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NY Rangers @ Montreal 1-3 - Tomas Plekanec scored a shorthanded goal on a two-man breakaway in the first period with Pacioretty, who had a goal and an assist in a 3-1 win against the New York Rangers. Carey Price made 34 saves to help Montreal get off to its best start in 53 years. Lars Eller scored his first goal of the season for the Canadiens, who swept their four-game homestand to improve to 7-1-0. That matched the team record for most wins through the first eight games of the season achieved twice before, including 1961-62, when they won seven and tied one. Price made a dazzling glove save on a shot by Derick Brassard in his first game against the Rangers since Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final last spring. The Montreal goalie was sidelined for the rest of the series, which New York won in six games, after Price sustained a knee injury when Rangers forward Chris Kreider slid into him. Eller put the Canadiens up 2-1 at 11:46 of the second when he put a loose puck under Lundqvist on a scramble in front of the net. Max Pacioretty made it a two-goal margin with his third goal at 6:35 of the third. The Rangers were caught up the ice on the power play when Plekanec scored his fifth goal to give the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 12:06 of the first period. With Montreal center Manny Malhotra in the penalty box, Plekanec chipped a puck off the boards past Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh in the Canadiens zone to send himself and Pacioretty in alone on Lundqvist. Plekanec passed the puck back and forth with Pacioretty, sending the Rangers goalie from side to side before shooting into the right side for his fifth goal. The Canadiens had trailed in each of their first seven games. A brilliant stop by Price in the second helped them end that streak. Hagelin scored his second goal in three games to draw the Rangers even at 17:07 of the first. Price got his glove on Dan Girardi's shot from the right point, but the puck popped out and Hagelin batted it out of the air and into the net from the right side of the crease. Brassard came out of the penalty box in the second and created a scoring opportunity. The Rangers center fired a wrist shot targeted for the top right corner, but Price flashed his glove to keep the score tied 1-1.
New Jersey @ Ottawa 3-2 OT - Damon Severson, a 20-year-old from Brandon, Manitoba, scored a goal and had an assist to help the Devils defeat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 in overtime on an emotional night at Canadian Tire Centre.
Jaromir Jagr ended the game at 3:39 of overtime when he snapped a shot from the slot by Senators goaltender Robin Lehner. The goal was Jagr's 19th overtime winner, adding to his NHL record. A ceremony to honor two Canadian soldiers killed earlier in the week preceded the game. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was gunned down while he stood on ceremonial guard Wednesday at Canada's National War Memorial in Ottawa. The gunman then stormed Parliament Hill, a short distance away, where he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with security forces. Warrant Officer Patrick Vincent was killed in what authorities have called a targeted hit-and-run in St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, on Monday. The pregame ceremony also honored the first responders in the incidents. The Senators and Devils stood alternately around the center-ice circle before the game. Anthem singer Lyndon Slewidge started "O Canada" before raising the microphone to the crowd, which delivered a loud and moving sing-along of the Canadian national anthem. Severson continued his strong start to the season when he scored New Jersey's first goal of the game at 11:29 of the second period. He set up defenseman Marek Zidlicky's power-play goal 5:16 later on a cross-ice pass to give the Devils a 2-1 lead after two periods. The Devils were on the power play when Zidlicky scored after Senators defenseman Chris Phillips was given an extra minor for coming to captain Erik Karlsson's aid. Karlsson was slammed into the boards by Devils forward Tuomo Ruutu. Phillips rushed in and grappled with Ruutu before both players fell to the ice. Each player was given a minor penalty for roughing, and Phillips another for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The Devils tied the game 1-1 at 11:29 of the second on some smooth work by Severson who stepped up to intercept a Karlsson pass, then burst into the Ottawa zone on the right wing. When he hit the edge of the circle to the left of Lehner, he fired a shot that beat the Senators goalie over the right shoulder. The Senators tied the game 2-2 on the power play at 13:51 of the third period when Bobby Ryan fired home a shot from the slot off a pass from Karlsson. It was the Senators' third power-play goal this season on home ice; they had 16 last season. Senators left wing Milan Michalek dove to knock the puck away from a Devils defender and it wound up on Karlsson's stick. It was Michalek's second assist of the game. The Senators scored the first goal on the power play at 10:09 of the first period when forward Alex Chiasson skated out of the left-wing corner and beat Devils goalie Cory Schneider with a strong shot between the left post and the goalie. It was Chiasson's second goal. Michalek, who fed Chiasson in the corner, picked up his first point of the season on the assist. Michalek had one of the Senators' best chances in the first period when he broke in on the left wing and was fed a pass by Ottawa defenseman Codi Ceci.
