Results - Tue, Mar 18, 2014

Boston @ New Jersey 4-2 - The Boston Bruins are providing a great example why they might be considered the team to beat in the Eastern Conference heading into the Stanley Cup Playoffs next month. The Bruins made good use of their deep bench, physicality and stellar goaltending in a 4-2 victory against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday at Prudential Center. The Bruins got at least one point from 11 players to extend their winning streak to 10 games, the longest for the team since they won 10 in a row from Nov. 1-23, 2011. It marks the third time in coach Claude Julien's seven seasons the Bruins have won 10 straight. Boston (47-17-5), which leads the Eastern Conference with 99 points, has outscored the opposition 41-15 and allowed two or fewer goals in nine of the games during this streak. The Bruins trail the St. Louis Blues by two points in the race for the Presidents' Trophy. Boston continues its three-game trip Friday against the Colorado Avalanche and Saturday against the Phoenix Coyotes. Boston allowed a power-play goal for the first time in nine games when Patrik Elias fired a shot from the top of the right circle past Chad Johnson during a 5-on-3 advantage 29 seconds into the second period. That tied the game 1-1, but the Bruins regained the lead at 1:23 when Brad Marchand scored his NHL-leading fifth shorthanded goal. Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara chipped the puck off the boards to Marchand at center ice before he crossed the blue line and dished to Patrice Bergeron in the left circle. Bergeron found Marchand at the right hash and he one-timed a shot into the top right corner. Jarome Iginla scored 59 seconds later to open a 3-1 lead. The goal was the 556th of his NHL career, tying Bruins legend Johnny Bucyk for 25th on the all-time list. New Jersey's Travis Zajac scored an even-strength goal in the third period. Martin Brodeur made 27 saves but lost his second straight game. The Devils made it 4-2 when Zajac ripped a wrist shot from the right circle into the top left corner at 9:13. Chris Kelly had given the Bruins a 4-1 lead 2:02 earlier when he converted a pass from Carl Soderberg in the slot. The Bruins dominated the first period, outshooting the Devils 15-5. Bergeron became the fourth Bruin to score at least 20 goals this season when he controlled a pass from Reilly Smith low in the left circle and pushed a backhand through Brodeur's legs at 14:33.

Minnesota @ NY Islanders 6-0 - Matt Moulson's return to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum was a resounding success. He scored two goals in his first game at the Coliseum against his old team, helping the Wild beat the Islanders 6-0 on Tuesday night. The Islanders traded Moulson, a 30-goal scorer in each of the past three full seasons, to the Buffalo Sabres in October for forward Thomas Vanek. Moulson didn't make a visit to the Coliseum with the Sabres before they traded him to the Wild at the NHL Trade Deadline on March 5, the same day the Islanders sent Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens. Moulson opened the scoring midway through the first period and finished off the rout by firing home a power-play rebound late in the third period, fueling a bounce-back win for the Wild after a 4-1 loss to the Boston Bruins on Monday. Jared Spurgeon, Mikael Granlund, Clayton Stoner and Justin Fontaine also scored for the Wild (36-23-10), who moved closer to a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs; Minnesota holds the first wild-card position in the Western Conference, five points ahead of the Phoenix Coyotes. Minnesota captain Mikko Koivu had three assists and passed Marian Gaborik to become the Wild's all-time scoring leader with 438 points. Goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov made 36 saves in his second appearance since being acquired from the Edmonton Oilers on March 4. It was his second shutout of the season and the 32nd of his career. Anders Nilsson, one of eight rookies in the Islanders' lineup, stopped 16 shots. New York fell to 10-18-8 at the Coliseum, the worst home record in the NHL. The Islanders, who've allowed more goals than any team in the NHL, surrendered six to a Minnesota team that came into the game 28th in the NHL scoring at 2.32 goals per game. The Wild set a team single-game high for goals this season and earned a bit of revenge; they blew a 3-0 lead against the Islanders at home on Dec. 29 in a 5-4 loss. New York dominated the shot clock in the opening period, outshooting Minnesota 16-6. But the Wild took advantage of some sloppy play by the Islanders in their own zone to score twice. Moulson opened the scoring 12:23 into the game by doing what he does best, finding the puck and putting it in the net. After