Vancouver @ Ottawa 5-2 - The goal-starved Vancouver Canucks feasted in the first half of the second period against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Daniel Sedin scored his 300th career goal early in the second period and then assisted on a power-play goal by Jason Garrison, as Vancouver scored four times in a span of 8:51 to beat the Senators 5-2. Garrison and David Booth also had a goal and an assist, and Henrik Sedin had two assists. Dale Weise scored the Canucks' fourth goal on Craig Anderson. Mike Santorelli scored against Robin Lehner in the third period. Roberto Luongo made 37 saves for Vancouver, which won for the second time in nine games (2-4-3) to begin a four-game road trip. Daniel Sedin is the third player in franchise history to reach the 300-goal milestone. He trails Markus Naslund, Vancouver's all-time leader with 346 goals, and Trevor Linden (318). Ottawa's Clarke MacArthur scored his 100th NHL goal at 8:50 of the first period. Mika Zibanejad scored at 18:58 of the second to draw the Senators within 4-2. Anderson stopped 11 of 15 shots before he was pulled at 9:40 of the second. He was replaced at the first stoppage in play after Weise's goal by Lehner, who made 12 saves. It was the first of two meetings between the two Canadian teams this year. The Canucks will host Ottawa on March 2 at BC Place in the Tim Hortons 2014 Heritage Classic. The Senators overcame a two-goal deficit for a 6-4 win against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday to return from a 2-1-0 road trip. They welcome the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday in former captain Daniel Alfredsson's first game back in Ottawa. The Canucks continue their trip Saturday against the New York Rangers. It's the first regular-season game between the teams since Tortorella was fired by New York and Rangers coach Alain Vigneault was let go by the Canucks. Luongo was in pain after he was struck high on the left side of his body by Kyle Turris' one-timer from the right side at the 16-second mark of the second period. Canucks trainer Mike Burnstein came off the bench to attend to Luongo, who remained in the game. Daniel Sedin took Henrik's pass from behind the net and beat Anderson with a low shot inside the left post for his milestone goal 31 seconds into the second period, the first of three Vancouver goals in a span of 3:35. Booth scored his second goal of the season 45 seconds later to put the Canucks up 2-1 at 1:16. Garrison scored a power-play goal at 4:06 to increase the lead to 3-1. Weise made it 4-1 at 9:22.
Edmonton @ Nashville 3-0 - Upon announcing that Ilya Bryzgalov would start Thanksgiving night against the Nashville Predators, Edmonton Oilers coach Dallas Eakins noted how Bryzgalov arrived with swagger. Eleven days into his Oilers career after a seven-month absence from the NHL, Bryzgalov's swagger showed in his game and rubbed off on his teammates. Making his first NHL start since April 25 when he was with the Philadelphia Flyers, Bryzgalov stopped all 33 shots to earn his 31st NHL shutout and a 3-0 win in Nashville at Bridgestone Arena. A far cry from his usual moniker of 'Swiss Cheese'. Bryzgalov was sharp in the first period by turning away all 13 Predators shots, including two quality saves on Nashville's first power play, to keep the game scoreless after one before Edmonton's offense came alive in the second. Making his first career start against Edmonton, and ninth straight overall, Nashville rookie goaltender Marek Mazanec entered the game with two shutouts in his past five starts. But Mazanec was a victim to his opponents' slick skating and deft passing. Matching unsportsmanlike conduct penalties against Nashville's Paul Gaustad and Edmonton's David Perron led to a 4-on-4 early in the second. With more room for their fast skaters to work, the Oilers scored first when Jordan Eberle forced a turnover, skated around the boards and sent a sweet cross-ice pass to Jeff Petry, who fed a driving Ryan Nugent-Hopkins directly on the tape for a deflection past Mazanec to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead. The Oilers took a two-goal lead 51 seconds later when Sam Gagner fed Taylor Hall on a 2-on-1. After receiving the pass, Hall turned on the jets for a back-hand deke that extended his point streak to five games (2-4-6). The Predators not only lost the game, they lost defenseman Shea Weber to an upper body injury late in the second after he absorbed a wrist shot from Perron just below his right eye. Playing on Nashville's top defensive pair with Roman Josi, Weber entered the game sixth in the League in average ice time (26:33) and has seven goals and 12 points with a minus-6 rating in 25 games. Nashville played the second game of a back-to-back after winning 4-0 against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday night, but failed to generate goals Thursday despite a bevy of shots against Bryzgalov. Each team had one shot through the first eight-plus minutes of the game before the Oilers generated a couple of chances. Edmonton's line of Nail Yakupov, Gagner and Ales Hemsky put some pressure on the Predators' defense but Mazanec was up to the task. Eberle added an empty-net goal at 19:03 of the third for the final margin of victory. The Predators blanked the Oilers' power play on four occasions and have killed off 20 consecutive power plays dating back to Nov. 15, but they still dropped to 3-1 all-time in games played on Thanksgiving.
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