Tampa Bay @ Philadelphia 3-1 - Andrei Vasilevskiy, making his NHL debut after being called up from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Tuesday morning, made 23 saves to help the Lightning to a 3-1 win. He stopped four combined Flyers shots on two power plays late in the second period after Johnson's goal gave the Lightning a 2-1 lead at 6:34 of the second. In the third Vasilevskiy stopped Flyers center Scott Laughton twice on chances on the right post. With 6:25 left in the third, he stopped a Claude Giroux shot from the right circle, then pushed across to get his right pad on Michael Raffl's rebound chance. The Flyers, who won the first two games of their four-game homestand, took the lead on Simmonds' power-play goal with 40.4 seconds left in the first period. But the lead didn't last long. At 1:50 of the second period, Stamkos' shot from the right circle beat Mason to the short side, past his blocker. Johnson's goal, his 10th, stood as the game-winner. Seconds after a Tampa Bay power play ended, Nikita Kucherov fired a shot from the left side into traffic in front of the Philadelphia net. Johnson, in the slot, batted it through the scrum and past Mason.
Anaheim @ Toronto 2-6 - Maple Leafs center Tyler Bozak scored 15:12 into the first period. Left wing James van Riemsdyk drove to the net from the corner and tried to jam the puck past goalie Frederik Andersen, who made the save. Bozak scored his 12th of the season on the rebound from the slot. Toronto made it 2-0 at 1:31 of the second period when Lupul accepted a pass from defenseman Korbinian Holzer at the faceoff circle and snapped a high shot past Andersen on the short side. It was Lupul's seventh goal of the season. The Sucks pulled within 2-1 with a shorthanded goal at 13:13. Center Ryan Kesler got the puck inside the Toronto blue line and took off with defenseman Sami Vatanen on a 2-on-1. Kesler hit Vatanen with a pass, and he broke in alone, snapping a shot past Toronto goalie Jonathan Bernier for his ninth of the season. Left wing David Booth restored Toronto's two-goal lead at 4:37 of the third period when he connected on a wraparound, his first goal with the Maple Leafs, and then 51 seconds later Nazem Kadri deked Sucks defenseman Mark Fistric with a perfectly executed toe drag and whipped a high shot past Andersen to make it 4-1. The Sucks pulled Andersen, replacing him with Ilya Bryzgalov, who was making his first appearance for Anaheim this season in his second stint with the Sucks. Kesler got the Sucks back within 4-2 with his 11th of the season at 8:35 of the third. He drove to the net with Kadri in pursuit, took a pass from Kyle Palmieri, and redirected the puck past Bernier. Toronto right wing Phil Kessel made it 5-2 with a snap shot past Bryzgalov for a power-play goal at 15:23. Kessel scored again, his 17th of the season, on a breakaway at 18:17. Lupul made two good defensive plays in the third period. On the first, he dived to knock the puck off a Sucks stick on a scoring chance, and on the other he blocked a hard shot.
Carolina @ Montreal 1-4 - Alex Galchenyuk, playing his natural position for a third straight game on a line with Max Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher, gave the Canadiens a 2-0 lead in the second period. He made it 3-1 with his second of the game at 16:41 of the third period for his first multigoal game in 145 NHL games, and completed the hat trick with his ninth goal at 17:50 to put Montreal ahead 4-1. Brandon Prust scored in the first period for the Canadiens, who are 3-0-0 on their five-game homestand. Price lost his shutout at 6:47 of the third when forward Victor Rask drew Carolina within 2-1. After Price nudged the puck across the goal line with his glove, he made a sprawling save on Carolina defenseman Ron Hainsey's shot from the slot at 14:56. Cam Ward was out of position when Prust scored to make it 1-0 at 9:15 of the first period. Right wing PA Parenteau's cross-ice pass to center David Desharnais set up the goal.
Desharnais, who was replaced by Galchenyuk on Montreal's top line, skated around the left side of the net when Ward challenged him and passed to Prust, who shot past Hainsey for the goal. Galchenyuk made it a two-goal lead at 8:33 of the second when he finished off a play that Gallagher started with a breakout pass to Andrei Markov. Pacioretty took a pass from Markov and passed back to Galchenyuk, who trailed Markov into the zone for a shot into a wide-open net.
