Gameday 28 (Fri, 15 Feb) - Results

Boston v Buffalo 2-4 - The Boston Bruins have lost twice in regulation this season, both at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres. Christian Ehrhoff scored the game-winning goal 9:02 into the third period Friday, and the Sabres defeated the Bruins, 4-2, at First Niagara Center. Ehrhoff wristed a shot past Bruins goaltender Anton Khudobin from the low slot after the play came out from behind the net. Bruins forward Rich Peverley couldn't knock the puck out of the zone and Ehrhoff capitalized on the failed clearing attempt. The defenseman finished the night with a goal, an assist and a plus-3 rating. The Sabres trailed 2-1 heading into the third period and were outshot 29-16 at that point. Their play in the second prompted the home fans to boo them off the ice when the horn sounded to end the period. Buffalo came out strong in the third to turn the tide. Sabres forward Drew Stafford opened the scoring with his first goal of the season and assisted on Ehrhoff's goal. Defenseman Tyler Myers scored in the third period to tie the game 2-2 and recorded an assist. Center Tyler Ennis had two assists for Buffalo. The Sabres had lost their previous two games and were shut out against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. When the puck dropped Friday, the Sabres were in last place in the Eastern Conference. With the win, they are 6-8-1. Prior to the game, the Bruins had allowed five third-period goals all season. Four of those came against the Sabres in their first meeting of the season Jan. 31. The Bruins allowed three more Friday. Boston sits atop the Northeast Division at 8-2-2. Cody Hodgson scored his sixth goal of the season for the Sabres 2:43 after Ehrhoff's goal to make it 4-2. Myers jumped into the play in from the blue line on the forecheck to Khudobin's right and threw the puck out from the corner. Hodgson knocked the puck in on Khudobin's short side. Bruins rookie defenseman Dougie Hamilton scored the first goal of his NHL career. Peverley scored his second of the season to give Boston a 2-1 lead in the second period. Friday marked the third game between the teams this season and the second in a week. Buffalo defeated Boston, 7-4, on the road Jan. 31, and the Bruins came back to beat the Sabres in their match-up Sunday, 3-1, here. Khudobin, in his second start against the Sabres, stopped 24 shots. Buffalo goaltender Ryan Miller made 29 saves and is 24-7-7 in his career against Boston. Stafford put Buffalo up, 1-0, at 3:24 of the first period. Ennis picked up a turnover by Andrew Ference behind the Bruins net and threaded a pass in front to Stafford, who connected on a one-timer to beat Khudobin. Stafford's previous goal came on March 31, 2012. He scored 20 in 80 games last season but had not found the back of the net again until Friday. Boston had several chances later in the first period to even the score. On one extended possession in the Buffalo zone, Milan Lucic hit the crossbar, and less than a minute later, Tyler Seguin had three chances in a 10-second span. He tipped one shot off the post, put one on Miller, and fired another shot just wide of the net. Hamilton tied the game for the Bruins on the power play with 2:04 left in the first period. With Miller out of position, Ehrhoff blocked a David Krejci shot from going into an empty net, but the puck bounced off Ehrhoff's shin guards and right back to Krejci's stick. He settled the puck and fed it to Hamilton in the slot to his left. The 19-year-old ripped a slap shot past Miller to make it 1-1. Hamilton is the first Bruins defenseman to score a goal at the age of 19 since Jonathan Girard on Nov. 13, 1999. Peverley gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead early in the second period off a strange bounce. At 2:29, Hamilton shot the puck into the Buffalo zone and it caromed off the end boards to Miller's left. The puck came back high in the air and over several players, including Sabres defenseman Robyn Regehr, Bruins forward Daniel Paille and Miller. It made its way to Peverley, who kept his eye on it and shot into the top of the net from 22 feet out. The Bruins kept the pressure on in the second period, outshooting Buffalo, 17-6. Miller was mostly up to the task, including a big glove stop on Seguin off a rebound with 8:15 left in the period. Myers tied the game 2:03 into the third period. He followed up on a rush by Nathan Gerbe and Jochen Hecht into the Bruins zone. Gerbe hit Hecht with a pass on the break and Khudobin kicked out his right pad to make the save. The rebound went right to Myers in the slot and he threw a backhand into the net for his second goal of the season. On the shift following Buffalo's third goal, defenseman Andrej Sekera was hit by Boston forward Shawn Thornton in the corner to Miller's right. Sekera had to be helped off the ice and didn't put any pressure on his right leg as he went to the dressing room.

