Results - Sat, Feb, 08, 2014

Calgary @ Philadelphia 1-2 - Leading 1-0, it took more than three minutes for the Flyers to get their first shot of the third period. But when they did, it led to a quality scoring chance. Vincent Lecavalier fired a shot from a severe angle on the left wing that was stopped by Berra, but the puck squeezed past the Calgary goaltender directly to Wayne Simmonds at the right side of the crease. Simmonds appeared to have an open net as he went to the backhand, but Berra managed to slide over and make a great save at 3:48. But Philadelphia extended its lead 16 seconds later. Claude Giroux's wrist shot from the high slot bounced off Hartnell and past Berra for his 10th of the season at 4:04. The goal was originally credited to Giroux but was later given to Hartnell, whose deflection appeared to fool Berra. The Flames had a prime opportunity to cut into the Philadelphia lead when Braydon Coburn was whistled for delay of game after shooting the puck out of play with 7:43 left in regulation. Calgary failed to register a shot on the man advantage and the Flyers' sixth-ranked penalty killers erased an advantage for the 17th time in their past 18 attempts. Calgary's best chance late came when Lee Stempniak found a loose puck alone in front of Emery with 4:15 remaining, but the Flyers goaltender poked the puck away. Each team was forced to contend with a depleted blue line in the third period. Ladislav Smid of the Flames and Nicklas Grossmann of the Flyers each left the game late in the second with injuries. Grossmann suffered an upper-body injury, but was kept out more as a precautionary measure. Smid sustained a lower-body injury and is considered day-to-day. Hartley revealed the Czech defenseman should be fine to compete in Sochi. Emery lost the shutout when Stajan cut the lead to 2-1 with 2:26 left after pouncing on a rebound off a shot by TJ Galiardi for his 10th of the season. Berra was pulled for an extra attacker in the final minute, but the Flames failed to get the equalizer Emery and Berra couldn't be solved in a scoreless opening period, but the Flyers managed to open the scoring with 11:56 remaining in the second. Schenn took a pass in the left circle from Simmonds and beat Berra with a high wrist shot for his first goal in seven games. More than two minutes after the Flyers took a 1-0 lead, Grossmann was called for hooking Lee Stempniak. The Flames had some fine chances to even the score on the power play, none better than when Mark Giordano hit the post with 8:45 remaining in the second. Emery excelled throughout the second, making 11 saves in the period. The Flyers managed to take a 1-0 lead into the second intermission, even though they were held to only four shots in the second.
Ottawa @ Boston 2-7 - If history is any indication, Canada won't require Bruins center Patrice Bergeron to provide much offense in the upcoming 2014 Sochi Olympics. The Bruins, on the other hand, are more than happy to see Bergeron filling the net. Bergeron, a Selke Trophy winner who played a checking role on Canada's 2010 gold-medal team, scored two goals to snap a five-game drought and added an assist to lead the Bruins to a 7-2 win against the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden on Saturday. Craig Anderson started in net for the Senators, but was pulled in the third period in favor of Robin Lehner after allowing five goals on 33 shots. Bergeron's second goal of the game put the Bruins up 3-0 at 4:55 of the second period. It took some patience from Bergeron, who waited until Anderson committed to going down to his knees before tucking the puck into the net behind the goaltender. Bobby Ryan got the Senators on the scoreboard at 17:15 after he led a 2-on-1 and beat Johnson with a snap shot through the five-hole. The Bruins, however, took a 4-1 lead into the third period because Jarome Iginla tipped in a pass from David Krejci at 18:18. Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand and Carl Soderberg scored goals in the third period. Patrick Wiercioch scored for the Senators when his team was behind 6-1. Bergeron scored a power-play goal to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 11:36 of the first period. He beat Anderson with a wrist shot to the glove side after a give-and-go play with Soderberg. The Bruins also scored their second goal on a give-and-go, this time involving defenseman David Warsofsky and center Chris Kelly. After Kelly gained the Ottawa zone, he dished off to Warsofsky and drove to the net. Kelly then tipped Warsofsky's pass past Anderson at 16:26 for a 2-0 lead.
