Nashville @ Carolina 1-2 - The Hurricanes and Predators played a grinding game with very little offensive flow. Carolina scored at 4:28 of the first period when Alexander Semin gathered a loose puck behind the net and flipped it off the back of Hutton and into the net. The Hurricanes nursed the lead until Patric Hornqvist tied the game at 6:46 of the third period. Hornqvist took Mike Fisher's pass at the right post and swept the puck in from a tight angle. Then late in the period, Ruutu earned his second assist of the night by setting up Skinner. Maybe it's just the way it goes, but that doesn't entirely explain Skinner's good fortune lately. He has 16 goals in his past 16 games, and 20 in 32 games overall. With the Olympics a month away, he has certainly raised his profile for consideration on the Canadian team. The Hurricanes now have a season-high four-game win streak. Khudobin stopped 31 shots to run his record to 5-0-0. He has started three straight after missing 32 games with an ankle injury. The time on the sidelines was beginning to take its toll. Carolina played without captain Eric Staal, who suffered a lower-body injury Saturday night against the New York Islanders. Muller expects Staal to be out five or six days. Staal had not missed a game since Feb. 26, 2011, snapping his streak of 191 consecutive games played.
Tampa Bay @ Edmonton 3-5 - Jordan Eberle scored two goals in his return to the lineup, pacing the Edmonton Oilers to a 5-3 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night at Rexall Place. Eberle scored each of his goals in the first period, getting the Oilers off to a quick start before the Lightning battled back to tie the game in the second. Luke Gazdic, Boyd Gordon and Taylor Hall also scored for Edmonton. Ilya Bryzgalov made 24 saves. Lightning goaltender Anders Lindback took the loss in relief of Ben Bishop, who left 4:18 into the game with an upper-body injury. Lindback finished with 20 saves. The Oilers built a 3-1 lead in the first period, only to see it slip away in the second, when Victor Hedman and Valtteri Filppula scored for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov had given Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead 2:43 into the first period. Kucherov took a cross-ice pass from Matthew Carle and one-timed a shot over Bryzgalov's shoulder. Eberle tied the game at 4:18, finding a loose puck in front and lifting a shot over Bishop, who sustained his injury on the play. Bishop went over to the Lightning bench to have his blocker hand looked at, then made his way to the locker room and was replaced by Lindback. Eberle's shot was the only one Bishop faced before departing. Eberle gave the Oilers the lead at 6:09, when his shot from the side of the net bounced up off Martin St. Louis' stick, then Sami Salo's in front and past Lindback. Gazdic made it 3-1 Edmonton at 15:42, when he tipped a Justin Schultz point shot past Lindback. In the second, Hedman cut the lead to 3-2 at 8:47 with a long-range shot that beat Bryzgalov. Filppula tied the game at 14:25, taking a pass from Carle and firing a shot past Bryzgalov. Ales Hemsky appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal at 2:31 of the third period when his shot was initially ruled to have beaten Lindback. Upon review, however, the goal was waved off as the puck hit the crossbar. Gordon then put the Oilers up for good at 8:20, out-battling Hedman in front and sliding a rebound past Lindback. Hall extended the lead at 10:30 tipping an Andrew Ference point shot past Lindback during a 4-on-4 situation. The goal was Hall's 16th of the season. He added an assist in the game, giving him 41 points in 38 games this season.
Vancouver @ Anaheim 3-4 OT - Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf operate on an almost telepathic level, so Perry probably didn't need to let his long-time linemate know that he was open. But Perry only did what most players would do. Perry shouted and then slipped behind the defense and beat Eddie Lack five-hole with 1.3 seconds left in overtime to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Honda Center on Sunday night. The Ducks were on a 4-on-3 power play and the puck came out of their zone before Nick Bonino retrieved it and got it to Getzlaf, who slid the puck to Perry for the game-winner. Anaheim outshot Vancouver 44-8 over the final 44:59 minutes and forced the overtime with 1:33 left in regulation on Bonino's wrist shot from the left side after Jason Garrison couldn't clear the puck. Jonas Hiller made 17 saves and won his franchise-record 11th straight game. The last goalie to win 11 straight starts was Mike Smith of the Phoenix Coyotes in February of 2012. The injury-depleted Canucks were trying to become the first team this season to hand Anaheim a regulation loss at home, but the Ducks improved to 17-0-2 at Honda Center. The Ducks acknowledged they had to work extra hard for the win after another slow start. Lack anchored Vancouver during a third period played almost entirely in the Canucks' zone. Anaheim put 14 shots on Lack in the first 13 minutes of the third, only to have Lack stop Perry and Saku Koivu before Francois Beauchemin hit the post. Vancouver's defense is leaking to the tune of 49 shots allowed each of the past two games. Tortorella said his team "looks a little bit beat up," which was understandable after two games against the Los Angeles Kings and Ducks. Vancouver was in position to do so. Kevin Bieksa gave Vancouver a 3-2 lead 66 seconds into the third, when his wrist shot found its way through traffic and past Hiller. Anaheim had seemingly demoralized Vancouver in the second period when it outshot the Canucks 20-2 and got goals by Saku Koivu and Beleskey to forge a 2-2 tie. The Canucks did not put a shot on goal in the second until 2:14, when Jason Garrison sent a 60-foot floater at Hiller. Vancouver also lost Zach Kassian after teammate Tom Sestito took a run at Hampus Lindholm, missed and had his skate smack Kassian in the face. Tortorella said Kassian is day-to-day. The first 20 minutes had Anaheim on its heels and Vancouver took a 2-0 lead on two power-play goals. Ryan Kesler one-timed Henrik Sedin's shot at 9:40 and Sedin’s shot deflected off Cam Fowler's stick blade at 11:39 on a too-many-men penalty by Anaheim. Vancouver could have increased its lead, but Mike Santorelli missed an open net and Kassian hit the right post. The Canucks were without No. 1 goalie Roberto Luongo, who was struck high by the leg of Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown in the third period Saturday when Brown crashed the net to score. Luongo stayed down for several moments after the hit, but stayed in the game. With Luongo out, the Canucks signed Rob Laurie, 43, a local emergency goalie. He served as a backup for Anaheim last season. Vancouver scratched Chris Higgins (illness). Anaheim's Mathieu Perreault was a healthy scratch.
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