Boston outshot Detroit 16-12 in the first period. The Bruins' penalty kill remained their hottest weapon in the second period when Paille stripped the puck from Weiss at the Boston blue line and scored on an end-to-end rush. Despite slashes from Erik Cole and Justin Abdelkader, Paille still beat Gustavsson for a 3-1 lead. Paille hadn't scored more than one goal in a game since April 2011, but he doubled his day's output at 18:39. Center Gregory Campbell won a faceoff before Maxime Talbot carried the puck below the goal and set up Paille for a one-timer in front that gave the Bruins a 4-1 lead.
Detroit pulled within 4-2 when Luke Glendening beat Svedberg through the five-hole 1:24 into the third period. But the Bruins' power play responded with Loui Eriksson's goal at 4:03 for a 5-2 lead. The Red Wings' power play snapped an 0-for-4 drought with Marek Zidlicky's goal that cut the Bruins' lead back to two goals at 5-3 with 6:02 remaining. The Bruins survived despite a 17-7 shots edge for the Red Wings in the third period.
Edmonton @ Carolina 4-7 - Down three goals midway through the second period, Alexander Semin scored the first of six consecutive Carolina goals in a span of 17:27, and Elias Lindholm had his first career hat trick in a 7-4 win. Lindholm finished with five points, including an empty-net goal, to seal the win for the Hurricanes. Jeff Skinner scored twice on the power play. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a hat trick and four points for the Oilers. Semin's goal will be replayed on sports highlight shows for a while. After being tripped in the slot, Semin fell to the ice, gathered his own rebound and made a one-handed stick sweep over his head to slip the puck under goaltender Richard Bachman. The goal ignited the offense, including three straight power-play goals. Edmonton struck first after a Carolina turnover in the neutral zone. Nugent-Hopkins engineered a 2-on-1, keeping the puck and sending a shot inside the far post for a 1-0 lead at 10:19. Jordan Eberle started the play by knocking down Rasmus Rissanen's pass and steering the puck to Nugent-Hopkins along the boards to earn the assist. Eberle made it 2-0 on a second-period power play. Matt Hendricks dug out the rebound of Nugent-Hopkins' slap shot and fed it to Eberle with a wide-open net at the left post at 6:45. It was Eberle's first goal since Feb. 2, a span of 15 games. The Oilers pushed the lead to 3-0 less than two minutes later on another power-play goal. Nugent-Hopkins gathered the puck near the goal line and got off a high shot on Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward, before tucking the rebound under the goaltender at 7:59 for his second of the game. Carolina cut the deficit to 3-2 on Lindholm's 12th of the season. Ron Hainsey's backhand pass from the top of the slot found the Swedish forward at the right post for a redirect at 13:00. Moments later, Semin found another way to provide offense; he drew consecutive penalties against Justin Schultz and Teddy Purcell 54 seconds apart to give Carolina 1:06 of 5-on-3 time, and the Hurricanes quickly capitalized. Staal fed Skinner on the back door for his 17th of the season at 15:23. Andre Nestrasil scored on the power play to give Carolina its first lead of the game at 1:40 of the third. When Purcell headed for the bench after breaking his stick, Nestrasil found the top shelf from the slot during a two-man advantage to make it 4-3. Carolina went right back on the power play following a high-sticking penalty on Eberle. Skinner scored at 6:18 on a long wrist shot that Bachman could not track. Lindholm scored his second of the game 31 seconds later, taking a pass from Victor Rask across the crease to make it 6-3.
Nugent-Hopkins jumped on a Carolina turnover in the slot and beat Ward under the crossbar for his 19th of the season at 9:31 to complete the hat trick. Staal set up Lindholm for the final goal into the empty net.
