San Jose Sharks @ Minnesota Wild 3-4 SO - 10/30

Kyle Brodziak scored twice in the third period to force overtime and the Wild scored twice in the shootout to get the extra point in a 4-3 win against the San Jose Sharks at the Xcel Energy Center. After being a healthy scratch for four of the Wild's first six games this season, Brodziak, playing his second game in a row in place of injured center Erik Haula, scored his first and second goals of the season 5:19 apart to tie the score at 3-3. After Joe Thornton scored his third goal of the season 1:37 into the third period, giving San Jose a 3-1 lead, Minnesota's third line of Brodziak, Thomas Vanek and Justin Fontaine worked a tic-tac-toe play to perfection. Fontaine passed from the half-wall to Vanek at the point, creating a seam between the defensemen that Brodziak skated through. Vanek one-touched a pass to Brodziak in front that he redirected over the glove of goaltender Antti Niemi at 5:13, pulling the Wild within one. Vanek and Brodziak hooked up again at 10:32, capping a 2-on-1 break. Vanek fed a backhand saucer pass that Brodziak hammered out of midair and past Niemi, tying the game. San Jose defenseman Brent Burns nearly ended the game in overtime, going coast-to-coast and going hard to the net with a quick forehand. The puck appeared to slip behind Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper, but the referee ruled Burns had made incidental contact in the crease with Keumper before the puck crossed the goal line. Mikko Koivu and Jason Pominville scored in the shootout for Minnesota, and Kuemper stopped Pavelski and Patrick Marleau to finish the win. Wild forward Zach Parise shot wide to start the shootout, and a goal by Logan Couture put the Sharks ahead after the first round. Koivu used a backhand top-shelf move to tie it before a forehand wrist shot by Pominville beat Niemi. It was his seventh career game-deciding goal in the shootout. The victory was Minnesota's second straight when trailing 3-1 in the third period. The Wild defeated the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Tuesday by scoring three third-period goals. The Sharks took the lead late in the first period. Rookie defenseman Mirco Mueller's shot from the half wall deflected off Parise and past Kuemper for his first NHL goal at 16:06. San Jose went up 2-0 on Tommy Wingels' fifth goal of the season, a shot from the left circle that beat Kuemper at 4:20 of the second period. Four minutes later, Koivu scored after a big shift from Minnesota's second line. The group maintained a heavy presence in the Sharks' zone until the puck came to Jason Zucker near the right post. He centered a pass to Koivu crashing in front for his second of the season at 8:40. Niemi made 18 saves in the second period alone and finished with 43 through overtime. Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon left the game with an injury midway through the third period. After being knocked off the puck by Pavelski, Spurgeon slid awkwardly into the boards near the Sharks' blue line. Spurgeon did not return to the game and Yeo said he wouldn't have an update until Friday.
The injury further depletes Minnesota's blue-line depth. Jonas Brodin (hand), Christian Folin and Keith Ballard (both illness) missed the game Thursday. Pominville, a right wing, even played some defense in overtime.

Sharks Quotes

Brent Burns: "I don't know. I thought it was a good goal. I just kind of got pushed into the net so I didn't really see it. I knew it was in. They said I pushed the goalie, but I don't know. Can't say that I agree."
Todd McLellan: "They're a very aggressive team with their defense and we were able to spring some guys in the first [period]. In the second, we weren't able to manage it as well and they weren't nearly as aggressive, so they kept us more in our zone."

Opposition View

Kyle Brodziak: "It feels good for sure. I guess that's why you have to try and stay professional about it and make sure you stay ready for when you do get the chance to get back in the lineup. You want to be able to make the best of it. I'm just glad I got the opportunity. He's [Vanek] an incredible passer. Got great vision and he sees the ice really well. I pretty much knew both of those were going to be right on my tape."
Mike Yeo: "It's not something you want to make a habit out of, digging yourself into a hole. It felt like we were chasing most of the game but I thought our game continued to get better as the game wore on. I think that's when we really started to find our game. Even though we fell behind 3-1, I think that we really started to come on strong.""When you lose guys, it's not always going to be the prettiest. But you still have to find a way and tonight we did."

Los Angeles Kings @ Pittsburgh Penguins 0-3 - 10/30

Marc-Andre Fleury, who has 30 career shutouts, made 16 of his 36 saves during the third period to help preserve a two-goal Pittsburgh lead established in the first period. Chris Kunitz scored an insurance goal in the third, his second of the game, when he collected a rebound off of a shot from Sidney Crosby and wristed the puck from a sharp angle past Kings goalie Martin Jones at 9:24. The Kings gave credit to Fleury, but several Los Angeles players said they thought they failed to make the Pittsburgh goalie work enough. The game matched the physical and defensive style of the Kings, with Los Angeles outshooting Pittsburgh 36-23, but the Penguins were able to withstand the Kings' grit while showing some of their own. With five seconds remaining on a 5-on-3 with Tyler Toffoli and Drew Doughty in the penalty box, Evgeni Malkin found Kunitz charging toward the net. Kunitz tipped Malkin's slap pass by Jones 9:16 into the first for a 1-0 lead. It was Malkin's 400th career assist. Malkin, who has scored at least one point in each of Pittsburgh's nine games, is the fifth player in Penguins history to reach 400 assists, joining Mario Lemieux (1,033), Jaromir Jagr (640), Ron Francis (449) and Crosby (503). Kunitz helped generate the Penguins' second power-play goal of the first period when he sent a pass through the Kings crease to Kris Letang in the right faceoff circle. Letang's shot deflected off of Los Angeles forward Dwight King's stick and through Jones' legs to extend Pittsburgh's lead to two goals with 4:46 left in the opening period.
Kings coach Darryl Sutter said he thought penalties cost Los Angeles the game. The Penguins have converted an NHL-best 39.5 percent of their power-play chances, 13 percentage points clear of the second-ranked Phoenix Coyotes. The Kings controlled the second period, holding the Penguins to six shots despite Pittsburgh having three power plays. But Los Angeles couldn't take advantage of its 10 shots in the period. Pittsburgh managed one shot on its third power play of the second, and the Penguins allowed several shorthanded chances during their second chance. Most of the period was spent in the Penguins zone, but the Kings were primarily kept to the outside, with the Pittsburgh defensemen guarding the crease. Fleury made 10 saves in the second, but few of the shots were real threats to get past him. The Penguins, who had the League's lowest-ranked penalty kill through the first few games of the season, killed each of the Kings' two power plays through the first two periods and two more in the third. They have killed 22 consecutive penalties and are ranked 11th in the League with an 83.8 percent success rate. Penguins coach Mike Johnston said Pittsburgh tried to force Los Angeles into penalties and he felt his players successfully pressed the Kings into mistakes.

Pens Quotes

Marc-Andre Fleury: "I think we faced a good team. Even though they're missing a few key forwards, they're still the Stanley Cup champs. So, it was a good challenge for us, and we played a solid game."
Evgeni Malkin: "I'm just doing my job right now. I work with a great line with [Pascal Dupuis] and [Blake Comeau], and we try to use each other. It's a good power play too, most points [came] on the power play, but a few chances 5-on-5 too. It was a good game, and I like to help the team win."
Brandon Sutter: "I know there's a big deal made about the offensive juggernaut that they are. But there's only a couple goals difference, 5-on-5 coming into the game."
Mike Johnston: "I think in games, you try to earn penalties. I've found that in some of the games lately, we haven't earned any penalties. We haven't fought for space. We haven't drove to the net hard, and when you do those types of things, you tend to draw some penalties, and I thought we earned some penalties tonight. They probably didn't want to give us that many, with our power play. But a lot of the times, you fight for space and a guy has to make a choice. He either has to let you go or else he's going to have to interfere with you."

Opposition View

Dustin Brown: "[Fleury] made the saves he was supposed to make. I don't think he really had very many hard saves, quite honestly. He got to see the puck. I think our best chances came probably late in the game on the power play, when we had some guys around the net and rebounds, but we didn't make it hard enough for him."
Jarret Stoll: "We knew with their power play, it's obvious what the percentages are and how many goals they've scored on the power play, compared to 5-on-5. We stay out of the box, we play 5-on-5 with these guys, we play stingy, we check well, we'll get our chances. That's how we needed to play this game, but we didn't. Obviously, we lost and we should've lost."

NHL Results - Thu, Oct 30, 2014

Boston @ Buffalo 3-2 OT -  Brad Marchand scored twice, including the game-winning goal 1:20 into overtime, and assisted on Adam McQuaid's first goal in more than a year to give the Bruins a 3-2 victory. Marchand's first goal tied the game 2-2 with 5:30 left in the third period. Loui Eriksson took a shot from the faceoff circle to the left of Enroth that deflected off Marchand's hand past the goalie. Drew Stafford gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead when he scored on a power play, his first goal of the season, at 5:12 of the second period. Stafford was parked in the slot to the right of Bruins goalie Niklas Svedberg when Tyler Ennis skated around the side of the net and found Stafford alone for the unchallenged wrist shot. The power-play goal snapped an 0-for-33 streak to start the season. The Bruins tied the game 1-1 with 8:24 left in the second period when McQuaid scored his first goal since Oct. 19, 2013. McQuaid received a pass from forward Carl Soderberg and took a wrist shot at the top of the faceoff circle to the left of Enroth. The puck glanced off Sabres defenseman Mike Weber's hand past Enroth. Ennis gave the Sabres a 2-1 lead with 3:35 to play in the second period. He took a pass from Torrey Mitchell on a 2-on-1 break against defenseman Dennis Seidenberg and snapped a wrist shot past Svedberg for his fourth goal of the season. Bruins defenseman Joe Morrow made his NHL debut Thursday. He was called up from Providence of the AHL on Wednesday after defenseman Torey Krug was placed on injured reserve with a broken finger. Morrow joined rookie defensemen Zach Trotman and David Warsofsky in the lineup in place of injured Zdeno Chara (knee) and Kevan Miller (shoulder). Lucic and Stewart earned fighting majors just 51 seconds into the game.




