Washington @ Philadelphia 7-0 - With Alex Ovechkin sidelined by an upper-body injury, Joel Ward stepped up with his first career hat trick to lead the Capitals to a 7-0 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Friday night. Nicklas Backstrom had two goals, Jason Chimera scored once and had three assists, and Braden Holtby made 30 saves for his first shutout of the season and the eighth of his career. Ward completed his hat trick by beating Ray Emery at 5:23 of the third period. Eight seconds later, a brawl broke out that included a fight between Emery and Holtby. The brawl resulted in eight fighting majors; Emery, who had replaced starter Steve Mason in the second period, received one of them to go with two minors, a misconduct and a game misconduct. Four other players, the Capitals' Steve Oleksy and Alexander Urbom and the Flyers' Vincent Lecavalier and Brayden Schenn, were given fighting majors and game misconducts. The Flyers dominated play in the opening period, limiting Washington to one shot on goal for more than 17 minutes. But the Capitals capitalized on a misplay by Philadelphia's defense to score the only goal of the period. Nicklas Grossmann's backhand clearing attempt up the right boards was kept in at the right point by defenseman Nate Schmidt, who got the puck to Martin Erat. Backstrom drifted just inside the right circle and one-timed Erat's pass behind Mason at 17:28 for his third goal of the season. The Capitals built off the momentum of the late goal and blew the game open by scoring five times in the second period. Chimera's takeaway from Mark Streit near his own blue line triggered a 3-on-2 rush that led to Washington's second goal. Mason stopped Ward's blast from the slot, but the Flyers couldn't clear their zone and Ward beat Mason at 1:24 for his fifth of the season. Chimera made it 3-0 at 2:44 when he outraced everyone on a breakaway after another offensive-zone turnover, got Mason to go down and lifted a quick shot over his pad for his fifth of the season. Backstrom ended Mason's night at 3:49, or so it appeared, when his long snap shot from beyond the left circle went through traffic and into the net. Emery relieved Mason after the Capitals' third goal, but Washington kept coming. Ward scored again at 16:25, beating Emery high to the glove side, and Troy Brouwer was left alone in the slot to fire home the rebound of Mike Green's shot for a power-play goal at 18:20. Mason returned in the third period after Emery was given a game misconduct to go with 29 total minutes in penalties.
Tampa Bay @ Carolina 3-0 - The game reached the midway point without any scoring. In fact, it appeared Cooper's pregame message of firing more shots was lost on the Lightning the early part of the game, as they settled for three shots in the first 20 minutes. Tampa Bay opened the scoring at 11:38 of the second period. Victor Hedman fired a shot off the end wall, looking for the puck to find its way to the slot. Instead, it hit the back of Peters' pads and caromed into the net. With the Lightning clinging to a 1-0 lead with less than nine minutes remaining in the third period, Stamkos buried a difficult chance off an Alex Killorn pass. Tampa Bay extended the lead to 3-0 with less than three minutes remaining when Killorn finished a 2-on-1 on a pass from Martin St. Louis, who assisted on both third-period goals. Killorn, who has played occasionally with Stamkos and St. Louis in the past, was bumped up to the top line for the game. In the end, though, it was Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop who was flawless, stopping 31 shots in a 3-0 shutout. It was Bishop's second shutout in two career appearances against Carolina. He also blanked the Hurricanes in April in his Tampa Bay debut, stopping 45 shots at PNC Arena.
NY Islanders @ Ottawa 5-4 SO - Frans Nielsen scored the tying goal early in the third period and the winner in the shootout to give New York a 5-4 victory against Ottawa on Friday. Nielsen deked Lehner to score on the Islanders' second attempt in the tiebreaker. He tied it at 4-4 with his eighth goal at 3:14 of the third after the Senators had killed off a lengthy 5-on-3 New York power play that carried over from the end of the second period. John Tavares, Matt Martin and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored for Islanders in the second, when New York outshot Ottawa 25-9. The Islanders, who ended a two-game losing streak, outshot Ottawa 57-31, marking the third time this season the Senators have allowed 50 or more shots in a game. Lehner stopped Thomas Vanek on a breakaway in overtime. He also kept the game scoreless midway through the first when he denied Michael Grabner on a shorthanded breakaway, but was beaten by Nielsen's forehand in the shootout. Vanek played his 600th regular-season game, his second with the Islanders since he was acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. He earned his first point with the Islanders with a brilliant feed that set up Tavares' goal at 9:07 of the middle period, which drew New York within 2-1. Martin scored on a deflection 28 seconds later to draw the Islanders even. Ryan put Ottawa back on top at 12:34 with his seventh goal of the season and 300th career point, then assisted on Clarke MacArthur's first goal of the season, a wraparound inside the right post at 14:47 that put Ottawa up 4-2. The play was called a goal on the ice and confirmed after video review. Bouchard brought the Islanders back within one with his second goal of the season at 18:24. The Islanders outshot the Senators 18-9 in the opening period, but Erik Condra and Mika Zibanejad scored on Ottawa's last two shots to give the Senators a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes. Rookie center Derek Grant earned his first NHL assist on Condra's goal at 18:38. Grant got his stick on New York defenseman Andrew MacDonald's clearing attempt, slowing the puck just enough for Condra to jump up and intercept it inside the Islanders' blue line. Condra moved in and fired between Nabokov's legs for his first goal of the season, before going to the dressing room. He returned for the second period and played two shifts before leaving the game because of a muscle strain in his right leg and did not return. Zibanejad made it 2-0 lead with 19.6 seconds left. Nabokov ducked under Zibanejad's slap shot from the top of the right circle and the puck struck the glove over his head and trickled behind him into the net.