Philadelphia v New Jersey 3-5 - The Devils scored five goals on 19 shots, including four against Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov. The victory was the sixth in seven games for the Eastern Conference-leading Devils, who visit the New York Islanders on Saturday. The Flyers, who haven't strung together more than two straight victories this season, fell to 1-2-0 on a six-game trip that continues at the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. David Clarkson snapped a 3-3 tie midway through the third when he redirected a perfectly placed shot from the right point by Adam Larsson past Bryzgalov at the 10:43 mark. Philadelphia's Matt Read tried to drive the puck from the right corner out of the zone along the right-wing boards. The clearing attempt was gloved down by an alert Larsson at the right point, and he wristed a shot toward the slot where Clarkson was waiting. Steve Bernier scored an empty-net goal at 18:24. After yielding three goals on 11 shots in the first period, Devils goalie Martin Brodeur stopped the next 17 shots he faced, including 11 in the second. Larsson, who logged 20:04 of ice time and finished with a plus-3 rating, knew what to do when Clarkson gained position in front of the net. The goal by Clarkson was his team-leading 10th. Elias, who finished with a goal and two assists, pressured Read into making the ill-advised clearing attempt. Ilya Kovalchuk had three assists, and Brodeur made 25 saves. Elias pulled the Devils into a 3-3 tie at 15:40 of the second period when he hopped over the boards on a line change, took a pass from Kovalchuk between the circles and ripped a shot Bryzgalov got a piece of but couldn't control. The puck skittered a couple of inches over the goal line, giving Elias his fourth goal of the season and the 34th of his career against the Flyers. The assist by Kovalchuk was the 388th assist and 799th point of his career. Philadelphia might have lost defenseman Kimmo Timonen for an extended period of time with a lower-body injury. He didn't play a shift in the third period after suffering his injury late in the second. Laviolette did not have an update during his postgame remarks. Alex Ponikarovsky, in his first game since being reacquired by the Devils this week, made an instant impact when he took a pass from Kovalchuk and fired a shot from the top inside edge of the left circle that beat Bryzgalov high to the short side 26 seconds into the middle period to pull New Jersey within 3-2. Brodeur earned an assist, his first of the season, by flipping the puck to Kovalchuk at center ice to spring his team on a 3-on-2 breakout. Ponikarovsky looked right at home on the team's top line with Kovalchuk and center Travis Zajac. After spotting the Devils a 1-0 lead less than a minute into the game on Zajac's first goal in 12 games, the Flyers erupted for three goals on Brodeur in a span of 2:36 to open a 3-1 advantage. Wayne Simmonds got it started on a power-play goal off a backhand attempt from the slot at 9:27. Mike Knuble made it 2-1 at 11:15 on a quick turnaround blast from the high slot that beat Brodeur on his glove side. Read connected for his team-leading sixth goal of the season 48 seconds later. Mark Fayne turned the puck over to Claude Giroux, whose cross-ice pass found Read in the slot for a blast to the short side that beat Brodeur cleanly.

