Results - Sat, October 19 2013

Edmonton @ Ottawa 3-1 - Devan Dubnyk made 35 saves to earn his first victory of the season, and Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and an assist in the first period to send Edmonton to a 3-1 win against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. Nugent-Hopkins assisted on Eberle's goal and scored into an empty net with 35 seconds remaining for a three-point day, helping the Oilers win away from Rexall Place for the first time in six tries this season. They are 2-6-1 overall and 1-3-1 on a five-game trip that ends Tuesday with a game against the Montreal Canadiens. Tyler Hall was hit hard by Ottawa defenseman Eric Gryba in the second period. He returned to the ice briefly after serving a slashing penalty before going to the dressing room and did not return after that. He reportedly was wearing a brace on his knee after the game but was not using crutches. Ottawa's Chris Neil ruined Dubnyk's shutout bid with his first goal of the season at 14:12 of the third period. Eberle opened the scoring on a 2-on-1 with Nail Yakupov at 2:15. After taking a pass from Nugent-Hopkins, he held the puck with defenseman Patrick Wiercioch back for Ottawa. Eberle deked Lehner and roofed a shot for his third goal of the season. Yakupov and Eberle had the assists on Nugent-Hopkins' goal at 10:29 of the first period, which gave Edmonton its second two-goal lead of the season. Lehner stopped Yakupov's shot but left a rebound for Nugent-Hopkins, who fired a shot inside the left post for his third goal. Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan went to the dressing room with just over a minute left in the first period after colliding awkwardly with the goal post. He struggled to return to the bench but was back out to begin the second period. The Oilers had an opportunity to increase their lead to three with a two-minute 5-on-3 advantage early in the third when Milan Michalek and Jared Cowen were called for separate interference penalties at 3:40. However, Ottawa's penalty-killers limited the Oilers to one shot on goal.

Nashville @ Montreal 2-1 - Seth Jones exhibited it again Saturday, pinching in from his spot on the point to take a David Legwand pass, toe dragging around Montreal Canadiens defenseman Josh Gorges and scoring on goaltender Carey Price at 18:33 of the third period to give the Predators a 2-1 victory at Bell Centre. That poise was not quite as evident when Jones celebrated his first career game-winner, showing the exuberance a 19-year-old should after he just won the game for his team with 87 seconds to play in front of 21,273 spectators. Pekka Rinne was outstanding in goal for the Predators to keep the game tied 1-1 in the third and give Jones a chance to win it, finishing with 28 saves, including 12 on 12 shots in the third. Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal (5-3-0), which saw its four-game winning streak end. Price made 35 saves and kept the Canadiens in the game with 29 saves on 30 shots through two periods. The line of Gallagher, Lars Eller and Alex Galchenyuk was again Montreal's best, combining for 14 of the Canadiens' 29 shots, including a career-high nine from Gallagher. The Predators were missing center Mike Fisher, who was out with a lower-body injury and is day-to-day. The Canadiens, already without forward Max Pacioretty (hamstring), lost right wing Daniel Briere early in the second period after he sustained a concussion on a collision with Predators forward Eric Nystrom. Montreal lost forward Brandon Prust to an upper-body injury with just under eight minutes remaining after he fell into the end boards awkwardly. The Predators had an 11-1 lead in shots just past the midway point of the first period and held a 1-0 lead after Weber's shot from the faceoff circle banked in off Gorges' leg. The goal was scored as the first penalty of a 5-on-3 advantage came to an end. It appeared to spark the Canadiens; they finished the period strong, but Nashville began peppering Price with shots again in the second with no results. They had 16 shots on goal to Montreal's 11, yet it was the Canadiens who tied it in at 7:02 on a great play by Eller. The Montreal center cut hard to the net fending off a Nashville defender with one hand while getting a weak shot on Rinne with the other. The shot created a rebound, and after Michael Bournival took one whack at it, Gallagher put it in off the scramble for his fourth goal of the season.

Boston @ Tampa Bay 5-0 - Tampa Bay entered the game with a 5-2-0 record and was coming off back-to-back wins against the Los Angeles Kings and Minnesota Wild. But Boston's David Krejci scored 1:32 into the game and the Lightning never seriously threatened. Krejci's first goal of the season came when he tapped home a feed from Milan Lucic following a rush down the right side. It came quickly and looked easy, and it set the tone for the remainder of the game. Boston, now 3-0-0 on the road and 5-2-0 overall, broke the game open in the second period with three unanswered goals. Adam McQuaid made it 2-0 at 4:37 when he picked up a loose puck just inside the Tampa Bay blue line. With Jarome Iginla screening Ben Bishop, McQuaid's shot found the back of the net for an unassisted goal, his first of the season. Patrice Bergeron scored his second of the season at 14:52 after the Lightning couldn't clear the zone. Reilly Smith found Bergeron coming through the slot alone for a shot that beat Bishop. Boston chased Bishop 55 seconds later when Brad Marchand sent the puck across the crease to Chris Kelly, who slid to his left and scored to make it 4-0. Shawn Thornton beat Anders Lindback, Bishop's replacement, with a wrist shot 34 seconds into the third period to complete the scoring.