Galchenyuk scored his second goal of the game after he was sent in on a breakaway by Pacioretty, who also set up his linemate's third goal 1:09 later for his third assist. Rask scored his fifth goal in the third period. Price stopped Skinner's shot from the right side but the puck dropped to his left pad, which Rask jammed at to knock it free before the Montreal goalie pushed it over the line when he reached for it with his glove.
Columbus @ Detroit 1-0 SO - Ryan Johansen and Boone Jenner scored in the shootout to give Columbus its seventh straight win in a 1-0 victory. Howard denied Blue Jackets defenseman Kevin Connauton from the inside edge of the left circle with 1:16 remaining in overtime. Columbus defenseman James Wisniewski missed an open net from the bottom of the right circle roughly one minute into the extra period. Bobrovsky made a nice save on Datsyuk from the bottom of the right circle with 2:44 remaining in the third. Howard denied Foligno cutting in off the left wing and across the crease with about seven minutes left. Howard made a pad save on Corey Tropp's tip attempt from the lip of the crease 8:01 into the third period. He also denied Matt Calvert on a breakaway less than two minutes into the third. Howard made a glove save on a shot that was headed for the top corner from center Brandon Dubinsky, who was in the slot, 23 seconds into the second period. Bobrovsky stopped right wing Justin Abdelkader from in front with a blocker save 3:35 into the second.
Foligno hit the goal post 8:20 into the second period. Bobrovsky made a nice pad save on Gustav Nyquist's backhand off a rebound from outside of the crease to Bobrovsky's left with 6:06 remaining in the second.
Washington @ Florida 1-2 SO - Nick Bjugstad scored in the 20th round of the shootout to lift the Panthers to a 2-1 win at BB&T Center in the longest shootout in NHL history. The previous longest shootout was 15 rounds Nov. 26, 2005, when the New York Rangers defeated Washington. Bjugstad scored in the bottom of the 20th round, in his second attempt of the shootout, after Roberto Luongo had stopped Alex Ovechkin in the first half of the round. Florida won the shootout 6-5. Each of the Panthers' first five goals kept them alive in the game. In addition to being the longest, it also was the highest-scoring shootout in NHL history. With the length of the shootout, every skater in the game had an attempt, and two players on each team went twice. It took 17:43 to complete the tiebreaker. Jussi Jokinen, Dave Bolland, Derek MacKenzie, Sean Bergenheim and defenseman Dylan Olsen all scored in the shootout for the Panthers after the Capitals had scored in the fourth, seventh, 10th, 11th and 17th rounds on goals by Ovechkin, Brooks Laich, Joel Ward, John Carlson and Brooks Orpik.
Olsen's goal came on his first career shootout attempt when the Panthers had to go with either him or fellow defenseman Willie Mitchell. Bjugstad ended the game when he froze Capitals goalie Braden Holtby with a quick fake, moved the puck to his forehand and fired high into an open net. The goal touched off a celebration usually reserved for the playoffs. On his first shootout attempt, in the second round, Bjugstad hit the post with a wrist shot. Holtby helped keep the game tied 1-1 in the third period, when the Capitals were outshot 11-3, but it was the shootout goals he remembered most after the game. Each team had good scoring chances in the third period before Laich appeared to give Washington a 2-1 lead with 3:08 left. But after an on-ice ruling of a goal, the goal was disallowed after video review when it was ruled he had directed it in with a distinct kicking motion. When MacKenzie opened the scoring at 9:36 of the first period off a Washington turnover, it marked the first time in six games the Capitals faced a deficit in regulation. Defenseman Mike Green's backhand behind the net went off the skate of Upshall and right to the slot, where MacKenzie one-timed it past Holtby. Brouwer tied it at 14:35 of the second period when the top-ranked power play in the NHL delivered. After taking a feed from Ovechkin in the slot, Brouwer had his shot blocked by Mitchell, but he put the loose puck past Luongo. Upshall had a breakaway later in the second period, but was turned away by Holtby when he tried a deke to the forehand. In the end, though, this game was all about the shootout.
