Rask, who made 22 saves, didn’t make any excuses for the tying goal. Eriksson gave the Bruins a 3-2 lead in the second period when he buried a cross-ice pass from Matt Bartkowski from the right side of the slot at 5:53. Marchand scored his second goal of the game after a fortuitous bounce off Bergeron went right to him at the left side of the slot. Marchand shot the puck into the open net at 10:51 to increase Boston’s lead to two goals. The Predators had to kill a double-minor penalty against Neal early in the third period. They kept the momentum by scoring the next goal. Taylor Beck took advantage of a Boston giveaway and scored at 6:48 to cut the Bruins’ lead to 4-3 before Eriksson’s empty-net goal sealed the victory.
Carolina @ New Jersey 2-1 SO - Hurricanes forward Chris Terry scored in the third round of the shootout to give Carolina its first shootout win in four tries. Khudobin came up big with four seconds remaining in overtime when he turned aside a deflection in the slot by Henrique to send the game into a shootout. The Hurricanes tied the game 1-1 on their 29th shot when Hainsey had a left-point shot by defenseman Andrej Sekera deflect off his leg and past Schneider at 11:59. The goal, Hainsey's first of the season, ended Schneider's shutout. His last one was Nov. 21. Schneider was the difference, making numerous saves, including consecutive stops against the crafty center Elias Lindholm on a wraparound and the ensuing snap shot off a quick rebound at 4:17. He continued to bail out the Devils at 9:18 when he took a shot by winger Nathan Gerbe off his goalie mask. Schneider's best save came at 16:13 of the second period when Brendan Woods had an uncontested snap shot from between the circles that Schneider snapped up with his glove. The Devils took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Gionta scored his first goal in seven games at 13:32. Steve Bernier skated into the Carolina end and fed Gionta, who took a slap shot that deflected off defenseman Michal Jordan in the slot and past Khudobin.
Montreal @ NY Islanders 3-1 - But they found their legs in the second, when Andrei Markov and Brendan Gallagher scored goals 5:17 apart to put Montreal ahead. David Desharnais scored an insurance goal with 1:11 remaining in regulation. Markov, playing his 800th regular-season game, tied the score 1-1 when his screened slap shot beat Islanders goaltender Chad Johnson 6:10 into the second period. Gallagher put the Canadiens ahead to stay at 11:27 when he put the carom of a blocked shot past Johnson. Desharnais sealed the win by tapping home Lars Eller's pass. The Islanders took the lead on their 11th shot, a one-timer by Okposo from the lower left circle off a pass by Tavares to finish a 2-on-1 break at 12:04. It was Okposo's eighth of the season. The Canadiens found their legs in the second period and tied the game at 6:10. P.K. Subban sailed a cross-ice pass to defense partner Markov, whose slap shot from inside the blue line went through traffic and beat Johnson cleanly for his fifth goal. Brandon Prust's screen kept Johnson from seeing the puck until it was past him.
Montreal continued to pick up the tempo and dominate play, then capitalized on a fortuitous bounce to go ahead at 11:27. Sergei Gonchar's slap shot from the high slot was blocked by Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey; however, the puck came right to Gallagher, who had gone to the front of the net, where he slipped it past a surprised Johnson for his 10th of the season and a 2-1 lead. Price kept the Canadiens in front by stopping Lubomir Visnovsky's wide-open shot from near the right faceoff dot with five minutes left in the second period, then got in front of Tavares' deflection bid early in the third. The Islanders had 15 shots in the third period, but most of them were from the outside.
Washington @ NY Rangers 2-4 - Early in the first period, Nash rumbled up the center of the ice, leaving the puck for Brassard at the right point. Nash's center-lane drive drew defenseman John Carlson's attention and ultimately provided New York with a 1-0 lead at 3:32 when Mats Zuccarello's shot grazed Nash's leg and changed direction. With the Rangers on the power play in the opening minute of the second period, defenseman Dan Boyle wound up from inside the blue line before sending a slap pass to St. Louis near the bottom of the right circle. Holtby committed to what he thought would be Boyle's shot, which allowed St. Louis to beat him from a sharp angle at 1:03. It was Boyle's first assist in 16 games. Nash's second goal of the game and 22nd of the season at 5:12, a snap shot on the rush, gave the Rangers breathing room, but Kuznetsov responded 41 seconds later on a nearly identical play. The Capitals' second line then hemmed in the Rangers in New York's zone for a lengthy period of time, drawing a hooking penalty on Matt Hunwick. On the power play, Ovechkin settled and fired a shot from the left circle that clipped the far post on its way into the net. Washington preserved momentum, firing shot after shot toward Lundqvist until Nicklas Backstrom received a double minor for high-sticking and Jason Chimera committed a faceoff violation to give New York a two-minute, two-man advantage. Nash capped the hat trick, his first as a member of the Rangers, at 16:12 when his shot from the slot on the power play hit the right post, bounced off Holtby's glove and into the net.