Minnesota @ Florida 1-2 - Jonathan Huberdeau and Brad Boyes scored in the shootout, with Boyes ending the game in the bottom of the second round when he deked to his backhand and slid the puck between the legs of Wild goalie Josh Harding. Huberdeau's goal in the first round of the shootout came on a pretty backhand-to-forehand deke. It made him 3-for-5 in shootouts since he made his NHL debut in January. Aleksander Barkov scored at 6:49 of the third period to tie the score at 1-1 and help the Panthers (3-6-0) snap their second three-game losing streak of the season. Jonas Brodin scored a power-play goal in the second period for Minnesota and Harding made 21 saves. Harding came into the game with the best goals-against average in the NHL at 1.15. Each team had one great scoring opportunity in overtime. Florida's Tomas Fleischmann fired a one-timer from close range that was gloved by Harding with 1:12 left. With the five-minute extra period winding down, Parise redirected Koivu's pass, but Thomas made a sliding pad save. Barkov, the second player taken in the 2013 NHL Draft, scored Florida's first power-play goal in four games. He was in the slot when he deflected Fleischmann's one-timer from the top of the right circle past Harding. Brodin opened the scoring at 4:05 of the second period with Fleischmann in the penalty box for hooking. Seconds after Thomas dove to his left to stop a rebound by Granlund, the puck slide back to the high slot when Brodin fired a one-timer. The shot went off the stick of Panthers forward Jesse Winchester and through the legs of Thomas.

NY Rangers @ New Jersey 0-4 - Andrei Loktionov, who was playing in place of Brunner, got the Devils on the board 7:22 into the first period with his first goal of the season. Just over five minutes later, Rostislav Olesz, who was in for Elias, sprung Adam Henrique down the left-wing wall leading to the second goal of the night. Olesz had the first assist for his first point with New Jersey. Michael Ryder scored a power-play goal six minutes into the second period, and Dainius Zubrus capped the scoring with his second goal of the season with 5:28 left before the second intermission. Jaromir Jagr and Marek Zidlicky each had two assists, and on Ryder's goal, a 50-foot slap shot from the top of the zone during a power play, Olesz was in front of the net screening Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who gave up the four goals on 19 shots. Lundqvist took the majority of the blame for the loss. He left long rebounds on the goals by Loktionov and Zubrus and was beaten clean on his blocker side by Henrique's uncontested slap shot from the left circle.

Carolina @ NY Islanders 4-3 - Matt Moulson, Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo scored for the Islanders (3-3-2), who are 1-1-1 on a homestand that concludes Tuesday against the Vancouver Canucks. Evgeni Nabokov stopped 19 of 23 shots in his third straight start and seventh in eight games this season. After a scoreless first period, Carolina found its offense in the second with three goals in a span of 12:32. Tlusty gave the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead at 1:05 with his first goal of the season. With the teams at even strength,Alexander Semin sent the puck towards the net from the right circle that Eric Staal was unable to redirect the puck past Nabokov. But Tlusty followed the play, collected the loose puck in front of the net and quickly fired it home. Jordan Staal doubled Carolina's lead with his first goal of the season via the power play at 6:36. With Isles defenseman Andrew MacDonald in the box for interference, Staal took a nice cross-ice feed from the right point by Ryan Murphy and ripped a wrist shot from the top of the left circle past Nabokov to make it 2-0. Skinner made it 3-0 at 13:37 on another even-strength goal. After Islanders defensemanTravis Hamonic failed to clear the zone, Tuomo Ruutu found Skinner in the slot, and the gifted forward backhanded a shot past Nabokov for his third goal of the season. Moulson got the Islanders on the scoreboard with a power-play goal at 18:53. After Skinner was whistled for high sticking, MacDonald fired a slap shot from the right point that was denied by Cam Ward. But Moulson parked himself in front of the net and was able to swat the rebound past the Hurricanes' goaltender to make it 3-1. It was Moulson's third goal of the season. The Islanders had a scare midway through the second when Nabokov collided with sliding teammate Matt Carkner in the crease. Nabokov was face down for several minutes and was attended to by a trainer before he slowly got to his feet and stayed in the game. The Hurricanes regained their three-goal lead 11:06 into the third period on Tlusty's second goal of the game. With the teams at even strength, Tlusty hustled to join a rush and one-timed Semin's feed through Nabokov's legs to make it 4-1. It was Tlusty's sixth goal in 16 career games against the Islanders. Nielsen got the Islanders back within two goals with a power-play goal at 13:19 of the third. With Skinner in the box for hooking, Okposo found Nielsen near the right post, where he quickly swatted Okposo's feed past Ward to make it 4-2. Nielsen has four goals in eight games. Okposo made it a one-goal game with 1:01 remaining. Just after a penalty to Justin Faulk expired, Pierre-Marc Bouchard made a drop pass in the slot to Okposo, who ripped a wrist shot past Ward to make it 4-3. But the Islanders couldn't find the equalizer. New York played the final two periods without defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky, who suffered a concussion after being hit along the boards by Hurricanes forward Radek Dvorak. The injury left the Islanders with five defensemen for the remainder of the game. Visnovsky will be re-evaluated Sunday.