Boston @ Nashville 2-3 SO - Boston took a 1-0 lead at 4:04 of the second period when Milan Lucic shot off a rebound past Rinne for his sixth goal of the season. Lucic got multiple shots toward the net before he was able to place a shot just below the crossbar. The Predators tied the game 1-1 with 29.2 seconds remaining on a power-play goal by Mike Fisher. He redirected a shot from the point by defenseman Shea Weber past Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask. Mike Ribeiro gave the Predators a 2-1 lead at 1:31 of the third period. James Neal tipped the puck to Ribeiro from behind the net, and Ribeiro put a point-blank slap shot past Rask. Boston forward Reilly Smith tied the game 2-2 at 3:28 of the third period on an odd-man rush. Smith made a backhand-to-forehand move and slid the puck past Rinne's pad. It was the 1,171st win as an NHL general manager for Nashville's David Poile, passing Harry Sinden for second all-time to Glen Sather (1,279).
Buffalo @ Winnipeg 1-5 - Trailing the Sabres midway through the second period, the Jets took over the game with three goals in 4:46 and won 5-1 at MTS Centre to end a two-game losing streak. The Jets began the day with the news that defenseman Jacob Trouba will be out until February with an upper-body injury. Trouba joined defensemen Zach Bogosian and Toby Enstrom, who each is out with a lower-body injury. The line of Scheifele centering Mathieu Perreault on the left side and Frolik on right wing combined for six points (three goals, three assists). The Sabres scored on their third man-advantage opportunity of the first period after Jets forward Blake Wheeler went off for slashing at 17:34. Zadorov snuck a wrist shot through a crowd in front of Pavelec for his second goal of the season at 19:17. Frolik made it 2-1 with a shorthanded goal 2:04 after Scheifele scored his first of the night, finishing a 2-on-1 on a pass from Jim Slater 10 seconds into Buffalo's fourth power play. Frolik, who had 15 goals in 81 games last season, has moved to a second-line role with the Jets this season and has seven goals in 32 games. Scheifele made it 3-1 at 14:17 when he converted another 2-on-1 for his second goal of the game, sixth of the season. Perreault's assist on the goal extended his point streak to five games (one goal, four assists). Kane's first goal since Nov. 25 made it 4-1. He converted a pass from Wheeler on the power play for his fifth goal 1:11 into the third period. Thorburn's second of the season with 7:21 left finished the scoring. The giveaways and missed assignments irked Nolan, who limited ice time for two of his players. Center Cody Hodgson played 4:55, and defenseman Andrej Meszaros was limited to 9:04.
Minnesota @ Chicago 3-5 - It looked like a typical defense-dominated game between the Blackhawks and Wild for one period. The final 40 minutes of the Blackhawks' 5-3 win looked nothing like the low-scoring battles that have dominated games between the Central Division foes in recent seasons. Chicago scored three times in the second period, Minnesota tied it 3-3 with two goals in the third, and Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane scored the game-winning goal on a power play with 3:28 left in the game. Kane's goal let the Blackhawks off the hook for blowing the 3-1 lead they had to start the third. The Wild drew within one when Nino Niederreiter scored on a penalty shot, then tied it on a goal by defenseman Marco Scandella, who played his first game after serving a two-game suspension for an illegal hit. Chicago got two power plays following Scandella's goal. Minnesota killed off the first, but Kane scored on the second to put the Blackhawks back on top. His pass from below the goal line hit Minnesota defenseman Jonas Brodin in front of the net and bounced past goalie Niklas Backstrom. The game-winner came with center Erik Haula in the penalty box for hooking Kane. Brent Seabrook, Marian Hossa and captain Jonathan Toews scored Chicago's other goals. Antti Raanta made 26 saves for his third straight win. Thomas Vanek scored the other goal for Minnesota, and Backstrom made 34 saves. Kane, Toews and Seabrook each had two assists. Chicago, which is 11-0-0 when leading after two periods, played without top defenseman Duncan Keith. He missed the morning skate and sat out with an undisclosed illness.
