NHL Results - Sat, Nov 08, 2014

Calgary @ Florida 6-4 - Mark Giordano, who leads the Flames with 18 points, gave Hartley a scare midway through the third period when he left the ice and went to the dressing room after taking a hard hit along the boards, but he was back in the game after a few minutes. Johnny Gaudreau had two assists and closed the scoring with an empty-net goal with 1:05 left. Goalie Karri Ramo made his first start in six games but was pulled for Jonas Hiller with 6:29 left in the second period after Jimmy Hayes’ goal gave the Panthers a 4-3 lead. Ramo allowed four goals on 22 shots. Bouma scored the game-winner with a one-timer from the slot after taking a backhand feed from Hudler. With his fourth goal, Bouma is within one of his career high, which he set in 78 games last season. Florida led 4-3 going into the third period, but Monahan tied it at 4:53 when he redirected Gaudreau’s feed across the crease. Upshall, whose three points matched his most in his four seasons with Florida, opened the scoring 1:17 into the game. He retrieved the puck behind the net after Ramo stopped Ekblad’s backhand and fired a pass that went in off the goalie’s right skate. Upshall’s second goal made it 3-1 and was part of a wild second period when the teams combined for six goals. Bjugstad and Jones traded goals 33 seconds apart. Vincent Trocheck tipped Kulikov’s wrist shot from the point and Upshall, with his back to Ramo, grabbed the loose puck sliding across the crease and put it into the empty net. Upshall had an assist on Hayes’ goal after first being credited with the goal. After hitting the post on a rebound of Ekblad’s shot, Upshall retrieved the loose puck to the right of the net and fired it toward the net, where Hayes redirected it. Calgary scored twice in 3:12 midway through the second period to tie the game 3-3. Giordano scored a shorthanded goal at 9:44 after Bouma bumped into Montoya after his backhand was stopped on a partial breakaway. Montoya managed to stop Paul Byron’s rebound attempt while lying on his back, but Giordano poked the puck under Montoya for the goal. Hudler tied it at 12:56 when he reached beyond defenseman Brian Campbell to poke at a rebound and the puck floated over the left shoulder of Montoya.

NY Rangers @ Toronto 4-5 - On the winning goal, Toronto defenseman Jake Gardiner picked off a clearing attempt by New York defenseman Matt Hunwick and relayed the puck to Leo Komarov in the slot, where he beat goalie Cam Talbot. The Rangers scored 53 seconds into the game with their first shot on goal. Chris Kreider tipped a Kevin Klein shot past a screened Jonathan Bernier. It was Kreider's fourth goal of the season. With the Rangers two men short, the Maple Leafs tied it at 8:27. Phil Kessel scored his eighth goal of the season on a cross-ice pass from left wing James van Riemsdyk. Peter Holland gave Toronto a 2-1 lead when he took a drop pass from Komarov and deked Talbot, scoring shorthanded at 15:11. It was Holland's second goal of the season. Richard Panik stuffed a rebound past Talbot to make it 3-1 for Toronto at 18:59; 21 seconds later Mats Zuccarello's shot found its way between the legs of Bernier.
The second period was fast-paced and wide open with each team producing quality scoring chances, but it wasn't until 17:44 that Carl Hagelin took advantage of a Maple Leafs turnover and slipped a shot past Bernier to make it 3-3. The Rangers regained the lead at 4:33 of the third period when Martin St. Louis' strong forechecking led to a goal by Rick Nash, his 11th of the season. St. Louis retrieved the puck and passed to Nash, who was in front of the net to shoot past Bernier. Toronto tied the game 2:54 later when Nazem Kadri slipped a pass back to Roman Polak at the right point and his floater found its way through a crowd past Talbot.

Minnesota @ Montreal 1-4 - Brendan Gallagher and linemate Tomas Plekanec ended lengthy point droughts on the Canadiens' first goal at 9:26 of the second.
Gallagher drove down the right side and took a slap shot from just before the faceoff dot over Kuemper's left shoulder into the top right corner. Wild forward Jason Pominville scored his fourth goal of the season at 14:59 of the second period to tie the game 1-1. Eller scored his third goal with 50 seconds left in the second period to give Montreal a 2-1 lead. Sekac, who assisted on Eller's goal, scored his second goal of the season at 4:46 of the third to give Montreal a 3-1 lead. Brandon Prust assisted on each of the goals. Referees Wes McCauley and Kelly Sutherland conferred after Eller's goal before confirming it. Sutherland had signaled a delayed penalty against the Wild after Prust was pushed into Kuemper by Minnesota forward Nino Niederreiter. David Desharnais drove a slap shot off the right post on a 2-on-1 shortly before Max Pacioretty scored the Canadiens' fourth goal at 6:04. Wild defenseman Matt Dumba had one shift and was benched for the third period after he was caught pinching in the Montreal zone on the play that led to Gallagher's goal. Pominville intercepted Montreal defenseman Andrei Markov's pass in the neutral zone to set up Minnesota's goal. After passing to Thomas Vanek, Pominville drove to the net to redirect Vanek's return pass.


Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Lapointe's No. 5 jersey was retired by the Canadiens prior to the game. Lapointe was joined by his family for the pregame ceremony, along with former Canadiens defensemen Serge Savard and Larry Robinson. The Hall of Fame members were known collectively as "The Big Three" during their heyday with Montreal in the 1970s. Lapointe was overcome by emotion when his banner was raised to join Savard and Robinson.
Lapointe, who won the Stanley Cup six times with Montreal, is Minnesota's coordinator of amateur scouting and has worked for the Wild since 1999. The Canadiens wore Lapointe No. 5 jerseys while they sat on the bench during the pregame ceremony and during their warm-up afterward.

Winnipeg @ Ottawa 2-1 SO - Mathieu Perreault scored the only goal of a six-round shootout to give the Jets a 2-1 victory against the Senators. He did it with a stick he didn't know was broken until he picked the puck up at center ice for his attempt against Senators goaltender Craig Anderson. Perreault scored on a wrist shot just over Anderson's right pad. He said the shaft of his stick was cracked blocking a shot late in overtime. The Senators had a good opportunity to end it in regulation time during a tripping penalty to Winnipeg defenseman Mark Stuart with 5:18 to go, but faced with an opening to Pavelec's left, Ottawa forward David Legwand misfired and the puck went wide. They had another in the second minute of overtime, but Pavelec made a pad save on a quick shot from the slot by Senators forward Mike Hoffman. The Senators opened the scoring at 11:48 after some confusion at the Winnipeg blue line. With Zibanejad cutting in onJacob Trouba, defense partnerMark Stuart cut in front of Trouba to check Zibanejad. That opened up a lane for Ottawa forward Chris Neil to jump into the area vacated by Stuart; Neil wound up with the puck and snapped it past Pavelec's glove for his second of the season. Winnipeg got even at 17:49. With Turris off for high sticking, Jets defenseman Toby Enstrom fired a shot that went through a crowd in front of the net, pinged off the post and into the net for his first goal.

Colorado @ Philadelphia 3-4 - It was the Flyers penalty kill that helped preserve the lead when Braydon Coburn took a holding penalty with 2:49 remaining in the third period. Avalanche coach Patrick Roy pulled goalie Reto Berra for a 6-on-4 advantage, but Mason made three saves, including back-to-back stops on quality chances by John Mitchell and Jamie McGinn. After the Avalanche power play ended, they kept pushing but the Flyers did just enough to hold them at bay. Simmonds blocked a Mitchell shot with eight seconds left and then Nicklas Grossmann got into the crease to block another chance by Mitchell with two seconds left. Defenseman Luke Schenn left the game because of an upper-body injury sustained on a hit from behind by Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon in the final minute of the first period. The Flyers had no update on Schenn's condition after the game. The Flyers took advantage by scoring twice with MacKinnon serving a five-minute major for boarding. Giroux got the Flyers going, scoring through a Simmonds screen with 2.9 seconds left in the first period, and then Simmonds made a strong power move from behind the Colorado net to score in front early in the second. Brayden Schenn's goal made it 3-0 at 11:24 of the second, and then Giroux scored again off a shot-fake by Vincent Lecavalier at 16:22 of the second. Talbot's first goal in 28 games started the scoring, and then Tanguay finished a 2-on-1 to make it 4-2. Redmond's goal, set up by Talbot knocking the Flyers' R.J. Umberger off the puck in the Philadelphia end, made it 4-3.

