NHL Results - Fri, Oct 31, 2014

Toronto @ Columbus 4-1 - Toronto goalie Jonathan Bernier lost his bid for a second straight shutout with 9:20 left in the third period when Cam Atkinson scored on the power play to make it 3-1. Prior to the game, the Maple Leafs announced that Lupul would be out indefinitely after breaking his right hand in practice Thursday after falling. Columbus has problems of its own, having to reach into the minors to field a lineup. The Blue Jackets have eight regulars out, including starting goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, top scoring defenseman James Wisniewski, and six forwards, three of them centers. Right wing Corey Tropp did not return for the third period because of illness. The Blue Jackets did get back left wing Nick Foligno after missing one game with a stiff neck. Toronto took the lead when Kessel scored his sixth goal of the season with 4:32 remaining in the first period after the initial ruling was that the puck did not completely cross the goal line. His shot slipped under goalie Curtis McElhinney, and Columbus defenseman Fedor Tyutin tried to keep it out of the net with his skate but replays showed he was a fraction too late to prevent the goal. Clarkson made it 2-0 at 12:13 of the second period with a power-play goal 20 seconds after Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson was called for interference. Dion Phaneuf took a shot from the center of the blue line, and Clarkson scored his third goal of the season by deflecting the puck to the ice before it skipped past McElhinney. Kessel fed Kadri for his third goal to complete a 2-on-1 2:38 into the third period. The Blue Jackets scored on Atkinson's fifth, with Ryan Johansen assisting to extend his point streak to 10 games. Johansen and Atkinson with Scott Hartnell is the lone line to stay intact through all the injuries. Winnik proved he can adapt to any line, scoring his first of the season with 3:33 remaining for the 4-1 lead, off a setup by Kessel.
Los Angeles @ Detroit 2-5 - Tyler Toffoli made it 4-2 with a shorthanded goal 1:48 into the third period. He put in the rebound of Mike Richards' shot for his sixth goal of the season. Datsyuk scored an empty-net goal for his fourth of the season. Howard stopped Kings captain Dustin Brown on a penalty shot 2:29 into the third, also with Los Angeles shorthanded. Danny DeKeyser tripped Brown on a breakaway. Detroit led 4-0 after the first 15:28. At 18:08, a pane of glass was broken and the officials sent the teams to their dressing rooms for the first intermission; the remainder of the first period was completed and the second period started right away afterward. Nyquist opened the scoring at 5:51. He put in a one-timer from the slot off a touch pass from Zetterberg for a power-play goal. Datsyuk made it 2-0 at 9:42. After stealing the puck from Dwight King in the Kings zone, Datsyuk's attempted pass from the left circle deflected in off Los Angeles defenseman Jake Muzzin. Nyquist scored his seventh goal at 11:44 when he slammed in the rebound of Kronwall's shot from the point that bounced off the boards behind the net. It gave the Red Wings a goal on three consecutive power-play chances. Tatar increased the lead to 4-0 with 4:32 remaining in the period when he scored on a one-timer from Quick's left off a pass from behind the net by Nyquist. Martinez scored with 9:19 left in the second period to make it 4-1. After Howard appeared to have the puck frozen, it popped out, and Martinez slid in a backhand from Howard's right for his first goal. Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey left the game in the first period with an ankle injury and didn't return.
Nashville @ Calgary 3-4 - The Flames entered the game without Mikael Backlund (abdominal strain), Matt Stajan (lower body) and Joe Colborne (upper body), three of their top four forwards in faceoffs taken this season. Calgary, also without Mason Raymond (shoulder), had called up Michael Ferland from the Adirondack Flames of the AHL for his first career NHL game. But Ferland left in the second period after sustaining an upper-body injury and did not return. It was Markus Granlund, also recalled from Adirondack, who helped set up the first of three goals in a 4:01 span to start Calgary's comeback from a 2-1 third-period deficit. Granlund sent a cross-crease feed to Jiri Hudler, who tapped his third goal behind Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne at 2:36 to tie the game. Gaudreau had the second assist on the play. Calgary went ahead at 4:23. With Nashville's Mattias Ekholm in the penalty box, TJ Brodie's centering feed to David Jones deflected off a defender in front of the net and went behind Rinne to give Calgary a 3-2 lead. It was Brodie's fourth of the season. Gaudreau made it 4-2 at 6:37 when he fired a sharp-angled shot over Rinne's shoulder, prompting a timeout from the Predators. With an assist on the play, defenseman Deryk Engelland had his first point with the Flames. Gaudreau's goal stood as the game-winner because Nashville cut the deficit to one goal at 10:47. With Hudler in the penalty box and the puck deep in the Calgary zone, James Neal circled back up top and snapped his second goal of the game past Hiller's glove. It was his team-high seventh goal. Gaudreau carried the puck through the neutral zone, dropped a shoulder before stepping untouched around Predators defenseman Anton Volchenkov and raced in alone on Rinne. But the Predators goaltender threw a pad out at 13:06 to keep the game scoreless.
Rinne thwarted Gaudreau again when he sprawled to stop the rookie's backhander from in tight after a Mark Giordano centering feed with 44 seconds remaining in the period. Each team hit a goal post early in the second period, but Monahan's perseverance paid off with the game's first goal. With Nashville's Colin Wilson in the penalty box, Monahan's first shot hit the post, but he followed it up by corralling the rebound of Dennis Wideman's shot and beating Rinne at 4:23. Nashville needed 67 seconds to get even. Ryan Ellis' point shot didn't make it all the way to the net, but Craig Smith found the puck and lifted his fourth goal over a sprawled Hiller. Nashville went ahead 2-1 at 11:09 when Mike Ribeiro won an offensive-zone draw cleanly onto the stick of Neal, who fired a shot through Hiller.