Fontaine's forecheck freed the puck and put it on goal, Moulson quickly backhanded a shot from in front of the crease past Nilsson. Spurgeon, a defenseman drafted by the Islanders in 2008 but never signed, made it 2-0 at 15:57 when he took a pass from Dany Heatley and blasted a shot from the top of the right circle that pinged off the post and into the net. It was his fourth of the season. Nino Niederreiter, traded by the Islanders to Minnesota at the 2013 NHL Draft, had the second assist. Rookie defenseman Kevin Czuczman, signed by the Islanders as a free agent from Lake Superior State, took a regular turn but had a tough start in his NHL debut; he was on the ice for the first two goals. The Islanders went with five defensemen after Brian Strait left the game in the second period with a broken left hand. The Wild stifled the Islanders throughout the middle period and added to their lead at 16:02 when Granlund was left by himself for several seconds in the slot; that was more than enough time to take Jason Pominville's pass from behind the net and one-time it past Nilsson for his seventh of the season. Stoner was called for boarding early in the third period, but stepped out of the box in time to take Koivu's pass behind the defense and beat Nilsson on a breakaway for his fourth goal in 224 career games. Fontaine zipped a shot past Nilsson from near the right faceoff dot at 7:06 for his 13th goal of the season and first since Jan. 16. Moulson capped his return by burying a power-play rebound with 3:26 remaining for his 20th of the season.
Carolina @ Columbus 3-1 - Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller shuffled his lines before playing Tuesday against the Blue Jackets in an attempt to generate some offense, but his team didn't get a shot on goal in the third period. Fortunately for the Hurricanes, they had enough goals in the bank and got a career-best 46-save performance from goaltender Anton Khudobin on the way to a 3-1 victory that stopped a two-game losing streak. Khudobin made 18 saves in the third period and had a shutout going until Boone Jenner scored with 50 seconds remaining after Columbus had pulled goalie Curtis McElhinney. The Blue Jackets (35-27-6) saw a 3-0-1 streak end. With the New York Rangers beating the Ottawa Senators, Columbus fell two points behind New York in the race for the Metropolitan Division's third and final automatic berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and into the Eastern Conference's last wild-card spot. The teams meet at Nationwide Arena on Friday. Carolina linemates Patrick Dwyer and Andrei Loktionov each had a goal and an assist. Defenseman Jay Harrison added two assists for the Hurricanes, who also got a goal from Nathan Gerbe. Carolina won for the first time in Columbus in five tries since March 8, 2004. The Blue Jackets had won seven in a row in the series dating to December 2005 until the Hurricanes scored three unanswered goals Jan. 27 for a 3-2 win. Carolina extended its streak of goals against Columbus to six over two games with Gerbe's first-period goal and second-period goals by Loktionov and Dwyer. The Hurricanes had lost nine of the previous 12 games and looked to shake things up by putting brothers Eric and Jordan Staal together for the third time this season. They teamed with Alexander Semin on the top line. Leading goal-scorer Jeff Skinner was to align with Riley Nash and Elias Lindholm, but Lindholm and defenseman Justin Faulk were late scratches because of illness. The Hurricanes lost defenseman Ryan Murphy to an upper-body injury midway through the first period when he was checked into the boards by Blue Jackets center Blake Comeau. Murphy did not return. The Hurricanes didn't let the lineup distractions bother them. They survived a tripping penalty to Jordan Staal 32 seconds after the opening faceoff, and then took the lead on the game's first shot at 3:41 with Gerbe scoring his 15th off a 2-on-1 with Loktionov. Gerbe looked to his teammate on his left then pulled the puck back and fired a shot past Bobrovsky to the stick side. The Blue Jackets then assumed control, taking the next nine shots. The line of Umberger, Artem Anisimov and Corey Tropp was effective around the net, and Khudobin had to make a save on a Tropp backhander at the side of the crease nine minutes in. Columbus had two other good chances go for naught in the first. Khudobin denied Comeau on a redirect off a drive by James Wisniewski, and later Wisniewski teed the puck from the blue line, but the shot rang the post. But the Blue Jackets couldn't solve Khudobin, who was headed for his third career shutout until the constant Columbus pressure finally took its toll in the closing moments and Jenner scored the 13th goal of his rookie season by redirecting a Ryan Johansen shot.
