Anaheim @ Buffalo 6-3 - After a scoreless first period, the Sabres got on the board first at 7:15 of the second when Cody Hodgson scored on the power play, his fifth goal of the season. The lead was short-lived, however. Ryan Getzlaf scored his sixth of the season at 9:42 to make it a 1-1 game. He finished the game with three points. Defenseman Sami Vatanen gave the Ducks a 2-1 lead when he fired home a wrist shot from the slot at 15:18 of the second, his first goal of the season. Etem followed that up 34 seconds later with his third of the season to make it 3-1. Perry and Etem scored 39 seconds apart in the third period at to make it a 5-1 game. Perry beat Jhonas Enroth at 4:50 before Etem put Anaheim up by four goals at 5:29. Sabres defensemen Henrik Tallinder and Tyler Myers each scored their first of the season to cut the lead to 5-3, but Perry’s second goal of the night, and team-leading eighth on the season, at 15:38 on a breakaway put the game away.
St Louis @ Tampa Bay 2-4 - Alex Killorn has two goals and three assists since being moved up to the Tampa Bay Lightning's first line with Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis. He scored once and set up two more goals Saturday as the Lightning beat the St. Louis Blues 4-2 at Tampa Bay Times Forum. Brett Connolly broke a 2-2 tie with his first goal of the season at 8:37 of the third period to put Tampa Bay ahead for good. Connolly, playing his first game since being recalled from the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League on Thursday, snapped a 2-2 tie when he deflected a shot by Radko Gudas into the net three seconds after a hooking penalty to Vladimir Sobotka expired. Valtteri Filppula, who earned the second assist on Connolly's goal, added some insurance with 3:59 remaining to be played. His backhand shot from the left of the crease hit a defenseman's skate before caroming off the far post and into the net. Pietrangelo opened the scoring 7:50 into the game when his shot from the blue line went through a tangle of bodies and past Bishop. The goal was Pietrangelo's fourth in the past four games; he leads all NHL defensemen in goals. David Backes and Alexander Steen assisted. Killorn tied it at 10:44 with an unassisted goal. He picked up a loose puck in the Blues zone, cut across the slot and had his first shot blocked, but recovered the carom and beat Halak for his fourth of the season. Stamkos put the Lightning ahead at 1:43 of the second period. He and St. Louis broke in 2-on-1 against Halak, and Stamkos roofed a shot from the edge of the crease for his 11th of the season. Killorn and Mark Barberio earned assists; the point was Barberio's first in the NHL. Stamkos now has goals in four consecutive games and is one behind St. Louis forward Alexander Steen for the NHL lead. That time the lead lasted for just over two minutes, until Jaden Schwartz got the puck in the low slot and ripped a shot past Bishop at 3:45 for his third of the season.
Philadelphia @ New Jersey 1-0 - Not only did the Flyers earn their first shutout of the season in a game they desperately needed, but they had no turnovers and the 14 shots allowed were their fewest on the road since December 2009 against the Montreal Canadiens. Flyers coach Craig Berube opted to start Emery, who totaled 29 minutes in penalties Friday after leaving his crease to engage in a fight with Capitals goalie Bradon Holtby. Emery entered in relief of starter Steve Mason in the second period and exited following his fight at 5:31 of the third after yielding four goals on 15 shots. The Flyers accrued 99 penalty minutes Friday as they reverted to type and gooned it up, but Berube and his coaching staff stuck to the plan for the goalies that was determined before the game against the Capitals. It proved to be prophetic; the Flyers suffocated the Devils in the third period, yielding three shots. Each team finished 0-for-5 on the power play. Philadelphia shook off the shock of the loss to Washington when they scored at 14:29 of the first period. Schenn redirected a shot from the slot past Brodeur. Andrej Meszaros, making his second start in eight games, lined a rope from the top of right circle that Schenn deflected inside the long-side post for his third of the season.
Boston @ NY Islanders 1-3 - John Tavares broke a scoreless tie at 6:15 of the second period. With the teams at even strength, Vanek took the puck off David Krejci's stick in the slot and quickly put a shot on goal that was denied by Johnson. But Tavares was on the doorstep and showed some nifty hand-eye coordination and swatted the puck out of midair and over the goal line for his sixth goal of the season. MacDonald doubled New York's lead with his first goal of the season at 13:13. MacDonald, who had three goals in 48 games last season, took a pass from Travis Hamonic and one-timed a slap shot from the left point that found its way through a crowd and past Johnson to give the Islanders a 2-0 lead. The Bruins responded quickly via the power play on a goal by Hamilton at 15:27. With three seconds remaining on a holding-the-stick penalty to Islanders forward Brock Nelson, Hamilton sent a cross-ice feed from the right circle toward Carl Soderberg, but New York center Frans Nielsen accidentally poked it through Poulin's pads to make it 2-1. Hamilton was credited with his third goal of the season. Vanek restored New York's two-goal lead 41 seconds later with his first goal as an Islander. He finished off a 2-on-1 with Kyle Okposo (two assists) by one-timing a feed from the left circle past Johnson to make it 3-1. It was Vanek's fifth goal of the season and 30th in 51 games against the Bruins. Johnson denied Vanek's bid for his second of the night midway through the third period. Vanek made a nifty move around Hamilton and snapped a wrister that Johnson snared with his glove to keep it a 3-1 game.