Winnipeg @ New Jersey 1-2 SO - In the tiebreaker, Devils forward Damien Brunner hit the post with the first attempt before Schneider stopped Wheeler on a poke check. Josefson, who is in his fifth season, then skated down the middle of the ice, made a head fake on goalie Ondrej Pavelec to force him to commit to the right post, and ripped a forehand into the top left corner. The Devils, who failed to sustain consistent pressure in the Jets zone all game, received some life late in the third period when Michael Ryder scored off a feed from Jon Merrill off a turnover. The equalizer was made possible by Merrill, who collected the puck along the left-wing half boards and fed Ryder down the middle. Ryder skated past Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba in the left circle and launched a shot into the top right corner past Pavelec with 3:27 remaining. Wheeler gave the Jets a 1-0 lead 6:56 into the first period when he took advantage of a delayed penalty call. Defenseman Toby Enstrom delivered a long pass off his backhand from his blue line to Wheeler just over the red line to begin the charge up ice. Wheeler took the puck in stride down left wing, beat defenseman Marek Zidlicky, and drove to the net before cutting in front of Schneider and snapping a shot inside the right post.




Chicago @ Ottawa 5-4 SO - Marian Hossa became the 80th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 points with a goal and an assist Thursday, helping the Blackhawks to a 5-4 shootout win against the Senators. It looked like Hossa had written a truly memorable story when he got that 1,000th point on his second goal of the season with 6:10 left in the third period to give the Blackhawks a 4-3 lead. But Ottawa center Mika Zibanejad scored his first goal of the season to tie the game 4-4 with 2:08 left in the third. After the Senators killed a penalty in overtime, Patrick Sharp won it for the Blackhawks with the only goal of the shootout, beating Senators goaltender Craig Anderson with a forehand to the glove side. While the ice was being prepared for overtime, it was announced that Hossa had reached 1,000 points. The crowd came to its feet and gave him a warm ovation. The Senators tied the game when Zibanejad took a pass from Alex Chiasson in the slot and his shot went by Chicago defenseman Johnny Oduya, who fell to the ice to try to block it, and through the legs of Chicago goaltender Scott Darling. The goal was scored 4:02 after Hossa gave Chicago a 4-3 lead. His 999th point was an assist on the first of two goals by Chicago captain Jonathan Toews. Toews' second tied the game 3-3 at 7:31 of the third period. He scored each of his goals from the Ottawa crease. His last was scored after a shot by Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook bounced off Anderson and behind the goaltender. Toews beat the check of Ottawa defenseman Jared Cowen to knock in his fourth goal of the season. Bobby Ryan put the Senators ahead 3-2, 30 seconds into the third period on a turnover by Blackhawks forward Bryan Bickell in front of his net.


Philadelphia @ Tampa Bay 3-4 - Steven Stamkos, who has eight goals through 11 games, gave the Lightning a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal with 46 seconds remaining in the second period when he sent a wrist shot from the slot past Flyers goalie Ray Emery, and Tampa Bay led the rest of the way. Stamkos scored again early in the third period as a result of some nice playmaking by linemate Valtteri Filppula, who faked a shot and skated behind the Philadelphia net to draw two Flyers defenders. Stamkos, who was left open, ripped a one-timer from the left circle to give Tampa Bay a 3-1 lead. The Flyers quickly closed the gap to 3-2 when Jakub Voracek fought off Lightning defensemen Matthew Carle and Radko Gudas for a loose puck, which he was able to slip past Bishop. The Flyers were called for having too many men on the ice with 5:08 remaining in the game, and the Lightning capitalized, extending their lead to 4-2 when Jason Garrison scored his first goal of the season on a slap shot from the point. Philadelphia pulled Emery for an extra skater less than a minute after Garrison's goal, his first with the Lightning, and Michael Raffl scored his sixth goal to pull the Flyers to within a goal with 53.5 seconds remaining. It was Raffl's fourth in the past three games. Vladislav Namestnikov gave the Lightning a 1-0 at 3:29 of the first period when he redirected a slap shot from defenseman Anton Stralman past Emery for his third goal. Wayne Simmonds tied the score at 1-1 with 7:17 remaining in the first period; it was his sixth.

Phoenix @ Florida 1-2 - Scottie Upshall scored on a breakaway with 9:04 left in regulation to give the Panthers a 2-1 victory. Mike Smith made 24 stops for the Coyotes. He came into the game with a 4-0-0 record and a 1.06 goals-against average in his previous four games against Florida. Upshall scored five seconds after he finished serving his second penalty of the third period. After Derek MacKenzie blocked a Phoenix one-timer from the point, he stole a pass and fed Tomas Kopecky just outside the Florida zone. Kopecky spotted Upshall skating behind defenseman Michael Stone after leaving the box and fed him a perfect pass at the Phoenix blue line. Upshall beat Smith after deking to his backhand and sliding the puck between the goalie's legs. Smith stopped Tomas Fleischmann on another breakaway with two minutes left to keep the score 2-1. The Coyotes opened the scoring at 17:37 of the first period the same way they finished things Saturday night, with an Ekman-Larsson wrist shot on the power play. The Swedish defenseman beat Luongo cleanly in Glendale; this time his shot from the right dot went off the stick of Hanzal and into the net. Keith Yandle had the second assist on the goal. Pirri tied it at 5:37 of the second period with one second left in a Panthers power play. With Yandle in the box for roughing, Jussi Jokinen faked a shot from the left wing before sliding the puck to the slot to Pirri, who beat Smith with a one-timer to the stick side. Pirri also hit the post twice, in the first period on a wrist shot and in the second when he tipped defenseman Aaron Ekblad's shot from the point. Panthers center Aleksander Barkov left the game with a lower-body injury with a little under 13 minutes remaining in the third period. After the game, Gallant described Barkov's status as "day-to-day." In what became a bad-tempered affair Keith Yandle received a double-minor for roughing while Derek MacKenzie received just the one. In the third period, Brandon McMillan fought Jussi Jokinen while Kyle Chipchura fought Erik Gudbranson.

Anaheim @ St Louis 0-2 - No David Backes, no T.J. Oshie, no Paul Stastny and no Joakim Lindstrom. No worries for the St. Louis Blues. The Blues found a way to persevere against the Anaheim Sucks despite playing without four of their top nine forwards, players who had accounted for 19 percent of their offensive production through the first eight games. Alexander Steen's first-period goal proved to be the difference, and Jake Allen stopped all 24 shots he faced to earn his second NHL shutout in the Blues' 2-0 win against the Sucks at Scottrade Center. Reaves also scored for the Blues, who have won three in a row. The Blues were missing Backes and Oshie, each of whom was diagnosed with a concussion earlier Thursday after they sustained injuries Tuesday against the Dallas Stars. Stastny (shoulder) missed his fifth consecutive game, and Lindstrom became the latest to fall prey to a bacterial infection the Blues have dealt with over the past two weeks. Those players were replaced up front by Paajarvi and Porter, and Jordan Leopold, a healthy scratch against Dallas, played as the seventh defenseman. John Gibson stopped 27 shots for the Sucks, who fell to 8-3-0 and were shut out for the first time since Feb. 5. The Sucks had a tremendous edge on paper entering the game, with all their key pieces in the lineup, so they tried to stay cautious of the Blues' situation. However Hockey isn't played on paper, it's played on ice, and the Sucks found it a little bit too slippy. Steen's goal, his second, came off a deflection of a left-point shot by Carl Gunnarsson. Despite being tied up by Anaheim defenseman Mark Fistric, Steen got in front of the shot, and the puck got past Gibson off Steen's body 4:29 into the first period to give the Blues a 1-0 lead. The Sucks had a great opportunity to tie it late in the first when the Blues turned over the puck in their zone while on the power play, but Getzlaf fired a wrist shot high from the slot in the waning seconds. The Blues took advantage of a turnover by Sucks defenseman Cam Fowler, who fanned on an attempted outlet pass from his own zone, and Reaves fired a wrist shot from the slot past Gibson 2:02 into the third period for a 2-0 St. Louis lead. The Sucks had 20 seconds of a 5-on-3 power play midway through the third period, and Allen robbed Corey Perry from the slot with 10:55 remaining to preserve the two-goal lead. Lapierre, who got an assist on Reaves' goal, saved the Blues from surrendering the Sucks' first goal by pulling the puck off the goal line after it had trickled past Allen with Anaheim playing with a sixth attacker with less than two minutes remaining. After allowing 13 first-period shots, the Blues limited the Sucks to 11 the rest of the way.

NY Islanders @ Colorado 0-5 - Nathan MacKinnon scored his first goals of the season in the second period, when the Avalanche scored three times to grab a 4-0 lead. His drought ended with a power-play goal at 3:25, and he scored again at 10:14 off a pass from Jarome Iginla. The Avalanche are making it difficult for Varlamov, who has faced 91 shots in the past two games. Colorado surrendered an average of 35.8 shots through the first 10 games. The Avalanche padded their lead at 13:40 of the third period on a goal by Erik Johnson, who scored from the right point on Colorado's first shot of the period. MacKinnon scored his first goal after Gabriel Landeskog drove to the net for a shot. Erik Johnson swept the rebound to MacKinnon to the left of the crease during a scramble in front. MacKinnon waited for Chad Johnson to go down and stack his pads before shooting the puck over him into the net. Marc-Andre Cliche scored his first goal at 8:59 of the second period following some work around the net by Maxime Talbot and Cody McLeod. Cliche was at the left side of the net when he found an opening between the near post and Johnson's right pad. MacKinnon drove to the net to score his second goal. Iginla was along the right-wing boards when he fended off a check by Islanders defenseman Calvin de Haan and passed to MacKinnon for a chip shot. McLeod gave the Avalanche a 1-0 lead at 2:34 of the opening period on the first shot of the game. Matt Duchene was behind the net when he passed to McLeod near the right post for his first goal of the season. The Avalanche's fourth line of McLeod, Cliche and Talbot combined for two goals and three assists, and all three players killed penalties.