Vancouver @ Toronto 1-3 - Phil Kessel scored the game-winning goal at 10:03 of the third and assisted on James van Riemsdyk's insurance goal to lead the Maple Leafs to a 3-1 victory against the Canucks at Air Canada Centre on Saturday night. Kessel fired a wrist shot from just inside the blue line through traffic and past Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo for his 31st goal of the season. The goal, which put Toronto up 2-1, came with a delayed penalty coming on the Canucks, who had won 11 in a row against the Maple Leafs. Tyler Bozak earned the 100th assist of his career on Kessel's goal. Kessel set up Van Riemsdyk for his 24th goal at 12:05. Van Riemsdyk collected a rebound of a Kessel shot and fired a shot that hit a stick and deflected off the face of Canucks defenseman Alexander Edler into the net. Vancouver took the lead when Ryan Kesler scored with 21 seconds left in the first period. Kesler took a pass from forward Chris Higgins and put a wrist shot on net that deflected off Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Gardiner's stick and past goalie Jonathan Bernier. It was Kesler's 20th goal. After a scoreless second period, Mason Raymond tied the game at 7:23 of the third. Raymond, in his first season with Toronto after spending the past six with Vancouver, circled the Canucks net before stopping in the faceoff circle to Luongo's left and snapping a wrist shot by him for his 16th goal. Maple Leafs forward Jay McClement sustained an upper-body injury 4:13 into the second period and did not return. He went hard into the boards after a hit by Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis and needed help to the bench.
Montreal @ Carolina 4-1 - The win was a painful one, for Montreal; forward Max Pacioretty, who is slated to represent the United States at the Olympics, left the game with 7:30 remaining in the first period after being checked into the goal post. Hurricanes defenseman Brett Bellemore hit Pacioretty as he tried to cut from the goal line to the front of the net. The 25-year-old forward immediately grabbed his arm and remained face-down on the ice for a couple minutes before slowly making his way to the dressing room under his own power. After the game, however, Pacioretty had recuperated enough to give pronounce himself OK and said he will be going to Sochi. Pacioretty didn't hesitate when asked if he was certain to be ready for the Sochi Games. He expected some lingering bruising, but otherwise felt he avoided a more serious injury. Carolina struck first at 5:42 of the second period when Drayson Bowman one-timed a shot from above the right circle past Price. Montreal countered with two goals 85 seconds apart to take the lead. Desharnais drove to the net before starting a give-and-go with Rene Bourque, who found Desharnais on the back door at 17:52. In the final minute of the period, Ryan White pounced on a rebound in front of the net for his second of the season, both coming in the past two games. Desharnais extended the lead to 3-1 at 6:15 of the third period. Brendan Gallagher skated up the left wing and feathered a pass to Desharnais, who beat Anton Khudobin over the glove. Gallagher finished with two assists. Brian Gionta finished the scoring with a wraparound goal into an empty net with 2:17 remaining. Down the stretch, Price made several good stops, including a point-blank glove save on Bowman to secure his 26th win of the season.
Detroit @ Tampa Bay 2-4 - It's taken two decades, but the Lightning have finally figured out how to beat the Red Wings. Alex Killorn scored the go-ahead goal with 3:11 left in regulation and Ondrej Palat had two goals to help the Lightning beat the Red Wings 4-2 on Saturday night. The win was the fourth in as many games this season for the Lightning against Detroit this season. Prior to 2013-14, Tampa Bay was 5-24-2-1 against the Red Wings. The Lightning entered the night having lost two in a row and four of five. The win sent them into the break for the Sochi Olympics in second place in the Atlantic Division, one point ahead of the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, and seven in front of the Red Wings, who own the second wild-card berth in the Eastern Conference. The game was tied 2-2 after two periods and each team had chances before Killorn's tie-breaker. Killorn put the Lightning ahead when he slipped away from the defense, took a pass from Teddy Purcell and wristed a shot past Jimmy Howard for his 14th of the season. Howard stopped Nikita Kucherov's penalty shot with 1:36 remaining, but Palat got his 14th of the season with 1:03 to play after the Red Wings pulled Howard for an extra attacker. Bishop hadn't been able to finish two of his previous four starts due to nagging wrist injuries and was regarded as a doubtful starter on Saturday. Bishop responded with 31 saves for his 28th victory of the season. Howard stopped 24 shots. Detroit got a power play at 5:55 of the third period when Purcell was penalized for tripping, but the Lightning wound up with the best opportunity. Howard preserved the tie by spearing a shot by Victor Hedman that was ticketed for the corner of the net. Moments later, Kucherov was left alone in front of the net but hit the post. Detroit had a chance to go ahead when Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Tatar came in 2-on-1, but Tater's shot went wide. After a stretch of sustained pressure, the Red Wings jumped in front at 17:18 of the opening period when Daniel Alfredsson one-timed a passout by Pavel Datsyuk past Bishop for his 14th goal of the season. Alfredsson became the second-highest scoring Swedish player in NHL history with 1,143 points, passing retired Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom. Mats Sundin is tops with 1,349 points. Datsyuk's assist was his 800th point of his career. Palat tied the game at 1:44 of the second period with Detroit forward Tomas Jurco off for boarding when he got free in front of Howard and put home his own rebound. But Detroit went ahead again when Jurco backhanded the puck over Bishop's shoulder at 11:19 for his third of the season. Tom Pyatt, playing in his 10th game of the season, got the Lightning even again at 17:14 by backhanding the puck under Howard's arm for his first goal of the season. Sami Salo and J.T. Brown were credited with the assists. Datsyuk, playing in his second game after returning from a lower-body injury, did not take any faceoffs.