Carolina @ NY Rangers 1-5 - All three of Derek Stepan's goals came on assists by his wings, Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider, giving the trio a nine-point night. Carolina hemmed the Rangers in their own zone through the early minutes of the game, but the Rangers turned their first real scoring chance into the game-opening goal. Brad Richards grabbed a loose puck along the half-wall in his own zone, spun and whipped a pass to Benoit Pouliot, triggering a 2-on-2 rush. Pouliot dished the puck to Hagelin on his left and continued toward the net, taking both defensemen with him. Hagelin cut to the high slot and whipped a long backhander inside the left post for his first goal of the season. Hagelin may have saved a goal early in the second period by hooking Patrick Dwyer, who was alone in front of Lundqvist. The Rangers goalie made his best save of the night early in the power play by robbing Eric Staal from the lower right circle. New York killed off the rest of the power play, then doubled its lead at 8:16 when Hagelin jumped out of the penalty box, grabbed a dump-out by Taylor Pyatt in the corner to the left of Peters, swept into the slot and slid the puck under the goaltender. Stepan made it 3-0 at 15:54. With Manny Malhotra off for cross-checking, the Hurricanes failed to clear the puck from in front of their net after Peters stopped Kreider's blast from the blue line. Stepan found the loose puck in the slot and whipped it past Peters. Carolina got on the board with 36.2 seconds remaining in the period, ending Lundqvist's shutout streak just short of five full periods. New York's Derek Dorsett was off for elbowing when Sekera controlled the puck along the left boards near the top of the circle and flung a shot at the net. The puck appeared to hit the glove of Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman and caught the far top corner for Sekera's second of the season. Peters kept the Hurricanes in the game 75 seconds into the third period when he stopped Hagelin from well inside the left circle on a 3-on-1 break. On the return rush, Lundqvist stopped Nathan Gerbe on a 2-on-1. The Rangers put the game away at 9:09 when Stepan was left alone in the slot, took a passout from Zuccarello and one-timed it behind a defenseless Peters. Stepan completed his hat trick at 14:37 when his pass from the right circle for Kreider hit Sekera and deflected into the net.
Florida @ Washington 2-3 SO - Just as he did Friday against the Flyers, Nicklas Backstrom opened the scoring Saturday with his third goal in two games and fifth of the season at 16:41 of the first period. Backstrom finished a rush that he began by winning a neutral zone faceoff. As the Capitals entered the zone, Eric Fehr attempted to shovel a backhand pass toward Martin Erat, but the puck ricocheted off a skate and right to Backstrom, who fired it past Scott Clemmensen from the slot. Florida (3-8-3) tied the game at 8:20 of the second period when Scottie Upshall intercepted a Brooks Laich pass and fed Jesse Winchester, who took it the length of the ice for a breakaway goal through Michal Neuvirth's legs despite being pulled down from behind by Laich. Washington (7-7-0) quickly responded, restoring its one-goal lead on the rush 36 seconds later on John Carlson's snap shot. Carlson beat Clemmensen after taking a nice saucer pass from Michael Latta. It was Carlson's first goal and only the second scored by a Capitals defenseman; Connor Carrick, currently with the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League, scored Oct. 3 against the Calgary Flames. With time running out, Tomas Fleischmann's sharp-angle power-play goal tied the game at 2-2 with less than three minutes remaining. With Oleksy joining Mike Green in the penalty box for slashing Upshall, Jonathan Huberdeau set up Brian Campbell for a pass behind the net to Fleischmann. In the shootout, Mikhail Grabovski and Aleksander Barkov traded impressive goals in the first round, but Barkov's goal was the only one the Panthers could muster. Laich and Backstrom scored to seal the Capitals' victory. Neuvirth made 31 saves in regulation and overtime, then stopped Huberdeau in the second round of the shootout.
Montreal @ Colorado 1-4 - On a Saturday night when the Colorado
Avalanche honored former defenseman Adam Foote by retiring his
No. 52, the 2013-14 Avalanche extended their winning streak to six
games with a 4-1 win against the Montreal
Canadiens before a record Pepsi Center crowd of 18,152. Colorado
got third-period goals from rookie Nathan
MacKinnon and Ryan
O'Reilly 3:30 apart to break a 1-1 tie, and PA
Parenteau scored into an empty net with 37.9 seconds remaining to
seal it. The Avalanche have matched the 1994-95 Quebec Nordiques for
the best start in franchise history with their 12-1-0 record. When
Alex Tanguay
sustained a knee injury in the second period, Roy moved MacKinnon
from center on the third line to right wing on a unit with Landeskog
and Paul
Stastny. It paid off when Landeskog set up MacKinnon with what
proved to be the game-winning goal. Roy said Tanguay will undergo an
MRI on Sunday or Monday to determine how serious the injury is.
