Detroit v Boston 3-2 - Stephen Weiss broke a tie 8:21 into the second period and Henrik Zetterberg and Daniel Cleary also scored for the Red Wings in a 3-2 win against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Detroit scored eight goals in its first four games of the season. Now the Red Wings have scored eight in their past two, wins against Boston and the Philadelphia Flyers. Detroit, now 4-2-0 on the season, lost 4-1 on its previous trip to Boston, on Oct. 5. Weiss gave the Red Wings a 2-1 lead after he made a backdoor cut to the net and Johan Franzen found him with a cross-ice feed. Weiss beat Rask by stopping the puck and then snapping it over the Boston goaltender's shoulder. The Red Wings doubled their lead 2:20 later on Cleary's first goal of the season. Daniel Alfredsson was left alone behind the Bruins net and found Cleary cutting to the slot for a re-direct that Rask couldn't stop. Detroit held onto its 3-1 until the second intermission and Gustavsson had all the offensive support he needed to make his first start a victorious one. Milan Lucic's goal with 1:20 remaining in regulation cut the Detroit lead to 3-2 but the Bruins couldn't score the equalizer. They finished the game 0-for-5 on the power play, including 1:54 of 5-on-3 time early in the third period. It didn't take long for Detroit to solve Rask. The Red Wings scored first after a neutral-zone steal by Pavel Datsyuk from Patrice Bergeron near the red line. Datsyuk lugged the puck into the Boston zone, made a move to the outside around Zdeno Chara and fed the puck across the slot to Zetterberg. The Detroit captain's one-timer beat Rask high to the short side at 11:33 of the first period. Boston tied the game at 14:12 on a goal by Loui Eriksson. Johnny Boychuk's wrist shot from the right half-wall skimmed off Eriksson's leg and beat Gustavsson up high. The goal was Eriksson's second of the season and first at home.
Edmonton v Washington 2-4 - Oates' faith was finally rewarded Monday as the Capitals snapped their three-game losing streak with their best offensive outburst of the season, scoring three unanswered goals on three consecutive shots in a 3:55 span of the second period in a 4-2 victory at Verizon Center against the Edmonton Oilers for their first regulation win of the season. Before the floodgates opened, however, Washington had to overcome a slow start that saw it muster a season-low three shots on goal through 20 minutes. More than six minutes had elapsed before the Capitals registered their first shot on goal as the Oilers hemmed them in their own zone through most of the first half of the opening period. Washington exacerbated those issues with failed breakout attempts, one of which turned into the game's first goal at 9:48. Brooks Laich responded less than four minutes later after a heads-up play from Steve Oleksy. The Capitals defenseman intercepted Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' clearing attempt and immediately fired it back into the zone, where Laich was waiting alone to squeak a wrist shot through Jason LaBarbera's legs from in tight. Not only was it Laich's first goal of the season, it was the first goal of the season for which Washington's entire second line of Laich, Brouwer and Mikhail Grabovski was on the ice together. The Capitals took control of the game midway through the second period as their potent power play awoke from a two-game slump. Joel Ward put Washington ahead to stay at 10:06, converting a backdoor feed from Nicklas Backstrom just as a 4-on-3 power play expired for his first goal. Alex Ovechkin followed at 13:18 with a one-timer from the high slot for his sixth goal of the season. With Mark Arcobello in the penalty box for high-sticking Tom Wilson, Brouwer finished off a tic-tac-toe passing sequence from Backstrom and Grabovski 43 seconds after Ovechkin's goal to give the Capitals a 4-1 lead. Will Acton scored his first NHL goal by firing a rebound past Holtby with 1:42 remaining, but the game was out of reach.
Minnesota v Buffalo 2-1 - In Jason Pominville's return to First Niagara Center as a member of the Minnesota Wild, it's only fitting he would play a key role in helping beat his former team. The former Buffalo Sabres captain scored his second goal of the season, a power-play goal, at 19:50 of the second period to give the Wild a 2-1 win Monday night. Pominville came through on the right wing side and fired a shot off goalie Jhonas Enroth's shoulder and into the net. It was Pominville's first goal against Buffalo; he now has scored against all 30 NHL teams. Kyle Brodziak scored his first goal of the season 5:23 into the first period to give the Wild a 1-0 lead. Brodziak's wrist shot beat Enroth through the five-hole while he was screened by his defenseman Mike Weber. Buffalo has yet to score first in any of its seven games this season and the Sabres have led only once, for 2:26 against in the second period against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Brodziak said he knew how important it was to get on top early. The Sabres would answer back in the second period, however. After the start of the period was delayed due to the house lights not turning on, Brian Flynn would score his first of the season at 15:04 to tie the game at 1-1. Flynn's goal came on a 3-on-2 rush with Zemgus Girgensons and Mikhail Grigorenko. Flynn joined the rush late and was open for a pass from Girgensons and chipped it past Minnesota goalie Josh Harding (22 saves) to even up the game. The lead would be short-lived, however; Pominville's goal 4:46 later would provide the difference. Enroth made 18 saves in the loss.
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