Colorado @ NY Islanders 5-2 - Nathan MacKinnon opened the scoring with his 22nd goal 13:04 into the game. With the teams at even strength, Gabriel Landeskog stormed past Eric Boulton from the right corner before being knocked into Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov (22 saves) by Boulton, leaving an open net for MacKinnon. The rookie forward quickly ripped it home to give Colorado a 1-0 lead. With the assist, Landeskog extended his point streak to nine games. New York had a goal disallowed 1:17 into the second period when Thomas Vanek poked a puck in the goal crease past Giguere. But it was ruled the whistle had blown before the puck crossed the goal line. Matt Duchene doubled Colorado's lead with his 100th NHL goal at 7:49. The speedy forward took advantage after Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey was caught pinching in the offensive zone. Forward Brock Nelson tried to cover for Hickey, but Duchene cruised past Nelson before tapping the puck past Nabokov to make it 2-0. Duchene scored again 2:44 later, taking a pass from Tyson Barrie (three assists) and ripping a shot from a sharp angle in the lower right circle past Nabokov. John Tavares ended New York's 0-for-33 power-play drought at 11:17 of the third period. The Islanders captain cashed in on a two-man advantage, collecting a loose puck at the right side of the net and firing a wrist shot past Giguere to make it 3-1. It was his 24th goal. Lubomir Visnovsky got the Islanders within one with a power-play goal of his own 1:07 later. Moments after Erik Johnson was whistled for slashing Frans Nielsen, Visnovsky took a pass from Kyle Okposo and ripped a slap shot past Giguere for his second goal of the season. Landeskog put the game away with an empty-net goal at 19:13. Stastny was credited with an empty-net goal after the game, when it was ruled that Vanek threw his stick in Stastny's direction while the latter put a shot towards the goal at 19:58. Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic returned to the lineup for the first time since sustaining an upper-body injury Jan. 12, a span of 12 games.
New Jersey @ Washington 0-3 - The Washington Capitals had not defeated a Metropolitan Division rival in more than six weeks, a stretch of seven games, heading into their game against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday. The Capitals avoided their longest intradivisional losing streak in more than 25 years by beating the Devils 3-0 on Saturday. Each team is trying to get into a position for an Eastern Conference playoff berth; the Capitals are one point behind the Detroit Red Wings, who hold the second wild-card spot, and the Devils are three points back. With 9:10 remaining in regulation, Capitals defenseman Julien Brouillette, who made his NHL debut on Thursday in a 4-2 victory against the Winnipeg Jets, scored his first career goal. Nicklas Backstrom won an offensive-zone faceoff back to Patrick Wey, who sent a cross-ice pass to his defense partner at the left point. Brouillette settled the puck, skated to the top of the circle and snapped a shot past Schneider, who until that point had frustrated the Capitals all evening. That was all the Capitals needed against a Devils team that scores 2.29 goals per game, fourth-fewest in the League. Braden Holtby made 25 saves to earn his third shutout of the season and 10th of his career. The final score, padded by empty-net goals from Martin Erat and Troy Brouwer, was not indicative of the stingy game. Until Brouillette's goal, neither team afforded the other many opportunities to score. The scoreless first period featured plenty of special-teams play, with each team receiving two power plays. Each team's best chance came during its first opportunity with the man advantage. About four minutes into the period, Holtby slid across the crease to make a leg save on Damien Brunner after a Washington defensive-zone breakdown. Schneider then thwarted a point-blank shot from Brouwer, who was called for two offensive-zone penalties in the opening period, in the slot less than two minutes later. The Devils controlled the play through the early portion of the second period, hemming the Capitals in their own zone with lengthy shifts. Washington dodged a bullet 3:16 into the period when Michael Ryder set up Adam Henrique in the slot with a pass from behind the net, but Henrique's shot struck the left post and bounced away. On the other end, Schneider continued to stymie the Capitals, particularly when he stopped three shots in rapid succession from in tight, sprawling out in the crease to keep Jay Beagle's stuff attempts out of the net. When the Capitals were not turning the puck over, they actually put some pressure on Schneider to start the third period, but the Devils goaltender stopped them at every turn. With Washington on the power play, Ovechkin wound up and fired a shot from his customary position in the left circle, but the shot just glanced off the crossbar and deflected out of play. Brouillette eventually broke through with the game-winning goal, and Erat finally scored his first goal of the season on Washington's first empty-netter at 18:13, snapping the longest goalless drought of his 12-year career. Brouwer's goal 36 seconds later was the 100th of his career.