Pittsburgh v Winnipeg 3-1 - Pittsburgh goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has been a major contributor to the Penguins' success during the Dan Bylsma era. On Friday night, he helped ensure that the coach's fourth anniversary became a happy occasion. Fleury made 25 saves as the Penguins beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 at MTS Centre. He improved his career record against the Jets franchise to 15-5-0, including a 6-2-0 mark on the road. Fleury edged to within 95 seconds of a shutout before Andrew Ladd scored to make it 2-1, leaving him tied with Tom Barrasso for the franchise record at 22 shutouts. Winnipeg's loss dropped its home record to 3-4-0 in a building with a reputation as a formidable challenge for visiting teams. The Jets (5-7-1) have lost three of their past four games. Winnipeg's third consecutive regulation at home ties their longest drought since March 2012. Craig Adams scored Pittsburgh's first and last goals, sandwiching James Neal's game-winner on a late 5-on-3 goal. Neal's goal, his team-leading 11th of the season, led a Pittsburgh power play that has connected in seven consecutive outings, going 10-for-27 in that stretch. Neal's 25 power-play goals since the start of the 2011-12 season are the most in the NHL. Defenseman Kris Letang picked up on assist on Pittsburgh's first goal, giving him six points over his past six games. Adams helps anchor Pittsburgh's fourth line, and he earned praise from Bylsma in scoring his first two goals of the season. Adams tallied in the first period to provide a lead that the Penguins nursed deep into the third period, then added an empty-netter in the final minute. Pittsburgh's 7-2-0 mark moves the Penguins to within one win of the Chicago Blackhawks for the League lead in road victories. The Penguins are now 16-3-0 against the Winnipeg franchise in the clubs' past 19 meetings. The win avenged a 4-2 loss to the Jets in the Penguins' last visit to Winnipeg on Jan. 25, one of only two road losses for Pittsburgh this season. The Penguins followed that loss by running off six wins in their next seven games before losing both ends of a home-and-home series with the New Jersey Devils last weekend. The loss compounds what has been an unhappy week for the Jets. Noel ripped his club's play and effort over the first quarter of the season. General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff shipped out disappointing offseason addition Alexei Ponikarovsky to New Jersey after only 12 games and added Eric Tangradi from Pittsburgh via trade to shake up his corps of forwards. A stronger effort from the Jets softened Noel's feelings toward his club, which received 25 saves from Ondrej Pavelec after he returned to play from a two-game absence with the flu. For the second time in as many games, Winnipeg regained a major cog on the blue line. Zach Bogosian played for the first time this season after the 22-year-old defenseman underwent offseason wrist surgery. Dustin Byfuglien returned from a five-game absence Tuesday in a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. But just as Bogosian returned, Tobias Enstrom, who entered the night tied for the NHL scoring lead among defensemen, left the game after taking a heavy hit from Pascal Dupuis along the boards on his second shift of the game. Enstrom did not return, and the Jets did not disclose further information regarding his injury, though Noel did indicate that Enstrom's status was "not going to be day-to-day." Enstrom's absence forced Bogosian to log 25:38 of playing time in his debut while Ron Hainsey's 28:17 was his second-highest total this season. The Penguins scored first for the ninth time in as many road games and the 12th time in their first 15 games. Adams and his fourth line capitalized 3:19 into the game after Pavelec failed to secure Joe Vitale's left-side shot. Adams cut through four defenders and poked the loose puck behind Pavelec on his third try. Pittsburgh is 9-3-0 when scoring first. The clubs staged a physical first period in which they combined for 26 hits. Tangradi made his Winnipeg debut by leading all players with four hits in the opening 20 minutes. Winnipeg threatened during the third period, but consecutive minors 24 seconds apart left the Jets down two men against the League's third-best power play. Neal teamed with Evgeni Malkin and fired a shot through Pavelec's pads with 4:49 remaining for a 2-0 lead.

Anaheim v Detroit 5-2 - The Anaheim Ducks are playing so well they've even figured out how to win at Joe Louis Arena. Andrew Cogliano scored the tie-breaking goal 1:02 into the third period, and Bobby Ryan added another 48 seconds later as the Ducks continued their hot start by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 Friday night. Cogliano added an empty-net goal with 1:49 remaining to assure Anaheim of its first victory in Detroit in five years, the Ducks' previous win at the Joe was on Feb. 10, 2008. This was the fourth victory in 37 visits to Detroit since Anaheim entered the NHL in 1993. Viktor Fasth stopped 26 shots to improve to 7-0-0. The 30-year-old Swedish newcomer is the first goaltender since Dan Ellis from 2004-07 to win his first seven career starts. Because of his age, Fasth is not eligible for the Calder Trophy, giving to the NHL's top rookie. Anaheim is 10-2-1, including three straight wins. The Ducks are 4-1-0 on a six-game trip that ends Saturday at the Nashville Predators. The Red Wings, already battered by injuries, played without star center Pavel Datsyuk, who missed the game with what coach Mike Babcock later called a sore shoulder. Detroit's injury problems didn't diminish Anaheim's pleasure at winning in a building where they've struggled throughout their history. After each team scored twice in the second period, the Ducks took command with two