Edmonton @ Nashville 0-1 OT - Filip Forsberg scored in overtime to give the Predators a 1-0 victory. Forsberg's goal was his team-leading 10th of the season. Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne stopped all 37 shots he faced, including a penalty shot in overtime, to earn his second shutout of the season. The goal came at the end of a shift where Forsberg had been on the ice for 1:17. He was able to spin his way around Edmonton forward Taylor Hall and put the shot on net. Hall had been on the ice for 1:23. Defenseman Seth Jones appeared to give the Predators a 1-0 lead late in the second period, but the goal was immediately waved off by the officials. Paul Gaustad was ruled to have made incidental contact with Edmonton goaltender Viktor Fasth, who finished the game with 24 saves.
Fri, Nov 28, 2014 (Black Friday)
NY Rangers @ Philadelphia 3-0 - Rick Nash's shorthanded goal at 5:30 of the third period. The Flyers got a four-minute power play when forward Chris Kreider was called for a high-sticking double-minor on Sean Couturier. But Boyle broke up a Philadelphia cycle in the left corner and the only Flyer not caught deep was defenseman Mark Streit. Ryan McDonagh led a 3-on-1 rush that Nash finished with a shot from the right dot off a Stepan cross-ice pass. Boyle's first-period power-play goal, a long shot from the point that Mason never saw as Nash was screening him, put the Rangers ahead 6:10 into the game. New York made it 2-0 on St. Louis' historic goal. Flyers rookie center Scott Laughton turned over the puck at the Philadelphia blue line, and St. Louis found a gap in front of the net to bang in the rebound of a Stepan shot. Aiding in the Rangers' effort was the return of McDonagh. The defenseman played for the first time since sustaining a separated shoulder Nov. 1. Vigneault said he was going to monitor McDonagh's ice time, but he played 22:12, second on the Rangers, and had an assist, three hits and three blocked shots.
Chicago @ Anaheim 4-1 - Chicago’s crisp-passing, puck-possession game resulted in goals by Patrick Kane, Andrew Shaw and Brad Richards in a 4-1 win against Anaheim in front of a standing-room only crowd of 17,355 at Honda Center. The Blackhawks improved to 4-1-0 on their “Circus Trip,” which ends Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings in a rematch of last season’s Western Conference Final. Andersen made 34 saves and kept Anaheim in the game, notably with a save-of-the-year-worthy stop on Marian Hossa in the second period. The Sucks had their three-game winning streak snapped. Kane one-timed a no-look pass by Versteeg from behind the net to give Chicago a 3-1 lead at 10:36 of the second. Kane, who has four goals and five assists on the trip, later hit the post, and the lead could have been more if not for Andersen’s outstretched arm stop at the goal line on Hossa’s backhand try. Andersen made 13 saves in the third. Anaheim played three defensemen with a combined 16 games of NHL experience after Clayton Stoner (mumps) and Francois Beauchemin (hand) were put on injured reserve. Defenseman Jesse Blacker made his NHL debut. The Sucks acquired veteran defenseman Eric Brewer, who is expected to be available Saturday at the San Jose Sharks. Sucks defensemen Hampus Lindholm (29:25) and Sami Vatanen (27:00) each played career highs in minutes. Chicago exploited Anaheim’s defense at the start with a 10-1 shot advantage and goals by Richards and Shaw for a 2-0 lead. Richards hung out at the red line and got the puck in transition on a 2-on-1 with Versteeg to beat Andersen with a wrist shot at 7:58. Shaw tapped in tic-tac-toe passing from Daniel Carcillo and Duncan Keith at 14:30. Anaheim got more organized after a timeout and Lindholm batted in Matt Beleskey’s shot off the glass at 16:49 to make it 2-1 after the first period. Kane scored his second of the game, an empty-net goal with one minute remaining in the third period. He had eight shots, and the line of Kane, Versteeg and Richards combined for 15 shots.