Tampa Bay @ Columbus 7-4 - Lightning forward J.T. Brown opened the scoring at 5:46 of the first period after Blue Jackets goaltender Anton Forsberg gave up a rebound in the slot. Brown chipped the puck over the glove of Forsberg. Twenty-one seconds later, after another rebound by Forsberg, Cedric Paquette found the puck on his stick for his third goal in his past two games. With Dalton Prout in the penalty box for tripping, Tampa Bay went on the power play. Steven Stamkos shot from above the circle, hitting Ryan Callahan before Anton Stralman chipped it in for a 3-0 lead at 12:31. Tampa Bay increased its lead to 4-0 on a Brian Boyle goal, with assists to Brenden Morrow and Brown. After the game, Boyle acknowledged the Lightning may have let up a little too much, allowing the Blue Jackets to make a run. The Blue Jackets scored when Scott Hartnell tipped a James Wisniewski shot past Evgeni Nabokov for a power-play goal 4:11 into the second period. Ryan Callahan scored for Tampa Bay at 5:38 before Hartnell scored his second power-play goal to make it 5-2. It was Hartnell's second straight two-goal game. Tyler Johnson increased the Tampa Bay lead to 6-2 with a power-play goal at 10:05. Johansen got the Blue Jackets within 6-3 at 1:01 of the third period, and Foligno tapped a loose puck past Nabokov at 5:10 to make it 6-4. Johnson scored into an empty net with 51 seconds to go.

Carolina @ Washington 3-4 OT - Nicklas Backstrom scored the overtime winner with 14 seconds left in the extra period when he fired in a rebound of Alex Ovechkin's slapshot following Carolina goalie Anton Khudobin's kick save. Troy Brouwer was credited with a goal when his shot from the slot was blocked and Carolina defenseman Patrick Dwyer, trying to clear the floating puck, inadvertently slapped it past Khudobin at 7:26 of the first period. Beagle's goal eight-and-a-half minutes later from behind the goal line banked in off Khudobin's leg. Fehr's goal, which gave Washington a 3-1 lead with 3:12 left in the second period, deflected in off the skate of Hurricanes defenseman Brett Bellemore. Eric Staal scored to make it a one-goal game at 8:38 of the third period after Jeff Skinner took the puck away from Fehr in the Carolina zone. Elias Lindholm got credit for the tying goal with 6:07 left in regulation when Justin Faulk's point shot deflected off him and beat Peters through his legs. Backstrom made sure the Capitals continue building their confidence when he took advantage of a huge rebound off a blistering shot by Ovechkin, who got his 400th assist on the winning goal. It was Backstrom's fourth goal. Riley Nash scored for the Hurricanes in the first period.


NY Islanders @ Phoenix 1-0 - Halak had a lot of help in front of him. New York blocked 16 shots, with 13 Islanders credited with at least one. It seemed the Islanders were in the Coyotes' shooting lanes all night. Phoenix had a chance to tie the game on the power play after New York defenseman Brian Strait took down Shane Doan with 1:37 left in the third. But with Smith on the bench and the Coyotes working with a 6-on-4 advantage, they were unable to produce a shot on goal and saw their three-game winning streak come to an end. Smith made 31 saves a night after he stopped 37 shots in a 3-2 shootout win against Anaheim. But the Coyotes, who returned to Arizona at 2:30 a.m. local time, appeared to be missing their jump on back-to-back nights, and the Islanders didn't give them any room to get going. The Coyotes had nine of their 19 shots on the power play, but came up empty against Halak on five chances with the man advantage. The Islanders found just enough offense. Nielsen was stopped on a great set-up by Grabovski in the second period, but didn't miss when he got a second chance.


Vancouver @ Los Angeles 1-5 - Los Angeles had five available defensemen because Robyn Regehr has an unspecified injury and Slava Voynov remains suspended. But the Kings held the Canucks to 10 shots through the first 36 minutes in a terrific puck-possession performance that rendered Vancouver inert. Kopitar made it 3-0 with a sniper wrist shot that went past Miller's shoulder at 18:11 of the first period. Vancouver got caught in the neutral zone and defenseman Christopher Tanev was impeded by Kings forward Justin Williams when Gaborik nudged the puck to an unguarded Kopitar on the left side. Muzzin scored on a 50-foot wrist shot through heavy traffic at 14:42 of the first for his first goal this season, after a rush by the Tanner Pearson-Carter-Toffoli line. Gaborik opened the scoring when he stuffed in a rebound at 9:43 of the first. Kopitar chipped the puck out from the half-wall to start the play.
Vancouver, which had allowed more than two goals once in its previous seven games, allowed four in the opening 30 minutes when Toffoli backhanded in his own rebound after a shot by Martinez at 10:00 of the second period. Miller nearly got the paddle of his stick on the shot but couldn't do much in the first two periods, when the Kings enjoyed a lopsided territorial advantage and a 22-13 shot advantage.