Ottawa @ Boston 0-5 - By the first official timeout in the second period, the Bruins, who were outshot 15-5 in the first period, had righted their ship. Boston outshot Ottawa 9-2 in the first 6:21 of the second, and forward Matt Fraser hit the post. The trend continued and Boston outshot Ottawa 20-8 for the period. One of Boston's 20 shots counted more than the others because Iginla scored during a power play. Torey Krug's one-timer from the blue line hit Lucic in front of Lehner, but Iginla was in a fortuitous position for the rebound. Iginla hammered the puck from the right hash mark high to the glove side for a 1-0 lead at 16:29. The goal was the 541st of Iginla's career, tying him with Hall of Famer Stan Mikita for 29th on the all-time list. Along the way in the second, the Senators endured a bit of a scare when Boston defenseman Johnny Boychuk hit Lehner in the midsection with a slap shot from the right dot. Lehner was attended to by the trainer and stayed in the game. The Bruins doubled their lead 38 seconds into the third period. Krejci was perfectly positioned to one-time a rebound of a Matt Bartkowski shot off the glass, and the Boston center beat Lehner to the short side from just above the goal line for a 2-0 lead. With the Senators pressing to try to get a goal, Marchand was able to tip the puck past Erik Karlsson at the Boston blue line and start the 2-on-1 that expanded the Bruins' lead to 3-0. Smith finished the rush with a one-timer at 10:20. Smith scored his second goal with 3:34 remaining. The Bruins have now had at least one multigoal scorer in seven straight games, matching a franchise record that was set in 1929. Marchand provided the final margin by scoring a shorthanded breakaway goal with 27 seconds left. Each team took some time to find its legs in the first game since the break. By the time the first 20 minutes were through, it was apparent the Senators hit their stride before the Bruins. But everything changed after that. Dennis Seidenberg injured his lower body in a collision with Ottawa forward Cory Conacher late in the third period.
Columbus @ New Jersey 2-1 SO - Cam Atkinson slid the puck between the pads of Martin Brodeur in the third round of the tiebreaker to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 2-1 win against the New Jersey Devils on Friday at Prudential Center. Blue Jackets goalie Curtis McElhinney, who made 16 saves, stopped Jagr, Ryane Clowe and Patrik Elias in the shootout before Atkinson scored in the third round for his team. Jagr was stopped for the second time this season and Elias for the fourth time. Clowe, who was played in his first game since sustaining a concussion on Oct. 13. Adam Henrique scored 5:45 into the third period, his first goal in 13 games, to pull the Devils into a 1-1 tie. Marek Zidlicky entered the Columbus zone down his right wing before sliding a pass in the slot to Elias. He deftly directed a shot on McElhinney and the rebound skittered to Henrique, who was crashing the crease from the left hash. Henrique's goal came minutes after the Devils denied the Blue Jackets on a two-man advantage for 58 seconds with Andrei Loktionov (holding) and Travis Zajac (hooking) serving penalties. McElhinney's best save in the second period came at 6:15 with the Blue Jackets on the penalty kill. Zidlicky received a pass in the left circle and unleashed a slap shot from 30 feet that the goalie calmly turned away with his right pad. It was the last of four saves he made in the second as the Columbus defense held the Devils without a shot over the final 13:45 of the period. Brodeur was called upon to make 10 saves in the second to keep the Devils within striking distance. His best stop came at 1:24 when he denied Atkinson on a breakaway when he flared his right pad. The Blue Jackets, who appeared sharper and more mentally focused from the start, took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Artem Anisimov scored his 11th of the season at 7:34. Atkinson made the play happen with a strong move down his right wing before feathering a pass to Brandon Dubinsky in the slot. Brodeur stopped Dubinsky's attempt with his right pad but Anisimov knocked in the rebound off his backhand while being closely guarded by Steve Bernier.