Montreal @ Vancouver 2-3 OT - After getting caught on the ice when the Canadiens tied the game with 2:33 left in the third period, Henrik Sedin set up twin brother Daniel for the winning goal on a power play with 2:15 left in overtime to lead the Canucks to a 3-2 win at Rogers Arena. Too many times last season the snowball kept rolling downhill when things started to go bad, and the end result was missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in six seasons. But after letting a couple of games against fast teams get away from them earlier this season, the Canucks stayed calm after blowing the lead late. The Sedins didn't panic despite struggling early during the overtime power play after Montreal defenseman Tom Gilbert was called for interference in the offensive zone. As the penalty wound down, Henrik sent Daniel in alone behind the defense and he beat Carey Price high over the blocker. Brad Richardson put the Canucks ahead by two 2:17 into the third period, but Alex Galchenyuk started Montreal's comeback by deflecting P.K. Subban's point shot past Miller with 7:49 left in regulation. Former Canucks forward Dale Weise set up Max Pacioretty for the tying goal just over five minutes later. Weise, who was traded to the Canadiens last season after struggling to get into Vancouver's lineup, took a pass in the high slot and drew Miller out of his crease with a good fake before feeding across for Pacioretty, who one-timed it past Miller before he could recover. The fast-paced game was not without controversy. The Canucks opened the scoring 8:29 into the second period after Montreal defensemen Alexei Emelin was knocked down and out of the play on a high hit by Alexandre Burrows right after making a bad pass up the middle that was intercepted easily by Nick Bonino. With Emelin lying on the ice, Nick Bonino broke in with Derek Dorsett, got defenseman Jarred Tinordi to commit to the ice on a cross-ice pass, then converted the return feed for a backdoor tap-in. Emelin had to be helped off the ice, leaving the Canadiens furious the play wasn't blown dead and Burrows wasn't penalized after catching an off-balance Emelin in the head with the top of his left arm. Emelin missed the rest of the second period but returned for the third. Burrows was happy to see Emelin come back, but didn't want to talk about the possibility of facing supplemental discipline. Miller kept it 1-0 with a great backdoor save off Rene Bourque late in the second period and got a break two minutes into the third when defenseman Luca Sbisa got his left glove on a fluttering puck during a scramble, knocking it just over the empty net.
Vancouver broke out the other way and Richardson used a retreating Tinordi as a screen off the rush before firing a wrist shot over the Price's glove from the top of the right circle. It was the third goal in two games for Richardson after the third-line left wing failed to score in the first eight games of the season. The Canadiens started their comeback after Vancouver was called for icing. Galchenyuk deflected Subban's point shot past Miller, who was bumped by Gallagher as the puck went by him at 12:11, adding animosity to a game already full of post-whistle scrums.

NHL Results - Wed, Oct 29, 2014

Detroit @ Washington 4-2 - Justin Abdelkader had two goals and three points for Detroit, who trailed 2-1 entering the third period. Alex Ovechkin had seven shots on goal, matching his total of the past four games, but did not have a point for a fifth straight game. It's the longest drought of his NHL career. The first period provided Detroit with plenty of penalty-killing practice; it faced 3:58 of shorthanded ice time against Washington's third-ranked power play. The Red Wings' first penalty of the game nullified a goal by Drew Miller at 6:22 when Luke Glendening was whistled for interfering with Holtby, even though the goaltender stumbled on his own as he returned to the crease. Nyquist's fifth goal of the season resulted from a Capitals defensive-zone turnover midway through the second period. He found himself 1-on-1 with Holtby in the slot after Marcus Johansson couldn't corral a loose puck. Holtby kept out Nyquist's initial shot with a right-leg save, but the rebound popped into the air, allowing Nyquist to bat it in at 8:56. Kuznetsov tied the game and dented Detroit's seemingly impenetrable penalty kill at 13:19. Joel Ward's pass from the blue line found Kuznetsov in stride as he cut down the middle of the ice, and the rookie forward beat Howard for his first goal of the season. Brouwer gave Washington a 2-1 lead with 58 seconds remaining in the second period, receiving a pass from defenseman John Carlson as he rushed into the offensive zone undetected after a line change. Another sequence of sloppy defensive-zone puck management cost the Capitals in the third period when Abdelkader tied the game 2-2. As Andre Burakovsky attempted to handle the puck in the slot after a Brooks Orpik turnover, Abdelkader poked the puck away from the rookie and fired a wrist shot past Holtby at 4:04. Abdelkader again took advantage of a Capitals turnover at 10:34, this time in the neutral zone created by Henrik Zetterberg when he batted down Carlson's attempted breakout pass. Datsyuk then entered the Washington zone surrounded by four Capitals and dropped a pass to Abdelkader in the left faceoff circle. Datsyuk snapped a shot into the top-right corner of the net with 54 seconds remaining.
Nashville @ Edmonton 4-1 - Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne made 26 saves for his sixth win of the season. Ben Scrivens stopped 31 shots for the Oilers. The Oilers appeared to fall behind early at 1:35 of the first period after Smith poked the puck past Scrivens following a scramble in front. The goal, however, was waved off; referees ruled the whistle was in the process of being blown before the puck crossed the goal line. Smith did score at 6:23 of the second period, getting to a rebound in front of the net and lifting a shot over Scrivens. Nashville extended their lead at 7:49 on another quick transition rush. Colin Wilson took a long outlet pass, gained the Oilers' zone and hit a streaking Beck for a tap-in. Early in the period, Nugent-Hopkins came close to giving the Oilers the lead, snapping a shot over Rinne and off the crossbar. Initially a goal was awarded but the call was reversed following a review. Weber increased the Predators' lead 24 seconds into the third period on a point shot that beat a screened Scrivens to make it 3-0. Hall scored at 8:54 when he put a long rebound kicked to him by Rinne on a shot from Nugent-Hopkins past the Predators goaltender. Smith scored his second of the game at 12:24, taking a pass from Matt Cullen on a 2-on-1 break and snapping it past Scrivens. Cullen made his season debut after being out of the lineup because of an upper-body injury. The Oilers announced after the game they assigned right wing Luke Gazdic and goaltender Richard Bachman to the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL. Gazdic will go on a conditioning assignment; Bachman is returning to the AHL to make way for goaltender Viktor Fasth, who was out of the lineup because of a groin injury.

San Jose Sharks @ Colorado Avalanche 3-2 SO - 10/28

The San Jose Sharks took 51 shots on goal, but they needed the shootout to beat goalie Semyon Varlamov and the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center.
Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski scored in the shootout and Sharks goalie Antti Niemi stopped Alex Tanguay and Matt Duchene in a 3-2 victory. Pavelski had a game-high 10 shots on goal, but it took a wrist shot in the second round of the shootout for him to put a puck past Varlamov. The Avalanche had a power play for the final 1:05 of overtime after Marleau knocked Erik Johnson's stick from his hands with a slash, but they couldn't take advantage. The Avalanche have gone to overtime or a shootout in three of the past four games and lost them all. They've already permitted 40 or more shots on goal three times, lost one in regulation, one in overtime and one in a shootout. Colorado took a 2-1 lead at 3:04 of the third period on a goal by Gabriel Landeskog, who skated into the left circle and beat Niemi low to the far side for his fourth goal, tying Tanguay for the team lead. But the Sharks countered at 5:03 when Logan Couture scored after Justin Braun fired a shot off the left post. Couture got to the puck and ripped it by Varlamov. The Avalanche showed more life in the third period than they did in the first two, but Niemi made a couple of tough saves on Ryan O'Reilly and Maxime Talbot. San Jose dominated the Avalanche in the first two periods, outshooting them 41-17, but the game was tied 1-1 because Varlamov made numerous big saves and Tanguay scored a second-period shorthanded goal at 13:24. The Sharks were on their second power play of the game after Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie was penalized for hooking when Varlamov dived to his right to prevent Pavelski from scoring at the edge of the crease.
Shortly after, Johnson lofted a clearing attempt that San Jose's Brent Burns tried to knock forward with his glove while standing at his own blue line. The puck landed behind him and Tanguay gained possession. He skated into the slot, stepped around Couture between the circles and found the back of the net.
Tanguay has four goals and two assists in a six-game scoring streak. Varlamov made a save against Tommy Wingels on another power play later in the period and he made a pad stop on Marleau, who was open for a shot in the right circle with 5.6 seconds left in the period. The Sharks have owned the first period this season, outscoring opponents 13-1. They dominated the Avalanche in the first, outshot them 23-8 and took a 1-0 lead that would have been much larger except for the play of Varlamov. Burns opened the scoring 9:23 into the first period. Burns drove to the net for a shot that Varlamov stopped, but Thornton corralled the rebound, came from behind the net and fed Mirco Mueller for a shot Burns redirected. The Sharks outshot the Avalanche 19-2 after Mueller scored, launching 14 consecutive shots before Landeskog forced Niemi to make a stop at 15:21. Niemi made a nice glove save against Duchene, who was in the slot with 1.5 seconds left. Jamie McGinn played against his brother, Sharks left wing Tye McGinn, for the first time at any level. At 14:29 of the third period Brent Burns fought Maxime Talbot, while Mirco Mueller fought Jarome Iginla.

