Toronto @ Calgary 4-2 - Joffrey Lupul, James van Riemsdyk, Mason Raymond and Paul Ranger scored for the Maple Leafs (10-4-0), who have won three straight. Matt Stajan and David Jones had goals for Calgary (5-5-2), which dropped its first game in regulation on home ice this season. Though they were heavily outshot after 20 minutes, the Maple Leafs escaped the first period with a 2-0 lead. Seconds after a slashing penalty to Dennis Wideman expired, Lupul picked Jake Gardiner's point shot off the boards. His initial attempt to stuff it past Flames goaltender Karri Ramo was blocked by Chris Butler, but Lupul fished out the rebound and made good on his second chance for his seventh of the season at 7:56. The Flames held a 15-7 shot advantage after 20 minutes, but Bernier was equal to the task. After former Toronto forward Joe Colborne failed to connect with TJ Brodie on a 2-on-1 the shift after Lupul's goal, Bernier shouldered away Curtis Glencross' shot from the high slot near the midway point of the first. Brodie followed that opportunity by deflecting a Glencross slap shot off the post three minutes later. With the Flames on a power play, van Riemsdyk put the Maple Leafs up 2-0 with a shorthanded goals. burying a shot under Ramo's arm with four seconds remaining in the period. Bernier went back to work with Calgary continuing its power play in the second period, stopping Glencross on the doorstep after a feed from Russell less than a minute in. He then stopped Jiri Hudler with the glove and followed it up by stoning Brodie, who had jumped into the play to create an odd-man rush with three minutes gone. He did the same to Sven Baertschi at 6:19, taking away the five-hole after the Flames forward danced around Phaneuf in front. The Flames broke through Bernier on their 31st shot of the game. Shortly after Shane O'Brien and Carter Ashton dropped the gloves in response to Ashton's hit on Derek Smith, Glencross found Stajan with some space in the slot. The former Maple Leaf fired a shot past Bernier's glove with 2:57 remaining in the period to cut Toronto's lead to 2-1. The goal ended Toronto's shutout streak at 150:11. The Leafs gave Bernier some breathing room at 5:59 of the third period. Brodie coughed the puck up to David Clarkson, who broke in and fired a shot that was turned aside by Ramo. On the doorstep, Raymond collected the rebound and tucked it across the goal line to give Toronto a 3-1 lead. Brodie's Flames didn't fold, though. Jones cut the lead back to one by deflecting Russell's point shot by Bernier with 5:21 remaining in the game. But with Clarkson in the box in the final minutes of the game and Ramo on the bench for an extra attacker, Ranger sealed it for Toronto with a shorthanded, empty-net goal with 1:22 remaining.
San Jose @ Los Angeles 3-4 SO - L.A. erased a 3-2 deficit on Williams' power-play goal at 12:21 of the third period before Kopitar scored at 2:32 of OT with Justin Braun serving a hooking penalty. Kopitar had plenty of room to wind up with Jeff Carter crowding the crease in front of Sharks goalie Antti Niemi. San Jose held a 3-2 lead with under eight minutes remaining when they took their second too-many-men penalty of the game. L.A. promptly set up in San Jose's end, and Kopitar fed Williams between the circles for a top-shelf goal. San Jose was outshot 12-3 in the third period and overtime and took seven penalties on the night. Special teams were crucial for both sides in the third period. Joe Thornton made a great stick block on Dustin Brown during a Kings power play, and L.A. killed Daniel Carcillo's boarding penalty after Logan Couture hit the post. L.A. had trouble taking care of the puck and paid for it on San Jose's first power-play strike, scored by Couture with 1:56 remaining in the second. Willie Mitchell couldn't clear the puck from behind the net and Patrick Marleau set up Couture for a one-timer from the high slot. Kyle Clifford was in the penalty box for goalie interference. The Kings have allowed 60 power plays this season, the most in the NHL. Kings coach Darryl Sutter mixed up all his defense pairings and tweaked his second, third and fourth lines after a 3-1 loss Tuesday night to the Phoenix Coyotes. Some of the moves worked because for much of the first 40 minutes, L.A. lulled San Jose into its game with its physicality, the Kings had outhit the Sharks 31-12 at one point in the second – and managed a 2-2 tie on 11 shots. Both goals came with traffic in front of Niemi, including Drew Doughty's fourth goal this season on a wrist shot 2:32 into the game. Jarret Stoll tipped Slava Voynov's slap shot into the net at 3:15 of the second period. It was a Kings turnover that gave San Jose a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes. Voynov's pass bounced off the stick of Trevor Lewis and the Sharks went the other way. Joe Pavelski buried Tommy Wingels' pass into the upper right corner of the net at 11:27. The Sharks needed all of 13 seconds and three passes to exercise their first-period dominance. Tyler Kennedy passed it to Couture, who drove down the right wing and found a wide-open pinching defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic for quick shot and 1-0 lead. Sharks wing Martin Havlat, coming off pelvic surgery, made his season debut but had no shots on goal in 14:01 of ice time.
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