MacKinnon put the Avalanche in front 2-1 at 8:01 after Landeskog, who
scored in the second period, fired a hard shot while skating down the
left wing. Goalie Peter
Budaj made the stop, but the rebound bounced into the slot and
MacKinnon knocked it into the net. MacKinnon's second goal of the
season was his first at home and first in eight games. He last scored
Oct. 12 against the Washington Capitals. O'Reilly made it 3-1 at
11:31 when he gained possession behind the Canadiens net, moved in
front and slipped it behind Budaj for his first goal in five games
and fourth overall. The Canadiens tied the game 1-1 on a power-play
goal by Brendan
Gallagher at 3:38 of the third period. Goalie Jean-Sebastien
Giguere stopped Subban's shot from high in the slot, but
Gallagher was right in front to score on the rebound. The goal came
35 seconds after Maxime
Talbot was assessed a slashing penalty. The Avalanche had killed
two previous Canadiens power plays and 22 penalties in a row covering
parts of six games. The Avalanche took a 1-0 lead at 11:14 of the
second period on a goal by Landeskog, who has scored all five of his
goals in the past seven games. Landeskog scooped up the puck just
outside the Canadiens blue line, skated into the left faceoff circle
and hammered a shot over Budaj's right shoulder. Giguere, playing his
first game at home, finished with 29 saves for his fourth win in as
many starts. He's allowed a total of three goals and owns a 0.75
goals-against average and a .977 save percentage.
Detroit @ Edmonton 5-0 - Darren Helm's return to the Detroit Red Wings' lineup was a triumphant one. Helm, who had suited up for the Red Wings just once since March 2012 due to a succession of injuries, scored the winning goal in his first appearance of the season, helping Detroit to a 5-0 victory against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. Tomas Tatar, Jakub Kindl, Joakim Andersson and Todd Bertuzzi also scored for the Red Wings. Rookie Petr Mrazek had to make only 14 saves to earn his first career shutout in his season debut. Helm opened the scoring 5:09 into the first period, getting to a puck that bounced past Oilers defenseman Jeff Petry at center ice, going in uncontested and beating goaltender Richard Bachman between the pads. It was Helm's first goal since March 9, 2012. Helm's goal was the only one the Red Wings would need as the Oilers were shutout for the second consecutive game. They lost 4-0 to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday. Tatar scored 27 seconds after Helm's goal, pouncing on a rebound in front after Bachman stopped a shot from Andersson. The two quick goals seem to take the life out of the Oilers. Jason LaBarbera replaced Bachman and was beaten at 6:55 of the second period when he was unable to stop Kindl's blast from the edge of the circle. Despite not being in the lineup, goaltender Devan Dubnyk took a spot on the Oilers bench for the second period as an emergency replacement for LaBarbera. Dubnyk, who was nursing a sore ankle, would have been allowed to play only if LaBarbera was injured. Andersson made it 4-0 at 7:54 of the third period by beating Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to the front of the net and converting a pass from Drew Miller. Bertuzzi closed the scoring at 9:43 with a power-play goal; he was left alone in front to bury Henrik Zetterberg's pass.
Nashville @ Los Angeles 4-3 - Two of the NHL's most offensively challenged teams aren't noted for lighting up the scoreboard or big comebacks, but they put on a third-period outburst Saturday night that saw Nashville blow a two-goal lead, only to come away with a 4-3 victory at Staples Center. David Legwand won an offensive-zone faceoff, went to the net and banged in Mattias Ekholm's rebound from the left side with 3:56 remaining for his second goal to break a 3-3 tie, and Nashville held on in a thriller. The talk going into the game centered around another Carter as Los Angeles played its first game without Jeff Carter, its co-leader in goals, because of a lower-body injury. Both teams lost centers and important faceoff men after two shifts in the second period. Nashville'sMike Fisher left the game with a lower-body injury and L.A.'s Jarret Stoll left with an undisclosed injury. Neither Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter and Nashville coach Barry Trotz had updates on their injured player. Without Carter, L.A. still erased a 3-1 deficit in the third with goals by Dustin Brown and Mike Richards in a span of 1:37. Brown's seeing-eye shot from a sharp angle deflected into the net at 9:41 and Richards picked the puck out of Hutton's feet Tyler Toffoli's rebound and tucked it in for a power-play goal with 8:42 left in regulation. The Kings and Predators, two grinding teams that among the NHL's worst in 5-on-5 offense, combined for four goals in the first 29 minutes - quite a contrast to their Oct.17 meeting, a game the Kings won 2-1 in a shootout. Nashville took a 3-1 lead into the third period despite managing all of 11 shots on goal thanks to two power-play conversions, a fortunate bounce and a career-high tying three assists by Patric Hornqvist. Drew Doughty's clearing attempt off the end boards hit a referee, and Hornqvist took the loose puck and nicely set up Eric Nystrom between the hash marks for a bang-in goal and 3-1 lead at 8:41 of the second. Legwand skated above the circles and fired a wrist shot past Quick, who was screened by Hornqvist, at 11:15. Weber made it 2-0 with an easy tap-in of Hornqvist's cross-ice feed at 19:06, a goal scored with Kyle Clifford off for boarding. Toffoli and Linden Vey arrived in L.A. after all-day travel Friday because of the shooting incident at Los Angeles International Airport.
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