Schneider, who made 33 saves, moved to his right to stop Michalek's attempt and stayed strong at the post to turn back another attempt by the Ottawa forward.
Detroit @ Philadelphia 2-4 - Brayden Schenn's power-play goal with 8:38 left in final period snapped a 2-2 tie and propelled the Flyers to a 4-2 win against the Red Wings. The teams traded goals early in the period before the Flyers took advantage of a penalty on the Red Wings' Niklas Kronwall to get the game-winner. Voracek had the puck above the right circle in the Detroit zone and found Schenn in the high slot. Schenn shoveled the puck at the net and through a Wayne Simmonds screen for his second of the season. Raffl closed the scoring with an empty-net goal with 30.1 seconds remaining, capping a third period that saw the Flyers put nine shots on goal, one more than they had in the first two periods combined. Teammates credited Grossmann's goal, which came with 1:39 left in the second period, as the spark that turned them around. It came at the end of a strong shift by Raffl and Chris VandeVelde that saw them hold the puck deep on the right side of the Detroit zone. All five skaters were watching VandeVelde, which allowed Grossmann to sneak through the backdoor and one-time VandeVelde's sharp pass out of the corner past Gustavsson. Emery had little chance on the two goals he did allow. In the first period Andrej Nestrasil bulled through two Flyers to get to a puck in the Philadelphia end and threw it back to an open Sheahan in front for his first of the season. In the third, 42 seconds after Raffl's goal had given the Flyers a 2-1 lead, Darren Helm caused a turnover at the Philadelphia blue line and split two defenders with a pass to a wide-open Datsyuk for his first of the season.
Tampa Bay @ Minnesota 2-7 - Minnesota got four even-strength goals in the first 17:15 and sent goaltender Evgeni Nabokov to the bench after Jason Zucker scored to make it 4-1. The Wild scored twice in the second period and once in the third. Tampa Bay got goals by defenseman Anton Stralman and forward Nikita Kucherov. But with the exception of a three-minute stretch at the end of second period, Tampa Bay looked like a team playing the finale of a five-game road trip and the second half of back-to-back games. Parise and Jason Pominville set up defenseman Marco Scandella for the opening goal at 7:37 of the first period. Less than a minute later, the second line got into the act when Mikko Koivu scored from a bad angle after a pass from Thomas Vanek. Stralman pulled the Lightning within 2-1 at 11:04, but Erik Haula scored his first of the season 1:37 later and Zucker's spin-o-rama from the left half-wall got through traffic and under the crossbar, sending Nabokov to the bench after surrendering four goals on eight shots. Parise and Jared Spurgeon scored in the second period for Minnesota, and Zucker added a shorthanded goal in the third period, giving him the team lead with four goals. Vanek had two assists for his first multiple-point game with the Wild. He has four points in six games, all assists. His saucer pass on Spurgeon's goal in the second was a thing of beauty; all Spurgeon had to do was leave his stick on the ice, capping a 2-on-1 break. Scandella assisted on Zucker's second goal, giving him a Gordie Howe Hat Trick; he fought Tampa Bay forward Brian Boyle in the first period. Darcy Kuemper's shutout streak at home was snapped at 131:04 when Stralman scored midway through the first period. It was the first goal allowed by the Wild at home this season. 12:08 in the first saw Marco Scandella and Brian Boyle assessed fighting majors.