Sharks Quotes

Antti Niemi: "Yeah, for sure we are happy we got two points. We played a good game, a good 60 minutes and we were able to get chances in all the periods. We played well, we just couldn't score."
Joe Pavelski: "If we lose these games, it’s tough. You have to gather yourself and have the belief that it’s going to go in. I think that’s what the guys in here did. We believed it was going to go in and we would get a bounce and we did get one there."
Todd McLellan: "If we expect to play perfect we're dreaming. It doesn't happen that way. There were lapses, but we're starting to put it together a little bit longer night in and night out. I thought we were aggressive, we were on our toes. We are still a work in progress."

Opposition View

Jamie McGinn: "We're leaving Varly out to dry. It's unacceptable. He stood on his head just like last year, except we pulled out a couple wins and this year we're not doing that. He's battling every night, it's amazing what he's doing back there for us. It's unfortunate. We said all the right things before the game, we were ready to, but then the Sharks just pounced on us and they were better than us in the first period. Varly gave us a chance to stay in it and win the game. Our second period was better but still not good enough. It's just unacceptable to have that kind of start. It's a big game and we have to start winning games."
Patrick Roy: "He [Varlamov] was outstanding, he made some incredible saves, especially in the first where we were struggling a lot. After they took a 1-0 lead we just lost our focus. That part of the game was not very pretty for us."
Semyon Varlamov: "I think we started pretty slow in the first period, but in the second and third we played well. We had lots of chances in the overtime, but we didn't score. Niemi played well. I felt pretty good, but we need points right now. Every point is very important. We want to win every game and there is frustration."

St Louis Blues @ Dallas Stars 4-3 OT - 10/28

Three nights after St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said Vladimir Tarasenko was playing at 50 percent because of an illness, the 22-year-old right wing delivered just what the doctor ordered, scoring his first career hat trick to lead St. Louis to a 4-3 overtime win against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center. Tarasenko whistled a one-timer from the right circle past Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen to complete his hat trick1:28 into overtime. The Blues were on a 4-on-3 power play. Tarasenko had scored game-tying goals late in the first period and again in the third. Blues goaltender Brian Elliott made 25 saves. Blues captain David Backes left the game after he was knocked to the ice on a hit away from the puck by Stars defenseman Trevor Daley in the Dallas zone with 4:49 left in the first. Backes, who hit his head on the ice, did not return and played 4:48 in nine shifts. The Stars struck first when defenseman Jamie Oleksiak scored his first NHL goal at 13:10 of the first period on a slap shot from the right point that deflected off Blues center Patrik Berglund's stick before landing in the back of the St. Louis net. It didn't take long for St. Louis to answer. Tarasenko sent a wrist shot from the high slot under Lehtonen's blocker at 13:45. The game remained tied until early in the second period when Dallas center Tyler Seguin blistered a slap shot from the right circle under Elliott's right shoulder at 5:28 for a 2-1 Stars lead. The Blues had a quick answer again, this time taking 37 seconds to tie the game. Jori Lehtera whipped a backhand over Lehtonen's blocker at 6:05 to tie the game 2-2. Lehtera (goal, two assists) and Tarasenko (three goals, one assist), who were teammates in Russia, combined for seven points in the win. Dallas regained the lead early in the third period when Daley flicked a wrist shot under Elliott's glove from the left circle on the power play at 3:27. The sequence began with Elliott attempting to send the puck around the boards from behind his own net. However, when Blues forward Alexander Steen was unable to corral the puck, Stars defenseman Alex Goligoski gained possession and quickly sent a cross-ice pass to Daley, who scored his fourth goal. Dallas was on the power play after Blues forward Dmitrij Jaskin was called for hooking Oleksiak at 2:03 of the third period. Tarasenko tied the game 3-3 when he scored his second goal of the game on a wrist shot from the right circle that beat Lehtonen to his blocker side at 11:37 of the third. St. Louis had a golden opportunity to take their first lead late in the third, but Lehtera's wrister from the right circle with 4:43 remaining in regulation hit the crossbar. The Blues went on the power play 14 seconds into overtime after Seguin was whistled for high sticking against Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo. After Lehtonen made several big saves, Tarasenko sealed the win, knocking in a pass from Kevin Shattenkirk for the winner. Lehtonen allowed four goals on 27 shots.
Midway through the first period, the Stars honored former center Steve Ott, now with the Blues, with a video tribute. Ott, who was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in July 2012, received a rousing ovation. Dallas blew a third-period lead for the third time in its first four home games of the season. The Stars are 0-0-3 in those games.
Daley has had it with that rather disturbing trend.

Stars Quotes

Lindy Ruff: "There's good players there. They're going to get some chances, but let's make them earn their chances. Let's not hand them their chances."
Trevor Daley: "Enough is enough in here. I think we've had three of them at home where we've had leads in the third period. In order to be a good team, an elite team like the team we just played, you've got find ways to get the job done. Maybe the penalty at the end was a tough one, but I don't think we should have even been in that situation to start."

Blues Quotes

Vladimir Tarasenko: "It's good but thanks to my teammates for letting me do this. We have a tough game Thursday against a team (the Anaheim Ducks) who beat us a week ago. We have to prepare for it and (have) no time to celebrate. It's really good to have a guy [Lehtera] that you played with before and have a good relationship with. We live in the same building. It's really fun. I feel more comfortable."
Ken Hitchcock: "Yeah, it was a wild game. It was the best and worst for both teams. First period was probably the best we've played on the road all year, and second period was we seemed to really lose our bearings when Backes got hurt. The second period we were off-kilter, not skating, not competing like we did, and then we kind of gathered ourselves in, managed some good minutes in the third period. But the second period we were a little bit on our heels. He's [Backes] going to be re-evaluated tomorrow. It was precautionary. We're just going to have to see what the doctors say tomorrow."
Steve Ott: "Honestly, it was really a first-class gesture. It really was. I was shocked, and the reception you get from the fans that probably are not going to be cheering for me the rest of the way. I really enjoyed my time here."

New Jersey @ Pittsburgh Penguins 3-8 - 10/28

The Penguins scored seven unanswered goals in a come-from-behind 8-3 win against New Jersey at Consol Energy Center. New Jersey took a 3-1 lead 5:14 into the second period with a shorthanded breakaway goal from Jacob Josefson and a goal on a wrist shot from Tuomo Ruutu scored 3:02 apart. But a slap shot from Evgeni Malkin on a 5-on-3 power play started the Penguins on a four-goal flurry through the remainder of the period. Malkin, who is second on Pittsburgh with 11 points, has scored at least one point in each of the Penguins' first eight games after missing training camp with an undisclosed injury. Penguins coach Mike Johnston wasn't satisfied with how the Penguins played early in the second period but was impressed with how they responded. Malkin scored 8:56 into the second, and Patric Hornqvist tied the game 3-3 with snap shot under the post 3:46 later. Craig Adams, who was exiting the penalty box after being called for boarding, received a pass from Brandon Sutter and beat goalie Cory Schneider for a breakaway goal and Pittsburgh's first lead of the game with 2:25 left in the period. Adams' goal was his sixth in his past 90 regular-season games. Sidney Crosby collected the puck after a shot from Chris Kunitz bounced in the crease and took a wrist shot past Schneider, who lost sight of the puck, for his first of two goals with 1:11 left in the period. Schneider, who allowed five goals on 23 shots, was replaced by Scott Clemmensen to start the third period. Pascal Dupuis scored a power-play goal on Clemmensen's second shot faced to extend the Penguins lead to 6-3, 5:29 into the third. Steve Downie scored the Penguins' seventh goal on a power play with 6:13 remaining. Crosby's second goal was Pittsburgh's eighth, scored 2:53 later. Crosby leads the Penguins with 14 points.
The Devils took little time gaining an early lead, scoring nine seconds after the opening faceoff with a goal from Dainius Zubrus. Jaromir Jagr slid the puck to Travis Zajac following the faceoff. Zajac found Zubrus to the right of the Pittsburgh net and Zubrus wristed a shot over Marc-Andre Fleury's rising glove to give the Devils a 1-0 lead. The fastest three goals to start a game in NHL history were each scored 5 seconds following puck drop. New Jersey did not record a second shot one goal until 8:33 into the first when Stephen Gionta took a wrist shot on Fleury. The Penguins took advantage of the Devils' downturn by tying the game with a goal from Blake Comeau 7:17 into the first. Schneider left his crease to play the puck behind the New Jersey net and sent a pass that was intercepted by Dupuis. He passed the puck into the crease between Comeau and Devils forward Adam Henrique with Schneider scrambling back from the end boards. Comeau gained possession and backhanded a shot for his second goal of the season. The Devils came on strong late in the period, forcing two penalties and narrowing the Penguins' shot edge to 9-8. They failed to break the tie, but Zajac and Marek Zidlicky each hit the left post. The Penguins, who once ranked last in the NHL in penalty killing, have killed their opponents' past 18 power plays. Dupuis, one of Pittsburgh's key penalty killers, said the Penguins felt pressure after the Devils' opening goal but never wilted.