Colorado @ Montreal 3-6 - Patrick Roy said Monday he did not want his first game as an NHL coach in Montreal to be about him. It wasn't. It was about Thomas Vanek, who scored a hat trick, including the game-winner and the insurance goal in the third period of a 6-3 victory for the Canadiens against Roy and the Avalanche on Tuesday. They were Vanek's first three goals in a Montreal uniform and he took a post-game twirl around the Bell Centre ice as the game's first star while the sellout crowd of 21,273 chanted his name. He had not scored in his first five games with the Canadiens since his acquisition from the New York Islanders at the NHL Trade Deadline, and after his line with David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty missed a few chances during a first period shift he was seen slamming his stick against the door to the bench in frustration. Vanek scored Montreal's first goal at 7:44 of the second period, broke a 3-3 tie at 14:45 of the third by completing a tic-tac-toe passing play on a power play, and made it 5-3 on a deflection on another power play at 17:40, which led to the first chants of his name from the crowd. Prior to the game, it was assumed the chants Vanek received would be reserved for Roy. In the past, when a former player returned to face the Canadiens, the team often used television timeouts to show him on the scoreboard and give the fans a chance to react. In the case of Roy, that moment came briefly during the singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," and the crowd roared so loud the American national anthem was drowned out as a result (bloody disrespectful Frenchies). The one player who might have put on the best show on either team was Avalanche rookie Nathan MacKinnon, who scored his 23rd goal and dazzled the crowd on repeated occasions with his stickhandling and relentlessness in the offensive zone. Roy gave MacKinnon 20:55 of ice time, the fifth time in seven games the rookie passed the 20-minute mark. He received more than 20 minutes of ice time twice in his first 62 games of the season, and it's looking like the 18-year-old is finding his stride at the perfect time for the Avalanche. Brandon Prust, Travis Moen and Dale Weise scored for the Canadiens (38-25-7), who have won three straight games to put some distance between themselves and the two teams holding the Stanley Cup Playoff wild-card positions in the Eastern Conference. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets each lost Tuesday; they are three and seven points behind the Canadiens, respectively. Maxime Talbot and Jamie McGinn scored for the Avalanche (44-20-5), who lost for the third time in 10 games. Early on it looked as though the Avalanche were going to run the Canadiens out of their own building, just missing on numerous chances and controlling the play for most of the first period, and it paid off when MacKinnon had a dominant shift toward the end. The rookie forward controlled the puck with a stickhandling display that kept the Canadiens off balance throughout the shift, helping the Avalanche maintain control in the offensive zone. MacKinnon was rewarded when the puck bounced out in front right on his stick, and he made a quick move to the backhand to beat Carey Price at 18:03. The Canadiens tied it 1-1 on Vanek's first goal, which came as a result of a play he began with a heady pass to Desharnais on an open wing before cutting to the net. Desharnais entered the zone, drew Avalanche goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere out of position, and threw the puck into the slot where Vanek tapped it in for his 22nd goal of the season. The Avalanche regained the lead at 9:33 of the second when Matt Duchene found Talbot alone in front of the net for his eighth of the season. Montreal tied it again 48 seconds later on a spectacular goal by its fourth line. Prust dove to chip a puck into the slot to Moen, who caught it, spun and whipped a backhand inside the near post at 10:21. It was his second goal of the season, first in 43 games. Prust gave the Canadiens their first lead when he one-timed a slap shot from the slot past Giguere at 3:33 of the third period, but McGinn tied it for the Avalanche at 10:05 when he collected his rebound and put a backhand behind Price to make it 3-3.