Florida @ Phoenix 1-2 OT - Justin Hodgman, 26, made the most of his NHL debut, scoring a power-play goal with 10:09 left in regulation to draw the Coyotes even with the Panthers. The Coyotes won 2-1 when Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored his second overtime goal of the season 2:20 into extra time. After going undrafted and bouncing around the world in search of a job, he played the last three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League, Hodgman came back to North America and won a job with the Coyotes with five points in five preseason games. The Brampton, Ontario, native was sent down to the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League after being a healthy scratch the first two games, but he was recalled Friday because of injuries to Martin Hanzal and David Moss. The Panthers gave the Coyotes eight power plays in the game, and Phoenix capitalized on two of the final three to solve Florida goalie Roberto Luongo and pull out the win. The last one came when Florida forward Aleksander Barkov caught Shane Doan in the face with his stick 1:25 into overtime, giving Phoenix a 4-on-3 advantage. Keith Yandle and Sam Gagner set up Ekman-Larsson, who beat Luongo with a perfectly placed shot to the far top corner for the win. After two scoreless periods, Florida center Brandon Pirri scored 1:47 into the third period for a 1-0 lead before Hodgman connected on the sixth of Phoenix's eight power-play chances. Florida got on the board following a turnover by Yandle behind the Coyotes' net. Jussi Jokinen took the puck away and chipped it to Tomas Fleischmann, who found Pirri streaking down the slot. Pirri went from forehand to backhand and beat Smith for his second goal. But back-to-back tripping penalties against Sean Bergenheim gave Phoenix more time on the power play. It was after the second one that Hodgman made his NHL debut a memorable one. Lauri Korpikoski deflected a Yandle shot from the point. Luongo made the save, but the rebound went back to Korpikoski, who pushed the puck to an unmarked Hodgman to fire into a nearly open net at 9:51. The goal snapped a scoreless drought of 127:09 for the Coyotes, who were shut out by the Minnesota Wild on Thursday and hadn't scored since Martin Erat's goal at 7:42 of the third period of a 4-3 shootout loss against the Nashville Predators on Oct. 21. The Coyotes appeared to take a 1-0 lead 2:10 into the first period when B.J. Crombeen batted a Brandon McMillan rebound into the net. But video review found Crombeen's stick was over the crossbar, and the goal was waved off. Luongo made one of his best saves of the night minutes later, robbing Ekman-Larsson in the slot with the handle of his stick on a power-play chance.
Washington @ Calgary 3-1 - Joel Ward put Washington on the board at 11:17 of the opening period with his first goal of the game. After Joe Colborne was whistled for tripping, Ward capitalized on a miscue by Deryk Engelland. With the puck at the Calgary blue line, Engelland whiffed on a cross-ice clearing pass. Ward scooped up the puck, broke in alone and whipped a shot past Flames goalie Karri Ramo (27 saves). Calgary responded with a power-play goal of its own. With Troy Brouwer serving a roughing minor, Dennis Wideman faked a slap shot from the point before moving into the middle and releasing a shot that caught an unsuspecting Holtby off guard with 9.9 seconds remaining in the period. But Ward scored his second goal of the game and fourth of the season at 5:41 of the second period, when he tapped a Michael Latta centering pass behind Ramo to put the Capitals up 2-1. The goal came after Jay Beagle couldn't convert on two chances to put Washington ahead. His consecutive backhand attempts were thwarted by the right pad of Ramo. Beagle was playing his second game of the season after returning from an upper-body injury sustained in the preseason. Nicklas Backstrom extended Washington's lead 41 seconds into the third period when he stepped over the Calgary blue line and snapped a shot that fooled Ramo. With 8:04 remaining, Paul Byron broke in alone on Holtby with a shorthanded attempt but Holtby bested him with a pad save on the deke. With a shorthanded breakaway of his own at 6:23, Backstrom was denied on a similar forehand-to-backhand deke by Ramo to keep Calgary within two. Ovechkin hit the post with the Capitals on the power play with 4:43 remaining in regulation.
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