Rask was sharp in the third period, twice stopping shots from Tim Gleason that changed direction through traffic. Khudobin stopped a Milan Lucic snap shot in the final minute. The overtime featured some end-to-end action as the teams skated 3-on-3 for the final 1:03, following coincidental minors to Smith and Victor Rask. But Staal was the only player to find the net the rest of the way, connecting in the third round of the shootout. The Hurricanes captain came into the game 4-for-19 in shootout attempts, but said he knew how to approach his opportunity.
Florida @ Washington 3-4 - Ovechkin barreled into the offensive zone in pursuit of a loose puck. Luongo raced to it in an attempt to poke it away and the two collided at high speed with 6:23 remaining, knocking the Panthers goaltender to the ice. Luongo remained down for a few moments, but stayed in the game until the start of the third period. Ovechkin gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead at 1:16 of the second period, converting a backdoor pass from Nicklas Backstrom for his 19th goal of the season and eighth on the power play. The Panthers swiftly responded with two goals in a 1:25 span. A three-player pileup in Washington’s offensive zone involving Mike Green, Jack Hillen and Evgeny Kuznetsov presented Trocheck and Jussi Jokinen with a 2-on-0 rush. Holtby stopped Trocheck’s first shot and Willie Mitchell’s follow-up chance, but Trocheck knocked the puck in at 3:57 to tie the game. Olsen scored at 5:22; his wrist shot changing direction after striking Orpik in front of the goal. By the end of the period, the Capitals had regained the lead on goals from Laich and Alzner.
Laich’s slap shot from outside the left circle slipped through Shane O’Brien’s legs and past Luongo at 12:13. Alzner scored his career-high third goal of the season with Luongo blinded by heavy traffic to help Washington reclaim a 3-2 lead with 54 seconds left in the period. Burakovsky padded the Capitals’ lead at 5:42 with his fifth goal of the season and first since Nov. 28, scoring off a pass from Ovechkin at the doorstep. At 11:04, Washington then faced a 5-on-3 disadvantage for 47 seconds after consecutive penalties on defensemen John Carlson and Orpik, Washington’s shorthanded ice-time leaders, which they ultimately killed. Bjugstad scored from a sharp angle at 18:01, cutting Florida’s deficit to 4-3. The Panthers pulled Montoya, but could not tie the game.
Tampa Bay @ Ottawa 4-2 - Tyler Johnson led the way with two goals, both on setups by Nikita Kucherov which left Johnson with open nets behind Senators goaltender Robin Lehner. The Lightning took a 3-2 lead over the Senators with goals 47 seconds apart by Johnson and Stamkos late in the second period. Stamkos bulled his way to the Ottawa net at 16:55 of the second, leaving Turris in his wake. Nyquist held the puck for 28 seconds before scoring. Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman tied the game 1-1, finishing off a sequence at 3:48 of the second period that saw the Senators running around their own zone. Ottawa’s Mark Stone put the Senators back in front with his ninth of the season at 7:30; four seconds after a Senators power play had expired. Stone took a pass from Turris and snapped a shot from the left wing circle over Bishop’s right shoulder. Tampa Bay tied the game 2-2 with Ottawa defenseman Codi Ceci serving his first penalty of the season. Johnson finished off a setup by Kucherov, whose pass across the slot found Johnson in the left wing circle at 16:08. Johnson made it 4-2 at 7:58 of the third period just after a Tampa Bay power play expired. Kucherov found him in the right-wing circle and he scored his 15th of the season. The goal added to his League-leading points total at even-strength. 36 of Johnson’s 43 points this season have come at even-strength.
Columbus @ Colorado 4-3 - David Savard scored with 1:01 remaining in the third period for a 4-3 win. Savard, whose giveaway in the opening 30 seconds resulted in an Avalanche goal, took a shot from the blue line that hit Colorado's Borna Rendulic and bounced behind goalie Semyon Varlamov to break a 3-3 tie.
Savard and defense partner Jack Johnson were on the ice for all three Avalanche goals. Savard wanted to bounce back after his pass from the left corner went right to Jarome Iginla, who scored against goalie Curtis McElhinney on the first shift of the game. Brandon Dubinsky, who missed the first 26 games to recover from an abdominal injury, tied the game 1-1 at 11:35 of the period with the first of his two goals. Defenseman Cody Goloubef took a shot from the right circle that was going wide and Dubinsky deflected it in for his first of the season. Dubinsky gave the Blue Jackets a 2-1 lead at 1:37 of the second period. Matt Calvert dumped the puck in the left corner and it bounced off a referee's skate to Dubinsky in the slot for a low shot that beat Varlamov to the far side.
Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog scored his first goal in 15 games at 5:25 to tie the game 2-2. He moved by Savard along the left boards and powered his way to the net. He cut inside Johnson and slid the puck by McElhinney's left skate. Colorado's Alex Tanguay had a breakaway shortly after, but McElhinney got a piece of his shot and the puck glanced off the crossbar. The Blue Jackets answered at 7:50 to take a 3-2 lead. Scott Hartnell passed to a wide-open Ryan Johansen in the slot for his 12th goal. Johansen has three goals and four assists in a seven-game point streak. The Avalanche tied the game 3-3 at 15:30 on a wraparound by Cody McLeod, who banked the puck into the net off McElhinney's left shoulder after it hit Savard's stick and his hand.
Nashville @ Anaheim 3-4 SO - Kesler's wrist shot beat Predators goalie Carter Hutton stick-side to give the Sucks their 20th one-goal win this season the most in the NHL, in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference. Jakob Silfverberg also scored in the shootout and Sucks goalie Frederik Andersen stopped two of three attempts, the last on Ryan Ellis to set up Kesler's winner. Anaheim hit the midway point of the schedule with a League-leading 58 points, an accomplishment given its 238 man-games lost to injury. The Sucks outshot the Predators 14-3, in the third period and broke through to tie it when Beauchemin put in the puck in from the left side with 2:17 to go, although it appeared to hit the shaft of Matt Beleskey's stick on its way in. Smith and Seth Jones scored power-play goals in a span of 3:23 of the second period to give the Predators a 3-2 lead. Jones' wrist shot hit Sucks defenseman Ben Lovejoy on its way through traffic at 13:51; Sucks captain Ryan Getzlaf was without a stick. Smith was open to put in his own rebound at 17:14 after Jones held off Kesler near the boards to keep the puck in. Anaheim took a 2-1 lead on Corey Perry's first goal since Nov.29. Perry tipped Rene Bourque's pass at 2:52 of the second to finish a good-looking rush. Beleskey's team-leading 17th goal came on a wrist shot from above the right circle that might have ramped off the stick blade of Predators defenseman Anton Volchenkov and over Hutton's glove at 12:15 of the first.
NY Islanders @ Edmonton 2-5 - Changes to the roster seem to help the Oilers. Matt Hendricks scored two goals and Derek Roy had his first with the Oilers. Newcomers Matt Fraser, Rob Klinkhammer and Anton Lander also contributed to the victory. Fraser scored his second goal in his fourth game with Edmonton. Klinkhammer had an assist in his Oilers debut and Lander had his first assist since being recalled from the American Hockey League. Jordan Eberle also scored for Edmonton. Hendricks scored at 16:59 of the first period to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead after Halak lost possession of the puck behind the net. Halak left to play the puck and was checked by Klinkhammer, who sent it out to Hendricks in front. Klinkhammer was acquired Friday in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins, along with a first-round pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, in exchange for forward David Perron. Eberle increased the Oilers' lead eight seconds into the second period when he took a cross-ice pass from Taylor Hall and sent a wrist shot past Halak to make it 2-0. Glenn Anderson holds the Oilers record for fastest goal from the start of the period, scoring six seconds into the third period in a 9-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings on March 17, 1984.
Boychuk scored for the Islanders at 3:41 on the power play on a shot from the blue line to cut the lead to 2-1. The Oilers had chances to extend their lead before the end of the period, the best falling to Roy and Teddy Purcell, who broke out on a 2-on-0 breakaway. The two, however, were unable to get a shot off; Roy and Purcell passed the puck back-and-forth to each other until Roy ran out of room and had the puck bounce off his stick and rolled wide. Roy scored the first of three third-period goals at 2:33 capitalizing on a mistake from Islanders defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky behind the net. Visnovsky lost control of the puck circling his net and it bounced off the side of the net to Roy, who fired it past Halak. It was Roy's fourth game with Edmonton; he was acquired in a trade with the Nashville Predators in exchange for center Mark Arcobello on Dec. 29. Hendricks scored an empty-net goal at 17:30 to give Edmonton a 4-1 lead. Fraser scored 17 seconds later to make it 5-1 on a wrist shot past Halak.
Nelson scored a power-play goal at 19:29 off a scramble in front of Scrivens.
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