quick goals in the third, both set up by Red Wings turnovers. Cogliano picked off a pass by Niklas Kronwall in the neutral zone, raced over the Detroit blue line, fed Saku Koivu and headed for the front of the net, where he tipped a return feed from Koivu past Jimmy Howard for his third of the season. Ryan made it 4-2 when he hammered his own rebound past Howard from the left circle for his fifth after Ian White's turnover led to a 2-on-1 break. The Red Wings got goals from rookies Joakim Andersson and Tomas Tatar. It was mistakes by veterans that sank them. After a scoreless first period, Detroit scored twice in the first half of the second, only to have Anaheim answer each time. Andersson scored his first NHL goal at 3:01, snapping a pass from Jakub Kindl past Fasth from below the right faceoff dot. But 26 seconds later, two Red Wings went to Ryan Getzlaf after a faceoff, leaving Beleskey alone in the slot to take Getzlaf's pass for a one-timer from between the hash marks that beat Howard cleanly. Tatar scored the second of his career at 6:32, picking up a power-play rebound in the slot, stepping to his left to get out of traffic and wristing the puck into the open left side. But Anaheim got even 1:05 later after White's stick broke as he tried to clear the puck in the left corner. Beleskey grabbed the puck and found Corey Perry in the slot; Perry outwaited Howard and snapped home his second goal of the season, his first in 13 games. Howard preserved the tie with 90 seconds left when he denied Ryan from close in and gloved Luca Sbisa's point blast through traffic. Detroit's Damien Brunner then snuck past the defense and came in alone on Fasth, only to fire wide. Anaheim dominated most of the scoreless first period, outshooting Detroit 14-6 and keeping Howard busy. But the Red Wings forced Fasth to make the best stop of the period; he foiled White, who had snuck down from the blue line to the slot, with 47 seconds left in the period. On the return rush, Anaheim's Peter Holland was wide-open in the slot only to have the puck bounce over his stick.

San Jose v Chicago 1-4 - The Chicago Blackhawks continue to look like a team destined for great things this season. The Blackhawks not only beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 at United Center on Friday night, they also crept closer to the NHL's all-time record for consecutive games at the start of a season with at least one point. At 11-0-3, the Blackhawks have points in their first 14 games, tying them with the 1943-44 Montreal Canadiens. The 1984-85 Edmonton Oilers earned points in 15 straight and the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks hold the League record with 16 straight. More important is that all three of those teams finished their season by winning the Stanley Cup, not that the Blackhawks are looking that far ahead. It's hard to see this team going through anything similar. Chicago is earning points every time out and is solidly atop the Western Conference because of it. In games when the Blackhawks aren't at their best, they still find ways to earn at least one point by pushing games to overtimes or shootouts. When they are clicking, as they were on Friday, it almost seems like they can't do anything wrong. The attack was primarily handled by the bottom-six forwards, headed by fourth, line center Marcus Kruger's fortunate-bounce goal in the second period, an assist in the third and his work on the penalty kill. Ray Emery started for injured Corey Crawford and stopped 27 of 28 shots. Then there was the first-period fight that Chicago captain Jonathan Toews got into with Sharks captain Joe Thornton, with whom he has some history in terms of rough play. Toews, who sparked the scrap by hitting Thornton in the corner and then shoving him multiple times, picked up an extra four minutes in penalty time for unsportsmanlike conduct and boarding. That put the Sharks on the power play, but Chicago, the top-ranked penalty-killing team in the League, killed off 3:24 of the infractions before San Jose's Patrick Marleau was whistled for interference to even the sides. Just 21 seconds after Marleau sat down, Dave Bolland followed up his own shot from the right circle by tapping in his fifth goal of the season off the rebound at 19:16 for a 1-0 lead. That sequence gave the Blackhawks momentum heading into the second, a period they wound up dominating. Chicago took control in the second by drawing a pair of penalties, keeping the puck in the Sharks end for long stretches, outshooting San Jose 17-8 and taking a 3-1 lead on goals by Kruger and Andrew Shaw. Hjalmarsson made it 4-1 at 6:28 of the third. Kruger got the primary assist on that goal with a nice drop pass to Hjalmarsson for the point blast, but also got rewarded on his goal in the second with a fortunate bounce. After flipping the puck into the San Jose zone from just outside the blue line, Kruger followed up the play by streaking down the slot as the puck bounced past Antti Niemi and hit the right post. It kicked out the other side right to Kruger, who tapped it home for a 2-0 lead. Tim Kennedy then scored the Sharks' lone goal about two minutes later with a pretty goalmouth deke to beat Emery at 5:03 of the second, but Chicago wasn't fazed. The Blackhawks continued to push the issue and eventually put the puck past Niemi again at 14:40 on Shaw's power-play goal – which actually was knocked into the net by San Jose's Joe Pavelski out of midair following a rebound shot during a scramble. San Jose hasn't won a game since beating Edmonton on Jan. 31, a span of seven games that followed a 7-0-0 start. The Sharks' offensive ineptitude also continued. Over on the Blackhawks bench, players banged their sticks against the boards to show their approval. Next came yet another big penalty kill to change a game in Chicago's favor.

