Boston @ Ottawa 3-4 - Bobby Ryan scored an unassisted goal on a breakaway at 15:25 of the third period to give Ottawa a 4-3 win against the Bruins on Saturday. Ryan stole the puck from Boston defenseman Torey Krug at the Senators' blue line and drove down the ice to beat Chad Johnson with a backhand for his team-leading 18th goal. Rookie defenseman David Warsofsky drew the Bruins even at 3-3 with his first NHL goal at 6:36 of the third. Warsofsky, who was recalled from Providence of the American Hockey League on Saturday, drove a slap shot past Anderson from the right side for his first point in four games with Boston. Iginla had a potential go-ahead goal waved off at 9:42 of the third. A video review confirmed the on-ice ruling that he kicked the puck into the net with his left skate. Daniel Paille scored in the first for the Bruins, who trailed 2-1 after the opening period. Patrick Wiercioch, Cory Conacher and Zack Smith scored to give Ottawa a 3-2 lead after two periods. Conacher added an assist for his first multipoint game with the Senators, and Smith's second-period goal was Ottawa's second while shorthanded this season. Smith's goal 29 seconds into the second period put the Senators up 3-1 and chased Boston goalie Tuukka Rask, who stopped nine of 12 shots before he was replaced by Johnson. Rask made 33 saves Friday for his League-leading fourth shutout. Johnson stopped 17 of 18 shots in relief. Boston pressed to tie the game in the final minutes, but fell short with the man advantage after Smith was called for a faceoff violation with 1:51 left in regulation. Bruins captain Zdeno Chara and Senators captain Jason Spezza were late scratches. Chara is day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. Spezza has a lower-body injury. Ottawa defenseman Chris Phillips did not play because of a left-foot injury. Senators coach Paul MacLean said both players are day-to-day. Earlier Saturday, Boston announced that defenseman Dennis Seidenberg is out for the rest of the season after suffering torn ligaments in his right knee Friday against the Senators. Bruins center David Krejci went to the dressing room in the first period, but returned moments later. Boston defenseman Adam McQuaid went to the dressing room briefly in the third after blocking a shot by Ottawa's Joe Corvo before returning. Smith's shorthanded goal came 14 seconds after Corvo drew his second straight holding penalty 15 seconds into the second period. It was Ottawa's first shorthanded goal since Nov. 20, when Kyle Turris scored the Senators' first of the season in a 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Wild. Iginla pulled Boston to within 3-2 at 13:51. Milan Lucic took a pass from Krejci and sent a cross-ice feed to Iginla, who was left alone by defensemen Corvo and Jared Cowen for a tap-in from the edge of the crease for his 12th goal. It was Iginla's fourth goal during a three-game goal streak. Wiercioch, who took Phillips' place in the lineup, put the Senators up 1-0 with his third goal at 7:04 of the first period. Paille tied it at 1-1 with an unassisted goal at 12:06. Conacher, who assisted on Wiercioch's goal, restored the Senators' lead at 2-1 with his fourth goal at 14:28. Senators rookie defenseman Cody Ceci assisted on both of Ottawa's first-period goals for his first multipoint game. Bruins defenseman Zach Trotman made his NHL debut after he was recalled on an emergency basis earlier Saturday. Boston returned goalie Niklas Svedberg to Providence.
Montreal @ Tampa Bay 2-1 SO - Carey Price's play in the third period earned the Montreal Canadiens one point. His performance in the shootout got them the second one. Price stopped all 14 shots he faced in the third period and was perfect on the Tampa Bay Lightning's three attempts in the tiebreaker Saturday night, giving the Canadiens a 2-1 victory. Lars Eller, Montreal's first shooter, went backhand to forehand before beating Ben Bishop through the pads. Price stopped all three Tampa Bay shooters, ending the game by denying Teddy Purcell's forehand with his pads. All of the scoring took place in a span of less than 6 1/2 minutes in the second period. Tomas Plekanec gave Montreal the lead when he scored at 5:15. Martin St. Louis got Tampa Bay even with his 17th goal at 11:43. After a scoreless first period in which the Canadiens (23-13-3) outshot the Lightning 7-3, Plekanec put Montreal ahead when he broke in on Bishop, fought off Alex Killorn's check and flipped the puck past Bishop for his 13th of the season. St. Louis tied the game when he one-timed a pass from Tyler Johnson past Price from between the faceoff circles. The Lightning captain has points in six straight games.
