Vancouver @ Washington 4-3 - Daniel Sedin scored two power-play goals, including the game-winner midway through the third period. Sedin's second goal was the 114th in his career with the man advantage, tying him with Markus Naslund for the most in Canucks history. Henrik Sedin assisted on both of his twin brother's goals. Derek Dorsett and Radim Vrbata each scored a goal for Vancouver. Washington plodded through a slow start, struggling to control the puck in the first period. It cost the Capitals with 2:02 left when Dorsett scored his third goal. After Canucks forward Jannik Hansen foiled Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen's breakout attempt, Bo Horvat set up Dorsett for a tap-in. Washington tied the game early in the second period, taking advantage of a Vancouver defensive-zone turnover. Nicklas Backstrom carried the puck toward the left half-wall, finding Carlson in a soft area near the high slot. The defenseman's quick wrist shot squirted through Miller's right arm and into the net at 2:45. Later in the period, the Canucks scored two power-play goals within 2:46 to take a 3-1 lead. Daniel Sedin scored off a one-touch centering pass from Henrik Sedin at 10:01 after Vrbata followed his own rebound to initiate the sequence. Vrbata scored his 11th goal at 12:47, pouncing on a bouncing puck in front of the crease with Capitals forward Jay Beagle in the penalty box for hooking. Carlson's second goal of the game, his fourth of the season, at 14:43 cut into the Canucks lead. His long-range slap shot got past a heavily screened Miller. In the third period, Laich slipped by Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa as he cut to the net during 4-on-4 play, then roofed a wrist shot over Miller at 4:39. Daniel Sedin, once again set up by a deft pass from his twin brother while on the power play, gave Vancouver a 4-3 lead exactly five minutes later with his sixth goal.
Nashville @ Carolina 1-2 - The first period was slow-moving until Carolina forward Jeff Skinner scored with 1:01 remaining. From along the boards, Andrej Nestrasil spun and sent a backhand pass to the low slot, where Skinner tipped the puck with an extended stick. Carolina looked sharp in the second period. Although neither team scored, the Hurricanes played a full period ahead, something they have rarely done this season. Clinging to a 1-0 lead entering the third period, the Hurricanes made it a two-goal advantage on a Victor Rask slap shot that handcuffed Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne at 55 seconds. The puck was deflected by Predators defenseman Roman Josi. Skinner started the play with a lead pass through the neutral zone. Nashville's Mike Ribeiro cut the lead to 2-1 with 4:46 remaining when he gloved a pass in the slot and deked to his backhand. The Predators played the final 60 seconds on the power play with Carolina forward Riley Nash off for hooking. With Rinne pulled, giving Nashville a 6-on-4 skating advantage, Hurricanes defenseman Andrej Sekera blocked James Neal's shot with two seconds remaining.
Tampa Bay @ Buffalo 1-2 SO - Cody Hodgson and Tyler Ennis scored on Buffalo's first two attempts of the shootout, and Enroth stopped Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan to give the Sabres the win. Girgensons tied the game with 3:54 left in the third period. He picked up a rebound of a Tyler Myers shot and floated the puck into the net past downed Lightning goalie Evgeni Nabokov. Josh Gorges earned the 100th assist of his career on Girgensons's goal. He was playing for the first time since Nov. 11, missing seven games because of a knee injury. Palat opened the scoring when he put a loose puck past Enroth at 9:52 of the third period. Tyler Johnson set up Palat when he sent the puck around defenseman Tyson Strachan and off Enroth. Palat tapped in the puck for his seventh goal.