St Louis v Calgary 5-2 - They're heading in the right direction, but coach Ken Hitchcock doesn't feel the St. Louis Blues have quite turned the corner yet. Not even a four-goal first period at the expense of the Calgary Flames was enough to sway Hitchcock. The reigning Central Division champions got two goals from David Perron and a goal and two assists from Alex Steen as they beat the Flames 5-2 Friday night, giving the Blues back-to-back wins after snapping a five-game losing skid two nights earlier with an overtime victory in Detroit. St. Louis (8-5-1) was spotted an early two-goal lead after two bad turnovers by the Flames (4-5-3) and never looked back. Just 1:28 into the game, Dennis Wideman tried to clear the puck up the middle but put it directly onto the stick of Steen. He quickly found Jaden Schwartz parked on the edge of the crease, and Schwartz deked starter Leland Irving before lifting the puck into the net for a 1-0 lead. It became 2-0 at 4:07 after another failed clearing attempt by Wideman wound up on Schwartz's stick. Schwartz found Patrik Berglund streaking towards the net, and he beat Irving over the glove to make it 2-0. The goal, on St. Louis' fourth shot, ended Irving's night. The Flames tried to crawl back into the game, but rookie goaltender Jake Allen slammed the door. Jiri Hudler broke the St. Louis zone and fed Alex Tanguay; he returned the puck to Hudler, who found trailing defenseman TJ Brodie cruising into the slot. Brodie was staring at an empty net with Allen caught out of position, but was left empty-handed after Allen extended to knock the puck out of midair with his paddle and keep Calgary off the board. The save, one of 30 on the night by Allen, energized St. Louis. The Blues added goals by Steen and Perron before the end of the period. Both were scored against Joey MacDonald, who relieved Irving. In the second period, Calgary picked up its play in front of MacDonald – making his first appearance of the season after being claimed on waivers by the Flames this week. Hudler stripped Alex Pietrangelo of the puck behind the net and centered for Blake Comeau in the slot, but Allen was equal to the task with just under eight minutes left in the period. Hudler got the better of Pietrangelo again at 14:30, dancing around the Blues defenseman on a partial break but had his shot bodied away by Allen. Wideman, atoning for his earlier misplays, broke through against Allen just over a minute later. With Chris Stewart serving a bench minor for too many men on the ice, Wideman corralled the puck in the high slot and fired a slap shot over Allen's blocker with 4:23 remaining in the period to make it 4-1. Curtis Glencross made it a two-goal game at 2:46 of the third period by redirecting a Jarome Iginla pass on the doorstep to Allen's right into the net for his fifth of the season and the 100th goal of his career. But Perron answered with his second power-play goal of the night, ripping the puck over MacDonald's blocker at 4:08. Allen closed the door on the Flames after Perron restored the three-goal lead, making a pad save off Matt Stajan alone in the slot at 8:43 and stopping Iginla from in close after a Kevin Shattenkirk giveaway behind the net with just over four minutes remaining.

