NHL Results - Fri, Mar 06, 2015

Columbus @ New Jersey 3-2 - 6:41 into the first period. Falk took a pass from Dubinsky and sent a wrist shot from the left point on net, which appeared to be deflected past Devils goalie Cory Schneider. Dubinsky scored at 2:24 of the second period to give Columbus a 2-0 lead. Patrik Elias turned over the puck at his blue line to Nick Foligno, who passed to Dubinsky, who took a wrist shot from inside the right point. Jordin Tootoo got the Devils within 2-1 at 5:54 of the second period with a power-play goal. His seventh of the season came off a feed from Adam Henrique, who from the trapezoid passed the puck through his legs into the slot, where Tootoo scored on a wrist shot. Mark Dano gave Columbus a 3-1 lead at 9:14. His shot from outside the right point went above the glove of Schneider and into the right corner of the net for his fourth goal. New Jersey scored at 6:36 of the third period when Peter Harrold skated by two Columbus defenders and his wrist shot from in close went over Bobrovsky's glove for his third of the season. Minutes later, Adam Larsson's shot from the blue line was deflected by Jacob Josefson, who thought he scored, but the puck hit the right post. Mike Cammalleri's last-second shot went into the net but was ruled no goal because it occurred after the horn sounded to end the game.
Minnesota @ Carolina 3-1 - The Wild scored at 11:00 of the first period, three seconds after the expiration of a Carolina bench minor for too many men on the ice. All five Minnesota skaters touched the puck before Nino Niederreiter made a cross-ice pass to Coyle, who scored over Anton Khudobin's glove for his eighth goal. The Wild nearly took a two-goal lead late in the first when Chris Stewart pulled Khudobin out of position but slipped his backhand shot wide. Dubnyk made tough saves on Riley Nash and Justin Faulk before Nash tied the game 1-1 at 15:18 with his eighth goal. Jeff Skinner carried the puck through the neutral zone on a 2-on-1 before Nash took a pass and beat Dubnyk with a low shot. Carolina outshot Minnesota 16-4. The Wild quickly made the most of their opportunities. Granlund gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 4:22 of the third period with his seventh goal. He patiently held the puck in the left circle before centering a pass that deflected off the skate of Chris Terry into the net. Less than two minutes later, the Wild capitalized on a Hurricanes turnover. Jason Pominville jumped on Ron Hainsey's errant pass and got off a shot against Khudobin. The rebound came to Parise, who scored his team-leading 26th goal at 6:18. Pominville also assisted on Granlund's goal.
Buffalo @ Ottawa 2-3 - The Sabres took a 2-0 lead in the first period when Philip Varone and Tyler Ennis scored, but the Senators took advantage of Buffalo's inexperienced defense and came back when Erik Karlsson scored early in the second period, and Mika Zibanejad and Mark Stone scored early in the third. Zibanejad and Stone scored 1:34 apart early in the third period. Zibanejad worked a give-and-go with Bobby Ryan in the left-wing circle, fighting off a check from Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen to score on Ryan’s return pass at 1:34. Stone gave the Senators the lead with his 16th goal at 3:08 when he jumped into the crease to score on a rebound after a Milan Michalek wraparound. The Senators made it 2-1 26 seconds into the second period when Karlsson scored his 16th goal. Buffalo had a couple of chances to get control of a puck that was going back and forth along the end boards before it went out to Karlsson at the right point. Karlsson’s wrist shot made it to the edge of the crease where it bounced off the leg of Sabres defenseman Zach Bogosian and into the net to the right of Lindback. Varone was leading Rochester in scoring when he was recalled by the Sabres for the third time this season Feb. 26. He showed some speed on his goal, chasing down a puck that was chipped toward the Ottawa goal and beating Hammond and Senators defenseman Marc Methot to the puck. As Hammond attempted to swipe it away, Varone got his stick on the puck first and knocked it into the net at 7:22 of the first period. Ennis took advantage of a screen to put the puck behind Hammond at 16:32 of the first period.
Calgary @ Detroit 5-2 - Jiri Hudler's first goal, with 6:50 left in the second period, broke a 2-2 tie. He scored on a wrist shot from the bottom of the right circle, between the legs of defenseman Niklas Kronwall, that beat goalie Jimmy Howard high on the long side. It came after Hudler carried the puck from inside the blue line and was unchallenged when he got into the circle. Hudler's second goal, his 23rd of the season, was into an empty net with 1:06 remaining. Stajan tied it 2-2 at 6:05 of the second period with his fifth goal. He beat Howard with a one-timer from the top of the left circle after the puck caromed off the end boards. Raymond scored 1:50 into the third period to make it 4-2. Howard got a piece of the shot from the left circle but not enough of it. Abdelkader gave Detroit a 2-0 lead less than nine minutes into the game. He scored on a breakaway at 3:05, beating Hiller high to the glove (right-hand) side. Abdelkader was sprung by a one-time, headman pass from Henrik Zetterberg from the corner in the Red Wings zone. Abdelkader's power-play goal at 8:12 made it 2-0. He tipped in a pass from Zetterberg for his 16th goal. Monahan's power-play goal with 9:33 left in the first period started Calgary's scoring. He picked up a rebound, moved across the top of the crease to put Howard out of position, and shot through the legs of Kronwall, who was trying to block the shot in the crease.
Edmonton @ Chicago 1-2 - Vermette's goal in the third round of a shootout gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 victory. After heeding some advice from Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, Vermette tucked the puck between the pads of goalie Ben Scrivens to end the game. Toews told him about the five-hole being open, and that's all it took for Vermette to help erase a night when the Blackhawks were outplayed for long stretches. Corey Crawford made a career-high 46 saves through overtime and denied all three Edmonton shooters in the tiebreaker. Toews and left wing Patrick Sharp were denied by Scrivens in the first two rounds before Vermette's goal. The Blackhawks got their goal at 13:58 of the third, when Brent Seabrook scored his eighth of the season on a slap shot from the blue line that puck sailed past three Edmonton players in the slot who screened their own goalie. The Oilers carried the play to the Blackhawks in the first by carrying the puck for most of the period. They took a 1-0 lead on Roy's goal, outshot Chicago 18-12 and would have led by more if not for Crawford.
The lone power play of the opening period belonged to the Blackhawks, and it was symbolic of how things went for them during much of the opening 20 minutes. They didn't get a shot on goal and allowed Edmonton to two shots while shorthanded. Roy's goal rewarded the Oilers' hard work in the offensive zone, after right wing Nail Yakupov beat Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith in a puck battle behind the net and sent a feed to the low slot. Roy got to the puck first, wheeled and fired into a wide opening behind Crawford for his seventh goal.