NHL Results - Wed, Feb 18, 2015

Montreal @ Ottawa 2-4 - The first period was scoreless, but there were three posts or crossbars hit and each goaltender made good saves. The Senators opened the scoring at 11:26 of the second period on Michalek’s goal, but Pacioretty tied it 8 seconds later, a Senators record for the fastest goal by an opponent after an Ottawa goal. Michalek was in the crease to knock in a loose puck. Pacioretty took a pass from Markov and split the Senators defense of Cody Ceci and Jared Cowen and put his shot between Hammond’s pads. The Senators took a 2-1 lead at 18:13 of the second period on just the kind of play Therrien was talking about. Pageau finished off a nice passing play that saw Erik Condra feed Karlsson at the left point. Karlsson found Pageau breaking for the net in front of Andrei Markov and Pageau was free to tip the pass behind Tokarski for his third goal of the season. Stone barged into the crease to get to a loose puck on the power play at 9:27 of the third period to make it 3-1. Beaulieu scored the first goal his NHL career at 14:25 of the third period when his shot deflected off a Senators player and bounced past Hammond to make it 3-2. Kyle Turris added an empty-netter. Alexei Emelin was injured 20 seconds into the game and did not return. Emelin collided with Stone and fell, striking his right shoulder at the base of the boards in front of the Montreal bench. P.K. Subban left the game late in the second period after he was injured blocking a shot, but he returned for the third and played a total of 30:45.
Detroit @ Chicago 3-2 SO - Howard made 17 saves in a scoreless first period, but allowed game-tying goals in the second and third to Brandon Saad and Kris Versteeg, each coming less than a minute after a Red Wings goal. Tatar and Saad scored 39 seconds apart near the end of the second period. Tatar scored his 24th goal off a backhand feed from Helm at 16:10, and Saad scored his 18th off a wrist shot at 16:49 to extend his point streak to four games. The two third-period goals came in the final 2:06. Helm broke a 1-1 tie at 17:54 before Versteeg tied it 2-2 at 18:37 with a goal credited to him. His shot from the left circle appeared to hit Howard's glove, then Toews crashing the net before hitting Niklas Kronwall and bouncing into the net. Jonathan Toews scored the shootout goal for Chicago. Howard made 32 saves before stopping two of three Chicago attempts to win the shootout. Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar scored the shootout goals for Detroit.
Minnesota @ Calgary 3-2 OT - Mikko Koivu scored 1:50 into overtime to give the Wild a 4-3 win against the Flames. Bouma tied the game 10:14 into the third period with a sharp-angle shot. In overtime, Koivu took a pass from Charlie Coyle and outwaited Flames Dennis Wideman before beating goaltending Jonas Hiller. The goal came after Dumba made a play on Hudler that prevented the Flames forward from tapping in the game-winner. Minnesota opened the scoring for the 10th time in the past 11 games and 12th in 15. Calgary has surrendered the first goal 11 times in its past 13 games. Charlie Coyle centered to Thomas Vanek, who fed Fontaine, who lifted his fifth goal of the season over Hiller's glove to put the Wild up 1-0 at 8:40 of the first period. The Flames surrendered the second when Dumba cruised over the blue line and beat Hiller's blocker at 11:36. On the faceoff following an icing, Sean Monahan won it back to Wideman. He quickly sent a shot through a screen that was redirected by Hudler between Dubnyk's legs to make it 2-1 with 2:52 remaining. Video review confirmed that Hudler's stick was at or below the height of the crossbar when he deflected the puck into the net to give him his fifth goal in the past seven games.
