Boston @ Chicago 6-2 - Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask slammed his goal stick against the left post when Jonathan Toews scored a power-play goal with 1.4 seconds remaining in the first. Rask’s anger stemmed from his own delay-of-game penalty for playing the puck outside the trapezoid behind the net, which preceded the goal. His stick clipped the elbow of Chicago forward Kris Versteeg on its way to the post, which prompted another penalty for slashing. Bryan Bickell scored the lone goal of the third period at 14:18 to complete the scoring. The Bruins had already dominated the game in the first 40 minutes and didn’t let off in the third. Campbell scored with a wrist shot from the slot. Backup Antti Raanta allowed two goals in the final 2:33 of the period and finished the game, facing 16 shots. Bergeron reached the 200 goal milestone when Marchand beat Bickell in the neutral zone to create a 3-on-2 situation. Smith spun and flipped a reverse pass to Bergeron, who tapped the puck between Crawford’s pads for a 1-0 lead 3:00 into the game. Kane assisted on Toews’ goal for his 64th point to tie Nicklas Backstrom of the Washington Capitals for the League lead.
Nashville @ Buffalo 2-1 SO - Mike Santorelli and Filip Forsberg scored in the shootout, and Carter Hutton stopped three out of four shooters to give the Predators a 2-1 win. Forsberg ended the shootout in the fourth round when he deked and beat Sabres goalie Michal Neuvirth with a backhand shot. Mike Ribeiro helped send the game to overtime when he scored a power-play goal with 4:17 left in the third period. The Predators had 79 shot attempts compared to 30 for the Sabres, but they scored one goal through 65 minutes because of Neuvirth. Ribeiro scored his 12th goal when he put a rebound off Cody Franson's shot from the left faceoff circle past Neuvirth. Ribeiro was open at the far side of the net when Franson's shot deflected off the stick of Andre Benoit. Ennis gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead with 13.9 seconds left in the second period. He took a backhand pass from Zemgus Girgensons, who was covered by Mattias Ekholm, and deked around Hutton to score his 15th goal.
Vancouver @ NY Islanders 4-0 - Zach Kassian scored his third goal in two games at 28 seconds on a man-advantage with a slap shot from inside the blue line to the right of Islanders goalie Jaroslav Halak. The shot hit the left post, then Halak's back before trickling past the line. Radim Vrbata scored his 22nd on a power play at 9:53. He took a shot from just inside the left point on a pretty passing play from Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin, who each picked up assists on the play. Bo Horvat scored to increase the Canucks' lead to 3-0 at 13:55. Dan Hamhuis dumped the puck in around the boards behind the Islanders net, which was played by Hansen, who passed to Ronalds Kenins. Kenins fed Horvat and his wrist shot eluded Halak from inside the right point.
The Islanders pulled Halak with almost four minutes remaining to try and generate some offense while on a power play, but Yannick Weber added an empty-net goal at 19:49. Frans Nielsen took a hit from Derek Dorsett in the second period and headed to the dressing room. Nielsen was able to return for the start of the third. Luca Sbisa was hit in the mouth with the puck while sitting on the bench and went to the dressing room midway through the third period, but returned to the bench toward the end of the game.
Tampa Bay @ Colorado 4-5 - Nathan MacKinnon ended a month-long goal drought with his first NHL hat trick to lead the Avalanche to a 5-4 win.
MacKinnon, who scored on all three of his shots, had gone 13 games without a goal. The Lightning nearly sent the game to overtime. Brett Connolly scored with 8:17 left in the third period to make it 5-3, Nikita Kucherov drew them within a goal when he scored with 1:02 remaining after goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy went to the bench for a sixth skater, and they kept pressing until the final buzzer against goalie Semyon Varlamov, who had 28 saves. Alex Tanguay scored what proved to be the winning goal at 7:20 of the third period. Rookie Dennis Everberg skated down the right wing and passed in front to Tanguay, who banged the puck past Vasilevskiy for a 5-2 lead. MacKinnon, who has 12 goals, completed his hat trick at 12:50 of the second period on a breakaway off a pass from Ryan O'Reilly. MacKinnon skated down the middle and shot the puck by Vasilevskiy's glove for a 4-2 Avalanche lead. MacKinnon was standing at the edge of the crease when he deflected in O'Reilly's shot at 3:10 of the second period for his second goal to put the Avalanche in front 2-1. Duchene scored 29 seconds later after he intercepted Nikita Nesterov's pass in the Lightning end.
Tampa Bay responded after Colorado turned over the puck in its own end. Kucherov took a shot, and Varlamov made the save, but Tyler Johnson jammed in the rebound at 5:51. MacKinnon tied the game 1-1 at 16:21 of the first period. He accepted a pass from Gabriel Landeskog, skated into the Lightning end and used his speed to get by Nesterov and Jason Garrison before beating Vasilevskiy with a backhand to the glove side. The Lightning took a 1-0 lead at 10:53 of the first period on a goal by Ondrej Palat after Brad Stuart didn't handle a pass inside the blue line. Johnson passed to Palat moving down the right wing for a shot that beat Varlamov to the short side.
Columbus @ NY Rangers 3-4 SO - Rick Nash scored in the third round of a shootout to lead the Rangers to a 4-3 win. Nash sent the crowd home happy after skating toward the right circle before breaking into the middle of the ice and releasing a hard snap shot that found the left corner of the net. In the tiebreaker, St. Louis scored in the first round and J.T. Miller hit the right post against Blue Jackets goaltender Curtis McElhinney in the second. Mark Letestu scored for the Blue Jackets in the first round and Ryan Johansen hit the crossbar before Cam Atkinson was stopped by Cam Talbot to seal the game, giving him his first career shootout win. After spotting the Rangers a 3-0 lead, the Blue Jackets pulled even with three unanswered goals, the tying goal coming with 4:19 remaining in the third off a point shot by David Savard that deflected off the stick of Talbot and into the net. The Blue Jackets carried much of the play in the third, outshooting the Rangers 8-1. The Blue Jackets scored twice in the second on goals by Dano and Anisimov. Dano made it 3-1 after taking a pass from Nick Foligno and sending a shot from the right circle for his second of the season at 2:17. Anisimov, acquired by Columbus in the trade that sent Nash to the Rangers in the summer of 2012, scored his fourth of the season off a great individual effort at 18:11. With the Rangers defense backing up, Anisimov threw a backhand on net, then took another shot that was blocked before jamming a third attempt inside the right post. St. Louis connected for his second goal 1:24 into the second to give the Rangers a 3-0 lead. McDonagh found St. Louis alone in the right circle and the veteran completed a nice passing play for his 18th of the season. It marked the first two-goal game by St. Louis since Nov. 3 in a 4-3 shootout loss against the St. Louis Blues. Hayes and St. Louis scored in the first period to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. Hayes opened the scoring when he took a pass from Carl Hagelin at the Blue Jackets blue line, skated uncontested down the middle of the ice and sent a shot over the glove of McElhinney at 5:57. St. Louis made it 2-0 when he took a pass from Derek Stepan at the left post and scored at 8:06.
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