Columbus @ Washington 1-4 - Through the first seven games of the season, Washington Capitals forward Martin Erat found himself in unfamiliar territory, playing on the fourth line in a diminished role. With Washington's even-strength offense sputtering through the first two-plus weeks of the season, coach Adam Oates reconfigured his lines before Saturday's game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, giving Erat his first opportunity for top-six ice time. The 32-year-old made the most of his chance. Erat assisted on three of Washington's goals, and his new linemates, Brooks Laich and Troy Brouwer, each scored their second goals of the season as the Capitals defeated the Blue Jackets 4-1 Saturday night in the teams' first meeting as Metropolitan Division rivals. The Capitals caught a break midway through the first period when Ryan Johansen broke in behind the defense and beat Braden Holtby but rang his shot off the right post. On the Capitals' first power play of the game, Joel Ward finished what a tic-tac-toe passing sequence from Marcus Johansson and Nicklas Backstrom, beating Sergei Bobrovsky at 1:58 with a one-timer from the slot for his second goal of the season. Ward misfired on perhaps the Capitals' best chance against the Rangers when he whiffed on an open net during a 5-on-3 power play. Brooks Laich doubled the lead at 7:43 after a slick move by Steve Oleksy, who collected a pass from Erat along the right-wing boards, curl-and-dragged around Cam Atkinson and put a shot on net. Bobrovsky made the initial save but couldn't control the rebound, and Laich swept the puck into the net on his backhand. Erat set up Brouwer's goal 4:20 into the third period by intercepting Nikita Nikitin's pass around the goal line. Bobrovsky stopped Brouwer's rip from the slot but Brouwer scored on the rebound. Alex Ovechkin extended the lead to 4-0 with his team-leading seventh goal at 6:34 on a power-play one-timer from his usual spot in the left circle. Holtby made 37 saves but lost his shutout when Artem Anisimov scored with 4:55 remaining.

Calgary @ San Jose 3-6 - Joe Pavelski scored a pair of power-play goals and Patrick Marleau scored one as the Sharks made the Flames pay for their parade to the penalty box. San Jose converted three of nine penalty plays, while Calgary went 1-for-6. Brent Burns, Scott Hannan and Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, who took a 4-1 lead into the third period that quickly shrank to 4-3. Flames rookie Sean Monahan scored a power-play goal in the second period, his team-leading fifth goal of the season. Calgary's Mikael Backlund and Jiri Hudler scored in the third period. Backlund scored a shorthanded goal at 1:33 of the third, knocking in a rebound after Niemi made a stick save on Lee Stempniak's shot. At 3:56, Monahan hit a trailing Hudler with a cross-ice pass and Hudler scored from the right circle, cutting San Jose's lead to 4-3. Pavelski gave the Sharks some breathing room at 9:38 with his second power-play goal of the game, redirecting Couture's shot from the point past Ramo. Couture said the goal came off a set play. Couture scored an empty-netter from far beyond the blue line with 1:22 left to play for the Sharks, who have scored a League-high 39 goals. Burns gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead 59 seconds into the game, taking a pass in front of the net from Pavelski and beating Ramo from point-blank range. Brad Stuart dumped the puck into Calgary's end, and Pavelski won a battle with Flames defenseman Kris Russell along the left boards, then sent a pass to a wide-open Burns. Burns' goal marked the fourth time in eight games that the Sharks have scored a goal in the first minute. Tyler Kennedy scored just nine seconds into the game against Dallas on Thursday. Tomas Hertl needed just 55 seconds to score against Ottawa last Saturday and 46 seconds to score against Phoenix on Oct. 5. Burns had a great chance to score again less than four minutes later. At 4:21, he was awarded a penalty shot after TJ Brodie slashed him in front of the crease on a breakaway. Burns attacked Ramo at full speed, but his shot went wide left. Hannan made it 2-0 with 53 seconds left in the first period with his second goal of the season, a shot from the blue line that deflected off of former Shark TJ Galiardi and past Ramo, with Burns screening in front. Burns initially was credited with the goal, but a scoring change was announced late in the second period. Monahan, the sixth player taken in the 2013 NHL Draft, cut the Sharks' lead to 2-1 at 3:01 of the second period. With Tommy Wingels in the penalty box for hooking Lance Bouma, Monahan took a pass in front of the net from Sven Baertschi and ripped a shot past Niemi. But the Sharks answered with two power-play goals in the second and took a 4-1 lead into the final period. Pavelski was in front of the crease when he redirected a Marleau pass behind Ramo at 8:37 of the second for his second goal of the season. Stempniak was in the box was in the box for holding Marc-Edouard Vlasic when Pavelski scored. With Shane O'Brien in the penalty box for high sticking Andrew Desjardins, Pavelski hit Marleau with a cross-ice pass just right of the crease, Marleau beat Ramo with a one-timer at 17:59. Marleau had a two-point night and extended points streak to eight games.