St Louis @ Florida 4-0 - Alexander Steen scored his NHL-leading 12th as part of a three-goal second period, Brian Elliott made 31 saves for his 22nd career shutout, and the Blues defeated the Florida Panthers 4-0 at BB&T Center. Elliott, making his second start of the season, recorded his first shutout since April 11, 2013, a 2-0 victory against the Minnesota Wild. He didn't have to make many tough saves against the Panthers, but did stop Tomas Fleischmann alone in front of the net with 4:57 left in the third period. Derek Roy, Chris Stewart and Alex Pietrangelo also scored for the Blues. Backes had two assists. St. Louis came in with the best power-play percentage in the League at 28.2 and scored with the man-advantage when Pietrangelo made it 3-0 at 7:06 of the second. He put in a loose puck at the side of the net after Backes' one-timer from the left circle went off the leg of one Panthers defenseman (Weaver) and off the stick of another (Erik Gudbranson). Roy got a fortuitous bounce when he opened the scoring 15:41 into the game. His backhand from close range hit the right post, bounced back toward the middle, and trickled in after hitting Markstrom in the back of the leg. Stewart increased the lead to 2-0 at 5:21 of the second period with his first goal of the season when his one-timer from below the left circle found its way through Markstrom's pads. St. Louis center Maxim Lapierre returned after serving a five-game suspension for a hit on Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle in a game Oct. 15.
Montreal @ Minnesota 3-4 - Jason Pominville scored his second goal of the game with 5:28 remaining in regulation to give the Minnesota Wild a 4-3 victory against the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night. He beat Carey Price from just to the left of the crease for his team-leading ninth goal after the Canadiens had overcome a 3-1 deficit. Justin Fontaine and Nino Niederreiter also scored for the Wild. Brendan Gallagher, P.K. Subban and Brian Gionta had goals for Montreal, which saw its two-game winning streak ended. The Canadiens complete a two-game trip Saturday against the Colorado Avalanche. Pominville gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 8:41 of the second period when he caught up with a long lead pass from Mikael Granlund and beat Price on a breakaway. Granlund also set up Niederreiter's third of the season at 4:02 of the third period for a 3-1 lead. But Subban beat Josh Harding at 7:12 during a power play to cut the margin to 3-2, and Gionta tied it at 10:13. Fontaine opened the scoring 5:45 into the game, but Gallagher got Montreal even 25 seconds later.
Detroit @ Calgary 4-3 - The Red Wings coughed up a two-goal second-period lead, but rebounded with goals from Tomas Tatar and Justin Abdelkader to earn a 4-3 victory against the Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome on Friday. A lucky goal swung momentum in Detroit’s favor early in the third. After letting a 2-0 lead slip away in the second period, Tatar put the Red Wings back up just 1:25 into the third. Joakim Andersson fired a shot on Flames goalie Joey MacDonald from below the goal line, glancing it off Tatar's skate and finding a hole to give Detroit a 3-2 lead early in the period. MacDonald bailed out forward Curtis Glencross at 9:20 to keep the Flames close. Shorthanded, Glencross turned the puck over on a clearing attempt, leaving MacDonald to make a pad save off Daniel Cleary. MacDonald continued to keep Calgary in the game, denying Cleary with a glove save with 6:10 remaining. But with 3:24 remaining, MacDonald couldn't stop Abdelkader, who worked his way out from behind the Flames net and fired another sharp-angled shot by MacDonald to give the Red Wings a 4-2 lead. The goal became a game-winner after Glencross extracted a little redemption with 9.8 seconds remaining in the game in scoring his fourth goal. It didn't take long for the Red Wings to start rolling in the first period despite being heavily outshot by the Flames. Though the Flames were able to keep stars Alex Ovechkin and Phil Kessel off the scoresheet in back-to-back games earlier in the week, the Red Wings’ duo of Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg ensured early that they wouldn't be shut down. Datsyuk opened the scoring for Detroit, tapping a Jakub Kindl rebound behind MacDonald for his sixth of the season at 10:57 of the first period. He added an assist when Zetterberg scored his seventh goal of the season with 2:45 remaining in the period. Parked just off the far post, Zetterberg converted a cross-crease pass from Todd Bertuzzi to give Detroit the 2-0 lead. Just 54 seconds into the second, Mike Cammalleri was sprung on a breakaway, but was denied by Howard's pad. Three minutes later, Glencross picked up a Brendan Smith turnover in the slot, but the Red Wings goaltender again was equal to the task. Hartley’s Flames took just 2:32 to erase Detroit's two-goal lead. Calgary finally broke through Howard at 10:15 of the second. Chris Butler's blast from the high slot deflected off the stick of Andersson and jumped by Howard to cut Detroit's lead to 2-1. With the 250th assist of his career, Cammalleri helped pull Calgary even at 12:47. Cammalleri plucked a dump in off the boards, spun and fed Sean Monahan cutting to the net. The Flames' rookie rifled a shot over the glove of Howard to record his seventh goal of the season, prompting Detroit coach Mike Babcock to call a time-out to calm his troops
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