Zidlicky made the most of the two-man advantage by stepping into a slap shot in the right circle and beating Fleury 39 seconds into the second for a 3-0 lead. Detroit had 1:09 of a 5-on-3 advantage remaining following the goal, followed by 51 seconds of a 5-on-4 power play, but could not add to its lead. The Red Wings did make it 4-0 at 7:44 when Gustav Nyquist sent a backhand pass to the right of Fleury, and Zetterberg tucked a shot into the net from a tight angle. Thomas Greiss replaced Fleury, who finished with 12 saves on 16 shots, following the goal. Kris Letang was called for the Penguins' third 10-minute misconduct of the game after Patric Hornqvist was pushed into goalie Petr Mrazek (42 saves) with 9:25 remaining in the second. Steve Downie was called for Pittsburgh's first such offense, with 7:36 left in the first after knocking down a referee. He was called for a second 10-minute misconduct, Pittsburgh's fourth of the game, 5:37 into the third. Penguins coach Mike Johnston said he has been displeased with Downie's tendency to take unnecessary penalties. Christian Ehrhoff appeared to cut the Red Wings' lead to three goals at 9:28 of the second period, but the goal was disallowed after the officials ruled that Hornqvist interfered with Mrazek. Pulkkinen made it 5-0 at 3:02 of the third period. Perron scored the Penguins' lone goal at 9:10. Hornqvist left the game late in the third period with an unspecified injury. Johnston said Hornqvist's injury seemed bad when he left the ice, and that he will be further evaluated and more information could be provided Monday.
Florida @ NY Rangers 1-2 - James Sheppard and Matt Hunwick scored for the Rangers, who killed off a late Panthers power play with defenseman Ryan McDonagh off for hooking. But this win may have come at a cost. Forward Martin St. Louis left the game late in the third period with an apparent lower-body injury. Brandon Pirri ended Talbot's bid for his sixth shutout with his 15th goal, and 12th in his past 17 games, when he scored off a faceoff at 10:11 of the third period. Hunwick's goal, his first goal of the season and first as a Ranger, came on a slap shot from the left point through traffic at 8:37 of the third and gave New York a 2-0 lead. The Panthers controlled play in the second period, firing 20 shots on goal, but Talbot stood tall. Early in the period, Talbot stopped Scottie Upshall and Erik Gudbranson on slap shots before turning aside Jagr's shot off a 2-on-1 rush. Jagr also feathered a pass to an open Aleksander Barkov in front of the net, but Barkov was denied by Talbot. Talbot's finest moment came at 13:56 of the second when he made two point-blank saves on Panthers captain Willie Mitchell. On Mitchell's third attempt, a backhand to Talbot's left, the puck nearly crossed the goal line but video review confirmed the original call of no goal. Later in the period, Talbot stopped Panthers center Nick Bjugstad on a breakaway off a long pass to keep the score at 1-0. Sheppard made a play behind the Panthers net to find Hunwick, whose shot deflected off Dominic Moore and onto Sheppard's waiting stick in front of the net. He tipped it past Ellis at 17:44 of the opening period to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. With less than a minute remaining in the period, center Kevin Hayes turned the puck over behind the Rangers net, and it deflected off Panthers forward Jussi Jokinen. Talbot deflected the puck with his stick to an open Dave Bolland in the slot. Talbot stopped Bolland's shot and defenseman Dan Girardi poked the puck away from Jokinen in front of an open net to allow Talbot to cover up.
Carolina @ Columbus 3-2 - Brad Malone broke a 2-2 tie late in the second and the Hurricanes ended a three-game losing streak. A bland first period ended with a bang for the Blue Jackets when Foligno scored with 0.6 seconds left to give Columbus a 1-0 lead. If there was any momentum gained from Foligno’s late score, it evaporated for the Blue Jackets in the second period because of a slew of penalties. Columbus went to the box three times in the first 6:56 of the second and the Hurricanes made them pay to even the score to start a rush of four goals in a 5:49 span. Carolina made it 1-1 on its fifth power play of the game with the 14th goal by Faulk. The defenseman scored on a shot from the high slot at 8:11. Hainsey, a former Blue Jackets defenseman, scored his second goal with a shot from the left wall that went through traffic at 9:45. The Blue Jackets tied the game 2-2 at 12:27 when Hartnell scored his 21st goal. It was Hartnell’s fifth goal in four games but rookie linemate Marko Dano did the work, taking the puck in the right circle and going inside and outside on Michal Jordan, sending the Carolina defenseman to the ice. Dano then skated to the net and sent a backhanded pass to Hartnell. Malone scored the game-winner at 14:00 with a redirect of a Brett Bellemore shot for his seventh goal with 6:00 remaining in the second.
St Louis @ Dallas 3-0 - Playing at American Airlines Center has brought the best out of Vladimir Tarasenko this season. Tarasenko scored his 34th goal early in the third period and Jake Allen made 28 saves to help the St. Louis Blues to a 3-0 win against the Dallas Stars on Sunday. In Tarasenko's previous game in Dallas, he scored his first career hat trick, including the game-winner in overtime to give the Blues a 4-3 win on Oct. 28. His latest goal, the sixth of his career against Dallas (five this season), came 4:26 into the third with a wrist shot from the slot that deflected in off the left pad of Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen. Tarasenko evaded Dallas captain Jamie Benn in the high slot during a 4-on-4 situation. Benn accepted full responsibility for the goal, the eventual game-winner. Allen recorded his fourth shutout of the season. Alexander Steen and T.J. Oshie each had a goal and an assist and Alex Pietrangelo had two assists for St. Louis (44-20-5), which moved into first place in the Central Division. The Blues and Nashville Predators, who lost 4-2 to the Anaheim Ducks later Sunday, each have 93 points, but the Blues have played two fewer games.