NY Islanders @ Washington 2-5 - The Capitals were again sluggish in the opening minutes of the rematch. Coach Barry Trotz was forced to call his timeout 5:26 after the opening faceoff following two icing calls, and the Capitals needed 10:01 to register their first shot on goal. Despite that, Washington took a 1-0 lead on their second shot of the game, a power-play deflection by Burakovsky on Matt Niskanen's one-timer at 11:51. Johansson snapped a shot past Islanders goaltender Chad Johnson's blocker at 18:27 for Washington's first even-strength goal in 148:59, but New York erased its two-goal deficit in 66 seconds. At 18:58, the rebound of Nick Leddy's point shot ricocheted to Tavares, stationed near the right post, and he hit the wide-open net for his 10th goal of the season. Thirty-five seconds later, Lee cruised in front of the net unguarded and tipped Travis Hamonic's shot past Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby. The second period featured a more frenzied pace with Ovechkin scoring the lone goal at 9:53, beating Johnson with a wrist shot from inside the right circle after Tom Wilson was able to maintain control of the puck as he entered the zone through heavy New York pressure. The goal proved to be the game-winner, tying Ovechkin with Peter Bondra for the franchise record of 73. The Islanders played without defenseman Johnny Boychuk, who didn't make the trip because of an upper-body injury, lost defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky to the same problem. He did not return after a shift late in the second period. No further update was provided on either player. Kuznetsov ripped a wrist shot past Johnson at 5:56 of the third period, collecting the puck below the goal line, curling into the left circle and beating Johnson. It was Kuznetsov's second goal of the season and first at even strength. Ward scored an empty-netter with 1:28 remaining.
Winnipeg @ Boston 1-2 OT - Defenseman Dougie Hamilton scored 3:39 into overtime and goaltender Tuukka Rask stopped 35 of 36 to help the Bruins defeat the Jets 2-1 at TD Garden. Hamilton scored on a wrist shot from the top of the right circle. Despite defensemen Zdeno Chara and Adam McQuaid being on injured reserve and center David Krejci missing 10 of the Bruins past 12 games. The Bruins killed off a double minor for high sticking against Brad Marchand at the end of regulation and 30 seconds into overtime to preserve the tie and set up the overtime heroics. The Jets had three power plays in the first period, including two drawn by Mark Scheifele. With Bruins forward Loui Eriksson in the penalty box for tripping Scheifele, Dustin Byfuglien cashed in on the man-advantage. Byfuglien’s wrist shot from the blue line beat Rask at 16:24 to give Winnipeg a 1-0 lead. In the second period, the Bruins outshot the Jets 11-7, but Winnipeg had the best scoring chances and failed to convert on three breakaways. Rask stopped Evander Kane twice and Bruins defenseman Matt Bartkowski hustled back to prevent a clean shot by Byfuglien on the third breakaway. Winnipeg took its 1-0 lead to the second intermission. The Bruins tied the score on a give-and-go by Soderberg and Lucic. After Lucic dished the puck to Soderberg at the Winnipeg blue line, he took it wide and set up Lucic for a tip-in at 3:05. Winnipeg forward Bryan Little was injured 23 seconds into the third period. Little blocked a shot by Soderberg and had to be helped off the ice. Little, who has eight goals and 15 points in 25 games this season, did not return. Coach Paul Maurice didn’t have an update on Little, but hoped the upcoming four-day break would allow Little to avoid missing any time.
