Chicago @ Boston 3-2 - Toews left the game in the second period with an upper-body injury and did not return. He was hit from behind into the end boards by Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg midway through the period. Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara returned to the lineup after a 19-game absence because of a tear in his knee. Goaltender Tuukka Rask made 18 saves for Boston, which has lost six of its past eight games. Blackhawks defenseman Klas Dahlbeck scored his first NHL goal at 9:10 of the first period to give Chicago a 1-0 lead. Smith passed the puck from behind the net to the left dot, where Dahlbeck hit a one-timer past Rask inside the far post. Chicago made it 2-0 when Smith scored off a rebound at 18:43. Daniel Carcillo’s shot went off Boston forward Seth Griffith and at Rask. Bruins defenseman Torey Krug tried to clear the rebound, but Smith intercepted the puck. Each of the goals was scored by Chicago’s fourth line. Chicago extended its lead to 3-0 at 13:19 on a goal by Patrick Kane, who fanned on his shot twice before taking a wrist shot with Rask down. Boston solved Darling at 18:37. Brad Marchand’s pass from behind the goal hit off the net and deflected to Reilly Smith in the slot for a shot that beat Darling high. Krug trimmed the Chicago lead to 3-2 at 12:17 of the third period. Lucic made an end-to-end rush and fed Krug cutting to the slot for a one-timer.
Calgary @ Buffalo 3-4 - Matt Moulson’s second goal at 7:29 of the third period proved to be the game-winner. A pass from Ennis deflected off Moulson’s skate and past Flames goalie Karri Ramo (15 saves) for his sixth goal of the season. The goal was reviewed and upheld after it was determined Moulson didn't intentionally kick the puck in the net. Girgensons tied the game at 3-3 at 7:59 of the third period. He took a cross-crease pass from Ennis and his wrist shot got past Ramo for his ninth goal. Moulson’s first goal of the game opened the scoring at 5:34 of the second period when he took a pass in front of the net from Ennis. Flames defenseman TJ Brodie was checked by Ennis, who stole the puck and passed to Moulson alone in front of the net for the goal. The Flames took a 3-2 lead 3:14 into the third period when forward Sean Monahan scored his 11th goal. Monahan took a pass from forward Joe Colborne after he skated around the net. Monahan beat Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges to the front of the net and scored on Enroth, who couldn’t get across the crease.
New Jersey @ Philadelphia 1-4 - Read got to the net and was in the right spot when Couturier's pass from the bottom of the left faceoff circle eluded two Devils defenders and goalie Cory Schneider to land on Read's stick on the right post. It made for an easy tap-in and a 2-0 Flyers lead at 13:37 of the first.
Read started the play by helping Couturier win a board battle deep in the New Jersey end. That followed his smart play on the Flyers' first goal, when he blocked a shot and started a 2-on-1 shorthanded rush that Couturier capped with his sixth goal. Although Read and Couturier are counted on for their defensive and checking skills, they have the fewest offensive-zone starts of any Flyers forwards to play more than 10 games this season, coach Craig Berube said they have to chip in offensively as well. Martin Havlat scored with 6:58 left in the second period to make it 2-1. The goal was Havlat's first in nine games, his third of the season. The Devils had other chances to get back into the game, with their best coming on a 3-on-1 break in the second that Mark Streit helped short-circuit by sprawling to tip the puck away from Jordin Tootoo to Andy Greene, and Emery stopped Greene's shot from in close on the right side.
The Flyers put the game away with two goals in the third. Simmonds' power-play goal at 4:16 provided the insurance they needed. He tipped Mark Streit's high shot, but Schneider stopped that and made another save on Simmonds on the rebound. But Simmonds stayed with the play and finally got it past Schneider for his 12th goal. Voracek closed the scoring with an empty-net goal with 2:30 remaining.
Columbus @ Washington 3-2 OT - A Brandon Dubinsky holding penalty and a Blue Jackets bench minor for too many men on the ice gave the Capitals a two-man advantage for 1:06 a little more than two minutes into the game. Dubinsky attempted to race back into the play after his penalty expired, but before he could get there, Capitals defenseman John Carlson took a wrist shot that Fehr deflected past Bobrovsky at 3:19. The Capitals received another power play shortly after Fehr's goal at 4:27, but Bobrovsky turned away six more shots.
