NY Islanders @ Montreal 2-4 - The so-called kid line of Lars Eller, Brendan Gallagher and Alex Galchenyuk combined for eight points and Carey Price made 24 saves to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 win against the New York Islanders at Bell Centre. Galchenyuk, 19, had his first career three-point game with a goal and two assists, Eller also had a goal and two assists and Gallagher had a goal and an assist for the Canadiens (9-8-1), who snapped a four-game losing streak (0-3-1). Desharnais' mistake in taking that penalty was erased when Galchenyuk scored on a tic-tac-toe passing play from Gallagher and Eller at 10:37 of the third, with Galchenyuk grabbing the CH logo on his sweater and kissing it to celebrate. It was something that showed the exuberance of youth, and something he will be taking out of his repertoire. Two special-teams streaks came to an end at the same time when Pierre-Marc Bouchard got the Islanders on the board at 7:23 of the second period. The goal snapped an 0-for-24 skid for the Islanders' power play that lasted seven games plus one period, while it also broke a 21-for-21 run for the Canadiens' penalty kill dating back to a game on Oct. 26 against the San Jose Sharks. Brock Nelson’s third-period goal at 3:10 that made the score 3-2 also came on the power play and the Islanders finished 2-for-4 with the man advantage. After a scoreless first period, Gallagher got Montreal on the board at 1:46 of the second when he was able to corral a Galchenyuk feed entering the Islanders zone and beat Poulin with a low shot to the far side for his eighth goal of the season. Bouchard tied it with his power-play goal, his third of the season on a top-corner rocket from the top of the left circle, but Eller got it back on the power play at 16:14 of the second when he one-timed Galchenyuk's feed through the slot past Poulin for his sixth goal. Canadiens rookie Michael Bournival made it 3-1 with 55.9 seconds left in the second with Thomas Hickey still serving the second half of a double-minor penalty for high sticking, tipping home a Raphael Diaz point shot for his fifth goal of the season. After Nelson got the Islanders within one early in the third off John Tavares' second assist of the game, Galchenyuk re-established Montreal's two-goal margin by finishing a tic-tac-toe passing play with Gallagher and Eller for his third goal of the season at 10:37.
Nashville @ New Jersey 0-5 - Jaromir Jagr reached 1,701 career points with a goal and one assist, Travis Zajac scored the 100th goal of his career, and Martin Brodeur recorded his 123rd career shutout with 15 saves as the Devils scored five goals for the first time this season. Cam Janssen scored his second goal in three games and Mattias Tedenby connected for the first time this season in New Jersey's win. Zajac's goal, off tic-tac-toe execution with Jagr and Dainius Zubrus, was his first in eight games and gave the Devils a 4-0 cushion 12:57 into the third. Tedenby closed out the scoring with 44 seconds remaining when he roofed an attempt at the right post. Brodeur, who beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 in his prior start Thursday, has back-to-back shutouts for the first time since April 2010. It was also his first career shutout against the Predators, one of three teams he had not shut out prior to this season. The Devils opened a 3-0 lead with a two-goal second period. Janssen, recalled from the Devils' American Hockey League affiliate in Albany on Nov. 6, connected at 2:54 for a 2-0 lead. Ryan Carter skated to the net down the right wing and forced Nashville goalie Carter Hutton to make a left-pad save, but Janssen knocked in the rebound, drawing chants of "Ca-Am Janssen." Marek Zidlicky, who assisted on Janssen's goal, scored his second of the season on a power play at 8:37 to give the Devils a 3-0 lead. Nashville rookie defenseman Seth Jones was whistled for hooking Steve Bernier just five seconds earlier to set up the Devils' man advantage. Adam Henrique won the ensuing faceoff back to Eric Gelinas, who fed to Zidlicky at the top of the right circle with Bernier creating a screen. Brodeur's best save of the period came with 55.6 seconds remaining when he denied Matt Hendricks with his glove off a slap shot from between the circles. Jagr gave the Devils a 1-0 lead when he scored his fifth goal of the season off a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that beat Hutton through a screen to the long side. Jagr picked up the puck along the right-wing half boards after getting a feed from Peter Harrold and skated across the crease to score and notch his 1,700th career point. His assist on Zajac's goal in the third boosted his career totals to 686 goals and 1,015 assists. Jagr, 41, the top-scoring Czech-born player in NHL history, is the eighth player in League history to reach 1,700 points. His former teammate on the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mario Lemieux, ranks seventh on the all-time list with 1,723 points.
