Results - Mon, Feb 03, 2014

Edmonton @ Buffalo 3-2 - Matt Hendricks' shorthanded goal 57 seconds into the third period lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center on Monday. Hendricks had a breakaway when Sabres forward Cody Hodgson couldn't block a pass from Oilers forward Boyd Gordon at center ice. Hendricks deked and beat Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth with a wrist shot for his fourth goal of the season. The Oilers got started quickly when Jeff Petry scored his fourth goal of the season 32 seconds into the first period. Petry received a pass from forward Nail Yakupov and put a quick shot past Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead. Ott tied the game at 8:04 of the first with a power-play goal after he swept a rebound of a Tyler Myers shot between the legs of Bryzgalov and over the line. Petry swept the puck out of the net, but video review of the play confirmed the puck fully crossed the line and gave Ott his ninth goal of the season. The Sabres grabbed a 2-1 lead when forward Drew Stafford beat Bryzgalov with a high wrist shot for a shorthanded goal. Stafford's eighth goal of the season came in his first game back after missing the past four games with an upper-body injury. Oilers defenseman Justin Schultz made it 2-2 with 3:15 left in the second period when he beat Enroth over his blocker with a wrist shot. Schultz scored his eighth goal of the season after he received a pass from forward David Perron as the teams played 4-on-4 after minor penalties to Ott and Yakupov. After Hendricks put the Oilers back in front, Buffalo nearly tied the game 9:47 into the third when Marcus Foligno poked the puck between Bryzgalov's legs, but officials ruled the whistle had blown before the puck crossed the line. Myers left the game after the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. It is unknown if he will miss any time.
Vancouver @ Detroit 0-2 - The return of coach John Tortorella and captain Henrik Sedin did not help the Vancouver Canucks on Monday. It was the Canucks' fourth loss in a row; Vancouver was 2-4-0 while Tortorella was serving a 15-day suspension and Sedin was sidelined with a rib injury. Gustavsson started in goal for the Red Wings, but he did not take the net for the second period because of dizziness. He made eight saves. It was Detroit's first combined shutout since Oct. 27, 2001, when Manny Legace and Dominik Hasek defeated the Nashville Predators 1-0. With Howard in goal, the Red Wings took a 1-0 lead 1:08 into the second period when Abdelkader's shot from above the left faceoff circle beat Canucks goalie Eddie Lack high to the stick side and went off the near post and in. Henrik Zetterberg gained possession behind the net and backhanded a pass to Abdelkader. Gustav Nyquist also had an assist. That line combined for four goals and four assists in a 6-5 overtime loss at the Washington Capitals on Sunday. Abdelkader scored his eighth goal of the season into an empty net with 16 seconds remaining and the Red Wings on a power play. He has three goals in the past two games after going 12 straight without one. Tortorella was coaching for the first time since he was suspended after a dressing-room confrontation with the Calgary Flames between the first and second periods of their game Jan. 18. That was Sedin's last game before Monday, with his consecutive-games-played streak ending at 679. Vancouver's David Booth, a Detroit native, failed to score on a penalty shot he was awarded after being held by Jakub Kindl on a breakaway at 4:41 of the second period. The Canucks did not have a shot on goal in the third period until 5:36 remained. They wound up with three. Earlier Monday, the Canucks acquired defenseman Raphael Diaz from the Montreal Canadiens in a trade for forward Dale Weise. Diaz is expected to play Tuesday.
