Winnipeg @ Minnesota 3-4 OT - Scandella scored his first career overtime winner 1:01 into the extra session. Scandella’s goal salvaged a win for the Wild, who blew a 3-0 third-period lead when they allowed three goals in less than five minutes. Minnesota held on just to get to overtime before Scandella won it with a snap shot from the point that got through traffic and over the glove of Winnipeg goaltender Michael Hutchinson. Parise scored his first 4:11 into the game with Minnesota holding a 1-0 lead. He fired a shot from the top of the right circle that was blocked, but the puck came right back to him. Parise didn’t get all of his one-timer, but the puck fluttered to the right of Jets goaltender Ondrej Pavelec, off Blake Wheeler’s skate and in. Parise made it 3-0 near the end of the first, capping a 3-on-2 break by crashing the net and having a rebound bounce off his leg and in for his sixth goal of the season with 1:15 left. Minnesota’s penalty kill was stellar throughout. But a parade to the penalty box during the second period sucked all of the momentum built in the first period away from the Wild, and the Jets took advantage in the third. Michael Frolik scored his third at 5:55 to get the Jets on the board before Evander Kane surprised Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom with a backhander from behind the goal line in the right corner. The puck deflected off a player in front and squeezed between Backstrom’s skate and the post at 8:19. A little more than two minutes later, Andrew Ladd deflected an Adam Pardy shot from the point over Backstrom’s glove to tie the game at 3-3. The goal ended Backstrom’s night after 19 saves. The Jets controlled play for much of the final 9:13 of the third, putting three shots on Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper. They also hit a post and had several scrambles in front snuffed out by the goaltender. Nino Niederreiter scored his team-leading eighth goal at 2:07 of the first period to give the Wild the early lead.
Montreal @ Detroit 4-1 - The Canadiens scored twice in the second period to take a 2-0 lead. Prust opened the scoring at 3:20 when his shot from the right circle went in off of Howard's glove. It was Prust's first goal of the season. It came five seconds after Montreal killed off a hooking penalty to Sergei Gonchar.Prust picked up the puck along the right wing boards, after Red Wings defenseman Dan DeKeyser couldn't touch the puck as he went off on a line change, and a 3-on-1 developed. Prust kept the puck and took the shot. Subban made it 2-0 with his fifth goal, and second in two games, at 8:36 of the second. His one-time slap shot from inside the blue line in the middle of the ice was headed wide but deflected off the upper inside of Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey's left leg and past Howard. Plekanec got his seventh goal, 1:47 into the third period when he put in a loose puck that resulted from the rebound of Brendan Gallagher's shot. It came 13 seconds after Tokarski got his glove on Gustav Nyquist's shot from the bottom of the right circle on a 3-on-1. Sheahan's power-play goal put the Red Wings on the board 4:06 into the third period. He backhanded in a rebound for his second goal. Gallagher got his fifth goal, 8:41 into the third, when be banked the puck in off of Howard from behind the net while Gallagher was on one knee.
Florida @ Anaheim 6-2 - Not even the return of Corey Perry to the line-up, or the watching Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu could fire up the Sucks. The line of Bjugstad, Boyes and Jonathan Huberdeau combined for nine points (five goals, four assists). If the Sucks' minds were elsewhere, it showed with perhaps their worst defensive performance since the season-opening 6-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Boyes scored the first and fourth of the Panthers' second-period goals. Bjugstad and Huberdeau also scored in the second to help the Panthers reach a season-high five goals by second intermission. Boyes scored his second on the power play with Perry off for unsportsmanlike conduct (go-figure eh?). His pass went off Anaheim defenseman Josh Manson and into the net at 17:19 for his fourth goal and a 5-1 Florida lead. Huberdeau tipped in Aaron Ekblad's 60-foot snap shot at 10:07 of the second for a 4-1 advantage. He also set up Boyes' first goal of the game at 1:23 with an outlet pass and then the return pass. Andersen allowed three goals on nine shots, the last by Bjugstad, who fended off Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen and scored short side at 4:11 of the second. Andersen returned for the third period. Anaheim got caught sleeping at the start and Florida converted a 2-on-1 when Vincent Trocheck scored on a shot that popped the top off the water bottle at 4:40 of the first.
Phoenix @ Edmonton 2-1 - Gormley opened the scoring with his first NHL goal at 14:08 of the first period. The Coyotes defenseman intercepted a clearing attempt at the Oilers blue line and fired a shot past Scrivens, who appeared to be screened on the play. Dubnyk made 15 saves in the first period. His most impressive stop was against Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who gave chase to a loose puck inside the Coyotes blue line when Dubnyk decided to leave his crease, sliding to poke the puck away. Boedker gave the Coyotes a 2-0 lead with his seventh goal of the season and fourth against the Oilers. The Coyotes left wing picked up a loose puck in the slot and snapped it past Scrivens at 12:51 of the third period. Hall cut the lead to 2-1 at 14:10 on the power play with his seventh goal of the season. Hall missed the past six games because of an MCL sprain in his right knee. Late in the third period, Oilers defenseman Justin Schultz had an opportunity to tie the game, getting to the puck in front of an open net. But Arizona right wing Martin Erat was able to dive and knock the puck away.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Tampa Bay @ NY Rangers 5-1 - It was an emotional evening for not only Callahan, but two other former Rangers who faced their old teammates; Callahan, Anton Stralman and Brian Boyle, the latter two key components to the Rangers' fluke to the Stanley Cup Final last spring, received a welcome back tribute during the first television timeout. Callahan, who minutes earlier was booed after touching the puck for the first time, received the loudest ovation of the three. Rangers fans were rendered silent once Nikita Kucherov opened the scoring at 6:50 of the first period. Stamkos had a goal and two assists to extend his point-scoring streak to six games (four goals, five assists). Callahan completed the scoring at 17:09 of the third period after Stamkos forced a turnover and fed him in front of the net. Callahan made two moves against a helpless Henrik Lundqvist for his eighth goal and fourth in his past six games. The Lightning improved to 12-0-0 when Callahan scores dating back to last season. The Lightning displayed crisp puck movement on their fourth goal. Off a missed Rangers shot, Palat fed the puck cross-ice to Alex Killorn, who played pitch-and-catch with Johnson to beat Lundqvist with a shot that went off the post and in at 18:32 of the second period. Killorn's goal came shortly after Jonathan Drouin's was waved off after he interfered with Lundqvist. But critical for the Lightning was their ability to survive an earlier 5-on-3 Rangers power play in the second, which coach Jon Cooper referenced as the turning point of the game. St. Louis trimmed the Lightning lead to 2-1 32 seconds into the second period of his first game against his former teammates. Working the power play, St. Louis camped in front of the net and tipped Derick Brassard's pass off the stick of defenseman Jason Garrison. The goal was St. Louis' seventh of the season and sixth in his past eight games. With the Lightning on the power play, some nifty stickhandling from Stamkos set up the Lightning's second goal. Stamkos received a cross-ice pass from Filppula and evaded a diving Carl Hagelin to set up Callahan at the right post for the tap-in at 14:20. The Lightning took the lead on their first shot of the game seconds after goalie Ben Bishop stopped St. Louis on a partial breakaway. Back the other way, Palat found Johnson to start the break. Johnson fed a streaking Kucherov, who split the defenders to drive uncontested on Lundqvist. The Rangers goalie got a piece of the shot but not enough and it trickled over the goal line at 6:50 of the first. But the night belonged to Callahan, who is proving just as indispensable to the Lightning as when he was the Rangers' heart and soul for eight seasons.
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