Florida @ NY Rangers 3-4 - Brad Richards scored the go-ahead goal 46 seconds into the third and set up Mats Zuccarello's eventual game-winner 5:30 later to lead the New York Rangers to a 4-3 win against the Panthers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. The irritating sequence for Richards started with 4:14 remaining in the second period of a 2-2 tie when he deflected Carl Hagelin's perfect cross-ice pass well wide of an open net. Moments later, he fired a shot from the slot right into Thomas' belly before breaking his stick. The Rangers opened the scoring 9:49 into the game on an impressive passing sequence. Miller entered the Florida zone and dropped a pass to Ryan McDonagh. He deked around Krys Barch at the blue line before making a cross-ice pass to a streaking Chris Kreider, who found Miller on the left wing with an open net. Miller made no mistake to score his first of the season 9:49 into the period. The play started when Derek Dorsett hooked Scottie Upshall's stick to force a turnover. The Panthers evened the score in the closing moments of the opening period with Brian Boyle off for hooking. Tom Gilbert fired a shot from the left circle that was kicked out by Lundqvist. The rebound went straight to Kris Versteeg, who was stopped on a sprawling save. But Barkov found another rebound and beat an out-of-position Lundqvist for his fourth of the season with 27 seconds left. The goal came after Florida, which entered the game with a League-worst 8.5 percent success rate on the power play, had failed to score in its previous 11 man-advantage opportunities. The Panthers tested Lundqvist frequently at the start of the second period, outshooting New York 10-3 in the first 10 minutes. Starting with 12:41 left in the second, Lundqvist made big saves 30 seconds apart on points from the slot by Gilbert and Versteeg. That pressure eventually paid off for Florida. Campbell's point shot was deflected at the side of the net before hitting the left post and bouncing off Lundqvist's back and into the net with 8:40 remaining in the second. It gave Horachek his first lead as Panthers coach. But the lead wouldn't last, though; New York replied 2:38 later. Dorsett initially lost the puck while backing his way out from behind Thomas' net, then found the puck again and fired a shot from in close that was stopped. But Dorsett put the rebound between Thomas' legs at 13:58 for his second goal of the season. Richards gave New York the lead for good after Hagelin stole the puck from Dmitry Kulikov in the Panthers' zone. He fed Richards, who sped down the left wing and beat Thomas wide to the top corner for his team-leading sixth goal of the season. Versteeg and Kulikov then took penalties 53 seconds apart, setting the stage for Zuccarello's goal with 24 seconds remaining on the 5-on-3 advantage. Zuccarello's one-timer from the right circle off a Richards pass went under Thomas' right arm for his second of the season 6:16 into the third. Campbell fired a high shot past Lundqvist with 7:03 remaining to make it a one-goal game. It also marked the first time in 10 games that the Rangers have allowed more than two goals. But the Panthers could not get the equalizer, even with Thomas pulled for an extra attacker and Kreider in the box for cross-checking for the final 1:15 of regulation.