NY Rangers @ Ottawa 8-4 - Having already climbed past Hall of Famers Ed Giacomin and Gump Worsley on the way toward becoming the winningest goaltender in New York Rangers history, Henrik Lundqvist moved ahead of Mike Richter for first place Tuesday night despite giving up four goals to the Ottawa Senators. Derick Brassard had two goals and an assist, and Lundqvist made 35 saves for his 302nd win to move past Richter for the most victories by a goaltender in franchise history in an 8-4 victory at Canadian Tire Centre. Rick Nash also scored twice, including one of three unassisted goals for New York. Benoit Pouliot and John Moore had the others. The Rangers scored four times in the second period, and Ryan McDonagh's goal with 15.3 seconds left capped a three-goal burst in a span of 3:56. Derek Stepan scored early in the third, Brassard added his second of the game at 4:45 and Nash scored into an empty net at 17:30. Mike Hoffman, Mika Zibanejad, Milan Michalek and Bobby Ryan scored for Ottawa (28-27-13), which couldn't hold 1-0 and 2-1 leads and remained seven points out of the final Stanley Cup Playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. Robin Lehner, who made his third consecutive start, stopped 21 of 26 shots through the first two periods and 23 of 28 overall. Lehner was replaced by Nathan Lawson to begin the third, but had to return after Lawson was injured. Lawson, who made played his first NHL game since Mar. 15, 2011, for the New York Islanders, made eight saves after giving up goals on the first two shots he faced before leaving the game at 11:52. Brassard drew the Rangers even at 2-2 with his 14th goal at 8:56 of the second period. Pouliot put the Rangers ahead at 15:48 when he intercepted Senators defenseman Chris Phillips' pass from the left boards intended for Spezza in front of the Ottawa net. Pouliot got his stick on the puck and flicked it past Spezza before beating Lehner for his 12th goal. Moore made it 4-2 at 18:44 when his shot from the left side on a rolling puck fooled Lehner for his third goal. Brassard got his second point on McDonagh's 12th goal at 19:44. Michalek drew Ottawa to within 5-3 with an unassisted goal 1:27 into the third period. But Stepan scored at 2:40 and Brassard made it 7-3 with his second goal of the game. Ryan made it 7-4 at 7:11 before Nash hit the empty net. Hoffman gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead with his second goal at 6:57 of the first period, but Nash scored an unassisted shorthanded goal at 8:02 to tie it. Zibanejad scored for a second straight game when he put the Senators ahead at 12:44 with a power-play goal. He misfired on his first attempt before finding the puck and beating Lundqvist with a low wrist shot inside the right post.
Toronto @ Detroit 2-3 - The Red Wings earned two huge points in their quest to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a 23rd consecutive season. Gustav Nyquist scored twice and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves to lead Detroit to a 3-2 win against the Maple Leafs at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday night. Daniel Alfredsson also scored for the Red Wings, who are one point behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Blue Jackets lost 3-1 to the Carolina Hurricanes. Jake Gardiner and James van Riemsdyk scored for Toronto, which has dropped back-to-back games. James Reimer made 28 saves for the Maple Leafs, who own the first wild-card position race. Toronto, which went 2-3-0 on a five-game road trip, gets right back at it Wednesday when it will host the Tampa Bay Lightning. Nyquist broke a scoreless tie 12:50 into the first period. With the teams at even strength, he poked the puck past Maple Leafs defenseman Tim Gleason in the neutral zone, then raced past Cody Franson before beating Reimer with a backhand shot for his 18th goal of the season. The Red Wings doubled their lead on Nyquist's second of the game 2:06 into the third period. Nyquist intercepted Joffrey Lupul's pass in the Red Wings' zone and blew past the Maple Leafs' defense before firing a wrist shot from the right circle past Reimer to make it 2-0. Toronto cut the deficit in half when Gardiner scored on the power play at 8:24. With Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey off for high sticking, Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly sent a long pass from his own blue line that went off the boards behind the Detroit net and bounced out to Gardiner, who was in alone on Howard and beat the Red Wings goalie via the forehand for his ninth goal of the season. Nazem Kadri thought he had tied the game for the Maple Leafs at 10:32, but relays concluded Kadri used a distinct kicking motion with his right skate to poke a loose puck in the crease past Howard. Had it counted, it could have been a goal that changed the complexion of the road trip. Alfredsson ended a nine-game drought and restored Detroit's two-goal lead with 2:33 remaining in regulation. He came down on a 2-on-1 with David Legwand, took the latter's feed and wristed a shot from the slot past Reimer to make it 3-1. It was Alfredsson's 15th goal of the season and first since Feb. 8. Van Riemsdyk got Toronto within one at 18:47 when he snapped a seven-game drought by scoring 27th goal of the season, but Toronto managed one shot against Howard in the final 73 seconds. Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson sustained a broken finger on his left hand and did not play in the third period. The Red Wings are already without injured forwards Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Stephen Weiss, Justin Abdelkader and Darren Helm, along with goaltender Jonas Gustavsson. Detroit entered Tuesday with 313 man-games lost due to injury. Red Wings forward Landon Ferraro made his NHL debut and had one shot on goal in 9:45. A second-round pick (No. 32) at the 2009 NHL Draft, Ferraro is the son of former NHL center Ray Ferraro.