Montreal @ Buffalo 1-2 - Matt Moulson scored a power-play goal into an empty net with 1:18 left in the third period to give the Sabres a 2-1 victory against the Canadiens at First Niagara Center. Tyler Ennis' dump-in took a bad bounce off a stanchion in the Montreal zone and went right to Moulson, who didn’t miss with Canadiens goalie Carey Price unable to get back in the crease. Buffalo was on the power play because Canadiens defenseman Alexi Emelin was called for illegal contact to the head against Sabres captain Brian Gionta. With 1:54 to play in the third, Emelin appeared to hit Gionta, a former Canadiens captain, in the head with his shoulder. Gionta was knocked to the ice by the hit, but was not injured on the play. Ennis gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at 3:27 of the first period with a highlight-reel goal. He received a pass in the neutral zone from Zemgus Girgensons and took the puck up the right wing. He deked around Emelin, and the puck bounced off Price's pad. Ennis gathered the puck and blindly fired a backhand shot as he fell to the ice and beat Price. Canadiens forward PA Parenteau made it 1-1 with a power-play goal 1:35 into the third period. It was his sixth goal. After a tripping call on Ennis, Parenteau poked a loose puck in the crease past Enroth during a goal-mouth scrum. Enroth scrambled to cover the puck after stopping David Desharnais' shot, but he was unable to control it before Parenteau scored. Sabres forward Drew Stafford did not return to the game following the first period because of a lower-body injury. He played 2:13 in the first period, but did not join the Sabres on the bench at the start of the second. Nolan said Buffalo will more than likely recall a forward from the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. Brandon Prust and Chis Stewart were assessed fighting majors at 19:45 of the first. At 17:41 of the second Prust was given 2 minutes for Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a 10 minute Misconduct and then a game misconduct.
Detroit @ New Jersey 5-4 SO - Gustav Nyquist scored in the third round of the shootout to help the Red Wings complete a come-from-behind 5-4 victory against New Jersey at Prudential Center. The Red Wings scored three unanswered goals in the second and third periods to pull into a 4-4 tie before winning their first shootout in four tries this season. The Devils are 1-3 in the shootout. Red Wings rookie goalie Petr Mrazek, who was making his second start this season, stopped Jacob Josefson, Mike Cammalleri and Michael Ryder in the tiebreaker. The 22-year-old battled back to get his second win of the season after allowing four goals on 16 shots in the first two periods. Mrazek made 21 saves in regulation and overtime. Devils goalie Cory Schneider, making his 22nd start this season, stopped 28 shots. Riley Sheahan, Xavier Ouellet, Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller scored for the Red Wings. Cammalleri scored two power-play goals, and Jaromir Jagr and Peter Harrold had one each for the Devils. In the shootout, Schneider denied Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Tatar before Nyquist unleashed a bullet into the top-right corner for the only goal in the shootout. The Red Wings allowed one shot during the disadvantage to keep within 4-2, basically killing any momentum the Devils might have had to that point. The Devils were playing short two forwards for much of the third after Adam Henrique and Travis Zajac sustained injuries. Henrique never returned to the bench for the start of the third because of an upper-body injury, and Zajac went to the locker room with a lower-body injury after taking four shifts in the third. The Red Wings pulled into a 4-4 tie 10:07 into the third when Miller scored his first of the season off a quick release from the slot. Niklas Kronwall made the play happen when he drove to the net and attempted a shot that deflected right onto Miller's stick at the left hash. The Devils opened a 3-1 lead in the first on goals by Jagr, Cammalleri and Harrold. Jagr's goal to give the Devils a 1-0 lead, off a rebound of a shot taken by Andy Greene at 2:18, moved him into sole possession of sixth place on the NHL's all-time goals list. Jagr's assist on Harrold's goal at 15:18 moved him within one point of Marcel Dionne (1,771 points) for fifth all-time. Sheahan tipped Kronwall's point shot underneath Schneider's right pad at 3:50 of the first to make it 1-1. The Devils took a 4-1 lead 28 seconds into the second when Cammalleri scored his 10th goal from low in the right circle with New Jersey working the power play. The Red Wings cut the deficit to 4-2 when Ouellet, a rookie defenseman, scored his first career NHL goal off a pass from Darren Helm at 1:55. Abdelkader scored a power-play goal off a one-timer from the slot 12:52 into the second to pull the Red Wings within 4-3. Abdelkader's seventh goal came with seven seconds remaining on a slashing penalty to Stephen Gionta.
Miller then tied it midway through the third period.
