Anaheim @ NY Rangers 2-1 - Derick Brassard's attempted pass to defenseman Dan Girardi bounced straight to Luca Sbisa, whose slap shot deflected to Dustin Penner. Penner's shot was partially blocked, but the puck found Perry right on the doorstep. After his initial shot was stopped by Lundqvist, the All-Star wing put in the rebound to give Anaheim a 1-0 lead 2:29 into the game. At 7:43, Del Zotto snapped a quick shot from the right corner that was kicked out by Andersen. The 24-year-old Dane had to be sharp again 19 seconds later, when John Moore's shot from the point bounced behind the net and right to Brad Richards at the tip of the crease. With little time to spare, Andersen slid across the blue ice and made the save. Francois Beauchemin intercepted a pass from Richards before skating into the Rangers zone and making a perfect cross-ice pass to Palmieri. The Ducks wing, who was born in Smithtown, N.Y., before moving to Montvale, N.J., dragged the puck just past Marc Staal's outstretched stick before wiring a perfect shot over Lundqvist's right shoulder to give the Ducks a 2-0 lead with 10:51 left in the first. Anaheim appeared to lose a step in the second. The Rangers outshot the Ducks 15-6 in the second, but their best opportunity didn't come until late. With 1:43 left in the period, Carl Hagelin wrestled the puck away from Beauchemin behind the Ducks net before feeding a streaking Richards. Andersen stopped the quick shot with his blocker, but the chance energized the Rangers. Moments later, Del Zotto found a loose puck through a wild scrum in the Anaheim crease and netted his first goal of the season with 84 seconds remaining in the middle period. The play began with Callahan taking the puck hard to the net before four different Ducks collapsed around the goal. The puck slid out to Del Zotto, who made no mistake. That hard work paid off early in the third. The Ducks dominated possession in the first half of the final period and Lundqvist was forced to stretch his right leg to make a big save 6:59 into the third off Rickard Rackell's deflected shot from the slot. Penner had a prime chance 1:35 later, when he stole the puck from a backpedaling Girardi before putting a hard shot off the right post. Lundqvist was pulled for an extra attacker with 1:55 left in regulation and Getzlaf still in the box. But any hope for a comeback was dashed when Pouliot took a high-sticking penalty with 1:51 remaining. A too-many-men minor to the Rangers with 49 seconds to go iced the win for the Ducks (12-3-1), who return to Honda Center to play the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday.
Detroit @ Winnipeg 2-4 - Winnipeg's Matt Halischuk broke open a 2-2 game 4:27 into the third period with his first goal of the season. Halischuk took Michael Frolik's behind-the-net pass and rammed a shot from the low slot through Howard's pads. Jets captain Andrew Ladd finished off the Red Wings, interrupting a nine-game run without a goal by shoveling a shot under Howard with 9:03 remaining. The Jets' third line featuring Halischuk and Frolik flanking rookie center Mark Scheifele threatened the Red Wings throughout the game in front of a strong night from Jets goaltender Al Montoya. Frolik and Bryan Little added the Jets' other goals, while Zetterberg and Danny DeKeyser tallied for Detroit. Little scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season for the Jets in his 16th game, passing his 48-game output that he posted last season. Zetterberg's team-best eighth goal 7:09 into the second period broke a 1-0 Winnipeg lead. DeKeyser then collected his first NHL goal 2:56 after Zetterberg's goal with the Red Wings shorthanded, putting Detroit up 2-1, its only lead of the game. But Frolik tied the game late in the second period off a feed from Scheifele to send the teams into the second intermission at 2-2. The Red Wings (9-5-2) finished a four-game tour of Western Canada with their first trip to Winnipeg since they ended the city's original NHL run on April 28, 1996, in a first-round series against the original Jets. Detroit had taken one-goal decisions against the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames on this trip before blowing out the Edmonton Oilers 5-0 on Saturday. Little solved Howard with a minute remaining in the first, taking advantage of Kyle Quincey's stumble at the Winnipeg line and taking the puck in alone on Howard before squeezing it through the pads for a 1-0 lead. Montoya continued his strong play into the second period before Zetterberg scored. Zetterberg drove down the left boards and directed a hard pass into the slot that caromed off Winnipeg defenseman Grant Clitsome's skate and into the net to tie the game 1-1. Detroit capitalized on Winnipeg's struggling penalty kill, driving the Jets into their own zone, winning a left-circle draw and working the puck back to DeKeyser, who ripped a shot from the high point past Montoya at 10:05 for the Red Wings' first lead. The Jets' third line clicked late in the second period when Scheifele sped down the right side before connecting with Frolik, who slipped a low shot under Howard from the bottom of the slot at 17:04.
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