Lindholm's 17th goal gave Carolina a 1-0 lead at 11:00 of the first period. Emery kicked out Staal's shot, but Lindholm was waiting at the right faceoff dot to finish with a one-timer. Staal scored an unassisted goal early in the second period to give the Hurricanes a two-goal lead. After poking the puck away from Nicklas Grossmann in the neutral zone, Staal held the puck on a 2-on-1 with Eric Staal before beating Emery to the glove side at 3:27 for his fifth goal of the season. After a sluggish first period, the Flyers came alive on their first power play. With Alexander Semin off for hooking, Philadelphia worked the puck around to Couturier, whose shot through traffic was tipped by Raffl for his 21st goal at 9:46 of the second. Couturier tied the game when he gathered Michael Del Zotto's pass in front of Ward and scored on a backhand. Gerbe and Terry scored on Carolina's first two shootout attempts, giving Ward a bit of breathing room after stopping Jakub Voracek on Philadelphia's first attempt. After Nick Cousins scored for the Flyers, Ward stopped Claude Giroux for the victory.
Pittsburgh @ Columbus 3-5 - The Pittsburgh Penguins are battling for second place in the Metropolitan Division, but a second straight loss and seventh in the past 11 games has them worried about making the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Pittsburgh led by two goals, but the Columbus Blue Jackets, with three goals from Nick Foligno, defeated the Penguins 5-3 at Nationwide Arena. The Penguins (42-25-11), who possess the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference, are three points behind the New York Islanders for second place in the Metropolitan Division and two behind the third-place Washington Capitals. The Penguins have a game in hand on each. Columbus (39-35-4) has won a Blue Jackets-record nine straight games. Foligno got his first NHL hat trick in his 541st NHL game with an empty-net goal with 57 seconds left. Brandon Dubinsky assisted on the three goals, which gave Foligno 30 this season. Matt Calvert and Scott Hartnell scored for Columbus. Crosby, Brandon Sutter and Ben Lovejoy scored for Pittsburgh. Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky made 33 saves; Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves for the Penguins. It was the Blue Jackets' third hat trick in the past six games. The others were Hartnell against the Anaheim Ducks on March 24, and Cam Atkinson three days later at the Chicago Blackhawks. The Penguins were sloppy defensively, leading directly to two Blue Jackets goals. The Penguins lost after holding a two-goal lead for the third time in past six games. The Blue Jackets rallied from two down Thursday to defeat the Islanders 4-3 in a shootout.
Foligno's second goal put the Blue Jackets ahead 3-2 at 6:46 of the third period. He stole the puck from Pittsburgh defenseman Derrick Pouliot at center ice and passed ahead to Dubinsky. His shot was saved by Fleury, but Foligno drove the net and scored on the rebound. Hartnell made it 4-2 at 9:29 by jamming in the puck during a scramble while Fleury tried to smother it. Marko Dano got his second assist of the game on Hartnell's 26th goal of the season. The Penguins needed 35 seconds to respond when Lovejoy got his second of the season with a shot from the right point to make it 4-3. The Columbus rally started with goals by Foligno and Calvert 2:03 apart late in the second period. Foligno finished a tic-tac-toe play at 16:25. The Penguins were careless leaving the zone, and Artem Anisimov got the loose puck to Dubinsky, who fed Foligno at the left side of the crease. Calvert scored at 18:28, his 11th goal of the season. Crosby, who leads the NHL with 81 points, scored his 27th goal at 8:21 of the first period. Sutter made it 2-0 at 11:07 of the second, taking a slick backhand pass by Cole that eluded three Blue Jackets. Sutter has 18 goals. The Penguins play the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. The Blue Jackets go for 10 wins in a row Monday against the New York Rangers.
