Buffalo @ Toronto 3-4 SO - James van Riemsdyk, Joffrey Lupul, and Tyler Bozak scored in the shootout to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory against the Buffalo Sabres at Air Canada Centre on Wednesday. The Maple Leafs scored in all three rounds of the shootout against Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, ending the game when Bozak's wrister hit Miller's right pad and trickled over the goal line. James Reimer allowed a goal to Matt Moulson in the first round, but stopped Cody Hodgson in the second to help Toronto earn its League-leading ninth shootout victory in 13 tries. A hooking penalty to Toronto captain Dion Phaneuf with three seconds left in the second period set up the tying goal by Hodgson 43 seconds into the third. Hodgson backhanded a loose puck at the side of the net past Reimer for his 10th goal of the season. Kessel gave the Maple Leafs a 1-0 lead at 9:21 of the first period. He picked off Sabres defenseman Christian Ehrhoff's clearing attempt up the boards, skated into the slot and beat Miller, his future Olympic teammate with Team USA, with a wrist shot for his 22nd goal of the season. The Sabres tied the game at 3:21 of the second period on Ellis' second of the season. Ellis took a cross-ice pass from defenseman Tyler Myers and beat Reimer. Myers was playing in his first game after serving a three-game suspension for an illegal check to the head of New Jersey Devils forward Dainius Zubrus on Jan. 4. Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons was awarded a penalty shot at 5:48 after he was interfered with on a breakaway by Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Gardiner, but Reimer stopped his shot. However, Moulson gave the Sabres the lead 46 seconds later when he beat Reimer over the shoulder with a wrist shot from the left circle. Moulson's 15th goal of the season was set up when he stole the puck from defenseman Cody Franson in the neutral zone and came in on a 2-on-1 break. Kulemin tied the game again 59 seconds later when he beat Miller with a high wrister of his own from the slot. It was Kulemin's sixth goal of the season; three have come against Buffalo. Rielly gave the Maple Leafs a 3-2 lead at 11:22 when he took a pass from Nazem Kadri and beat Miller with a wrist shot from the circle for his second goal of the season and first in 13 games. Sabres forward Matt D'Agostini left the game in the first period with an upper-body injury and did not return.
Vancouver @ Anaheim 1-9 - If the Chicago Blackhawks want to use the Anaheim Ducks as a measuring stick, they're going to need a long roll of tape. Anaheim certainly couldn't be accused of looking ahead in the schedule after it ran the Vancouver Canucks right out of Honda Center with a blistering second period on its way to a 9-1 win Wednesday night. The Ducks destroyed any thoughts of having their home-winning streak snapped with a four-goal second period that ushered the Ducks into elite territory and set up a marquee game Friday at Chicago. Anaheim joined the 1967-68 Montreal Canadiens (18-1-0) as the only teams in NHL history to win 18 of 19 games. The Ducks have yet to lose in regulation at home this season (20-0-2) and tied the 2008-09 San Jose Sharks (20-0-2) for the third-longest home point streak from the start of a season in NHL history. The Ducks have not outwardly allowed themselves to appreciate this pace, and coach Bruce Boudreau didn't veer from course when asked about the records. Thirteen players had a point and eight enjoyed a multiple-point night, led by Nick Bonino's second career multigoal game. Teemu Selanne scored his 681st and 682nd career goals to delight the home crowd. Corey Perry delivered the topper when he scored with one hand as he curled to the front of the net at 10:54 of the third. Anaheim set franchise records for most goals in a game and most power-play goals with six, against the NHL's top-ranked penalty-killing unit. The last two came after the Canucks gave Anaheim a 5-on-3 advantage for 7:00 when Tom Sestito and Jannik Hansen were called for instigating fights with 7:11 remaining. Vancouver took two more minor penalties in the final minutes, and the Ducks finished 6-for-11 on the power play. Vancouver tried to bully the physical Los Angeles Kings in its previous game when it gave L.A. a seven-minute power play. This morphed into something that coach John Tortorella didn't want to talk about. The fighting started right at the end of the second period with Sestito and Tim Jackman both receiving fighting majors. At 12:49 of the third, it all kicked off. Zack Kassian received a 10 minute misconduct, Hansen got a fighting major for his scrap with Sami Vatanen, he received further penalties for instigating against Patrick Maroon and also a game misconduct. Sestito had another fight with Jackman, both received Misconduct penalties but Sestito got an extra fighting major and an instigator called against him. Maroon and Kevin Bieksa also both received misconduct calls.
The Ducks didn't even have No. 1 goalie Jonas Hiller, who missed a shot at his 15th straight win because of the flu. Frederik Andersen started and improved to 11-2-0 in a 31-save performance. Perry started the second-period onslaught with a sharp-angled shot that hit the stick of Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis and slipped past Canucks goalie Eddie Lack at 3:58 for Perry's 26th goal. At that point, Lack was pulled for rookie Joacim Eriksson, who was making his NHL debut. The first shot he faced was Bonino's slapper that made its way through traffic and into the net at 6:00 to make it 4-0. Tortorella called timeout shortly after, but the Canucks couldn't stop the bleeding and gave Anaheim a two-man advantage on Ryan Kesler's offensive-zone holding penalty on Hampus Lindholm with Chris Tanev already in the box. Bonino scored on a one-timer at 14:34 and Jakob Silfverberg punched in a rebound at 15:29 for Anaheim's fourth power-play goal. He also broke in for a late shorthanded breakaway that seemed to sum up a period in which Anaheim seemingly won every puck battle. Cogliano opened the scoring 4:27 into the game and Selanne gave Anaheim a 2-0 lead when he got his stick on Sami Vatanen's one-timer on the power play at 17:45. Selanne scored in the third and has three goals in three games after he had a 28-game spell with one goal earlier this season. Zack Kassian spoiled the shutout when he put in David Booth's rebound at the goal line at 19:57 of the second period after Booth drove to the net.
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