Pens Quotes

Mike Johnston: "In the early portion of the second period, I thought we had a bit of a lull. It was a real key turning point, the power-play goal, the power-play goal and the Hornqvist goal shortly after. And there were other key things in the game for me. Seven different players scoring, there was contribution through our lineup. If we're going to be successful, we need that at both ends of the rink."
Craig Adams: "I tried to slow down a little bit and let my hands catch up to my feet. I tried to pull it and put it high glove and didn't quite get it up there, but it got high enough. … Being down 3-1, it's tough against these guys, and we know that from the past. So to be able to come back and get the lead was big for us, and obviously we were able to hold it from there and keep pushing."
Pascal Dupuis: "They came out hard on the first shot. So obviously we were on our heels a bit, but I think the way we responded when it was 3-1, big goal by [Malkin] there on the power play and we started rolling. … That was a big game. They're a hard team to play against and they're a team that plays tight in the neutral zone. I feel like things opened there in the second and the third."

NHL Results - Tue, Oct 28, 2014

Minnesota @ Boston 4-3 - Defenseman Marco Scandella scored with 5:53 left, Minnesota's third goal of the third period, and the Wild defeated the Bruins 4-3. Minnesota arrived here late after the loss to NY Rangers and then learned before the game they would be missing defenseman Jonas Brodin and forward Erik Haula because of injury. Scandella scored from the left point through a Charlie Coyle screen. The Wild outshot the Bruins 18-8 in the third period. Minnesota goaltender Niklas Backstrom, making his second start, stopped 24 of 27 for the Wild, who split their first back-to-back of the season. The Wild outshot the Bruins 42-27 and there were too many defensive breakdowns for Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask, who made 38 saves, to overcome. Minnesota were trailing 3-1 when Parise tipped Mikael Granlund's pass past Rask at 4:21 of the third period. Justin Fontaine then tied the score during a goal-mouth scramble. After Ryan Carter's two tries to beat Rask were stopped, Fontaine slammed the puck in at 6:34. The Wild were able to take advantage of Boston around the Bruins net with Chara out. The Wild didn't look weary from the outset, scoring first at 4:51 of the first period. Vanek forced a Matt Bartkowski giveaway below the goal line and then passed to Nino Niederreiter in front for his second goal of the season. Boston tied the score on a goal by Griffith, who tipped in a pass from David Krejci. The Bruins gained possession after a big hit by Lucic on defenseman Justin Falk, who was replacing Brodin in the lineup. Bruins defenseman Zach Trotman advanced the puck to Krejci to start the scoring play. The assist extended Krejci's point streak to seven games. Griffith scored his second goal from almost the same spot but on the other side of the ice. Gregory Campbell fed the puck to the front of the Minnesota net, and Griffith tipped it in at 5:23 of the second period for a 2-1 lead. Lucic extended the lead to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 16:59. Defenseman Torey Krug's slap pass from the right circle connected with Lucic's stick at the top of the blue paint.
Winnipeg @ NY Islanders 4-3 - Andrew Ladd scored his second goal of the game 3:31 into the third period to snap a tie. Ladd fired home the rebound of Bryan Little's harmless-looking shot off the pads of Islanders goalie Jaroslav Halak. Ondrej Pavelec won his second straight start for the Jets by making 18 saves. He stopped Casey Cizikas on a breakaway midway through the third period and denied Mikhail Grabovski's solo rush with over four minutes remaining. The Islanders came out flying, earned a power play 1:04 into the game and required all of 12 seconds to grab the lead. Johnny Boychuk's slap shot from the left point rang off the far post, but Nelson was all alone and backhanded the carom into an open net for his team-high sixth goal of the season. New York had the better of play for most of the rest of the period but was unable to get another puck past Pavelec, who made his best stop after the midpoint of the period when he denied Tavares after the Islanders captain got past the defense. But the Jets got a shot of energy when Islanders forward Nikolay Kulemin was assessed a five-minute major for boarding and a game misconduct for a center-ice hit on Jets defenseman Mark Stuart 24 seconds into the second period. Ladd knocked home a rebound 50 seconds later for his third of the season, and Postma got his first at 4:06 when he jabbed home a loose puck in the crease after a turnover by New York defenseman Brian Strait. It was Postma's sixth career goal; three have come against the Islanders. It became 3-1 at 11:42. With the teams playing 4-on-4, Trouba whipped a wrist shot from the high slot that sailed past Halak for his first of the season. But a boarding penalty to Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele at 13:29 gave the Islanders their fifth power play, and Tavares made it a one-goal game again when he lifted the rebound of Nelson's shot over Pavelec for his fourth of the season at 14:28.