Vancouver @ Winnipeg 4-5 - The Jets reached 40 wins for the first time since the 2006-07 season, when it was known as the Atlanta Thrashers. Two goals from Lee Stempniak and three assists from Mathieu Perreault carried the Jets, who ended a two-game losing streak. Stempniak, an acquisition from the New York Rangers on March 1, has scored three goals in his past two games; he has five goals and three assists in 14 games with Winnipeg. Goals 50 seconds apart gave the Jets a 2-0 lead 5:24 into the first period. Jim Slater scored at 4:34, his fifth goal, and Michael Frolik scored his 18th. Henrik Sedin's 18th goal on Vancouver's first power play made it 2-1 at 9:37. Daniel Sedin tied the game at 17:37 on his 17th goal. Thirty-six seconds after Vancouver tied the game, Stempniak gave the lead back to Winnipeg. Mark Scheifele made it 4-2 Winnipeg with 55.6 seconds left in the second period, but Burrows scored his 17th goal on a breakaway seven seconds later. Stempniak's second goal with 9:36 left in the third period made it 5-3. Burrows scored his second of the game with 2:05 left with Lack off for a sixth skater. In the Canucks' final push, Chris Higgins hit the right post. The Jets played without defenseman Dustin Byfuglien, who began a four-game BS suspension for his cross-check of J.T. Miller of the New York Rangers on March 31. Slater scored for the third time in the past four games off a cross-slot pass from Jiri Tlusty. On the next shift, Frolik jammed a loose puck under Lack. Frolik's 18 goals are his most in a season since he scored 21 in 2009-10 with the Florida Panthers. Bryan Little's offensive-zone tripping penalty put Vancouver on its first power play. Alexander Edler's point shot ricocheted off the end boards into the crease, where Henrik Sedin stuffed it into the net. Eight minutes later, Daniel Sedin took Vrbata's pass from behind the Winnipeg net and slipped it past Pavelec. Winnipeg's line of Stempniak, Perreault and center Adam Lowry combined for nine shots. They started to build another two-goal lead by scoring late in the first period when Stempniak tipped in Perreault's pass through the slot past Lack at 18:13. In the final minute of the second period, Scheifele snuck a right-circle shot past Lack. But off the faceoff, Burrows beat Winnipeg defenseman Toby Enstrom and tucked a shot around Pavelec for his third goal in the past four games. The Canucks finished their road trip 2-2-0, losing the final two games. Lack has allowed 12 goals in the past three games. The Winnipeg franchise has not reached the playoffs since 2007, but Stempniak said his teammates are adjusting well to the pressures of the race.
Toronto @ Boston 1-2 SO - Patrice Bergeron scored in regulation and had the only goal in the shootout to give the Bruins a 2-1 win against the Maple Leafs at TD Garden. Bergeron beat Toronto goaltender James Reimer by dragging the puck from his backhand to his forehand in the third round of the shootout. Boston is 4-9 in shootouts. Toronto had six shots in the scoreless first period; forward David Booth hit the left post on one partial breakaway. Bergeron gave Boston a 1-0 lead 19 seconds into the second period. His wrist shot from in front came after Reimer made a save on Bergeron's initial one-timer from the right hash mark. James van Riemsdyk tied it 1-1 at 14:31 of the second period. Defenseman Morgan Rielly's shot required a Rask blocker save, and van Riemsdyk got a piece of the rebound before Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid banked the puck in off Rask's back. Joffrey Lupul had the best chances to break the tie with two wrist shots from in tight at 12:25. Rask went down and stacked his pads to keep the shots out of the net.
Washington @ Ottawa 3-4 OT - The Senators were unable to turn a three-goal first-period lead into a regulation victory, but Turris scored on a breakaway at 3:14 of overtime to give Ottawa a 4-3 win. The Senators led 3-0 less than 10 minutes into the game. But the Capitals dominated for most of the final 50 minutes to force the game past regulation. However, Turris gave the Senators the win when he poked the puck away in the Ottawa zone, raced in alone and beat Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby. Clarke MacArthur and Mika Zibanejad scored during 5-on-3 advantages, and rookie Mark Stone scored his 21st of the season for the Senators, who won their third game in a row, two in overtime and one in a shootout. The Capitals completed their comeback at 15:50 of the third period on Brouwer's 21st of the season. The puck was chipped past Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson in the neutral zone and Brouwer skated in and beat Hammond to the stick side to make it 3-3. The Capitals cut the deficit to 3-2 at 7:18 of the third period on Green's ninth goal of the season. With Brouwer, who was a presence all night around the Ottawa net, battling with defenseman Eric Gryba in the crease, Green skated in and put a shot past Hammond. The Capitals scored the only goal of the second period and held a significant edge in play. Down 11-3 in shots 10 minutes into the game, the Capitals outshot the Senators 16-9 during the next 30 minutes. Johansson scored his 19th goal of the season at 6:26 of the second, beating Hammond high to the glove side with Brouwer screening the goaltender. Stone opened the scoring at 3:31 of the first period. It was his fourth goal and 12th point in his past 10 games. The Capitals then paid a big price for their parade to the penalty box. The Senators' power play was 6-for-55 in the past 17 games but took advantage of three Washington penalties that resulted in overlapping 5-on-3 advantages. Eric Fehr was called for hooking MacArthur with 50 seconds left in Joel Ward's interference penalty at 7:17. Holtby then swiped the puck out of his crease and into the protective netting 28 seconds after Fehr was sent off and was given a delay of game penalty. MacArthur scored his 15th of the season at 9:03 with a shot to the glove side, and with the Capitals still down two men, Zibanejad scored his 20th of the season at 9:56 to increase the lead to 3-0.
