Edmonton @ Philadelphia 2-4 - Claude Giroux snapped a 21-game goal drought that dated to last season, and fourth-liner Jay Rosehill scored his first in 18 games for the Flyers, who entered averaging a League-low 1.47 goals per game then scored more than one goal for the seventh time in 16 games. He had two glorious chances to score with 4:55 left in the second period, making a great move on Dubnyk to create an open net but lifting his backhander over the crossbar. He got the puck right back just to the left of the net but Ryan Smyth blocked his wrist shot. Giroux slammed his stick in frustration, but Wayne Simmonds thought he saw something different in his teammate. With the Flyers holding a 2-1 lead in the third period, Giroux picked up the puck in the Philadelphia end, raced up ice into the Edmonton zone, faked a shot, cut to the middle, and using Oilers defenseman Andrew Ference as a screen blasted one past Dubnyk at 11:26. They also got a dose of confidence early when Rosehill, who has been a healthy scratch seven times in 16 games, drove to the net to redirect a Streit pass past Dubnyk at 11:56 of the first period. Hartnell made it 2-0 with his second goal of the season, with 2:44 left in the first period. Braydon Coburn's shot from the right point was blocked but the deflection went to Streit along the wall on the left side of the Edmonton zone. The defenseman sent a quick pass through the slot to Hartnell, who stopped it and snapped a wrist shot past Dubnyk. Perron cut Edmonton's deficit in half with a power-play goal with 1:35 left in the second period. Midway through the power play Giroux turned over the puck in the Philadelphia end. Ales Hemsky got the loose puck at the blue line and skated past Giroux and Nicklas Grossmann as he went behind the Philadelphia net. He came out the other side and found Perron just off the post on the left side, and he one-timed it past Mason. Two minutes after Giroux's goal put the Flyers back up by two, Hall banged a loose puck in the slot past Mason to make it 3-2. That was as close the Oilers would get; Lecavalier capped the scoring with a sharp-angle goal at 16:33.
Florida @ Ottawa 2-3 - Kyle Turris and Mika Zibanejad scored 19 seconds apart early in the first period, and Ottawa held on to beat Florida 3-2 on Saturday, spoiling the debut of Panthers interim coach Peter Horachek. Clarke MacArthur's goal during a two-man advantage put Ottawa ahead 3-1 at 5:52 of the second period and proved to be the game-winner. Goc scored at 10:08 of the third period to draw Florida within one for the second time. The scoring came fast and furious in the early going with three goals in a little bit more than four minutes. It looked like Ottawa might run Florida out of the rink early before the Panthers scored within two minutes of falling behind 2-0. Turris and Zibanejad took advantage of a pair of turnovers by Florida defensemen as Ottawa jumped out to the two-goal lead 2:04 after the opening faceoff. Ryan intercepted a pass by Matt Gilroy inside the Florida blue line and drove in on Thomas, who stopped his shot. But Ryan recovered the puck in the right corner and passed to Turris, who scored his fourth goal on a shot from a sharp angle at 1:45. That goal was still being announced when Zibanejad scored his fourth of the season 19 seconds later. Zibanejad cut off defenseman Dmitry Kulikov's pass from behind the net to new partner Gudbranson out front and put a rebound into the net off Gudbranson. Florida forward Jesse Winchester sat out the first game of his three-game suspension. Winchester was suspended by the NHL on Friday for an elbow to the head of Boston forward Chris Kelly, his former teammate with Ottawa, in the game Thursday. Senators right wing Chris Neil wore a visor throughout the game Saturday. Neil had a couple of cuts around his right eye after he was struck in the face by the puck when he crossed into the path of a pass by Karlsson on Thursday.
Toronto @ Boston 1-3 - Patrice Bergeron broke a tie early in the third period on a power play, and Tuukka Rask made 33 saves in a 3-1 Boston victory in the first of four meetings this season between the Atlantic Division rivals. Bergeron, who added an empty-net goal with 21.7 seconds left, scored the overtime winner last season in that Game 7, when the Bruins overcame a three-goal, third-period deficit. The center has 36 points and 12 goals in 45 regular-season games against the Maple Leafs. A James van Riemsdyk double-minor for high sticking carried over from the second period to the third, and the Bruins took advantage to take a 2-1 lead. Carl Soderberg battled in front and made James Reimer make two saves before Bergeron swooped in to tap in a rebound at 1:06 of the period. Zdeno Chara scored his third power-play goal of the season by outmuscling two Maple Leafs defenders at the top of the blue paint and redirecting a pass from Jarome Iginla past Reimer. Iginla had retrieved a rebound of his own backhand shot below the goal line. Boston's goal extended Toronto's streak of allowing at least one power-play goal to three games. The Bruins outshot the Maple Leafs, 14-7, in the period. Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid went down without contact at 7:52 and didn't return after he was helped off the ice by teammates. Boston played the rest of the night with five defensemen. Joffrey Lupul scored the Maple Leafs' goal with 3:08 to go in the second. He skated end-to-end down the right wing, and Dennis Seidenberg kept the Toronto forward wide, but Lupul still found space high to the glove side from just outside the right faceoff dot to beat Rask and tie the game 1-1.