Detroit @ Florida 4-3 - Captain Henrik Zetterberg scored in his return to the lineup Saturday, forward Justin Abdelkader also returned, and the Red Wings finally found a way to solve the Florida Panthers. Brendan Smith and Gustav Nyquist scored 38 seconds apart early in the third period to snap a 2-2 tie and the Red Wings held on for a 4-3 victory at BB&T Center. The Panthers lost for the first time in four games against the teams featured in this season's HBO "24/7," the Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Florida won 3-1 at Toronto on Dec. 17. Zetterberg, playing for the first time since Dec. 1 after missing 11 games because of a back injury, and Daniel Alfredsson had power-play goals to give the Red Wings a 2-0 lead in the first period. Pavel Datsyuk had two assists, and Jonas Gustavsson made 30 saves. Smith gave Detroit a 3-2 lead 42 seconds into the third period with his first goal of the season and his second in 78 NHL games. After Clemmensen stopped Zetterberg on a partial breakaway, Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey held a Florida clearing attempt at the blue line and fed Smith, who beat Clemmensen with a one-timer from the point. Nyquist made it 4-2 at 1:20 after Clemmensen failed to cleanly handle Jakub Kindl's wrist shot from the point and Nyquist put home the rebound. Bergenheim cut the Detroit lead to 4-3 at 4:27 after he got a long rebound in the high slot and beat Gustavsson through the five-hole with a wrist shot. Gustavsson preserved the victory with a pad save on Tomas Kopecky off a scrum in front of the net in the final 30 seconds. Detroit took advantage of special teams to take the lead in the first period, converting on two of three power plays and killing three penalties. The Red Wings finished the game 2-for-5 on the power play; the Panthers were 1-for-6. Alfredsson opened the scoring at 3:47, 12 seconds after Florida's Dmitry Kulikov went to the penalty box for hooking. Alfredsson beat Clemmensen with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle through traffic. Zetterberg made it 2-0 at 14:29 after Datsyuk stopped a Panthers clearing attempt at the blue line. Datsyuk then fired a cross-ice pass to Zetterberg near the right faceoff dot. He took his time before firing a wrist shot that beat Clemmensen high to the short side. Bergenheim got Florida within 2-1 at 12:52 of the second period. Brian Campbell skated the puck into the Detroit zone and moved outside before flipping a saucer pass to Bergenheim, who beat Gustavsson with a quick backhand. Bjugstad tied the score 2-2 at 14:59 with his second highlight-reel goal in the past two games against Detroit. He intercepted Tomas Jurco's pass across the Florida blue line and easily skated past Niklas Kronwall for a breakaway, then beat Gustavsson with a deke to his forehand. Bjugstad scored the game-tying goal in the third period Dec. 10 after beating Datsyuk along the boards, skating to the front of the net and firing a quick shot under the crossbar.
New Jersey @ NY Islanders 2-1 - Locked in a 1-1 tie with the New Jersey Devils in the third period, Marek Zidlicky ripped a slap shot that hit Travis Zajac in the upper left shoulder and went past Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov with 6:57 left in regulation to lift New Jersey to a 2-1 victory at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Zajac went down to the ice in such a manner that it seemed Zidlicky's shot had hit him in the face. He stayed on the ice momentarily before heading to the Devils' bench in pain. It didn't take long to realize how much the Islanders missed their captain, John Tavares. New York didn't get a consistent forecheck going in the offensive zone until the third period, and Brock Nelson and Frans Nielsen took turns centering the top line with Thomas Vanek and Kyle Okposo. Henrique gave the Devils a 1-0 lead 11:47 into the opening period, finishing off a pretty passing display with Michael Ryder and Reid Boucher. Ryder had the puck along the right-wing boards and chipped it through Andrew MacDonald's legs up to Boucher, who sped past Calvin de Haan and sent it to the slot to Henrique for an easy backhand past Nabokov. It was Henrique's eighth goal of the season. Schneider preserved the lead with 2:42 left in the second period. With the Islanders finally starting to establish a forecheck in the offensive zone, Brian Strait collected a loose puck between the circles and snapped a wrist shot that Schneider managed to gobble up without a rebound. Nabokov prevented New Jersey from doubling its lead about 20 seconds later when he denied Steve Bernier's wrist shot from point-blank range. The Devils were outshot 8-6 in the second period. The Islanders controlled the tempo for much of the third period and finally tied the game on Nielsen's 13th of the season with 9:29 remaining. Vanek intercepted Bryce Salvador's clearing attempt along the right-wing boards and poked it to Okposo, who managed to send it along to Nielsen while falling down. Nielsen gathered Okposo's pass and fired a wrist shot from the slot past Schneider to make it 1-1.
