took a stretch pass from Alex
Pietrangelo and beat Howard on a backhand breakaway attempt at
8:57. Datsyuk tied the game with 7:21 left in the second when he
caught Allen peeling off the left post and banked one in from behind
the net after the Wings had sustained some good pressure. It's the
15th straight period the Blues have allowed a goal dating back to the
second period of their 5-3 loss here in Detroit on Feb. 1. Neither
team scored in the third and the Blues had their team game going so
well, they held Detroit to one third-period shot, and 24 blocked
shots in the game attributed to a lot of that.
Dallas v Calgary 4-7 - Still seeking his first goal of the season,
Michael
Cammalleri felt he was rounding into form before suffering a
slightly torn hip flexor that forced him out of the Calgary
Flames' lineup for three games. Cammalleri had a hat trick,
including the 200th goal of his career, as part of a four-point night
as the Flames earned a 7-4 victory against the Dallas
Stars at Scotiabank Saddledome on Wednesday night. The loss snaps
Dallas' four-game winning streak, while ending Calgary's two-game
skid. Scoring just two goals in back-to-back losses, the Flames
wasted little time igniting their offense against Richard
Bachman and the Stars. After Bachman kicked out Cammalleri's
initial shot, Jay
Bouwmeester jumped on a loose puck in the rebound scramble and
put it in the back of the net just 3:11 into the game. After an
incredible save by Calgary starter Leland
Irving, the Flames added another. Turning the puck over in their
end while with the man-advantage, Irving was forced to make a diving
paddle save. Heading up ice, Jiri
Hudler finished a tic-tac-toe setup by Alex
Tanguay and Dennis
Wideman for the power-play marker at 6:44. Cammalleri, with his
first of the year, and former Flames' first-round pick Eric
Nystrom exchanged goals before Calgary added its fourth before
the period was out. Keeping the puck in at the point, TJ
Brodie worked the puck down to Tanguay, who found Roman
Cervenka in the slot for his second career NHL goal with 2:42
remaining to give Calgary a 4-1 lead heading into the first
intermission. The teams traded three goals in the opening four
minutes of the second period. On the power play 45 seconds in,
Jaromir Jagr
fed Brenden
Morrow on the doorstep, where he slipped the puck between
Irving's legs to cut the lead to two. Jarome
Iginla, igniting his teammates, was involved in his first fight
of the season as he dropped the gloves with Stars forward Antoine
Roussel at 2:13 of the second period. It sparked Cammalleri and
the Flames. Cammalleri, with his second of the night, restored the
three-goal lead at 3:23. After a miscue in front of the Flames' net,
Morrow poked his second under the glove and behind Irving to make it
5-3 just 24 seconds later. Jamie
Oleksiak, the tallest player in Stars' history (6-foot-7),
recorded an assist on the play for his first career NHL point. Curtis
Glencross added Calgary's sixth at 12:01. Caught on a line
change, Blair
Jones upped the puck to Iginla, who fed Glencross for his fifth
goal of the year. The Stars tried to claw their way back into the
game early in the third. Circling behind the net, Michael
Ryder fed Cody
Eakin in the slot, who snapped a one-timer over the shoulder of
Irving just 1:05 into the period to close the gap to 6-4. Dallas had
ample opportunity to climb to within one with eight minutes
remaining. After stopping Jamie
Benn's original shot from the slot, Irving managed to deny Jagr
on the doorstep to preserve the two-goal lead. Eakin, looking for his
second of the night, saw his shot with just under six minutes
remaining blockered away by the Flames' goaltender. Cammalleri hit
the back of an empty net with 1:26 remaining in the game to complete
the hat trick.
No comments:
Post a Comment