Los Angeles @ Colorado 4-1 - The Kings' "That 70s Line" of Jeff Carter, Dwight King and Tyler Toffoli accounted for three goals and two assists, all in the second period except for Carter's empty-net goal on a power play with 52.3 seconds left. The three have combined for 13 goals and 13 assists during the winning streak. The Kings spotted the Avalanche an early first-period goal by Gabriel Landeskog and responded with three goals in the second to seize control. Carter tied the game 1-1 at 1:16 of the second period when he tipped Toffoli's shot behind goalie Semyon Varlamov. King corralled the puck after it bounced by Landeskog and passed to Toffoli, who shot from the high slot. The Kings took a 2-1 lead at 6:24 when Toffoli skated down right wing, cut inside the defense and went to the net untouched. He jammed the puck by Varlamov's outstretched right pad. Dustin Brown scored at 15:30 during a delayed penalty off a feed from Drew Doughty, who skated behind the net and passed through a pack of players in front. Brown knocked in the puck from just outside the crease. Landeskog extended his goal-scoring streak to four games at 3:09 of the first period. He accepted a pass from Nathan MacKinnon in the left circle and beat Quick with a shot to the short side. MacKinnon has an assist in four consecutive games. The play began in the Kings end when Nick Holden knocked down King with a big hit in the corner. The Avalanche applied plenty of pressure on a power play after Justin Williams tripped Ryan O'Reilly at 8:41, forcing Quick to make five saves.
Boston @ Edmonton 3-4 SO - Martin Marincin converted on his first professional shootout attempt, which also happened to be on his birthday, to lift the Oilers to a 4-3 win against the Bruins. Marincin was the only player to score in a 12-round shootout, losing control of the puck on his attempt, but still watched it slide through Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask for the winner. Ben Scrivens made 38 saves in his first game back from a thigh injury, which forced him to miss four games. He also denied all 12 Bruins shooters in the shootout. Yakupov scored at 4:29 of the first period to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead. The Oilers right wing was left unattended in front of the net and converted a pass from Derek Roy. The goal extended Yakupov's point streak to six games. Nugent-Hopkins scored a power-play goal at 15:53 when he took a cross-ice pass from Teddy Purcell and sent a shot past Rask to make it 2-0. It was Nugent-Hopkins' first power-play goal this season; he leads the Oilers with 16 goals. Eriksson cut the deficit in half with 19.1 seconds left in the first period, tipping a Dougie Hamilton shot past Scrivens. Purcell restored Edmonton's two-goal lead on the power play at 9:00 of the second period when his shot made its way past a screened Rask. Smith scored at 14:17 on a rebound to pull the Bruins to 3-2. Pastrnak tied the game 3-3 at 15:52 when he tipped Zdeno Chara's point shot past Scrivens. It was the sixth goal of the season for Pastrnak, 18, who is the youngest player in the League. The Oilers lost Jeff Petry and Anton Lander in the third period. Petry took a shot in the chest from Adam McQuaid in the second period and left the game with a rib injury; Lander sustained a shoulder injury. Milan Lucic had a chance to win the game in the final seconds of regulation, left unattended in front of the net, but his shot sailed high. He also had an opportunity in overtime, but fanned on a rebound in front of an open net. Chris Kelly came close to winning for Boston, hitting the post on his shootout attempt before Marincin went on to win it.
Tampa Bay @ Anaheim 4-1 - The Lightning were dominant in the second period when they outshot Anaheim 20-5, including 14-2 in the first 10 minutes. Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop made 13 of 24 saves in the third period for his 29th win. Kucherov and Stamkos scored in the final 1:55 of the second period to give Tampa Bay a 4-1 lead. Kucherov was credited with the goal on a puck that bounced through traffic to the crease, where a prone Ducks goalie John Gibson inadvertently swept the puck under his legs and had it go in the net at 18:05. Stamkos buried Alex Killorn's cross-ice pass on the left side at 19:38. Johnson tapped in Ondrej Palat's at 5:55 and Stralman deflected Brian Boyle's shot at 4:31. Tampa Bay had four shots in the third period but could afford to be conservative in front of Bishop. Patrick Maroon gave Anaheim 1-0 lead when he took multiple whacks to jam the puck over the goal line at 4:17. Kyle Palmieri fed Rickard Rakell for a shot that rebounded to Maroon on the right side. Maroon set the tone with six hits in a strong first period.