Tampa Bay @ Detroit 3-2 OT - Teddy Purcell scored at 3:51 of overtime to give the Lightning a 3-2 victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night, their first win at Joe Louis Arena since Jan. 12, 1994. Richard Panik stole the puck from Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey behind the net and made a quick feed to Purcell between the hash marks. Purcell rocketed a high shot past Jimmy Howard and just under the crossbar to end Tampa Bay's 0-11-1 drought in Detroit and an 0-7-1 streak against the Red Wings overall. Henrik Zetterberg scored both goals for the Red Wings. He tied the game with 4:12 remaining when he took a drop pass from Danny DeKeyser and blasted a high slap shot from well inside the right circle past Ben Bishop (25 saves). Detroit grabbed a 1-0 lead 3:51 into the game, thanks to Zetterberg's anticipation. Radko Gudas attempted a pass up the middle from behind his net. But the Red Wings captain stepped in, knocked the puck onto his own stick and zipped a shot from the slot past a surprised Bishop for his ninth of the season. Ryan Malone's persistence got the Lightning even at 10:11. He picked up a pass off the end boards by defenseman Matthew Carle, came around and tried a wraparound at the left post that was denied by Howard. But no one picked up Malone, who found the loose puck and lifted it into a wide-open net for his second goal of the season and first in 10 games. It was also his first career goal against the Red Wings. Detroit had gone more than four periods without a power play, then spent 8:00 of the first 11:46 of the second period playing with the extra man. That included a four-minute advantage after Nate Thompson was assessed a double minor for high sticking Daniel Alfredsson. But not only did the Lightning kill off the four-minute advantage, they took the lead four seconds after Thompson returned. Stamkos, playing at the end of the penalty kill, took a diagonal feed from Victor Hedman in the right circle and beat Howard with a high wrister. It was his 14th goal of the season, tying him with Alexander Steen of the St. Louis Blues for the League lead. Stamkos nearly had his second of the night, but hit the post from near the right faceoff dot midway through the third period. Howard also stopped Tyler Johnson on a breakaway with 5:35 remaining. Those missed chances came back to cost the Lightning when Zetterberg's high blast from just to the outside of the right faceoff dot beat Bishop cleanly on Detroit's third shot on goal of the period. Johnson fired wide from the slot in the final 30 seconds of regulation, but Purcell didn't miss after Quincey's turnover.
Minnesota @ Carolina 3-2 OT - Pominville scored the 200th goal of his career when Ryan Suter fired a puck through center ice to him, and he sent a shot over Peters' glove at 3:33 of the first period. Carolina quickly tied the game in the first period when Ryan Murphy's wrister from above the right circle deflected off Minnesota defenseman Nate Prosser and fooled Harding at 4;53. The Hurricanes took the lead in the second period when Jiri Tlusty slipped the puck between Harding's pads at 7:14, but Justin Fontaine answered a little more than four minutes later. Marco Scandella's shot from the point was redirected by Fontaine in the slot and past Peters at 11:22. In overtime, the Hurricanes appeared to have an ideal opportunity to win. When Minnesota forward Mikael Granlund was called for hooking, Carolina spent 40 seconds with an extra attacker on the ice before the 4-on-3. But despite 1:07 of power-play time, Carolina managed three total shots in overtime. Suter continued a remarkable trend, logging 35:28 of ice time. It came two nights after playing 36:51 in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Washington Capitals.
NY Islanders @ Columbus 2-5 - Ryan Johansen had the first three-point game of his career (one goal, two assists) and Brandon Dubinsky tied his best production with a first-period power-play goal and two assists. R.J. Umberger, Cam Atkinson and James Wisniewski scored in the third. The Islanders, who got goals from Frans Nielsen in the first period and Thomas Hickey in the second, lost left wing Thomas Vanek for the game to an upper-body injury on his first shift. Umberger scored 27 seconds into the period, 12 seconds after the Blue Jackets went on the power play, to make it 3-2. Wisniewski took a cross-ice pass from Johansen off the boards and shot from the right point and Umberger was parked in front for the deflection. Atkinson then made it a two-goal game with a rebound goal after the initial shot by Johansen. Atkinson was left of the net and shoveled a backhander over the glove of Evgeni Nabokov. Wisniewski added an empty-net goal from his own goal line after getting the puck from goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky with 68 seconds left. Wisniewski leads the League in points by defensemen at home with 11 (two goals, nine assists). After Dubinsky and Nielsen traded scores, Johansen and Hickey were involved in each other's goals in the second. First, Johansen gave Columbus (6-10-0) the 2-1 lead at 9:27 after blocking a Hickey shot at the left point. The puck went to Dubinsky, and he sent an outlet to the streaking Johansen just past the red line. With Hickey in pursuit, Johansen skated put a couple of moves on Nabokov to beat him glove side. The advantage lasted just four minutes, though, when Hickey got the equalizer off a pass from John Tavares. Hickey's shot from the right circle changed directions after hitting Johansen's stick and went over the left shoulder of Bobrovsky while the teams played 4-on-4. Nabokov was responsible for the Blue Jackets' goal at 6:25 of the first. He used his stick to trip Marian Gaborik to set up the power play, then had Dubinsky's soft backhander go off him and barely fall across the goal line. Mark Letestu originally tried to fire the puck through from the right point, but it landed on Dubinsky's stick. His attempt went through traffic, including Umberger at the crease, and the puck went off the left post, then hit Nabokov before he could make a save. The goal was Dubinsky's fourth, but more importantly it gave the Blue Jackets their first lead in 287:06. New York controlled the rest of the period and tied the score at 19:25, when Nielsen scored on the rush with Eric Boulton providing a screen.
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