The Blue Jackets did not register their second shot on goal until 4:33 remained in the period, but scored on their third 9 seconds later, Foligno's 12th goal of the season from the high slot. A four-minute power play for the Capitals, earned after James Wisniewski was whistled for slashing and roughing Tom Wilson at 12:13, tested the Blue Jackets again, but Bobrovsky made seven saves. Brouwer gave Washington a 2-1 lead at 9:20 of the third period, tipping in Niskanen's point shot. Connauton tied the game 1:39 later with a one-timer from the right point. In overtime, Capitals forward Jason Chimera took an interference penalty at 3:03, setting up Foligno's game-winning goal from the right circle.
Los Angeles @ Ottawa 5-3 - Jake Muzzin had assists on two goals in 1:42 by Anze Kopitar and Trevor Lewis early in the third period to break open a tie game and give the Kings a 4-2 lead. The Senators drew to within 4-3 on a goal by defenseman Jared Cowen with 1:21 left in the third period, giving Cowen a Gordie Howe Hat Trick, but Kings forward Tanner Pearson scored into the empty net 24 seconds later to seal the Los Angeles win. Ottawa's Mark Stone scored a shorthanded goal on a rebound at 1:44 of the third period to tie the game 2-2, kicking the puck up to his stick and tucking it around Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick. But during the same Los Angeles power play, Kopitar put the Kings back on top when he took a pass deep in the slot from defenseman Drew Doughty and swept around Senators goaltender Craig Anderson at 2:20. It was Kopitar's sixth goal, his first in 11 games. Lewis made it 4-2 at 4:02 when Senators defenseman Chris Phillips fell down inside the Ottawa blue line, allowing room down the right wing for Kings forward Tyler Toffoli, who had taken a pass from Muzzin. Toffoli found Lewis open at the far post, and Lewis had lots of time to lift the puck over Anderson and into the top of the net for his fourth goal.
Matt Greene and Justin Williams scored the first two goals for the Kings, and Bobby Ryan opened the scoring for the Senators. Ryan, playing with a broken finger, scored what will be a candidate for goal of the year to cut the Los Angeles lead to 2-1 at 14:08 of the second period. Ryan stickhandled his way around Kings defenseman Brayden McNabb to put himself in clean on Quick. He put the puck around Quick with a forehand-backhand deke, tucking it into the open side of the net to Quick's right for his sixth goal. The Kings made it 2-0 at 9:17 of the second when a pass by Muzzin bounced over the stick of Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson at the Ottawa blue line, giving Williams some room on the right wing. Senators defenseman Cody Ceci came across the ice to help Karlsson, and Williams' intended pass for Marian Gaborik, breaking for the far post, deflected off Ceci's stick and between Anderson's pads. Chiasson looked like he might have given the Senators the lead in the first period when he tried to tuck the puck by Quick. The play was reviewed, and video review supported the referee's call that the puck did not cross the goal line. Ottawa goon Chris Neil left the game in the first period with a knee injury and did not return. As you might suspect, he was not missed.
Carolina @ Tampa Bay 1-2 - Nikita Kucherov’s 11th goal of the season came during an odd-man rush in the offensive zone. He took a pass from Alex Killorn in the left face-off circle and was attempting a pass to Tyler Johnson that deflected off Carolina defenseman Ron Hainsey’s skate past goalie Cam Ward. The Hurricanes tied the game at 12:03 of the third period when defenseman Justin Faulk used a screen from center Elias Lindholm to send a slap shot past Lightning goalie Evgeni Nabokov. Kucherov scored at 6:35 of the third period on a power play after Carolina center Riley Nash was penalized for tripping. Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman sent the puck into the boards and Ward went to play it, but the puck took a strange bounce and landed in the crease, where Kucherov sent it into the net. In the second period, Lightning center Steven Stamkos hit the post on a power play, and in the same sequence Ward stopped a wrist shot by Ryan Callahan on a 2-on-1 and recovered to get a glove save on the follow-up by Valtteri Filppula.