Zibanejad became the fifth Senator to score 20 goals this season joining Stone, Karlsson, Turris and Mike Hoffman. Karlsson's assist on MacArthur's goal was the 300th point of his NHL career. He has played 393 games
Tampa Bay @ Florida 4-0 - Cedric Paquette hit the crossbar at the end of Florida power play early in the second before Stamkos opened the scoring at 6:10. Stamkos scored on the power play from below the top of the left circle when he one-timed Johnson's cross-ice pass. He scored again at 11:19 of the second after a Florida turnover in its defensive zone. After stealing the puck, Callahan fed Stamkos at the right dot and his wrist shot beat Luongo high to the short side. Callahan made it 3-0 at 1:03 of the third when his wrist shot from the right dot trickled through between Luongo's body and his right arm. Johnson made it 4-0 at 18:13.
Buffalo @ NY Islanders 0-3 - Okposo scored a power-play goal at 6:37 of the first period. Brian Strait took a double-minor for high-sticking at 16:33. Halak made two saves during the power play, including stopping a Zach Bogosian slap shot from the left circle with 1:39 left. New York has allowed one power-play goal on 34 chances in its past 15 games. Nelson scored at 9:32 of the third period to give the Islanders. Bogosian tried to clear the puck and it ricocheted off a stick that was on the ice and went to Nelson near the left circle, where he sent a wrist shot past Sabres goalie Andrey Makarov for his 20th goal. Kulemin, playing his 500th NHL game, scored his 14th goal off a rebound of a Hamonic shot from the right side at 13:13 of the third period.
New Jersey @ NY Rangers 1-6 - Lundqvist's shutout bid ended with 3:30 remaining when Tuomo Ruutu scored, but it didn’t have an impact on the outcome. Keith Kinkaid made 23 saves on 26 shots in relief of Cory Schneider, who allowed three goals on six shots in the opening 12:24. It marked the eighth time this season that Schneider was pulled. The Rangers became the fourth team in their history to win at least 50 games (1991-92, 1993-94, 2011-12).
New York took a 4-0 lead with 2.7 seconds left in the second period when Stepan scored his 14th of the season on a shorthanded breakaway. Stepan took a lead pass from Nash and broke in 1-on-1 against Kinkaid before backhanding a shot over the goal line. It was the ninth shorthanded goal for the Rangers this season. Brassard made it 5-0 on a centering attempt from the left circle that deflected off the skate of defenseman Adam Larsson and past Kinkaid 1:55 into the third. Moore scored his second of the game at 12:00. The Rangers opened a 3-0 lead in the first on goals by Nash, Yandle and Moore. Lundqvist was sharp, making 13 saves and looking very comfortable in his crease. Nash scored his career-high 42nd of the season off a deflection in the slot off a pass from the left circle by Mats Zuccarello at 5:10. Nash put his stick on the ice and between the skates of defenseman Jon Merrill before Zuccarello put the puck right off his tape. Yandle made it 2-0 when scored his first goal as a Ranger at Madison Square Garden after sending a shot from the point that beat a screened Schneider at 11:59. Moore scored 25 seconds after Yandle's goal when he took a pass from Tanner Glass down the middle and drove a shot past Schneider at 12:24. Devils co-coach Lou Lamoriello decided to replace Schneider with Kinkaid after Moore's goal. Schneider entered the game 0-1-1 with a 2.94 goals-against average and .885 save-percentage in two games against the Rangers this season.