Vancouver @ Columbus 5-0 - Ryan Miller stopped 31 shots for his second consecutive shutout and has not allowed a goal in 152:05. It was the third shutout of his first season with the Canucks and the 32nd of his career. Chris Higgins scored in the second period and Henrik Sedin, Shawn Matthias, Brad Richardson (into an empty net) and Alexandre Burrows put the game away for the Canucks, who improved to 9-3-0 on the road in the first of seven straight games away from Rogers Arena. Higgins put the Canucks ahead 1-0 with 4:35 left in the second period on a shot that Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky should have stopped. He was dueling Miller save-for-save until Higgins fired from a bad angle near the left corner. Bobrovsky (25 saves) left enough space between his pads and the post for the puck to sail into the net for Higgins' fifth goal. Higgins thought the Blue Jackets had trouble recovering from his goal and it carried over into the third when Henrik Sedin scored 48 seconds in to give the Canucks a 2-0 lead. Sedin's goal was assisted by linemates Radim Vrbata and Daniel Sedin. Vrbata skated behind the net and dropped the puck behind him to an open Henrik to the left of the goal. Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was focused on Vrbata, was unable to get across the crease in time and Sedin scored his sixth goal of the season. Vancouver then took advantage of the pressing Blue Jackets. Matthias scored with 8:11 remaining off an outlet pass that he took in stride at the blue line before beating Bobrovsky for his third goal of the season to make it 3-0. Richardson scored with 5:22 to play and Bobrovsky on the bench in favor of an extra attacker, and Burrows beat Bobrovsky with 2:34 remaining.
Ottawa @ Florida 2-3 - Jimmy Hayes' tiebreaking goal 7:31 into the third period gave the Panthers a 3-2 victory against the Senators at BB&T Arena.
The Panthers trailed 2-1 after two periods but tied the game 34 seconds into the third on a goal by Sean Bergenheim. Hayes put Florida in front for the first time when he drove to the net and slammed home a backhand feed from the lower left circle by Vincent Trocheck. Backup goaltender Al Montoya, playing in place of injured starter Roberto Luongo, stopped 22 shots for the Panthers. The Senators had the better of play in the first few minutes and took the lead 5:04 into the game. Neil was left unchecked in front of the net to pick up the deflection of Erik Condra's pass and whipped it past Montoya for his fourth goal.
That seemed to wake up the Panthers, who needed all of 47 seconds to get even. Anderson stopped Trocheck's wrister from well inside the left circle, but Trocheck chased down the loose puck behind the net and flung a pass up the middle. Olsen grabbed the pass and zipped a shot through traffic that hit Ottawa defenseman Chris Phillips, and then deflected off Anderson and into the net for his first of the season. Anderson kept the game tied early in the second period by stopping Trocheck on a breakaway and denying Tomas Fleischmann's wrister in a span of eight seconds. Ceci then put the Senators back in front at 2:41 with his first goal of the season, taking advantage of another fortunate carom. Neil forced rookie defenseman Aaron Ekblad into a turnover in the Florida zone, and his shot caromed off Ekblad's partner, Brian Campbell, right to Ceci, who had slipped into the right circle and fired a wrister from the dot that beat Montoya.
Anderson preserved the lead just over three minutes later when he got his glove up to stop Jonathan Huberdeau's wrister on another breakaway. Anderson stopped yet another breakaway 8:30 into the second when he denied Brad Boyes, then got his pad out to stop Bergenheim's backhander on the rebound.
The Panthers outshot the Senators 28-20 through two periods and had a 47-28 edge in shot attempts. Florida tied the game 34 seconds into the third period when Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson turned over the puck along the left half-wall. Boyes set up Bergenheim for a one-timer from the faceoff dot that caught the inside edge of the short-side post and went into the net for his third. At 10:08 of the second, the two biggest goons in the league dropped the gloves and were assessed fighting majors. Chris Neil and Shawn Thornton are amongst the vilest, dirty dogs ever to have laced up skates in the NHL.
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