Philadelphia @ New Jersey 2-5 - The win came on a night the Devils honored players, coaches and managers from their 1995 Cup team, which eliminated Philadelphia from the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the Eastern Conference Final in six games before sweeping the Detroit Red Wings in the Cup Final. The pregame ceremony culminated with a speech by Dirty Dog Stevens, the three-time Stanley Cup champion and 2000 Conn Smythe Trophy-winning defenseman. Josefson broke a 1-1 tie early in the second period when he scored a shorthanded goal at 3:32. Stephen Gionta skated down the right wing and took a shot from the right circle that Mason stopped. Josefson picked up the rebound and scored just inside the right post, his first goal in 13 games. Gelinas gave the Devils a 3-1 lead on a power-play goal late in the second. After getting a pass from Scott Gomez, Gelinas put a shot over Mason's blocker at 18:09. With the assist, his second of the game, Gomez moved into a tie with Scott Niedermayer for fourth on the Devils' all-time points list with 476. Gomez has 121 goals and 355 assists in seven seasons with New Jersey. Henrique extended the lead to 4-1 with his second goal of the game 5:31 into the third when he finished a 2-on-0 breakout with Bernier. It was his first two-goal game since March 8, 2014. After Raffl scored the first shorthanded goal of his career 11:44 into the third to pull the Flyers within 4-2, Sean Couturier made a move past Devils defenseman Damon Severson and had Kinkaid out of position, but he pushed a backhand attempt wide at 13:20. Gionta then collected a stretch pass from Patrik Elias, broke in 1-on-1 against Mason and scored his fourth goal at 13:31 to make it 5-2. The Flyers pulled into a 1-1 tie at 7:45 of the first period when White won an offensive-zone draw against Gomez to Luke Schenn at the point. Schenn sent a strong wrist shot on goal that White redirected past Kinkaid for his third goal. Henrique opened the scoring at 4:49 with his first goal in seven games. Bernier canceled an icing call before Gomez forced Flyers defenseman Mark Streit to turn over the puck in front of Mason. Henrique then picked up the loose puck on his backhand down the slot. After Stevens addressed the fans to close the pregame ceremony, the 1995 Devils took a lap around the rink before shaking hands with the current New Jersey players. Interim co-coach Lou Lamoriello hopes the Devils take more than handshakes with them from the experience.
Colorado @ Minnesota 3-2 - In their previous matchup eight days ago, the Wild won 3-1 at Pepsi Center. The game ended with controversy when Cody McLeod hit Mikael Granlund with three seconds left and then fought Charlie Coyle. It took 43 seconds for McLeod to answer for his actions when he fought former teammate Chris Stewart on their first shifts.
"I played with him for three or four years. He's a good buddy of mine," McLeod said. "He's doing his job and I'm doing mine. That's the way it goes in hockey.
"I'd say this is our main rival right now and stuff happened last game, but we came out to battle and our main goal was to get two points."
The fight seemed to ease the tensions. Colorado came out slow, unable to get a shot on goal until 14:20 of the first. But a goal late in the period changed the complexion of the game. McLeod, drawing loud boos from the Minnesota crowd, redirected a Jarome Iginla shot at 18:05 to give the Avalanche a 1-0 lead. Late in the second, a shot by defenseman Zach Redmond eluded Dubnyk at 18:09.
Early in the third, Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog put in a loose puck in the crease for his 19th at 1:19 with Colorado on a power play. It was the first power-play goal scored by either team against the other this season. Stewart scored his first goal in a Wild uniform, dumping the puck into the corner and having it bounce back into the slot and off an Avalanche defender and in at 14:04. Varlamov left the game seconds later and was replaced by Reto Berra, who made three saves over the final 5:44. Thomas Vanek scored with 19.4 seconds remaining and an extra attacker on the ice to make it a one-goal game.
In the final moments, Parise chased down a loose puck behind the net and centered a pass into traffic near the crease, but the puck slipped through and out of the zone as time expired.
Calgary @ Ottawa 4-5 SO - The Senators led 4-0 with a little more than 13 minutes left in the third, but the Flames got a goal from Joe Colborne at 6:56 and then goals 59 seconds apart by Kris Russell on the power play and Mikael Backlund starting at 11:28 to make it 4-3. Russell tied it with a wrist shot from the slot with 2:18 left in regulation, completing a four-goal comeback in the final period of the Flames' seven-game road trip. Senators captain Erik Karlsson beat Flames goalie Jonas Hiller to the glove side in the sixth round of the shootout, then Anderson stopped Josh Jooris with his blocker to give Ottawa the win. The Senators looked like they had taken control of the game with a strong second period, when they doubled their lead to 4-0 on goals by Mark Borowiecki, his first of the season, and Mike Hoffman. Borowiecki's goal came after some sustained pressure by the line of center Jean-Gabriel Pageau and wings Curtis Lazar and Erik Condra. His waist-high shot deflected off David Schlemko and past Ramo at 2:34. Hoffman scored his 24th goal, which leads the Senators, on a strong wrist shot at 7:10. His shot from inside the right wing circle off a pass from Mika Zibanejad found the net over Ramo's left shoulder.
The Senators led 2-0 after the first period on goals by Alex Chiasson, his 10th, and Milan Michalek, his 12th and the 199th of his NHL career.
NY Rangers @ Chicago 1-0 OT - Derick Brassard's slap shot from the left circle 32 seconds into overtime beat Corey Crawford to the short side and gave the New York Rangers a 1-0 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks.
No comments:
Post a Comment