NHL Results - Thu, Feb 19, 2015

Nashville @ NY Islanders 2-5 - The Islanders scored one minute into the first period against the Predators. Michael Grabner stole the puck from Mike Ribeiro and passed it to Frans Nielsen, who found Brian Strait in the slot. His snap shot eluded Pekka Rinne. Cody Franson and Mike Santorelli, acquired in a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday, arrived to the Predators but were scratched. Eric Nystrom had a shoulder-to-shoulder hit on Mikhail Grabovski at 11:21 of the first period that left Grabovski on the ice for a few minutes. He went to the training room and did not return to the game with an upper-body injury. Capuano said he could be out for a while. Johnny Boychuk scored on a slap shot at 10:10 of the first period. Grabner won the faceoff at the left circle and passed to Nick Leddy, who skated toward the net and passed cross-ice to Boychuk, who shot from just inside the blue line. With Paul Gaustad off for roughing, New York scored a power-play goal to take a 3-0 lead. Leddy's shot from the right side was stopped by goalie Pekka Rinne, but the rebound came to John Tavares at the left of the crease and he scored his 29th of the season at 18:21. Filip Forsberg scored his 20th goal with 17 seconds remaining in the period off a rebound to make it 3-1. James Neal got the Predators to within 3-2 at 16:38 of the second period off a one-timer at the right circle from Ribeiro.

Leddy and Josh Bailey scored third-period goals 1:39 apart for the Islanders.
Vancouver @ NY Rangers 5-4 SO - Alexandre Burrows and Radim Vrbata scored in a shootout to give the injury-depleted Canucks a come-from-behind 5-4 victory against the Rangers at. Henrik Sedin scored to tie the game with 2:00 left in the third period after Miller was pulled for an extra attacker. Miller, who allowed goals to Martin St. Louis and Carl Hagelin in a span of 21 seconds early in the third to give the Rangers a 4-3 edge, stopped Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan in the shootout. The Canucks were missing several players, in the end it didn't matter, even after a sluggish first period in which the Rangers outshot the Canucks 14-5 and took a 1-0 lead on Stepan's 11th goal. Vancouver took their first lead, 3-2, 3:55 into the third period when Henrik Sedin deflected home a shot from the crease with the Canucks on the power play. Adam Clendening took the initial shot from the point with a screen set by Jannik Hansen. The Rangers rallied to tie the game 3-3 at 5:03 of the third when St. Louis took a pass from Stepan and skated hard down the right wing before releasing a forehand shot that went past Miller to the long side underneath his right arm. Hagelin deflected a shot by Dan Girardi off a giveaway by Henrik Sedin to give the Rangers their third lead, 4-3, 21 seconds later. The Canucks nearly tied the game at 6:52 when a shot by Yannick Weber got behind Talbot but was alertly swept away just before it reached the goal line. The rebound directed at the net by Vancouver forward Ronalds Kenins was stopped by a diving Marc Staal. A quick video review confirmed that the puck never crossed the line. Nash scored at 11:00 of the second to give the Rangers their second lead of the game, 2-1. After taking a lead pass from Derick Brassard at the Canucks blue line, Nash broke into the left circle and took a shot that deflected off the inside right skate of Miller and over the goal line. Horvat took a pass from Kenins off a 2-on-1 and buried his eighth goal 13:18 into the second to tie the game 2-2. The Canucks pulled even 1:43 into the second on a timely line change by Matthias. Hansen skated the puck down the right-wing boards while being closely guarded by Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh before dishing to the slot. The puck deflected off Talbot's stick before going right to Matthias in the middle of the ice. Matthias controlled while skating to his left and slammed a shot over the fallen Talbot. Stepan scored 11:39 into the first period to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. St. Louis took a pass from Girardi behind the net and sent a pass to Stepan between the circles. Stepan wasted little time scoring his 11th goal.

Whoosh its behind ya!

Buffalo @ Philadelphia 3-2 SO - Buffalo got all the bounces it needed, including one courtesy of Gionta, in a 3-2 shootout win. Brian Flynn scored in the fourth round of the shootout to clinch the victory. Flynn skated down the middle of the ice, faked a forehand shot, dragged it back to his right and lifted a shot over the left pad of Flyers goalie Ray Emery. The Sabres opened the scoring on a goal by Deslauriers that he mostly fanned on but got enough to send it knuckling past Emery at 4:41 of the first period for his first goal in 21 games. The Flyers tied the game less than three minutes later on White's first goal since Feb. 8, 2014, but the Sabres took back the lead 38 seconds into the second period on Gionta's sixth goal. Torrey Mitchell put a bouncing shot on net that Emery stopped but couldn't control. Gionta got to the front of the net and batted the puck out of the air and past Emery. The Flyers tied the game 2-2 on Voracek's sharp-angled power-play goal off the rebound of a Wayne Simmonds shot at 8:45 of the second period. The Sabres' Zemgus Girgensons came close to breaking the 2-2 tie when he got into the Flyers crease with 5:11 remaining and knocked in the puck, but after the referees conferred, it was ruled Girgensons had pushed the puck between his legs with his glove.
Winnipeg @ Washington 1-5 - The Jets were burned for the first time after Mark Scheifele was called for tripping at 12:26. Brouwer won an offensive-zone draw, and the Capitals got the puck to Carlson at the right point. The defenseman's high slap shot went through a screen and past Pavelec at 14:10 for his ninth goal and a 1-0 lead. Ovechkin, who has tortured the Jets dating to their years as the Atlanta Thrashers, made it 2-0 at 18:35 on a terrific individual effort. He took a pass from Alzner at the Winnipeg blue line, fought off the check of Trouba and snapped a shot past Pavelec from the lower left circle. It was his 16th goal in his past 16 games and his 42nd in 56 career games against the Atlanta/Winnipeg franchise. Ovechkin also extended his points streak to six games. The Jets made it 2-1 at 11:17 of the second period. Enstrom took a wrist shot from the high slot that appeared to hit Matt Niskanen and floated past Holtby, who was screened, for his fourth goal. With Blake Wheeler off for tripping and a delayed penalty upcoming, Backstrom fired a shot from the top of the right circle that slipped through Pavelec and over the goal line at 13:07.
Backstrom scored Washington's third power-play goal at 15:47, again during a delayed penalty. The Jets had Adam Pardy in the box and were going to get a penalty for having too many men on the ice after a bad line change when Backstrom finished off a 4-on-1 break by beating Pavelec from the slot. Brouwer closed out the scoring when he scaled the puck from his own zone into an empty net with 6:27 remaining in regulation after Jets coach Paul Maurice pulled Pavelec during a power play.
Florida @ Montreal 3-2 SO - Luongo stopped five of six Canadiens in the shootout, including the final four after Max Pacioretty scored in round two. Nick Bjugstad extended the game when he scored on Florida's third attempt against Price, who had allowed one goal in the first 12 attempts against him this season. Bolland snapped a shot past Price for the deciding goal. Steven Kampfer tied it 2-2 with his first NHL goal in nearly three years at 4:57 of the third period. Tomas Fleischmann, who set up Kampfer's goal, scored at 11:54 of the second period. Fleischmann's shot from the deep slot struck Montreal forward Lars Eller's leg on its way past Price to end the goalie's shutout streak at 145:35. Fleischmann got his second point of the game with an assist on Kampfer's goal two seconds after an interference penalty on Jarred Tinordi expired. Brendan Gallagher scored twice in the second period for a 2-0 lead. Gallagher opened the scoring at 2:31, beating Luongo for his 100th NHL point. His second came at 10:32.