Philadelphia @ Minnesota 5-2 - Sean Couturier took advantage of a Wild turnover in their own zone, banking a shot in off Wild defenseman Ryan Suter at 7:16 for his ninth goal. Claude Giroux scored his 11th goal 2:17 later off a rebound from the bottom of the left circle. Marco Scandella scored his eighth goal on the Wild's second shot of the game. His slap shot from the point beat Emery 30 seconds after Giroux's goal to pull Minnesota within a goal. The Wild tied it early in the second when Charlie Coyle scored a power-play goal by tipping Jason Pominville's shot from the point past Emery. It was Coyle's first goal since Oct. 23, ending a 26-game drought. But Philadelphia took advantage of another Minnesota turnover in its own end later in the period, and Wayne Simmonds snapped a shot over Darcy Kuemper's blocker for his 15th goal and a 3-2 Flyers lead at 15:22. An apparent goal by Wild forward Zach Parise at 1:28 of the third period was waved off after it was determined by video review that the puck went in through the side of the net, which had been lifted off its moorings. Four minutes later, the Flyers re-established a two-goal lead on Vincent Lecavalier's fifth goal. As he was screening Kuemper, Lecavalier deflected a point shot by Andrew MacDonald past the Wild goalie for his third goal in the past two games. Thomas Vanek put the puck into the Flyers net with 2:52 remaining, but video review supported the referee's call that the Wild forward's stick was above the crossbar. Michael Raffl scored an empty-net goal for Philadelphia in the final minute.
Buffalo @ Detroit 3-6 - Niklas Kronwall left with 13:16 remaining in the second period with an upper-body injury. It isn't known how long he will be out.
Weiss left 7:57 into the third period after being hit in the jaw by Buffalo defenseman Nikita Zadorov. Zetterberg tied it 4:19 into the third period with a one-time slap shot from the high slot. He converted a pass from Pavel Datsyuk as the pair completed a give-and-go play off the left-wing boards. Benoit gave the Sabres a 3-1 lead with a shorthanded goal 9:00 into the second period. It was a 2-on-none after Kindl's shot was blocked in Buffalo's zone. DeKeyser made it 3-2 with 2:06 left in the second. He beat Neuvirth between the pads from the top of the left circle after a turnover by the Sabres in their zone.
Phoenix @ Edmonton 5-1 - Sam Gagner scored on the first shot of the game at 1:44, beating goaltender Ben Scrivens from a sharp angle. Erat gave Phoenix a 2-0 lead at 5:00, tipping a Connor Murphy point shot past Scrivens, who was pulled after the goal. Schultz cut the Coyotes' lead to 2-1 at 6:18, credited with the goal after his centering pass was redirected by B.J. Crombeen into his net past Dubnyk. Yandle scored 7:54 into the second period to restore a two-goal lead. The defenseman shot from the top of the faceoff circle and beat Fasth on the short side. Two goals in 13 seconds of the third period gave Phoenix a 5-1 lead. Gormley banked a point shot past Fasth off the skate of Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom at 4:07. On the faceoff, Phoenix gained control of the puck at the Edmonton blue line, where Gormley floated a shot at the net that was tipped by Gagner past Fasth.
Winnipeg @ Chicago 5-1 - Perreault started the scoring at 9:04 with his seventh goal, which came as the result of an errant exit pass from the defensive zone by Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson. A quick transition sent the puck right back into the Chicago zone, where former Blackhawks forward Michael Frolik tapped a short pass to Perreault in the slot. Using Chicago defenseman Johnny Oduya as a screen, Perreault scored with a wrist shot that beat goalie Corey Crawford over the glove. Little made it 2-0 at 13:18 with a snap shot that deflected past Crawford off Oduya's stick shaft and Peluso pushed the lead to 3-0 at 15:30 with his first goal of the season and first since Dec. 31, 2013. That one, scored off a loose puck around the crease, prompted a goalie change. Crawford was replaced by Antti Raanta after allowing three goals against 13 shots. Raanta made 11 saves to finish it out, but Perreault scored his second of the game on a power play in the second for a four-goal lead. Blake Wheeler scored into an empty net at 15:17 of the third to complete the scoring. Former Blackhawks Andrew Ladd (two assists), Michael Frolik (assist) and Dustin Byfuglien (assist) each helped set up three of the Jets' first four goals.
Marian Hossa made it 4-1 at 12:05 of the second, but the Blackhawks outshot the Jets 32-10 in the final two periods. They just couldn't get another puck past goalie Michael Hutchinson (38 saves), who improved to 8-2-2 and defeated them for the second time this season at United Center.
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