San Jose @ Winnipeg 4-5 SO - After an Andrew Ladd goal erased San Jose's third lead and tied the game at 4-4 with 1:43 left in regulation, he beat San Jose goaltender Antti Niemi for the lone goal of the shootout. The Sharks, who are winless in five games, nearly won the game in overtime. Patrick Marleau put a rebound past Winnipeg goaltender Ondrej Pavelec, but the officials ruled that Tommy Wingels had interfered with Pavelec on the play. Winnipeg trailed 2-0, 3-1 and 4-3 before Ladd tied the game when he took Bryan Little's pass and one-timed a shot through Niemi's pads from the left circle. The Jets (8-9-2) are 3-1 in shootouts this season and have won two games in a row for the first time since they took their opening two games of the season. The Jets had rallied from a pair of two-goal deficits to tie the game at 3-3 by the end of the second period before San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle scored his second goal of the game on the power play early in the third period. San Jose built a 2-0 lead with a pair of quick first-period strikes. Boyle scored his first goal of the game, a power-play goal on the Sharks' third shot of the game at 14:04. Hertl followed up 1:16 later on the Sharks' next shot with a breakaway that he converted for his 10th goal. The teams traded three goals in a 2:26 span early in the second period. Frolik's fourth goal off a 2-on-1 rush cut the San Jose lead to 2-1 at 6:12. But Wingels then added his fifth goal that re-established a two-goal lead 41 seconds after Frolik’s goal. Wingels has three goals and four assists during a career-high six-game scoring streak. Byfuglien cranked a heavy left-point shot through traffic that moved the Jets to 3-2 at 8:38 before Clitsome floated a shot from the left side that eluded Niemi at 17:19. Clitsome's goal, his second of the season, was the second goal of the night from a Jets defense corps that had combined for three goals all San Jose's power play gave the Sharks their third lead of the game when Boyle slipped into the slot, took Logan Couture's no-look, backhanded pass and hammered it past Pavelec at 3:59 of the third period.
Washington @ Colorado 1-4 - The Colorado Avalanche used goals from a couple of unlikely sources, Patrick Bordeleau and Nick Holden, along with strong work from their penalty-killing units and goalie Semyon Varlamov to defeat the Washington Capitals 4-1 on Sunday at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche killed off three penalties in the third period, including a two-man disadvantage that lasted 56 seconds. The Capitals, who boast the NHL's top power play, went 0-for-4 with the man advantage for the game. The Avalanche completed a four-game homestand with three wins and improved their Central Division-leading record to 14-2-0. Varlamov, who made 40 saves in the Avalanche's 5-1 win in Washington on Oct. 12, stopped 33 shots in the rematch against his former team. Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green each had seven shots but were kept off the scoresheet. PA Parenteau gave the Avalanche some breathing room at 8:12 of the third period, shortly after they killed off back-to-back Capitals power plays. Matt Duchene held off Washington's Marcus Johansson behind the net and passed to Parenteau near the bottom of the right circle for a shot into the far corner of goalie Braden Holtby's net for a 3-1 lead. Gabriel Landeskog put the game out of reach with 1:40 left in the third when he scored from the right circle after squeezing by Ovechkin along the boards at the Capitals blue line. Holden, in the lineup because defenseman Ryan Wilson is sidelined with a back injury, scored his first NHL goal to break a 1-1 tie at 16:16 of the second period. The goal came 28 seconds after Joel Ward scored for the Capitals to tie the game. Ward gained possession of the puck when it caromed off the end boards after Mikhail Grabovski won a draw in the right circle. Ward moved unchecked through the slot to chip it inside the left post at 15:48. Holden, playing in his third game this season and the 10th of his career, was in the left circle when Landeskog passed to him from the side of the net. Holden took a wrist shot that beat Holtby to the far side. Varlamov and Holtby each made 15 saves in the period. Holtby poked the puck away from Ryan O'Reilly on a breakaway at 13:20 and made a save against John Mitchell on another breakaway at 14:40. The Capitals had a huge scare at 17:34 of the second when Ovechkin fell awkwardly into the boards in the left corner of the Avalanche end while being checked by Hejda. Ovechkin lay on his stomach before getting to his skates. No penalty was called, and Ovechkin showed his displeasure with some angry words once he got to the bench. Ovechkin was also frustrated by the Capitals' inability to take advantage of the two-man advantage when a goal would have tied the game. The Avalanche scored the only goal of the first period when Bordeleau deflected in Cody McLeod's high backhand shot for his fourth goal in 62 NHL games.
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