Dallas @ Nashville 4-3 OT - Cody Eakin scored on a penalty shot with 55.7 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 win. Mattias Ekholm slashed Eakin's stick out of his hands on a breakaway, setting up the game-winning penalty shot. Dallas (38-31-10) remained alive in the Stanley Cup Playoff race with its first win against Nashville this season. The Stars (86 points) trail the Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets by six points in the race for the second wild card into the playoffs from the Western Conference; they have played one more game than the Jets and Kings, who hold the tiebreaker with more regulation/overtime wins (37-33). Nashville (47-22-10) has lost its past three games (0-1-2), all at home, and leads the St. Louis Blues by one point for first place in the Central Division. James Neal tied the game 3-3 with 1:55 remaining in the third period with goalie Pekka Rinne pulled for an extra attacker, one-timing Mike Ribeiro's pass by Stars goaltender Jhonas Enroth for his 23rd goal. The assist was Ribeiro's 500th in the NHL. Neal, Shea Weber and Matt Cullen returned to the Predators lineup. Weber missed three games because of a lower-body injury, Neal nine games because of an upper-body injury, and Cullen five games because of a lower-body injury. Ryan Ellis made it 3-2 at 10:46 of the third on a wrist shot from the slot that beat Enroth on the glove side for his eighth goal. Colton Sceviour gave Dallas a 3-1 lead at 7:28 of the third with his eighth goal. He crashed the net and shot the puck into a scrum in front, and the puck trickled past the Nashville defenders and Rinne.
Tyler Seguin put the Stars up 2-1 on the power play at 3:23 of the third on a slap shot from the faceoff circle. He took a pass from defenseman John Klingberg and beat Rinne for his 37th goal. The Predators took a 1-0 lead at 9:59 of the first period on a Forsberg wrist shot that got past Enroth. Ekholm took the original shot that bounced off of a body in front and went to Forsberg, who put it in an open net for his 24th goal. It was Nashville's only lead of the game. The Stars scored the next three before the Predators rallied in the second half of the third period to tie it. Moen tied the game 1-1 at 4:09 of the second period with a wrist shot that got past Rinne.
San Jose @ Phoenix 3-5 - The Coyotes hadn't won a home game in regulation in nearly three months. As far as the San Jose Sharks are concerned, the Coyotes picked an awful time to break that streak. Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored twice and had an assist, leading the Coyotes to a 5-3 win Saturday at Gila River Arena. The Coyotes were 0-7-1 in their past eight home games and hadn't won in regulation in their own building since a 4-1 victory against the Winnipeg Jets on Jan. 8. They had been 1-15-2 in 18 home games since; the lone win was a shootout victory against the Vancouver Canucks on March 5. The loss was a huge one for the Sharks (39-31-9), who fell five points behind the Los Angeles Kings and the Jets for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. San Jose has three games remaining. At age 23, Ekman-Larsson leads all NHL defensemen with 23 goals. He now shares a franchise record as well; defenseman Phil Housley had 23 goals in the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons for the Winnipeg Jets before they moved to Phoenix in 1996. Mike Smith made 42 saves for the Coyotes (24-47-8) and is 8-2-2 in his past 12 games against San Jose. Mark Arcobello also scored for Phoenix and Sam Gagner hit the empty net with 10.7 seconds left. Tomas Hertl, Joe Thornton and Chris Tierney scored for the Sharks, who are facing the prospect of missing the playoffs for the first time in 11 seasons. Only the Detroit Red Wings (23 straight seasons) have a longer active streak of reaching the playoffs.