NY Rangers @ Washington 2-3 - Capitals forward Eric Fehr kept shooting until he scored a goal that counted. Fehr had an apparent goal overturned by video replay in the second period. But he scored his sixth of the season with 5:09 remaining in regulation to give the Capitals a 3-2 victory against the New York Rangers on Friday night in their final home game of 2013. With the teams skating 4-on-4, Fehr beat Talbot, making his third consecutive start in place of Henrik Lundqvist, with an innocent-looking wrist shot from just inside the right circle less than 30 seconds after Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi rang a shot off the post. The go-ahead goal came on the last of Fehr's six shots on goal. Green's third goal of the season gave Washington a 1-0 lead at 6:55 of the opening period. With Rangers forward Rick Nash off for tripping Green, Martin Erat took a feed from Green near the right half-wall. Erat then drove towards the goal line, drawing the Rangers' penalty-killers to him, before sending a backhanded pass back to center point, where an unguarded Green wound up and fired a low slap shot that beat Talbot to the glove side. The Rangers tied the game 1:37 into the second period when Pouliot deflected Brad Richards' point shot past Grubauer for a power-play goal. It was Pouliot's sixth goal of the season and extended his point-scoring streak to a career-high six games. Washington thought they had retaken the lead with 9:50 remaining in the middle period when the officials originally ruled that Fehr's shot from the slot deflected off the post and trickled past Talbot during a power play, But after video review, the call was overturned when it was determined that the puck never crossed the goal line. The Capitals did grab a 2-1 lead before the period ended when Backstrom's wrist shot from the right circle beat Talbot at 18:55 for his 10th goal of the season. The goal came on a counterattack after Grubauer thwarted a New York flurry with three saves in 11 seconds. With about 90 seconds with which to work on the power play entering the third period, the Capitals were in position to take control of the game. Instead, Hagelin tied the game at 2-2 on a shorthanded breakaway 17 seconds after the opening faceoff. He burst down the middle of the ice after collecting a stretch pass from Ryan McDonagh and slipped a backhander through Grubauer's legs. The Rangers played most of the game without defenseman Anton Stralman, who left after four shifts with an undisclosed injury. New York is already without top-four defenseman Marc Staal, who could return from a concussion as early as Sunday against the Tampa Bay Lightning. One of the Rangers' AHL call-ups, Dylan McIlrath, is out with a knee injury that's scheduled to be reevaluated next week.
Buffalo @ Toronto 3-4 SO - The Sabres blew an early 2-0 lead but forced overtime when Steve Ott scored off a power-play scramble with 24 seconds left in regulation. Matt Moulson gave the Sabres 1-0 lead 7:01 into the first period. Moulson scored on a rebound after Girgensons drove to the net; his shot bounced off Bernier to Moulson, who put the puck between his pads. John Scott made it 2-0 by scoring his first goal in more than four years 52 seconds after Moulson's goal. Scott, playing in his 200th career game, picked up the rebound of Matt Ellis shot and beat Bernier with a snap shot for his second career goal and first since Nov. 15, 2009. But Toronto turned the game around by scoring three times in the latter half of the second period. Jake Gardiner made it 2-1 when he scored at 11:38, beating Miller to the glove side with a slap shot from the blue line for his second of the season. Peter Holland's sixth goal of the season tied the game 2-2 at 16:25, firing a loose puck past Miller during a delayed penalty. The Maple Leafs took a 3-2 lead with 17 seconds left in the second when Kessel scored a power-play goal. James van Riemsdyk collected a rebound of Dion Phaneuf's shot from the point and found Kessel driving the net; he beat Miller for his 18th of the season. Buffalo tied the game late after Phaneuf was called for hooking with 51 seconds to play in regulation and gave the Sabres a power play. With Miller on the bench for a sixth attacker, giving Buffalo a 6-on-4 advantage, Bernier lost track of Tyler Myers' shot in the crease and Ott shoveled it home to send the game to overtime. Joffrey Lupul scored the only goal in the shootout to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 win. Lupul beat Ryan Miller with a backhander inside the left post to start the second round. Buffalo's Tyler Ennis followed by hitting the post and Zemgus Girgensons slid a backhander wide of the net in the third round to give the Maple Leafs the win.
Edmonton @ Calgary 2-0 - Ryan Smyth was standing to the right of Berra when he chested Ales Hemsky's high centering feed into the net 17:22 into the game. The goal stood after a lengthy review and put the Oilers up 1-0. The goal was a measure of revenge for Smyth, who saw an earlier power-play opportunity taken away after Chris Butler poked the puck off the stick of the Oilers forward while he was staring at an empty net. It also came after Mark Giordano thought he put the Flames on the board at 14:53. Joe Colborne and David Jones failed to connect on a 2-on-1 rush, but the play continued in Edmonton's zone and Giordano got ahold of the puck at the blue line. He unleashed a wrister that beat Dubnyk but was immediately waived off after Colborne impeded Dubnyk's movement. The best scoring opportunity of the second period came off the stick of the Oilers. After the Flames hemmed the Oilers in their own zone for a shift, a cleared puck got behind the duo of Shane O'Brien and Christopher Breen, springing Anton Lander on a breakaway. Berra stared down Lander before kicking out his right pad to keep the Flames within one. After Berra turned aside Luke Gazdic before wrestling away Nail Yakupov's rebound attempt four minutes into the third, Giordano came close again, skipping a shot off the glove of Dubnyk and the crossbar. Dubnyk denied Giordano again with 3:36 remaining, trapping the wrister of the Flames captain under his pads. The Flames couldn't produce a comeback with Berra on the bench for a sixth skater. Giordano's tripping minor with 19:02 of the third forced Berra back to the crease. Smyth found the empty net with 5.8 seconds remaining to drop Calgary to 1-14-2 when trailing after two periods and hand them their second loss in three games of the Battle of Alberta this season.
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