Grabovski tied the game 93 seconds later with a tremendous individual effort. He burst past Jets defenseman Tobias Enstrom at the Winnipeg blue line, cut from the right wing to the front of the net, got Pavelec to drop and zipped the puck under the crossbar. Grabovski's third of the season sent the teams into the second intermission even at 3-3.
Los Angeles @ Philadelphia 2-3 OT - Brayden Schenn scored on a breakaway with 2:24 left in overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 3-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings. Schenn tipped a Jake Muzzin pass at the Philadelphia blue line and won a race for the puck. Schenn got a wrist shot on net that Kings goalie Jonathan Quick stopped, but Schenn banged at the rebound, and the puck and goaltender drifted back across the goal line. Referees initially waved off the goal, but after conferring ruled the goal should count, and replay review upheld the call. The Kings had 19 players in the lineup. Anze Kopitar was unable to play because of an upper-body injury. The Kings also are missing Marian Gaborik (upper body) and Trevor Lewis (upper body) to injuries, as well as defenseman Slava Voynov, who is suspended. The three injured players are not expected to be out long, so with little roster or salary-cap space, the Kings were unable to recall a player from Manchester of the AHL. Key for the Flyers was keeping the crease clear. Though the Kings had 40 shots, most were from the outside, and there were few rebounds off chances in close for the Kings. The Flyers also have been executing defensively without two of their top defenders, Braydon Coburn and Andrew MacDonald, who are out with lower-body injuries. One of the few times the Flyers didn't execute was on Richards' game-tying goal 5:01 into the third period. Kyle Clifford put a shot on net that Emery stopped with his left pad on the post, but the Flyers goalie couldn't cover the puck. It got dug out, and Emery made a stick save on Drew Doughty's spinning shot in close. But Emery directed the puck right to Richards to his right, and the former Philadelphia captain scored into a nearly empty net. The Flyers had several chances to break the tie in regulation; Voracek hit the right post with 11:17 left, and with 6:53 left he split two Kings to create a chance in front, but Quick stopped him. With 5:07 remaining Schenn made a great move with the puck along the right wall in the Los Angeles end and sent a backhand pass through the slot to Claude Giroux, but the Philadelphia captain fell as he shot and missed wide. Schenn went behind the net to collect the rebound and threw it in front, but the pass handcuffed Wayne Simmonds, who couldn't get much on his shot.
The Kings outshot the Flyers 15-14 in the third, and their best chance came when Jeff Carter played a puck that took an odd bounce off the wall behind the Philadelphia net, but Emery made the save with 7:36 remaining. VandeVelde's goal with 43.7 seconds left in the first period gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead after one period. Emery helped preserve the lead with a strong second period. He stopped all 10 shots the Kings sent his way. He snapped the pads shut to deny Tanner Pearson on a breakaway 67 seconds into the period, and after falling he scrambled into a sitting position to get a piece of Jarret Stoll's shot from the right circle with 14:17 left in the period. Raffl opened the scoring with his fifth goal, winning a board battle with the Kings' Dustin Brown and then getting to the net to score after Muzzin partially blocked a Giroux shot. The Kings tied the game on Toffoli's unassisted shorthanded breakaway goal at 13:08 of the first.
Ottawa @ Columbus 5-2 - The Blue Jackets injury woes continue as James Wisniewski broke a finger and will miss 1-2 weeks. That came after center Artem Anisimov left the game about eight minutes into the second period because of an upper-body injury after being checked by Ottawa defenseman Eric Gryba. Matt Calvert (upper-body) against Anaheim, Cam Atkinson (lacerations around his right eye after being cut by the skate of Ryan Kesler) and Nick Foligno (neck) against the Kings have all missed games. During practice, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky fractured a finger and will miss 1-2 weeks. This feisty affair kicked off just 3:22 into the game when Jared Boll and Mark Borowiecki received fighting majors. 13:09 in the first period resident goon Chris Neil fought Boll, each received fighting majors, with Neil also getting an unsportsmanlike conduct call. In the second period with the Senators ahead 2-1, they were forced to kill a major elbowing penalty to Gryba on Anisimov that turned out to be three minutes of being down a man because Columbus left wing Scott Hartnell took a roughing call at the same time for going after Gryba. Gryba received a Match Penalty and Game misconduct. Corey Tropp received a major penalty and game misconduct for checking defenseman Mark Borowiecki from behind in the third period. Senators forward Alex Chiasson scored on the elongated power play for a 4-2 lead after Erik Karlsson earlier completed a 3-on-1 at 3:41 of the third to break the tie. Clarke MacArthur had a power-play goal in the first to match the man-up goal by Columbus defenseman David Savard for a 1-1 tie through 20 minutes. MacArthur also scored Ottawa's fifth goal. Yet, a goal late in the second by Atkinson enabled the Blue Jackets to forge a 2-2 tie after Zack Smith had given the Senators the lead 1:44 into the period. Smith was to the right of the goal for a deflection with the back of his blade of a low drive by Karlsson after the Blue Jackets failed to clear the zone and were scrambling to get back on defense. The goal was Smith's second of the season. Atkinson got his fourth goal with 63 seconds left in the second period off a set play. Ryan Johansen won the draw to Wisniewski at the point. He pushed the puck to Atkinson for the long shot past Lehner.
Buffalo @ Toronto 0-4 - Randy Carlyle moved center Nazem Kadri and left wing Joffrey Lupul up to the top line with right wing Phil Kessel and put center Tyler Bozak and left wing James van Riemsdyk with David Clarkson. The Maple Leafs outshot the Sabres 17-4 in the first period. Bozak finally beat Neuvirth with a power-play goal with 49 seconds left in the second period when he broke in alone and snapped a shot past him on his glove side. The goal was scored with Buffalo's Marcus Foligno in the penalty box for kneeing Kadri. After Kadri was hit by Foligno, he hit teammate Dion Phaneuf. Phaneuf limped off the ice and headed directly to the Maple Leafs dressing room but returned to start the third period. Kessel scored his fifth goal of the season when he took a pass at the side of the net from Mike Santorelli and banked a shot in off Neuvirth's leg at 4:18. Van Riemsdyk made it 3-0 one minute later when he took a pass from defenseman Morgan Rielly and snapped a shot past Neuvirth, who was unable to slide across to make the save. Toronto defenseman Jake Gardiner scored midway through the third when he found himself in alone on Neuvirth. Gardiner deked to his left, but Neuvirth followed him perfectly until Gardiner was behind the net. With Neuvirth so far out of the net, Gardiner scooted behind and tucked it in the other side. The penalties flew about in the encounter with Chris Stewart elbowing Joffrey Lupul, and then at 13:19 of the third period Phaneuf cross-checked Cody McCormick, with the latter slashing Phaneuf. A fight then ensued with both receiving major penalties.
Phoenix @ Tampa Bay 3-7 - Kucherov gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 7:46 of the first period when he redirected a long slap shot from defenseman Radko Gudas between Coyotes goalie Mike Smith's pads. The 21-year-old, who was drafted by Tampa Bay in the second round (No. 58) in 2011, lifted a backhand shot over a sprawling Smith to give the Lightning a 3-0 lead 3:20 into the second period. Kucherov completed the hat trick when he took a centering pass from Johnson and sent a one-timer past Smith for a 5-2 Lightning lead at 8:23 of the third period. Eric Brewer had the second assist on the goal, which was Kucherov's fourth of the season. Phoenix, pulled within two goals twice in the second period. Shane Doan scored his first goal of the season when he sent a rebound past Lightning goalie Ben Bishop following a point shot by Michael Stone to close the gap to 3-1 with 5:53 left in the second period. After Boyle's first goal gave the Lightning a 4-1 lead, Martin Erat made it 4-2 with 1:08 left in the second when his wraparound shot deflected off Bishop's skate into the back of the net. B.J. Crombeen scored a third-period goal for the Coyotes. Smith made 27 saves before he was pulled in the third period; backup Devan Dubnyk surrendered Carle's goal on one of the two shots he faced in 10:34. Cedric Paquette and Connor Murphy were assessed fighting majors at 6:33 of the second period.
Anaheim @ Chicago 1-0 - Locked in a scoreless goaltending duel early in the third period, John Gibson of the Anaheim Sucks somehow made a sprawling right pad save to stop a wide open one-timer by Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews. Nothing special enough happened for the Blackhawks, despite a strong late push aided by a power play after Anaheim defenseman Sami Vatanen's tripping penalty with 2:35 left in regulation. Gibson stopped everything he faced and his teammates chipped in with 18 blocked shots. The Ducks outhit the Blackhawks 37-16 and used their size advantage to clog up the fast-paced game Chicago likes to play. Devante Smith-Pelly scored the lone goal of the game 11:32 into the third while Anaheim was on a penlty-kill. After Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook fell down at the blue line in the Chicago offensive zone, the puck slid out to the neutral zone. Smith-Pelly and teammate Andrew Cogliano engaged in a footrace to get it, with Smith-Pelly scooping it and heading off for a breakaway against 25-year old Blackhawks rookie goaltender Scott Darling (24 saves). A quick forehand-backhand deke sent a shot aimed between Darling's pads and the puck fluttered past him over the goal line. That was all the Ducks needed. Chicago controlled the puck for most of the game's final eight minutes and tested Anaheim, particularly Gibson. Sucks defenseman Mark Fistric sent Blackhawks defenseman Michal Rozsival flying into the Anaheim bench with a clean, hard hit. The rookie goalies had 20 saves apiece through 40 minutes, which included a big stop by Gibson at 7:33 of the second period. The puck kicked out to Blackhawks forward Brandon Saad in the neutral zone for a breakaway. Saad's initial backhand attempt was stopped, but the best save came on his attempted stuff of the rebound at the right post. Gibson kicked his left pad out just in time to keep it out. Chicago forward Jeremy Morin had a breakaway chance with 1:24 left in the second, but Gibson used his blocker to turn away a hard wrist shot from the slot to keep it scoreless. That set up his best save, against Toews 1:31 into the third. Chicago forward Bryan Bickell carried the puck behind the Sucks net and into the left circle, where he sent a backhand feed to Toews for the shot. Instinctively, Gibson dropped into a butterfly and got his right pad extended far enough.
Montreal @ Calgary 2-1 SO - Carey Price made 37 saves through regulation and overtime, then PA Parenteau scored the only goal of the shootout to lift the Canadiens to a 2-1 win. It was the Canadiens' first victory in Calgary since taking a 4-2 win at Scotiabank Saddledome on Jan. 5, 2002. In the third round of the shootout, Parenteau skated in on Jonas Hiller and beat the Flames goaltender to the blocker side for the win. The goal came after Johnny Gaudreau appeared to give the Flames an edge in the shootout, but his initial attempt on a deke hit Price's pad, nullifying the second-chance opportunity he put in the net. The shootout was necessary thanks to Price, who flashed a quick glove to deny Flames captain Mark Giordano on a 3-on-1 with 1:53 remaining in overtime. TJ Brodie turned over the puck at the Montreal blue line, springing Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty in alone. Gallagher moved the puck ahead to Pacioretty, who lost control before Gallagher poked the loose puck on net, forcing Hiller to make a save with an outstretched pad 1:28 into the third. Calgary failed to capitalize on three power plays in the final 10 minutes of regulation. Canadiens forward Rene Bourque had a prime opportunity to open the scoring against his former team at 13:29 of the first, taking a pass from Tinordi and streaking in alone from center, but Hiller got a piece of it with his outstretched glove for one of six saves in the period. Price stopped nine shots, including a partial breakaway by forward Paul Byron, who gloved down a pass, spun at the blue line and let a shot go that the Montreal goaltender blockered away. Giordano took a pass from Gaudreau off the rush and snapped a shot from the top of the slot that beat Price to the glove side to give Calgary a 1-0 lead at 2:09. The goal came one shift after Gaudreau corralled his own rebound but was stuffed short on a wraparound attempt. Mikael Backlund poked the loose puck over the line, but not before Price had knocked the net off to negate the goal. Gaudreau continued to buzz, feeding a behind-the-back pass by a sprawling Emelin and between Subban's legs before getting to Byron, but Price went post-to-post to make the stop. Moments after a roughing minor to Giordano expired, defenseman Tom Gilbert corralled a clearing attempt by Stajan along the boards and sailed a shot on net that beat Hiller, who was screened, and caught the far post before trickling in for his first goal with the Canadiens to draw Montreal even 1-1 at 12:48.
Carolina @ Vancouver 1-4 - After making 29 saves Ryan Miller became the 30th NHL goalie to reach 300 career wins. Tlusty ended his bid for a 31st career shutout during a scramble with 8:55 left in the third period, but Miller still improved to 6-1-0 in his first season as the Canucks No.1 goaltender. He wasn't overly busy but made his best save four minutes into the third period, sliding left to right to rob Tlusty on a backdoor tap-in off the rush. After relying heavily on its top two lines early this season, Vancouver got two goals Richardson and the third line, one from the fourth line, and a power-play goal from fourth-line center Linden Vey to beat the Hurricanes. Richardson opened the scoring from in tight on a rush 1:32 into the game and rounded out the scoring into an empty net with 16.4 seconds left. Vey doubled the lead on a power play 50 seconds into the second period, and fellow fourth-line forward Jannik Hansen made it 3-0 on a deflection with 1:21 left in the second. Carolina hasn't won in Vancouver since Oct. 15, 1999. Richardson opened the scoring early for the third time in four games when Zack Kassian sent him alone in tight behind the Carolina defense and he lifted a quick shot over Ward's shoulder. Carolina generated a couple chances off the rush but little sustained pressure before Vey, a rookie, took advantage of his role in the high slot on the top power-play unit to score his third goal of the season early in the second period. Vrbata's one-touch centering pass hopped over Daniel Sedin's stick in front and straight to a streaking Vey, who quickly fired past Ward while he was still stuck on his right post. The Hurricanes had a great chance to get back into the game late in the period when a deflected puck bounced to Jeff Skinner inside their blue line for what was shaping up as a breakaway. But it bounced over Skinner's stick to Canucks defenseman Yannick Weber, who fired it on net for Hansen to deflect past a screened Ward. Miller, who made a good left pad save on Staal early in the second period, had his bid for a 31st career shutout snapped after a good shift by Staal, Skinner and Tlusty after first-year coach Bill Peters shook up his top line, dropping Alexander Semin for Skinner. Jay McClement and Brad Richardson received fighting majors.

