Montreal @ Washington 3-2 - Travis Moen and David Desharnais each snapped a long goal-scoring drought, Daniel Briere scored, and Peter Budaj made 25 saves for Montreal. Moen's wrist shot beat Michal Neuvirth for his first goal of the season and first in 47 games at 8:53. A sloppy pass from Capitals defenseman Alexander Urbom to Mikhail Grabovski led to a turnover just outside Washington's defensive zone. Michael Bournival corralled the loose puck and quickly passed it to Moen. Three minutes later, Desharnais scored his first goal of the season (snapping a 21-game drought dating to last season) when he deflected Josh Gorges' shot from the point past Neuvirth's catching glove. The goal went to review to see if Desharnais' stick was above the crossbar, but there was not sufficient evidence to overturn it. Briere extended Montreal's lead to 3-0 on the power play at 13:40 when he was able to sneak behind Urbom in front of the net. With time running out in the first period and the Capitals on the power play, Ovechkin scored on a tight-angle shot at 19:37. John Carlson's wrist shot missed wide and caromed to Ovechkin along the goal line to Budaj's right. In the third period, Ovechkin, who had taken a roughing penalty two minutes earlier by knocking Brian Gionta to the ice after the two collided in the Capitals' offensive zone, brought Washington within 3-2 at 12:27 when he deflected Carlson's shot in the slot.
Florida @ Calgary 3-4 SO - In the sixth round of the shoot-out, Monahan went in and blasted a wrist shot by Florida goalie Tim Thomas' blocker. Berra then closed the door on Hayes' deke to snap Calgary's six-game losing streak on home ice and give the Flames five of a possible six points over their past three games, each of which went to extra time. Joe Colborne, Sven Baertschi and Blair Jones, in his first game of the season after being recalled Thursday from the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League, scored for Calgary. Hayes, Tom Gilbert and Marcel Goc answered for the Panthers, who return to Florida after going 2-2-1 on a five-game, 6,448-mile road trip through the Western Conference. The Flames needed the shootout to secure two points after blowing a 3-1 lead in the third. Jones gave the Flames a two-goal cushion with his goal at 5:40 of the third period, but Berra gave the Panthers life. Leaving his crease to try to clear a puck before Shawn Matthias could get in alone, Berra rifled it onto Hayes' stick. The Florida right wing put his first of the season into the empty net to bring Florida back to within one at 7:02. Goc tied the game 3-3 off another Flames turnover. After Mike Cammalleri failed to clear the puck out of Calgary's zone, Sean Bergenheim dished to Scott Gomez, who fed Goc for his sixth of the season and first in seven games at 14:01 to set up overtime and the eventual shootout. The Panthers opened the scoring, capitalizing on the Flames’ continued slow-start struggles, which include just one goal on 31 shots in their past five first periods. On a faceoff to the left of Calgary's net, Nick Bjugstad drew the puck back to Gilbert, who one-timed the win between Berra's legs to stake the Panthers to a 1-0 lead with 4:46 remaining in the period. The goal came on their fourth of six shots in the period. On a failed clearing attempt off Mike Mottau’s stick, David Jones wrestled the puck over to Colborne, who wristed a shot over Thomas' glove nine minutes into the period to tie the game 1-1. With Matthias in the penalty box for hooking, Baertschi put the Flames ahead at 12:04 of the second. After working the puck back to TJ Brodie at the point, Baertschi collected the rebound off Thomas' pad and buried it behind the Panthers goaltender with just six seconds remaining in the man-advantage. The goal was Baertschi's first in 15 games. Thomas denied Baertschi's attempt for a second power-play later in the second, flashing the glove to keep Florida within one. But Blair Jones managed to extend the Flames' lead to two in the third period, taking a pass in the slot from Lance Bouma behind the net and burying it into a gaping net to put Calgary up 3-1 at 5:40 before Florida’s comeback.
Columbus @ Vancouver 2-6 - For Daniel Sedin, going six games without a point for the first time in almost 10 years was hard because the Vancouver Canucks desperately needed his offense. Playing one period without twin brother Henrik was a lot easier. After starting the game on separate lines, Daniel and Henrik were back together for two of their three goals and four of five points, sparking a badly needed offensive outburst as the Canucks snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-2 Friday night. Daniel's first goal came with Mike Santorelli as his center, but he was back with his identical twin for the second period. He set up Henrik's first goal - the second of a three-goal outburst in 2:10 - and assisted on Henrik's second goal midway through the third period. Vancouver scored six goals during its five-game skid (0-3-2). They matched that total when fourth-line center Jeremy Welsh scored his first NHL goal on a deflection to make it 6-2 with 28.6 seconds left. Vancouver did most of its scoring during a 2:10 span in the second period. Zack Kassian scored the go-ahead goal at 12:05, Henrik doubled the lead 1:54 later and defenseman Alexander Edler broke the game open with another goal 16 seconds after that. Roberto Luongo was beaten on the first shot he saw but finished with 14 saves as Vancouver outshot the Blue Jackets 35-16. Things started well for the Blue Jackets, who were already without injured scoring forwards Marian Gaborik, Nathan Horton and Brandon Dubinsky, and then lost defenseman James Wisniewski, who leads the team with 16 points, to illness in the morning. In his first game back after missing 19 following early-season abdominal surgery, Matt Calvert scored on the Blue Jackets' first shot. But that was all the offense Columbus could muster until Artem Anisimov scored on a rebound with 3:02 left in the game. Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 29 saves as Columbus lost in regulation for the second time in eight games (3-2-3). Richards defended his goalie, who was beaten from a sharp angle by Daniel Sedin late in the first period, had Kassian's unscreened shot from the faceoff dot go under his blocker, and then accidentally kicked Henrik Sedin's first goal into the net with his heel. The Canucks outshot Columbus 14-4 in the opening period, and Daniel tied it from a sharp angle with 15.4 seconds left with a shot that hit a stick and lifted over Bobrovsky on the short side. After Bobrovsky robbed Alexandre Burrows and Ryan Kesler during a power play, and Cam Atkinson missed a glorious chance to put Columbus back in front, Kassian opened the floodgates shortly after the Canucks' No. 1-ranked penalty kill shut down the Blue Jackets' fourth chance on the power play. Brad Richardson, who was in the penalty box for tripping, got to a loose puck and fed Kassian at the far blue line for a 1-on-1 rush and the shot under Bobrovsky's arm. Henrik knocked a rebound of a high shot by Daniel behind Bobrovsky a couple shifts later, and Edler wired a point shot that hit a defender and went in off the post for his first goal in 15 games. Henrik deflected in Daniel's point shot midway through the third, but after Bobrovsky stuffed Jannik Hansen on a penalty shot with 3:27 left, Anisimov batted in a rebound on the next shift to make it 5-2. Welsh's tip-in gave the full house of 18,910 one last thing to cheer.
Tampa Bay @ Anaheim 0-1 - Ryan Getzlaf will take his fluky goal with 5.2 seconds remaining in OT, which gave the Anaheim Ducks a 1-0 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night at Honda Center. The Ducks' captain came down the left wing and fired a shot at goalie Ben Bishop. The puck bounced off Bishop and landed near the goal line before Richard Panik inadvertently helped swipe it across the line.
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