Winnipeg @ Colorado 3-4 SO - Calvin Pickard made 30 saves through overtime, including an Andrew Ladd breakaway and Bryan Little rebound in the extra period. He then prevented Mathieu Perreault and Blake Wheeler from scoring in the shootout. The Avalanche rallied from a 3-1 third-period deficit on goals by Jarome Iginla and Ryan O'Reilly, who tied the game with 2:42 remaining. Nathan MacKinnon, who has gone 11 games without a goal, beat Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec to the glove side in the first round of the tiebreaker, and Matt Duchene, who scored a second-period goal, followed with a backhand shot by Pavelec's glove. The Jets took a two-goal lead with 15:28 left in the third period on Mark Scheifele's fourth goal. O'Reilly tied the game after Gabriel Landeskog took a shot from the right circle that hit Pavelec's right pad. O'Reilly was driving to the net and he banged in the rebound. The Avalanche drew within 3-2 at 12:55. Alex Tanguay passed to Iginla in the right circle for a shot that appeared to handcuff Pavelec. The Avalanche outshot the Jets 5-4 in a wide-open overtime. Pickard made a save against Ladd, who scored a second-period power-play goal, skating in alone before he smothered Little's rebound attempt with 2:40 to go. Pavelec made a big save against Duchene with 1:46 left in overtime and finished with 23 for the game. Scheifele gave the Jets a 3-1 lead with his first goal in 10 games. After an Avalanche turnover, Perreault left a drop pass for Scheifele, who beat Pickard to the short side. The Jets used second-period power-play goals from Ladd and Paul Postma to take a 2-1 lead. Ladd, who has three goals and three assists in three games against the Avalanche this season, swept a loose puck into the net at 1:21 to open the scoring. Pickard deflected Scheifele's shot high in the air with his glove. When the puck landed, Ladd knocked it into the net before Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson could get to it. The Avalanche tied it at 3:55 on Duchene's team-leading 10th goal. Tanguay carried the puck up ice and passed to Jan Hejda on the left side. Duchene skated to the net and redirected Hejda's pass into a half-open net. The Jets went ahead at 14:40 when Scheifele passed to Postma, who cruised untouched down the middle and scored into an open net on a power play.
Nashville @ Phoenix 5-1 - Mike Fisher, James Neal and Ryan Ellis scored goals in an 11:33 span of the first period against the reeling Coyotes. Antoine Vermette gave the Coyotes an early lead extending a franchise record for futility at home. The Coyotes have been outscored 17-3 in their past four home games, all regulation losses. Phoenix got off to a good start, drawing a holding penalty by Nashville defenseman Shea Weber 3:40 after the opening faceoff and capitalizing on the power play. Vermette took a pass from Mikkel Boedker between the circles and beat Rinne over the glove with a high wrist shot at 4:11. Oliver Ekman-Larsson's holding penalty 47 seconds after Vermette's goal gave Nashville a power play. Defenseman Michael Stone had his stick broken by a Weber slap shot and was defenseless in front when Weber slid a pass by him and onto the stick of Fisher for an easy redirection at 6:57. Fisher set up the go-ahead goal at 11:06. Smith stopped his shot from the right circle, but the rebound popped into the air, deflected off the hard-charging Neal and fluttered into the net. Neal has 11 goals and has scored in back-to-back games after going nine games without a goal. It was Neal's turn to play set-up man at 18:30. He drove hard down the left side before sliding a pass across the crease. Ellis outmuscled Keith Yandle in the blue paint for an easy tap-in to give Nashville a two-goal lead and control of the game. Rinne made big saves on Yandle in the second period and Vermette on a power play early in the third to keep the two-goal lead intact. The Predators then put the game away when Jarnkrok dove into the crease to push home Gabriel Bourque's rebound at 2:43 and Jokinen got his second of the season at 7:20 when a puck deflected off his skates and went between Smith's pads.
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