NHL Results - Mon, Oct 27, 2014

Minnesota Wild @ NY Rangers 4-5 - The Rangers were down by three goals, unable to even sniff the net let alone a quality scoring chance. The Rangers spent 14 of the first 40 minutes killing penalties, including two five-minute majors resulting in ejections and an automatic suspension pending review of defenseman John Moore. The Minnesota Wild had this one at Madison Square Garden until they didn't. They had this one until they stopped being aggressive. They had this one until the Rangers started to play, to skate, to push and gain momentum. New York scored five goals in the third period to erase two multiple-goal deficits in a 5-4 win. The Wild had leads of 3-0 after 40 minutes and 4-2 early in the third period, but couldn't stop the Rangers from doing something they hadn't done in more than 22 years. The most-recent time the Rangers won a game when trailing by at least three goals entering the third period was Feb. 21, 1992, when they beat the Minnesota North Stars. The Wild's power-play drought continued; they went 0-for-4 despite two five-minute advantages for major infractions by Rangers forward Chris Kreider (boarding Jonas Brodin at 19:44 of the first period) and Moore (match penalty for a hit to the head of Erik Haula at 7:12 of the second). Haula didn't return to the game. Kreider and Moore were ejected. Moore's match penalty comes with an automatic suspension pending review by the NHL, according to Rule 21 in the NHL Rulebook. The Wild, though, built a 3-0 lead through two periods on goals from Nate Prosser, Matt Cooke and Jason Pominville despite not having Haula, Brodin and left wing Zach Parise for a stretch of time. Brodin left the game after Kreider hit him but returned at 9:05 of the second period. Parise left the game at 2:14 of the second after taking a stick to the face; he didn't return until 14:54. Klein started the Rangers comeback with a goal off a slap shot from the blue line through a screening Nash at 2:52 of the third. Nash scored 1:56 later, with a backhand from the slot off a rebound of Matt Hunwick's shot from the point to cut Minnesota's lead to 3-2. There was life in the Garden. The Rangers had momentum for 47 seconds. Jason Zucker countered, scoring on a redirection of Nino Niederreiter's shot at 5:35 of the third period. At that point the Wild thought they had weathered the Rangers' momentum swing, that their counterpunch would be good enough to settle down and win the remainder of the period. New York responded with unanswered goals by Brassard, Duclair and Zuccarello. Brassard scored to make it 4-3 at 7:54, or 2:19 after Zucker's goal. Duclair made one count for the first time in his NHL career. He doesn't play on the penalty kill and was therefore limited to eight shifts totaling six minutes of ice time through 40 minutes, but he was one of New York's fastest forwards in the third period and he cashed in with the tying goal at 16:12.

Duclair flashed up the right wing, grabbed a long pass from Hunwick, skated into the right circle and sent a wrist shot dribbling through Kuemper. Zuccarello came back with his first goal of the season 37 seconds later, scoring on a one-timer from just off the right post off a backhanded pass from Brassard, who was behind the net. Zuccarello had room because Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon was stuck near the left post. It's just a shame the Rangers had to spoil it with their dirty tactics.

Montreal Canadiens @ Edmonton Oilers 0-3 - After losing their first five games of the season, the Oilers climbed back to .500 with a 3-0 win against the Montreal Canadiens. All four wins this season have come against Eastern opponents; the streak began with a 3-2 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Oilers also defeated the Washington Capitals 3-2 and the Carolina Hurricanes 6-3. The Oilers had not won four consecutive games since winning five straight from March 26-April 3, 2013. They had not shut out the Canadiens since March 1, 1989. Pouliot opened the scoring with 18.2 seconds left in the first period, taking a pass from Mark Arcobello in front, getting around Tokarski and roofing a backhand shot into the net. The goal was Pouliot's first with the Oilers; the left wing signed a five-year free agent contract with Edmonton this past summer after playing with the New York Rangers last season. Yakupov extended the lead at 6:33 of the second period with his second goal of the season. The Oilers right wing was left alone at the side of the net and spotted by Pouliot for an easy tap-in. The Canadiens had a goal waved off midway through the first period after Max Pacioretty scored following a scramble in front. Montreal right wing Brendan Gallagher was ruled to have interfered with Scrivens after being pushed through the crease by Oilers defenseman Jeff Petry. In the third period, the Canadiens pressed but had difficulty getting shots through. The Oilers blocked 21 shots in the game. Defensemen Mark Fayne had six blocks and center Boyd Gordon had five. Hall scored into an empty net with 2:18 left in the third period with Tokarski pulled for the extra skater. The Oilers left wing took a pass off the boards from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and outraced the Canadiens defense to the empty net.

NHL Results - Sun, Oct 26, 2014

Colorado @ Winnipeg 1-2 OT - Jets center Brian Little scored with 24.2 seconds remaining in overtime to give Winnipeg a 2-1 victory and salvage a five-game homestand at MTS Centre. Little tipped a backhander by Jets captain Andrew Ladd through Colorado goaltender Semyon Varlamov's pads. Along with his overtime assist, Ladd scored his 100th goal with the franchise. Jamie McGinn had the lone goal for the Avalanche. First-period assists moved Alex Tanguay's point streak to five games and Tyson Barrie's point streak to four games. Varlamov started for the second straight game after missing three games because of a groin injury. He made 26 saves and dodged a shot off the post from Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele in the third period and subsequent in-close pressure. Winnipeg's Ondrej Pavelec, who has appeared in every game this season, made 22 saves. The Jets, who began the game allowing 2.9 goals per game, held the Avalanche to one goal on 16 shots through two periods. Winnipeg managed to slow down the Avalanche's fast-skating forwards and prevent them from hitting the offensive zone with speed. Winnipeg took a 1-0 lead 6:25 into the game when Ladd deflected Zach Bogosian's right-point shot past Varlamov for his second goal of the season. The Jets proceeded to limit Colorado to one shot in the first 10 minutes. However, Bogosian clipped Duchene and drew a double minor for high sticking late in the first period. Six seconds into the four-minute advantage, McGinn swatted the rebound of Barrie's long shot under Pavelec with 17.5 seconds left in the first to tie the game 1-1. The Avalanche lost defenseman Erik Johnson to a big hit from Jets defenseman Mark Stuart in the third period. He did not return to the game, and Roy said afterward that he did not yet know Johnson's status. Little's team-leading fifth goal of the season personified a Jets team that finally broke through against Varlamov and a Colorado team that frustrated the Jets with 34 blocked shots. Nathan MacKinnon had 24 goals as a rookie last season, but has gone scoreless in his first nine games this season. Center Ryan O'Reilly scored 28 times last season but has managed one goal in nine games.
Columbus @ Los Angeles 2-5 - The trio of Tanner Pearson, Tyler Toffoli and Jeff Carter combined for 10 points, leading the defending Stanley Cup champions to a 5-2 victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Carter and Toffoli each had a goal and three assists. Pearson scored two goals and leads the Kings, and all NHL rookies, with seven. The three have combined for 33 points and a plus-32 rating in the past seven games. Dwight King, who like Toffoli, Pearson and Carter wears a jersey number in the 70s, had the other goal and Jonathan Quick made 22 saves for the Kings, who begin a road trip Tuesday against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Kings again were without injured forwards Marian Gaborik and Trevor Lewis. Toffoli snapped a 1-1 tie late in the second period and King scored just over two minutes later. Letestu scored in the final minute of the period to cut the margin to 3-2, but Pearson put the game away with two goals in the third period. The Blue Jackets also lost forward Nick Foligno to a scary hit at 8:26 of the third period. Foligno and Carter were racing for the puck as they approached the Kings' blue line, and the crown of Foligno's helmet crashed into linesman Shane Heyer's hip as the official jumped onto the boards in front of the Los Angeles bench in an effort to avoid the play. Foligno was wheeled off the ice and didn't return. However, the Blue Jackets said he was alert, has full movement in his limbs and was talking with doctors.  It was the second awkward injury in as many games for the Blue Jackets. Cam Atkinson was cut by Ryan Kesler's skate blade in Friday's 4-1 loss at Anaheim. Atkinson suffered a three-inch cut that ran from his right eyelid and down his cheek and didn't play Sunday. Kings center Anze Kopitar left the ice late in the second period with what was termed an upper-body injury and did not return. Sutter would say only that "he's all right" when asked about Kopitar's availability for the Kings' next game. Matt Greene got a Misconduct for instigating with Corey Tropp.
Ottawa @ Chicago 1-2 - Scott Darling made his NHL debut Sunday at the rink where he used to attend games as a Blackhawks fan and led his hometown team to a 2-1 win against the Ottawa Senators, snapping a two-game losing skid for Chicago. Darling, 25, is from nearby Lemont, IL. He signed with the Blackhawks as a free agent during the summer following a strong season for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. After working his way through the minor leagues at multiple stops in several different leagues, the 6-foot-6, 232-pound goalie finally got a chance to realize his lifelong dream of playing in the NHL. He didn't squander the opportunity, making big saves from start to finish and allowing just one shorthanded goal in the second period. The Senators carried a lot of the early action and forced the rookie goaltender to make several big stops to keep them from taking a quick lead. He stopped all 12 Ottawa shots in the opening period and helped the Blackhawks kill off the first two of three Senators power plays in the game. He also thwarted a shorthanded mini-break at 9:12 by center David Legwand, who had taken the puck from Marian Hossa in the Chicago defensive zone. The opening period, which featured eight combined penalties, ended scoreless. That lasted all of 21 seconds into the second, when Toews scored his second goal of the season on a wraparound during 4-on-4 play with Patrick Sharp and Mike Hoffman still in the penalty box for matching minors at 18:50 of the first. Assisting on the goal were defenseman Duncan Keith and Kane, who said his milestone point didn't really sink in until he was on the bench. The Senators tied it 1-1 at 7:08 on the shorthanded goal by Michalek, who capped a 3-on-1 rush by burying a cross-ice feed from Alex Chiasson past Darling with a one-timer from the right circle.
A fortunate break set up the play. Blackhawks forward Brandon Saad rimmed the puck around the boards in the offensive zone, but center Brad Richards was prevented from playing it on the other side by referee Steve Kozari, who skated between him and the boards trying to get out of the way. The puck slid out to the neutral zone, where Chiasson collected it and took off toward Darling for the odd-man rush. Seabrook put Chicago back on top at 13:38 with his first goal of the season, capping the fourth of six Blackhawks power plays. He fired a point shot that Anderson never saw thanks to a screen by Bryan Bickell. Darling did some of his most impressive work during 1:27 of carryover power-play time at the start of the third period. He stopped four hard shots during the man advantage and added one more save at even strength during the sequence after defenseman Johnny Oduya got out of the box. Ottawa, which dropped both ends of a back-to-back set, kept up the pressure the rest of the game. Darling just didn't flinch. He stopped 12 more shots and earned his first career win in impressive fashion.
Washington @ Vancouver 2-4 - Radim Vrbata scored into an empty net with 1:01 left, Ryan Miller made 20 saves and second-line left wing Chris Higgins had two assists. Henrik Sedin tied the game 1-1 by banking a power-play goal into the net off goalie Justin Peters from below the goal line with six minutes left in the second period. Higgins made a nice chip pass to set up Bonino on a 2-on-1 and he put Vancouver ahead with a wrist shot past Peters' glove 1:22 later. Higgins and Bonino combined to set up Sbisa's first goal with the Canucks 25 seconds after that. The Capitals kept opponents under 30 shots for seven straight games to start the season, their longest such streak in four years, but Vancouver fired 14 shots in the first period, pressuring the tired Capitals early. They got away with it in the first 10 minutes because of their goalie. Peters got a bit of a break when Vrbata, playing his 800th NHL game, lost the puck while making a strong deke to his backhand after a John Carlson turnover in the slot 30 seconds in. Peters also sprawled to rob Linden Vey, who was in all alone on a 2-on-1 down low after another bad turnover in its own end midway through the period. Instead, Washington came out with more jump to start the second, outshooting the Canucks 8-1 and taking the lead at 5:28 when Johansson one-timed a cross-ice pass from Andre Burakovsky behind Miller. Peters kept the Capitals ahead with a couple of great saves, sliding left to right to rob Kevin Bieksa and Zack Kassian on consecutive shifts, but had little chance when Sedin finally got the Canucks even. Peters robbed Daniel Sedin in tight but the rebound was fired just wide by Vrbata, stranding the goalie as Henrik Sedin collected it at the side of the net and banked it into the net off him before he could recover. Bonino beat him with a shot just inside the top corner and Sbisa's one-timer through traffic found the same spot, over the glove. O'Brien, a 20-year-old playing his eighth game after earning an NHL contract as an undrafted rookie camp invitee, made it 3-2 with a nifty one-touch deflection from the slot over Miller's blocker. But Miller, who stopped Eric Fehr on a breakaway on the first shift of the second period, kept the Canucks ahead with three good shorthanded saves midway through the third period. Miller made blocker and glove saves off Carlson and got a blocker on Ovechkin's power-play one-timer from the right circle with 9:30 left.