San Jose goalie Antti Niemi made 28 saves. The Coyotes used two power-play goals in the first period to take the lead for good. With San Jose's Karl Stollery in the penalty box, Ekman-Larsson took a crisp cross-ice pass from Arcobello at the left point, waited for David Moss to set a screen and picked the far corner at 11:59. It was Ekman-Larsson's 10th power-play goal this season, which also leads all NHL defensemen. The Sharks got even after Ekman-Larsson took down San Jose's Tommy Wingels and was called for interference. Hertl chased down a rebound, carried the puck to the right circle and flipped a backhand past Smith at 16:36 for his 13th goal. The Coyotes' seventh-ranked power play went back to work after Barclay Goodrow went off for tripping at 17:50. Doan got a stick on Michael Stone's shot from the point; the deflection hit the post and bounced back through Niemi's legs before the goalie inadvertently kicked the puck into the net at 18:37. Doan's 14th goal of the season was his 368th (yes wow! 368 goals in 19 seasons! Wayne Gretzky would have scored that many in 3 seasons) as a Coyote, leaving him 11 shy of Dale Hawerchuk's franchise record. Smith made a number of acrobatic stops among his 13 saves in the second period, including a Pavelski deflection, a Patrick Marleau wraparound and Tierney's redirect. Ekman-Larsson made it 3-1 at 17:46 when he picked up his own rebound with Niemi down and out and wristed it into the wide-open net to tie Housley's record. But the two-goal lead lasted all of 19 seconds. Thornton's bad-angled shot from the left corner near the goal line somehow went behind Smith's head and off the far post at 18:05 to bring the Sharks back to 3-2. It was Thornton's 15th goal but his first in 10 games. The Coyotes regained their two-goal lead 5:30 into the third period when Doan found Arcobello charging down the slot for a wrist shot over Niemi's glove and under the crossbar. It was Arcobello's 17th goal of the season and his ninth in 24 games with Phoenix. He has scored a goal in each of Phoenix's three games against San Jose since joining the Coyotes. Once again, the Sharks answered almost immediately. With Stone in the penalty box, Tierney got a stick on Matt Irwin's power-play shot and deflected it past Smith at 6:48. Tierney scored his sixth goal of the season and fourth in the past seven games.
Calgary @ Edmonton 4-0 - Jonas Hiller entered at 58 seconds after starting goaltender Karri Ramo sustained a lower-body injury and made 27 saves in relief to help the Calgary Flames to a 4-0 win. It was the longest relief appearance in a team-shared shutout in NHL history. Ramo did not face a shot before leaving the game. The Flames goaltender was favoring his left leg after going down on a shot attempt that went wide. Ramo had to be helped off the ice and did not return. Colborne opened the scoring 1:59 into the first period when his shot bounced off his skate and past Scrivens. Mason Raymond took the initial shot, which was kicked away, but then hit Colborne and bounced into the net. The Oilers had their opportunities to tie the game in the period and had 11 shots against Hiller. Forward Taylor Hall hit the goal post on an attempt from the edge of the faceoff circle. Hall centered the Oilers’ top line after Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was a late scratch due to a lower-body injury. Granlund gave Calgary a 2-0 lead at 17:56 of the second period, taking a cross-crease pass from Josh Jooris and lifting a shot over Scrivens. Wideman scored a power-play goal at 2:16 of the third period to give Calgary a 3-0 lead. The Flames defenseman one-timed a shot from the point that beat Scrivens in off the goal post. The goal was scored five seconds into a cross-checking penalty to Oilers Keith Aulie. Granlund scored at 18:52 of the third period to round out the scoring, catching Scrivens out of his net and shooting the puck past him before he was able to scramble back.
Colorado @ Los Angeles 1-3 - Alec Martinez scored the go-ahead goal midway through the second period and Los Angeles limited Colorado to 10 shots, matching the single-game low in the NHL this season. This was the type of shutdown game the Kings needed to get into the postseason. The Avalanche were eliminated from playoff contention before the game when Winnipeg defeated the Vancouver Canucks. That was tough to swallow for a team that won the Central Division with 112 points last season. Martinez broke a 1-1 tie at 10:09 of the second when he scored on a shot from the right circle that went in and out of the net so fast that he briefly celebrated before shooting the puck into the net again. Jeff Carter threw the puck on net and it bounced out to a pinching Martinez, who scored his first goal since Jan. 17. He missed 19 games during that span with a concussion. Marian Gaborik scored an insurance goal on a wrist shot that beat Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov from the top of the left circle with 1:56 left in regulation. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick made nine saves, allowing only a goal by Ryan O'Reilly 1:12 into the second period. The 10 shots allowed equaled the Kings' franchise record from Jan.11, 1994, against the San Jose Sharks for fewest by an opponent. Dwight King opened the scoring when he put home Carter's rebound at 13:56 of the first period. O'Reilly tied it 72 seconds into the middle period when he knocked in a loose puck after Quick could not glove Landeskog's shot. The Kings won their 24th home game, two shy of the franchise single-season record.
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