Anaheim @ Nashville 5-2 - The Predators will be pleased they won't see the Ducks' two Canadian Olympians at Bridgestone Arena for the remainder of this season. Ryan Getzlaf had two goals and Corey Perry scored once Saturday in a 5-2 victory against the Predators, giving the Ducks' big guns eight points in two appearances during the past month. Not coincidentally, the Ducks won both games. Getzlaf, the Ducks' captain, also had an assist on Saturday to go with his two goals and an assist from the teams' Jan. 9 meeting. Perry had a goal in that earlier matchup. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Ducks. Getzlaf has a career-high 29 goals, and his 67 points are second in the NHL behind Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Ducks broke a 2-2 tie at 4:51 of the third period when Emerson Stem deflected Hampus Lindholm's point shot into the net. Mathieu Perreault added some insurance 4-2 at 8:04 when Daniel Winnik stole the puck from Nashville defenseman Ryan Ellis and found Perreault alone in front of the net. Getzlaf hit the empty net with 36 seconds left. Earlier in the day, Boudreau had said he did not want his team to go into the NHL's two-week break for the 2014 Sochi Olympics on a sour note. Anaheim (41-14-5), owner of the League's top record, was mired in one of its worst stretches of the season; the Ducks had dropped three in a row and were 1-4-0 in their previous five games. Nashville had a streak of points in four straight games (2-0-2) ended. Predators coach Barry Trotz said coming out of the Olympic break the Predators will be in a race with the Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, Winnipeg Jets and others for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Nashville is four points out of a playoff spot but recently had been 10 points out. Viktor Stalberg, who had missed the five previous games with an upper-body injury, scored his first goal since Jan. 14 give Nashville a 1-0 lead. Victor Bartley's point shot was deflected in front by Simon Moser and Stalberg cashed the rebound at 11:35 of the first period. The point was the first of Moser's career. The Ducks tied the game with 1:11 left in the period when Nashville defenseman Roman Josi deflected Getzlaf's harmless-looking shot from the right boards into the net. Goalie Carter Hutton was moving to his right and could not recover when Josi put his stick blade on the high shot, accidentally causing it to trickle over the goal line. Anaheim took advantage of a double minor to Mike Fisher for high-sticking Winnik to go ahead 2-1 at 11:45 of the second period. Nashville killed off the first two minutes, but for the second time in the game a Predators' defenseman knocked the puck into his own goal. This time it was Bartley, sprawling to the ice to cut off the passing lane, who kicked in a goalmouth pass from Perry that resulted in Perry's 30th goal. But Nashville converted its third power play of the game at 1:05 of the third period, an advantage that began late in the second period when Luca Sbisa went off for hooking. With Anaheim overplaying Nashville's point men, Shea Weber and Josi, Fisher was left open in the slot. David Legwand feathered a pass to Fisher who roofed the puck for his 16th goal. Nashville started the game strong, outshooting Anaheim 14-7 in the first period, but the Predators could not convert two power-play opportunities and helped to keep his team in the game with his solid play. Hiller made 36 saves on Saturday. Boudreau said he thought Hiller could have won any of his past three games, which were all losses.