Lehtonen made 18 saves for the Stars (32-28-10). The Blues got an insurance goal when Steen scored on a power play with 3:15 remaining. Oshie scored an empty-net goal with 1:56 left to make it 3-0. Dallas failed to build any momentum on home ice after going 4-1-0 during an Eastern Conference road trip. The Stars are 2-5-3 in their past 10 games at home. Pietrangelo looked to break a scoreless tie with a slap shot from the right point at 16:26 of the second period, but Lehtonen denied him at the far post with a glove save. That shot by Pietrangelo was one of only a handful of scoring chances through the first two periods in a game that remained scoreless after 40 minutes. But that all changed rather quickly in the third period when the Blues had great jump almost from the opening faceoff. Tarasenko tried to score off the rush 1:40 into the third period when his wrist shot from the right circle got past Dallas rookie defenseman Jamie Oleksiak but was gobbled up by Lehtonen at 1:40. The Blues generated another quality chance at 2:02 of the third when Lehtonen denied a wrist shot by Stastny. The ensuing rebound was resting inside the paint, but Dallas defenseman Jason Demers cleared the puck out of danger. Dallas had a quality chance when Allen turned the puck over behind the St. Louis net at 6:56 of the third. Vernon Fiddler sent the puck toward the goal, but Stastny cleared the ensuing carom. Blues center Patrik Berglund played his 500th game.
The Stars finished 0-for-6 on the power play and had seven shots on goal.
Philadelphia @ Ottawa 1-2 SO - Ottawa’s Bobby Ryan scored on Philadelphia goaltender Ray Emery with a shot between the pads in the third round of the shootout. Hammond sealed the win with a save on Flyers captain Claude Giroux. Jean-Gabriel Pageau gave the Senators a 1-0 lead at 5:19 of the second period and Philadelphia’s Jakub Voracek scored his first even-strength goal since Dec. 21 to tie it at 12:12 of the second. Hammond, given the nickname "The Hamburglar" by a college teammate at Bowling Green State University, bent to pick up a hamburger thrown onto the ice after the victory, the 13th in the past 17 games for the Senators. While it hasn’t been finalized, Hammond said after the game there’s a plan in the works for him to receive a card giving him free McDonald’s for life. The father of his coach at Bowling Green owns McDonald’s restaurants in Ottawa, Hammond said. Hammond has allowed two goals or less in his first 11 NHL starts, one less than the record set by Frank Brimsek of the Boston Bruins in 1938-39. The 27-year-old got his chance after injuries to Senators goaltenders Craig Anderson and Robin Lehner, and his brilliant play has earned him the starter’s job after Anderson’s return from a hand injury.
Boston @ Washington 0-2 - It comes to something when I actually felt sympathy towards the Capitals, as I sat watching this game in a bar in Denver. The Bruins spent the entire game provoking & delivering dirty hits, with even Alex Ovechkin taking exception to one hit on a team mate and getting his gloves dirty. The odious Brad Marchand was at the front of the line in the douche bag stakes, and earned a roughing penalty after hitting Tom Wilson. The Capitals had a scheduled day off on Saturday taken away by coach Barry Trotz, who was unhappy with his players' effort in a 4-2 home loss to the Dallas Stars. They came out with a lot more jump against the Bruins, who were playing their sixth game in nine days. The Capitals came out firing; they had forced Rask to make 10 saves before the game was five minutes old. That was a big change from Friday, when they needed more than 23 minutes to reach double figures in shots on goal. Carlson put the Capitals ahead to stay at 12:43 of the first period with a power-play goal, ending Boston's streak of getting the first goal at 11 games. Nicklas Backstrom earned the 419th assist of his career on Carlson's goal, moving past Alex Ovechkin and Michal Pivonka into first place on the franchise career assists list. Schmidt made it 2-0 at 13:37 of the second period with his first goal of the season. He took a slap shot that deflected off Boston forward Gregory Campbell and into the net. Ovechkin blocked a shot and was helped off the ice early in the second period, but he returned several minutes later and finished with 17:35 of ice time.
Nashville @ Anaheim 2-4 - Palmieri and Thompson scored 35 seconds apart for the Ducks. Palmieri grabbed a loose puck off the end boards and beat Predators goalie Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot at 9:16, tying the game 2-2. Thompson completed a give-and-go with Jakob Silfverberg at 9:51. Fowler scored a power-play goal at 14:51. Anaheim trailed 2-0 going into the third before Getzlaf perked up the sellout crowd of 17,295 with his 23rd goal at 2:12 off a cycle from Corey Perry and Patrick Maroon. The Ducks found a ferocious forecheck and outshot the Predators 15-4 in the third. Taylor Beck and Roman Josi gave Nashville a 2-0 lead in the second period. Beck finished a 2-on-1 with Gabriel Bourque at 1:19 after Perry made an errant cross-ice pass to Fowler. Josi's slap shot hit the stick of Anaheim defenseman Francois Beauchemin and went inside the right post on the power play at 6:49. At the other end, the Predators put on a defensive clinic and outshot the Ducks 12-0 to start the second. It was another poor middle period for Anaheim, which has been outscored 86-67 in the second this season. The Ducks did not put a shot on goal until Getzlaf's attempt with 6:38 remaining.
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