The Blackhawks struggled moving the puck in the first without Keith, but a coaching move before the second seemed to pay dividends for coach Joel Quenneville. He split up the shut-down pairing of Johnny Oduya and Niklas Hjalmarsson, and the Blackhawks responded with a dominant period. They outshot the Wild 21-8 and surged to a 3-1 lead on the goals by Seabrook, Hossa and Toews. Vanek's fourth goal, scored 12:49 into the game, sent the Wild into the first intermission with a 1-0 lead. Mikael Granlund won the puck on the forecheck and fed Vanek a nice pass through traffic from behind the net. Vanek buried it with a one-time slap shot into the upper left corner of the net.
Vanek's goal came on the third shot of the game for Minnesota.
NY Rangers @ Calgary 5-2 - It took New York 7:12 to record its first shot on Flames goaltender Karri Ramo. Nash put his first of two past him at 11:22.
Calgary's dump-in rang around the glass in the Rangers' end and cleared the zone, springing Nash on a partial breakaway. The Rangers forward deked Ramo before wrapping the puck around his outstretched pad to put New York up 1-0. A miscue put New York up by two in the final seconds of the first period. Russell corralled a rebound off the initial shot from Mats Zuccarello and tried to tap it back to Ramo to cover up, but Chris Kreider poked the botched exchange by the Flames goaltender with 7.8 seconds remaining in the first. The goal, Kreider's fifth of the season, was his first in 13 games. Ramo denied Kreider with two pad saves on a partial breakaway one minute into the second period, but Nash beat the Flames goaltender again with a shorthanded goal at 3:06, when he took a return pass from Stepan on an odd-man rush and scored his 20th goal this season. Stepan's wraparound goal at 11:15 gave the Rangers a 4-0 lead and chased Ramo after 13 shots. Calgary responded at 11:56 after Jiri Hudler deflected Mark Giordano's point shot between Lundqvist's legs to trim New York's lead. Lundqvist denied Joe Colborne's one-timer midway through the third before Josh Jooris' centering pass hit Dominic Moore and crawled across the goal line. On the next shift, Lundqvist blocked a chance from Curtis Glencross on the edge of the crease. With goaltender Jonas Hiller on the bench in favor of the extra attacker, Carl Hagelin found the empty net with 3:01 remaining to give New York a 5-1 lead. Glencross replied with a power-play goal, one-timing a pass from Sean Monahan behind Lundqvist at 18:45.
Edmonton @ Phoenix 1-2 OT - Ekman-Larsson scored his third overtime goal of the season, a slap shot with :00.3 remaining to give the Coyotes a 2-1 victory that snapped a franchise-record nine-game home losing streak. The Coyotes have beaten Edmonton nine straight times and have a point in 17 straight against the Oilers, the longest active streak in the NHL. With general manager Craig MacTavish and new coachTodd Nelson taking over behind the bench for Dallas Eakins, who was fired Monday, the Oilers lost for the 16th time in their past 17 games, including five in a row. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead in the first period. But Brandon McMillan tied it in the second period, when the Coyotes set a franchise record with 27 shots on goal. Phoenix played most of the game with five defensemen. The Coyotes lost Michael Stone to an upper-body injury after he was checked into the boards by Edmonton's Steven Pinizzotto in the first period. Stone was able to skate off the ice on his own power but headed immediately to the dressing room and did not return. Nugent-Hopkins carried a Brad Hunt pass into the zone, used Zbynek Michalek as a screen and put a wrist shot between his legs from the left faceoff dot, beating Dubnyk to the short side at 14:56. The Coyotes answered with a strong second period. They outshot Edmonton 27-6, eclipsing the franchise record of 25 by the former Winnipeg Jets against the Calgary Flames on March 5, 1982. But the Coyotes managed one goal and needed help from the fourth line to even the game. Joe Vitale spun off the left side boards and found McMillan alone with a cross-ice pass behind the right circle. McMillan put a wrist shot just under the crossbar at 10:24 for his first goal in 44 games, dating back to March 10, 2014, against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Scrivens stopped the rest, making seven saves in the crease alone and frustrating a Coyotes team that kept firing away at the net. Each team had a power play and scoring opportunities in the third period but came up empty. Dubnyk made huge saves on Teddy Purcell and Nugent-Hopkins early and another on Taylor Hall with 4:30 left to push the game to overtime.
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