Dallas v Vancouver 4-3 - Dallas Stars defenseman Brenden Dillon grew up in the Vancouver suburbs with a poster of Henrik Sedin on his wall. On Friday night, he spoiled the party for one of his boyhood idols. Playing in his hometown for the first time in the NHL, Dillon scored the winning goal with 3:01 left as the Stars rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Canucks 4-3, spoiling a wild night that included Henrik Sedin breaking the franchise record for points. But it may have been a costly win for the Stars as well. Just as any celebration of Sedin's record, and the return of Selke Trophy winning center Ryan Kesler from injury, was muted by the Canucks' blown lead, the Stars' party will wait for an update on star goalie Kari Lehtonen, who left the game with a groin injury. Described by several teammates in the morning as the Stars' best player this season, Lehtonen left shortly after making a save with his right arm that knocked the stick out of his hand. He skated to the Stars' bench and tried to stretch, but left the game. Most of the young players were there to help the Stars to their fifth win in the last six games. On a day that started with a lot of attention focused on Jaromir Jagr turning 41, rookie Reilly Smith scored his first NHL goal, and fellow 21-year-old Cody Eakins started the Stars' comeback late in the second period. Antoine Roussel, playing his seventh NHL game, tied it with 7:38 left and Dillon, an undrafted free agent playing just his 16th NHL game, netted the winner after pinching in from the left point, taking a pretty cross-ice pass from fellow British Columbia native Jamie Benn and snapping a perfect shot past Cory Schneider's glove on the far side. For all the scoring heroics, the Stars pointed unanimously to a string of three straight fights late in the second period as the turning point. Down 3-1 with five minutes left in the period, Ryan Garbutt got it started by dropping the gloves with former Brown University teammate Aaron Volpatti. The gloves dropped with the puck two more times in three seconds, with Vernon Fiddler taking on Maxim Lapierre, and Eric Nystrom squaring off with Dale Weise. It was particularly impressive given the momentum Vancouver has after Henrik Sedin set up twin brother Daniel and Alexandre Burrows to give the Canucks a 3-1 lead and pass Markus Naslund with 757 career points. The assists bookended a goal by Chris Higgins, and the second one set off a standing ovation that continued through three minutes of play and a video tribute at the next whistle. The good feeling didn't last long. The crowd was back on its feet for the three consecutive fights, but there was little to cheer the rest of the night – outside of the friends and family watching Dillon. Among the breaks was Bachman getting beaten by the first shot after Lehtonen left, only to have the apparent goal waved off because Mason Raymond made contact with him as the puck was already on its way in. Smith opened the scoring 11 seconds later on a shot from the bottom of the right circle that somehow went under Schneider's arm. The Canucks stormed back, but Dallas got life from the fights and a bad rebound that Eakin banged in late in the second period.

Columbus v Los Angeles 1-2 - A staple of the Los Angeles Kings last season was their ability to close out games. Their defense was a virtual fortress when leading after two periods. A spate of injuries on defense put some cracks in that armor, and it bent ended slightly Friday night before the Kings pulled out a much-needed 2-1 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Kings held Columbus to 13 shots on goal but had to sweat at the end after Nick Foligno scored with 2:25 left. The Blue Jackets pulled goalie Sergei Bobrovsky for an extra attacker in the final 90 seconds and swarmed the Kings' zone but couldn't dent L.A.'s defense, full of holes without Matt Greene, Willie Mitchell and Alec Martinez. Sutter likes backup goalies as much as too many men penalties, but he gave Jonathan Bernier rare back-to-back starts, his first since Jan.15-17, 2011, in place of Jonathan Quick. Bernier stopped 12 shots to get the win. Kyle Clifford scored late in the second period and Mike Richards added a 5-on-3 power-play goal early in the third as L.A. prevailed in its lone home game sandwiched between two road trips. The Kings improved to 90-1-10 in their last 101 games when leading after two periods. Clifford ended the stagnant action with a takeaway from Nikita Nikitin at the Columbus bench before he skated down the left side and wristed a shot to the far side and past Sergei Bobrovsky at 18:40 of the second period. Jared Boll was given a roughing penalty at the end of the period, and Fedor Tyutin was called for holding 49 seconds into the third to set up the two-man advantage. Anze Kopitar skated the puck all the way up the center of the ice and dropped it to Richards, whose shot hit Nikitin's leg, bounced off Bobrovsky and went across the goal line at 1:34. Richards recorded his 400th career point. Bobrovsky finished with 20 saves. The Kings took a 1-0 edge going into the third after they gave the Blue Jackets three power plays in the second period, two because of hooking and boarding penalties by Drew Doughty. Rob Scuderi contributed a hustle defensive play when he broke up a partial breakaway by Foligno while shorthanded. Columbus talked earlier this week about wanting to play well for new general manager Jarmo Kekalainen, but the first 40 minutes were nothing to showcase. The Blue Jackets put eight shots on goal in the first two periods despite those three power plays. It didn't help that center Artem Anisimov sat out after he was struck by the puck on his first shift of the second period. Coach Todd Richards said it was a bruise and nothing was broken. He was more concerned with a lack of time in L.A.'s zone.