Colorado @ New Jersey 2-1 OT - Ryan O'Reilly scored a power-play goal with 4:32 left in overtime and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to a 2-1 victory against the New Jersey Devils on Monday at Prudential Center. O'Reilly's team-leading 21st goal of the season came off a quick release from the slot after he collected a pass from Matt Duchene, giving the Avalanche their first power-play goal in five opportunities against the Devils. The Avalanche erased a 1-0 deficit late in the third when coach Patrick Roy pulled goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere with 2:34 remaining in regulation. PA Parenteau deflected a shot by Tyson Barrie from the right point past Devils goalie Cory Schneider with 1:47 left, marking the third straight game the Devils had allowed the tying goal with less than two minutes remaining in regulation (1-0-2). Monday marked the beginning of a four-game East Coast swing for the Avalanche before the Olympic break. They will visit the New York Rangers on Tuesday, Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday and New York Islanders on Saturday. After tying the game, Colorado was given its fifth power-play of the game after Devils forward Michael Ryder made an ill-advised, no-look pass in his own end that Duchene intercepted and broke in over the Devils blue line before defenseman Andy Greene took a slashing penalty at 19:18. The penalty carried over into the overtime, giving Colorado a 4-on-3 advantage. The Devils rang the post three times in the game; two off the stick of Dainius Zubrus. Schneider (10-11-8), who was making his fourth straight start and sixth in the past seven games, made 23 saves. He entered the game second in the NHL with a 1.91 goals-against average and was tied for fifth with a .925 save percentage. Jaromir Jagr barely missed at giving the Devils a 2-0 advantage early in the third when his shot rolled up and over the left pad of Giguere and stopped on the goal line behind his left skate at 4:06. A video review confirmed that the puck did not completely cross the line. The Devils outshot the Avalanche 11-6 in the first and also hit two posts. Carter's fifth goal of the season off a slap shot from the left circle gave New Jersey a 1-0 lead. The goal, which beat Giguere just inside the long-side post, came 38 seconds after the Avalanche had successfully killed the Devils' third power-play of the period. Schneider's best stop of the first came against MacKinnon when he slid to his left to make a pad save at the right post after an initial shot from the left point went wide and caromed off end boards at 14:51. MacKinnon, who assisted on O'Reilly's overtime winner, extended his point-scoring streak to five games (three goals, five assists).
Columbus @ Anaheim 4-2 - Nick Foligno scored twice in the third period and Sergei Bobrovsky made 34 saves to lead the Blue Jackets to a 4-2 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center, who have won three in a row and moved within a point of the New York Rangers for second place in the Metropolitan Division. The Ducks (40-13-5), have lost back-to-back home games after winning 21 of their first 24 at Honda Center. Johansen continued his scoring pace with his 23rd goal of the season at 11:10 of the first period. With the teams at even strength, Boone Jenner fed Nathan Horton behind the net on a nice give-and-go. Horton then saw Johansen cruising into the slot, where the latter quickly snapped a feed past Andersen to give Columbus a 1-0 lead. It was Johansen's fourth goal in the past three games. Umberger doubled the Blue Jackets' lead with a power-play goal at 16:43 of the second. After Ducks defenseman Bryan Allen was whistled for tripping, James Wisniewski took a pass from Mark Letestu and fired a shot from the left circle that went off Umberger's right skate and past Andersen to make it 2-0. It was Umberger's 15th goal of the season. Anaheim finally solved Bobrovsky when Perreault scored 5:45 into the third period. Not long after Bobrovsky robbed Daniel Winnik on a diving save, Perreault finished off a nice tic-tac-toe passing display with Teemu Selanne and Patrick Maroon, tapping Maroon's feed past Bobrovsky for his 11th goal of the season. But the Blue Jackets quickly restored the two-goal lead when Foligno made it 3-1 at 8:48. Umberger stripped Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm of the puck along the wall and quickly sent it in front, where Foligno was able to whack it past Andersen for his 14th goal of the season. Foligno put Columbus up by three with a power-play goal at 13:07. Cam Atkinson carried the puck from the left circle to the net and wristed a shot that Andersen denied, but Foligno was on the doorstep and fired home the rebound to make it 4-1. Getzlaf cut the deficit in half with his 27th goal of the season at 16:41 when he poked Lindholm's rebound past Bobrovsky, but the Ducks didn't get any closer.