Florida @ Detroit 4-3 - Rookie center Vincent Trocheck played youth hockey in Detroit and junior hockey for two Ontario Hockey League teams based in Michigan, and had a goal and two assists as Florida defeated the Red Wings 4-3 to snap Detroit's four-game winning streak. Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and an assist. Tomas Tatar and Gustav Nyquist also scored for Detroit. Jimmy Howard made 27 saves. Nyquist made it a one-goal game with his 11th, with 58 seconds remaining in the third period. Bergenheim gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead with 7:39 left in the second period with his fourth. He put the puck into an empty net from the inside edge of the right circle after taking a pass from Jussi Jokinen. Trochek made it 3-1, 27 seconds into the third period. After a turnover by Detroit defenseman Brendan Smith, Trocheck skated in and beat Howard with a forehand shot for his second goal. Ekblad got his fourth goal eight minutes into the third period. His slap shot from the point deflected in off of Nyquist's stick. Ekblad, an 18-year-old rookie defenseman, is from a suburb of Windsor, Ontario, which is across the Detroit River. After hitting the crossbar 7:18 into the third, Datsyuk got Detroit to within 4-2 with his 10th goal, 9:28 into the third period. Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg hit the goal post with nine seconds left in the second period. Tatar opened the scoring with a power-play goal 6:47 into the game. With Willie Mitchell serving the second of two minor penalties that were called at the same time, Tatar tipped Datsyuk's shot out of the air and past Luongo for his 10th goal. Former Panthers forward Stephen Weiss got the second assist, giving him three goals and three assists in five games since returning from a groin injury.
Phoenix @ Calgary 1-2 - Jooris' second goal of the night broke a 2-2 tie in the second period and put the Flames ahead to stay. Jooris cut to the net, took a return pass from fellow rookie Johnny Gaudreau, deked Mike Smith and lifted a shot that skipped off him and into the net at 7:13 to put Calgary ahead 3-2. Jooris' game-winner came after Gagner had tied the game 2-2 at 2:02 of the second. Seconds after Mark Giordano's high-sticking minor expired, Gagner, parked at the faceoff dot to Ramo's left, found the rebound of Keith Yandle's shot and fired the puck into a virtually empty net for his third goal. They made it 4-2 at 8:46 when Dennis Wideman gained the Coyotes zone before leaving the puck for Sean Monahan. The second-year center corralled the puck out of the feet of defenseman Michael Stone and sent a wrist shot from the hash marks past Smith. Jooris completed his hat trick by hitting the empty net with 45.2 seconds remaining and Smith on the bench in favor of an extra attacker. Ramo entered the game with back-to-back shutouts and without having allowed a goal in 134:34. His streak ended early against the Coyotes, but he did earn his fifth straight victory. After David Jones opened the scoring for the Flames, Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson sent a seeing-eye point shot past a screened Ramo at 8:25 of the first period to tie the game 1-1 and end the shutout streak at 142:59. But with 1:24 remaining in the period, defenseman Kris Russell carried the puck over Phoenix's blue line and backhanded a saucer pass through the slot to a streaking Jooris, who tapped it in to restore Calgary's goal lead heading into the first intermission.
Boston @ Los Angeles 0-2 - Quick made 31 saves and Tanner Pearson scored his team co-leading 10th goal in the first period, enabling the Kings to prevail in an expectedly low-scoring game that could be a Stanley Cup Final preview. Tyler Toffoli scored into an empty net at 19:10 of the third period, his 10th goal of the season. Quick's best's save was a highlight-reel, left-to-right rib-cage block on Torey Krug's shot at an open left side of the net with about 12 minutes left. Pearson, placed on a line with Kopitar and Jeff Carter, one-timed a slick pass from Kopitar into a gaping net at 16:20 of the first period. The possession started after a turnover by Bruins center Chris Kelly. Kopitar grabbed the loose puck off a blocked shot and fed Pearson; the assist ending a five-game point drought. Pearson later hit the post. His goal came after Boston killed a 5-on-3 Kings power play for 1:26 in which they put 10 shots on Svedberg. Boston pepped up midway through the second period but still couldn't score, partly because of Quick, who made a glove save on Kelly and stopped Simon Gagne breaking in from the left side. Kelly also just missed after taking a feed from Matt Fraser late in the period. Kings defenseman Alec Martinez returned to the lineup after he missed seven games with a finger injury. He was paired with Robyn Regehr and played 19:01.
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