Buffalo @ Calgary 1-3 - Mike Cammalleri scored the game-winner midway through the third period, and Joni Ortio made 13 saves in a 3-1 victory against the Sabres at Scotiabank Saddledome on Tuesday. The Flames have won nine of their past 11 home games, a run that came immediately after a stretch in which Calgary lost seven straight home games, the longest slide in team history. Buffalo has lost seven straight. The Sabres, last in the NHL with 46 points and mathematically eliminated from the playoffs Sunday with a 2-0 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, have scored six goals during their slump, all coming from either Drew Stafford (four) or Tyler Ennis (two). Cammalleri broke a 1-1 tie at 9:16 of the third by redirecting Chris Butler's point shot behind Sabres goalie Nathan Lieuwen for his 20th of the season, the sixth time he's hit that plateau. It extended Cammalleri's point streak to five games, with five goals and seven points. Paul Byron extended Calgary's lead to 3-1 at 13:27, busting in alone on Lieuwen before pulling the puck to his forehand and sliding it between the legs of the goalie for Calgary's League-leading 12th shorthanded goal. The two goals came after all sorts of pressure on Lieuwen, a 22-year-old who was making his first NHL start. Buffalo goaltenders Jhonas Enroth and Michal Neuvirth each suffered an upper-body injury in the past week. Sean Monahan spotted Curtis Glencross with a pass on the doorstep, but Lieuwen made the point-blank save to temporarily keep the game tied. Mark Giordano hit the far post off the rush three minutes later. Lieuwen, whose NHL debut came in 22 minutes of relief action after Enroth was injured against the Canadiens, finished with 23 saves. In a first period that had one shot in the opening minutes, the Sabres opened the scoring on their third of the game, courtesy of a gaffe by Flames forward Ben Hanowski, who coughed up the puck up behind his net. That led to Stafford's wraparound past Ortio to give Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 13:22. The Sabres thought they had extended the lead to two 1:28 later when Brian Flynn scored into a virtually empty net, but the goal was waved off when referees ruled Marcus Foligno impeded Ortio's movement in the crease. Buffalo led 1-0 lead after one period, the 12th time in 69 games the Sabres held the lead at the first intermission. Seven straight shots from the Flames in the opening half the second, including Byron's dart out of the corner at 8:47 that Lieuwen fought off, prompted Sabres coach Ted Nolan to take a timeout. The move worked temporarily, but the Flames managed to draw even with 1:02 remaining. Joe Colborne swatted a rebound past Lieuwen, who sprawled on his stomach to make the initial save when Monahan pulled TJ Brodie's wide point shot off the end boards.
Nashville @ Edmonton 1-5 - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the game-winning goal in a 5-1 victory against the Predators on Tuesday night, snapping a 15-game scoring skid. His previous goal had come against the Predators in their most recent visit to Edmonton on Jan. 26. Jordan Eberle led the way offensively for the Oilers with two goals and an assist. Sam Gagner and Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers, who won all three games against the Predators to sweep the season series. Gabriel Bourque scored the Predators' only goal. Oilers goaltender Viktor Fasth made 28 saves in improving his career record against the Predators to 4-0-0. Predators goalie Pekka Rinne allowed five goals on 26 shots before being pulled in the third period. Carter Hutton stopped four shots in relief. Gagner opened the scoring at 19:25 of the first period, getting to a rebound in front of Rinne and lifting a shot over the goaltender. The play started with David Perron fighting off a check in the corner before finding defenseman Martin Marincin at the point. Marincin took a shot through traffic that Rinne stopped, but the rebound fell to Gagner. Nugent-Hopkins increased the lead to 2-0 on the power play at 8:18 of the second period, taking a cross-crease feed from Eberle and firing a shot past Rinne. Hall put Edmonton up 3-0 at 14:48 of the second on a bizarre sequence of events. The Oilers left wing lifted a backhand shot over Rinne that appeared to hit the crossbar. Play continued for more than a minute, during which the Predators came close to scoring and Oilers defenseman Mark Fraser was assessed a holding penalty. A video review once play stopped determined Hall's shot had gone in the net, and the clock was reset back to the time of Hall's original shot. Fraser's penalty, however, did stand up, putting the Oilers on the penalty kill immediately after the goal was awarded. Bourque cut into the Oilers' lead at 18:39, lifting a shot over Fasth from in tight. In the third, Eberle scored his first goal at 8:38, taking a pass from Anton Lander in front and lifting a backhand shot over Rinne. He added another 1:23 later to make it 5-1, getting a loose puck in the neutral zone and powering a backhander through Rinne, who was pulled and replaced by Hutton. Oilers left wing Nail Yakupov was a late scratch for Edmonton due to an ankle injury. Right wing Matt Hendricks left the game in the second period with a leg injury and did not return.