Los Angeles @ Nashville 2-3 - The 17,113 fans who packed Bridgestone Arena on Saturday night went from sadness to euphoria in a span of 10 seconds. Mike Fisher scored his second goal of the game with 26.4 seconds left in the third period to cap a wild finish and give the Nashville Predators a 3-2 victory against the Los Angeles Kings. The Predators looked like they were winners after Fisher broke a 1-1 tie by scoring a power-play goal with 3:18 left in regulation. But L.A.'s Jeff Carter beat Marek Mazanec with 36.7 seconds remaining to stun the full house and tie the game. However, the Predators won the ensuing faceoff and entered the L.A. zone with speed. Colin Wilson fed a pass to Fisher, who fired a shot from the slot that hit goaltender Ben Scrivens glove and barely crossed the goal line. The Predators got on the board first at 14:42 of the first period. Seth Jones' shot from the right point hit a leg in front and caromed to Fisher in the slot. Scrivens stopped Fisher's wrister, but Hornqvist picked up the rebound and backhanded it into the empty side of the net for his eighth of the season. Los Angeles got even 7:05 into the second period. With Nashville's Paul Gaustad off for tripping Slava Voynov, the Kings defenseman slipped a pass to Kopitar in the high slot for a wrister that went past Mazanec's glove and inside the left post. It was Kopitar's 12th of the season and his team-high sixth on the power play. Nashville had a great chance to regain the lead when penalties to Jake Muzzin and Matt Greene gave the Predators 47 seconds of 5-on-3 power-play time. But they did not manage a shot on goal during the two-man advantage and had two that were denied by Scrivens during the 5-on-4 power play. The Predators broke the tie at 16:42 of the final period. With L.A.'s Tyler Toffoli off for holding, Fisher caught the Kings on a bad line change. He picked up the puck near the red line, raced into the Kings zone and ripped a slap shot from the high slot past Scrivens. But with the Kings goaltender on the bench for an extra attacker, Carter took Kopitar's pass from the right boards and zipped his 12th of the season past Mazanec to make it 2-2.
Philadelphia @ Edmonton 4-3 SO - Ilya Bryzgalov made 35 saves and was the main reason the Oilers were able to earn a point in the loss. Michael Raffl scored the shootout winner for the Flyers, who got their other goal in the tiebreaker from Claude Giroux. Bryzgalov stopped Vincent Lecavalier on Philadelphia's first attempt. Jordan Eberle scored in the shootout for the Oilers, while David Perron and Sam Gagner missed. The Flyers bought out Bryzgalov in the offseason, two seasons into a nine-year, $51 million contract. Bryzgalov kept the Oilers in the game on Saturday, particularly in the second period when the Flyers outshot Edmonton 14-3 while battling back from a two-goal deficit. Hall opened the scoring on the first shift of the game, 32 seconds in, intercepting a Braydon Coburn pass in front of the Flyers net and beating goalie Steve Mason from in tight. Mason made 13 saves through 65 minutes and two more in the shootout. Nugent-Hopkins increased the lead at 4:02, beating defenseman Mark Streit on the rush and firing a shot through Mason. Wayne Simmonds scored his first of two power-play goals at 3:37, tipping a Giroux point shot past Bryzgalov. He tied the game with another power-play goal at 12:13, finishing off an exceptional cross-ice pass from Jakub Voracek. The Flyers' right wing had the puck bounce to him at the faceoff circle and spotted Simmonds alone at the side of the net for an easy tap-in. In the third, David Perron gave the Oilers the lead on the power play at 11:52, banking a centering pass into the net off Flyers defenseman Nicklas Grossmann. It was Perron's 100th NHL goal. Scott Hartnell tied the game on the power play at 14:28, tipping a Kimmo Timonen point shot past Bryzgalov. Perron had a great chance to put the Oilers back in front on a breakaway with a little more than two minutes left in regulation but was stopped by Mason, who got a piece of a backhand shot and redirected it off the goal post. Both teams were tentative in overtime, with neither generating a clear-cut opportunity.
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