San Jose Sharks @ Anaheim Sucks 4-1 - 10/26

Brent Burns, Joe Pavelski, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Tommy Wingels scored and San Jose snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 win against Anaheim at Honda Center on Sunday. The Sharks, coming off a 2-1 home loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday, controlled play for most of the game and ended the Sucks' seven-game winning streak. Goalie Antti Niemi made 33 saves and shut out Anaheim for nearly 55 minutes before Matt Beleskey scored Anaheim's lone goal. San Jose had talked about deeply examining itself after the loss to Buffalo, and they literally fought for a win after Anaheim engaged them in a fight-filled finish. Anaheim, playing their first division game and beginning a stretch of five games against Stanley Cup Playoff teams from last season, were outplayed at the start. Their sixth-ranked power play went scoreless on the first four tries and goalie Frederik Andersen had his six-game winning streak ended. It was the first time in four games that the Sucks allowed more than one goal. Defenseman Vlasic gave San Jose a 3-0 lead at 10:03 of the second period with a backhand chip five-hole on Andersen to finish a rush during 4-on-4 play. It was a rare bad goal allowed by Andersen, and it came moments after frustrations boiled over for the Sucks, who were held to two shots through the first 15 minutes of the second. Captain Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry each took themselves off the ice with fighting majors, which didn't sit well with Boudreau. Perry later took a 10-minute misconduct penalty in a game that had nine fighting majors and eight misconducts. San Jose took a 2-0 lead into first intermission on goals by Burns and Pavelski. Burns wristed a seeing-eye shot from the left point through traffic at 8:25, and Pavelski redirected Joe Thornton's shot from the slot past Andersen for a late power-play goal at 19:39.
The Sharks have outscored the opposition 12-1 in the first period this season. San Jose coach Todd McLellan was glad they didn't let up, a big change from 24 hours earlier. Anaheim didn't put their first shot on goal until 10:08 of the first period, although they did have several quality chances during that span. The night was probably summed up best for the Sucks when Ryan Kesler missed an open net early in the third with San Jose up 3-0. After that, the game descended into post-whistle incidents.

Sharks Quotes

Joe Pavelski: "We wanted to find a way to win. To find it that way is a good thing. You can come together as a team, and when you win those games … it definitely feels good. It wasn't an easy day to play. It was a tough loss the other night, but it was good we got another chance to redeem ourselves and play right away. It was back-to-back. It's a good team over there. Our guys did a good job of sticking together."
Todd McLellan: "[Saturday] we didn't have our foot on the gas pedal. Today we did. I can't put it any more simple than that. We played not to lose [Saturday] in at least the first two periods, and it cost us. I use baseball analogies - we were up to bat and we swung the bat. We didn't wait to get on first by walking or getting hit by a pitch."

Sucks Whining and Opining

Ryan Getz-bald: "Tensions ran high, and we dealt with them … we don't want to see that kind of stuff get out of hand the way it did, but it was good to see our group pull together.''
Bruce Boudreau: "We were getting our butt kicked pretty good and we couldn't do anything and we couldn't match what they were doing. We were frustrated, and when you're frustrated, stuff happens."

In other words, being the bunch of sore losers that the Mighty Sucks of Anaheim are, they decided to resort to goonery, as only Getzlaf and the odious Corey Perry can do. Perry is crying out to have a serious ass-kickin' if his face isn't offensive enough his dirty hits surely are. In the spirit of the movie 'Slap Shot' I am placing a bounty on Perry's head, for the first guy that really nails that son-of-a-bitch. Somebody please hurt him!


Penalties

1st Period
02:16 ANA	Tim Jackman  Fighting (maj) against  John Scott
02:16 SJS	John Scott  Fighting (maj) against  Tim Jackman
12:53 SJS	Adam Burish  Slashing against  Tim Jackman
15:38 SJS	Matt Nieto  Hooking against  Matt Beleskey
18:38 ANA	Tim Jackman  Hooking against  Tommy Wingels
2nd Period
04:35 SJS	Justin Braun  Holding against  Jakob Silfverberg
09:40 SJS	Scott Hannan  Hi-sticking against  Sami Vatanen
09:40 ANA	Sami Vatanen  Embellishment against  Scott Hannan
09:52 SJS	Mirco Mueller  Unsportsmanlike conduct against  Ryan Getzlaf
09:52 ANA	Ryan Getzlaf  Unsportsmanlike conduct against  Mirco Mueller
15:23 SJS	Adam Burish  Delay Gm - Face-off Violation
18:57 SJS	Tommy Wingels  Fighting (maj) against  Corey Perry
18:57 ANA	Corey Perry  Fighting (maj) against  Tommy Wingels
3rd Period
07:38 ANA	Sami Vatanen  Holding against  Tommy Wingels
10:18 SJS	Joe Pavelski  Fighting (maj) against  Ben Lovejoy
10:18 ANA	Ben Lovejoy  Fighting (maj) against  Joe Pavelski
10:18 ANA	Tim Jackman  Roughing against  Marc-Edouard Vlasic
10:18 ANA	Tim Jackman  Roughing against  Marc-Edouard Vlasic
12:58 SJS	Justin Braun  Misconduct (10 min) against  Corey Perry
12:58 ANA	Corey Perry  Misconduct (10 min) against  Justin Braun
12:58 ANA	Corey Perry  Roughing against  Justin Braun
12:58 SJS	Justin Braun  Roughing against  Corey Perry
13:56 SJS	Adam Burish  Roughing against  Nate Thompson
13:56 SJS	Adam Burish  Misconduct (10 min)
13:56 SJS	John Scott  Game misconduct
13:56 SJS	John Scott  Fighting (maj) against  Tim Jackman
13:56 SJS	John Scott  Instigator against  Tim Jackman
13:56 SJS	John Scott  Player leaves bench - bench against  Hampus Lindholm
13:56 ANA	Nate Thompson  Misconduct (10 min)
13:56 ANA	Nate Thompson  Roughing against  Adam Burish
13:56 ANA	Nate Thompson  Roughing against  Adam Burish
13:56 ANA	Tim Jackman  Misconduct (10 min) against  John Scott
16:54 ANA	Matt Beleskey  Misconduct (10 min)
16:54 ANA	William Karlsson  Slashing against  Marc-Edouard Vlasic
16:54 ANA	Ryan Getzlaf  Fighting (maj) against  James Sheppard
16:54 SJS	James Sheppard  Fighting (maj) against  Ryan Getzlaf
16:54 ANA	Ryan Kesler  Misconduct (10 min)

Sharks forward John Scott will have a phone hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety on Monday afternoon for leaving the players' bench on a legal line change to start an altercation during the third period. At 13:56 of the third period, Scott entered the playing surface on a line change and immediately engaged in a fight with Tim Jackman of the Anaheim Sucks. Scott was given an instigator minor, a fighting major, a game misconduct.


The following grounds are being considered for supplemental discipline: Leaving the players' bench on a legal line change to start an altercation. However, the Department of Player Safety retains the right to make adjustments to the infraction upon review.