Minnesota @ Ottawa 4-3 - Minnesota came back twice to tie its game against the Ottawa Senators, after falling behind 1-0 and 2-1, and rebounded again after blowing a 3-2 lead in the third period when Mikko Koivu scored with 2:57 remaining to give the Wild a 4-3 win. Koivu rushed down the right side and cut inside to beat goalie Craig Anderson with a shot into the top left corner for his fifth goal of the season. Dany Heatley and Jonas Brodin each had a goal and an assist in the second period for Minnesota, and Josh Harding made 34 saves. Milan Michalek drew Ottawa even at 3-3 with a power-play goal at 8:57 of the third. Michalek put away a rebound of Mika Zibanejad's shot from the left point for his fourth goal. Kyle Turris and Zibanejad scored in the first period for the Senators (8-10-4), who have lost three in a row, including 5-2 to the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. Anderson stopped 21 shots in his fourth start in five games for Ottawa since he was sidelined because of a sore neck. Ottawa's Clarke MacArthur made a highlight-reel play to set up a shorthanded goal by Turris that gave the Senators a 1-0 lead 5:54 into the game. MacArthur dropped the puck back on a rush down the right side and put his stick between his legs to feed a pass behind Wild defenseman Ryan Suter to Turris, who beat Harding with a shot from the slot. Jason Pominville was unable to handle Parise's saucer pass back to the blue line early in Minnesota's first power play of the game, which caused the turnover that led to MacArthur's rush. The Wild recovered to tie it 59 seconds later when Parise set up Pominville's 13th goal at 6:53. Zibanejad restored Ottawa's one-goal lead at 2-1 with his fifth goal at 11:11. Brodin scored his fourth goal 3:00 into the second period. The 20-year-old defenseman took a pass back to the right point from Heatley and beat Anderson with a long wrist shot to tie it 2-2. Heatley, a two-time 50-goal scorer with the Senators, gave the Wild their first lead at 6:15. He fanned on his initial attempt to recover a puck behind the Ottawa net but made a second attempt and reached past Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson, who waved his stick at the puck as Heatley put a soft shot between Anderson's pads.
Columbus @ Calgary 2-1 OT - Nikita Nikitin scored 2:25 into overtime to give the Blue Jackets a 2-1 victory against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, one night after they drew the ire of coach Todd Richards after being demolished 7-0 by the Edmonton Oilers. The Blue Jackets managed all of 18 shots against Calgary, but opened the scoring midway through the first period on Nick Foligno's goal before winning it on Nikitin's. Calgary goaltender Reto Berra denied Artem Anisimov during an overtime scramble before Cam Atkinson found David Savard in the slot. His shot was blocked but the puck skipped to Nikitin, who hit the back of a virtually empty net for his first of the season to give Columbus the win. Joe Colborne scored early in the third period for the Flames, who've dropped six in a row at Scotiabank Saddledome. Columbus managed just six shots in the first period but took the lead on Foligno's fifth of the season. R.J. Umberger gained the zone only to have the puck knocked off his stick, but it landed on the tape of Foligno. He stepped in and fired a shot that nicked the stick of Flames defenseman TJ Brodie and beat Berra at 9:21. The goal came two minutes after Ryan Johansen set up Jack Johnson with a backdoor, cross-ice pass with Dennis Wideman in the penalty box; Berra made a spectacular bicycle kick save to keep the game scoreless. Berra and Columbus' Sergei Bobrovsky traded nifty saves late in the period. Berra flashed the glove to rob former Flame Blake Comeau before Bobrovsky blockered away Mike Cammalleri's wrister off a give-and-go with Stajan for one of his 23 saves. Calgary tied it 3:28 into the third period. Colborne picked up a broken stretch pass by Kris Russell in the neutral zone, cut in on Johnson and lifted a backhand Bobrovsky's glove for his second goal of the season and first in 13 games. It was the only shot to beat Bobrovsky, who allowed four goals on 18 shots in 28:30 of action against Edmonton.
New Jersey @ Anaheim 4-3 OT - It took time to sort out the frantic final minutes, but Zajac was credited with the overtime goal that gave New Jersey a 4-3 win to cap a strange Wednesday night at Honda Center. After Getzlaf missed on a terrific chance in overtime, New Jersey went the other way. Dainius Zubrus got the puck on the right side before Zajac directed it toward net. Ducks defenseman Ben Lovejoy tried to clear it from the front, but his attempt hit Corey Perry and went into the net at 1:58. The Devils forced overtime on Jaromir Jagr's 6-on-5 goal with 61 seconds remaining in regulation. Patrik Elias sent a wobbly pass from behind the net to Jagr, who tapped it past Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller for his eighth goal. Anaheim lost defenseman Francois Beauchemin to an upper-body injury in the second period. Beauchemin appeared to crash into the boards and played three shifts in the second before heading to the dressing room. The Ducks erased a 2-1 deficit when Nick Bonino scored during a two-man advantage 2:28 into the second, when he put a rebound past Devils goalie Martin Brodeur. It was Bonino's sixth goal of the season, a career high. Thirteen minutes later, Getzlaf delivered one of his signature bursts of dominance in the second period to give Anaheim a 3-2 lead. With Steve Yzerman, executive director of Canada for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, in attendance, Getzlaf scored on a rocket slap shot for a power-play goal. But Anaheim's Dustin Penner took a hooking penalty on Jagr to start the third, and New Jersey started its push. It outshot Anaheim 13-6 in the third period and overtime, and Boudreau felt his team was sitting back. The second period was a forgettable period for the Devils, who failed to put a shot on goal in the first 12:37 and were outshot 11-3, not counting Zubrus' shot off the post. Two of those three shots came in the final minute. In a game that featured 43-year-old Teemu Selanne and the 41-year-old Jagr, the two oldest active players in the NHL, it was Brodeur who was the most active of the 40-somethings. His best save was a glove grab against Perry in the first. After Matt Beleskey opened the scoring for Anaheim 11:31 into the game, New Jersey got power-play goals by Marek Zidlicky and Eric Gelinas 86 seconds apart for a 2-1 lead late in the first. They came during a double-minor high sticking penalty to Selanne, although it appeared that Zidlicky accidentally clipped teammate Andy Greene. Zidlicky promptly scored on a turnaround slap shot that beat Hiller five-hole at 15:44, and Gelinas one-timed Adam Henrique's pass from the left side at 17:10.
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