Washington @ Anaheim 3-2 - It has taken nearly two months for the Anaheim Sucks to snap out of their power-play slump. It took the Washington Crapitals eight seconds to show them how it's done. Alex Ovechkin one-timed John Carlson's pass for his NHL-leading 46th goal eight seconds into a third-period power play to break a tie and lead Washington to a 3-2 win at Honda Center on Tuesday night. Washington began its three-game California trip with a special-teams win; the Capitals killed all five penalties behind goalie Jaroslav Halak's 43 saves, and their second-ranked power play went 2-for-3 and is on a 7-for-17 run. The Capitals boosted their hopes of making the Stanley Cup Playoffs by pulling even in points with the Columbus Blue Jackets, who hold the final wild-card position in the Eastern Conference and lost 3-1 to the Carolina Hurricanes. Both teams are one point ahead of the Detroit Red Wings; however, Washington has played two more games than Detroit and Columbus. Anaheim had built momentum from two straight wins. However, the Ducks missed a chance to go into a huge road game Thursday night against the San Jose Sharks assured that they would come out with the lead in the Pacific Division. The Sharks lost 3-2 to the Florida Panthers, leaving each team with 97 points, though the Ducks own first place because they've played one fewer game. The Ducks paid the price for an 0-for-5 night on the power play. They are 2-for-47 since Jan. 30. Ovechkin's line went up against the defensive pairing of Luca Sbisa and Francois Beauchemin and was largely held in check for the first two periods. Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller denied Ovechkin on two other third-period shots, but Washington was able to close out the one-goal win. Ovechkin was centered by Jay Beagle in a new tweak; he finished with five shots and an even rating after he had one point and with a minus-8 rating in his previous six games. Ovechkin has six goals in four career appearances in Anaheim. Ovechkin's goal came at 2:44 of third period right off a faceoff, 72 seconds after Anaheim appeared to end its power-play slump on a wrist shot by Mathieu Perreault. Patrick Maroon screened Halak with one second showing on the advantage to tie it 2-2, but the goal was later ruled an even-strength goal. The Ducks seemingly did everything but score on their first three power plays. Down 2-1 with a two-man advantage for 1:51 in the second period, the Ducks had four shots couldn't get the puck past Halak. Anaheim received a solid performance from captain Ryan Getzlaf, who had seven shots on goal, hit a post and won 13 of 21 faceoffs. His post shot came on the power play, which just about summed up the night for the Ducks. Anaheim had a territorial advantage for most of the opening period, but Washington converted on two of its few chances for a 2-1 lead at first intermission. Troy Brouwer tapped in a loose puck from the crease with 10 seconds left in the period after Marcus Johansson whacked at it. The teams traded goals in the opening minutes. Washington got at least two consecutive shots on goal before Joel Ward was left wide open on the right side for an easy score at 2:11. Lovejoy tied it at 3:10 with a slap shot that glanced off Capitals defenseman Jack Hillen after Washington got caught in a line change. Defenseman Stephane Robidas made his Ducks debut and played 13:32 in his first game since Nov.29. He was paired with Bryan Allen. Anaheim defenseman Cam Fowler missed a second game with a leg injury, and the results of his MRI exam were not announced.