NY Islanders @ Columbus 3-4 SO - Columbus got goals from Jack Johnson and Ryan Johansen to tie the score 3-3 before Mark Letestu and Johansen scored in the shootout. Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky stopped four Islanders in the shootout after making 25 saves. Columbus tied a Blue Jackets record with an eighth straight win, set Jan. 6-23, 2014. The Islanders went ahead 3-1 on a Ryan Strome goal 55 seconds into the third. Two minutes later, Strome had a redirect that hit the right post then skimmed the crossbar. Strome was the beneficiary of a rebound off a shot from the blue line by defenseman Travis Hamonic for his 17th goal. Johnson made it 3-2 with 8:57 left in the third period by pushing in a loose puck after a scramble in front of Halak. It was the defenseman's second goal in two games and eighth of the season. Johansen tied it with 3:43 left by extending his point streak to nine games (four goals, eight assists) with a sweep of the puck, which was in the crease after a save by Halak. Eric Boulton scored in the first period for the Islanders and Brandon Dubinsky tied it for the Blue Jackets before the period was over. Tavares scored his 35th in the second but the Islanders could not hold the lead.
Washington @ Montreal 5-4 SO - Ovechkin became Washington's all-time leading goal-scorer with the first of his two power-play goals, and Troy Brouwer scored the only shootout goal to give the Capitals a 5-4 win. Ovechkin passed Peter Bondra with his 473rd goal at 14:08 of the second period. Trotz said before the game that Ovechkin, who leads the NHL with 52 goals, was closing in on Price as the top contender for the NHL's Most Valuable Player award. Ovechkin, who played his 756th NHL game, moved ahead of Bondra, who scored 472 goals in 961 games with Washington from 1990 to 2004. Braden Holtby stopped all four Montreal shots in the shootout after making 23 saves in regulation and overtime for the Capitals, who extended their winning streak to three games. Joel Ward scored twice, including Washington's third straight power-play goal to give the Capitals a 4-3 lead at 12:19 of the third. John Carlson had the primary assist on each of Washington's three power-play goals.
P.K. Subban scored his career-high 15th goal on a power play with 4:59 remaining in the third to tie the game 4-4. The Capitals took a 2-1 lead on Ovechkin's 51st goal with Canadiens left wing Max Pacioretty in the penalty box for hooking. Gilbert drew Montreal even at 2-2 with his fourth goal at 14:47 of the second period. Eller gave the Canadiens a 3-2 lead at 18:39 with his 13th goal. Ovechkin's second power-play goal tied it 3-3 at 11:06 of the third period. It was his League-leading 24th power-play goal, which tied his career high set last season. Ward, who scored at 10:36 of the second to tie it at 1-1, got his second when he tipped Carlson's point shot past Price. Petry scored 58 seconds into the second period, one second after Brooks Orpik's holding penalty expired.
Linesman Jean Morin was given a warm ovation in the first period when it was announced that he was working his 1,427th and final NHL regular-season game.
Tampa Bay @ Ottawa 1-2 OT - Patrick Wiercioch scored with 16.9 seconds left in overtime to give the Senators a 2-1 win. Wiercioch scored on a shot from the right circle off a pass from Mark Stone that beat Tampa Bay goaltender Ben Bishop. The regulation goals in this game were scored in the first period by rookies. Stone was first with his 20th of the season, and Jonathan Drouin scored his fourth for the Lightning. Stone got the puck in the Senators zone and found Clarke MacArthur with a stretch pass. MacArthur curled in the Tampa Bay zone and made a short pass to Kyle Turris. He shot on net, and Stone scored on the rebound at 5:03. Drouin scored his second goal in three games at 16:53 with Erik Karlsson off for holding. Ottawa's Jean-Gabriel Pageau had the best chance to clear the puck at the left point in a scrum, but the Lightning kept it in. Valtteri Filppula found Drouin in the right circle, and his shot went over the right shoulder of Andrew Hammond. The Lightning played the game without four of their top six defensemen; Victor Hedman, Braydon Coburn, Jason Garrison and Andrej Sustr are injured. The Lightning also played without second-leading scorer Tyler Johnson. Coach Jon Cooper said it was doubtful any of the injured players would be available against the Panthers.
Boston @ Detroit 3-2 - Trotman's harmless-looking shot from deep in the right faceoff circle went off Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek and squirted in on the short side. The Red Wings were without center Pavel Datsyuk, who missed his second game in a row and seventh in the past nine because of a lower-body injury, right wing Erik Cole, who missed his fifth because of an upper-body injury, and right wing Tomas Jurco, who sat because of an upper-body injury.
Detroit center Riley Sheahan returned to the lineup after missing three games because of an upper-body injury. The Bruins acquired Connolly in a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning at the NHL Trade Deadline, but he broke his finger in practice right after the trade. Boston center Patrice Bergeron played one shift in the second period but returned for the start of the third period. He was wearing a full face shield after he required 20 stitches for a cut to his face. Glendening gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead 9:19 into the second period when he backhanded a loose puck that was lying just outside the crease past Rask and under the crossbar. It was Glendening's 12th goal. Weiss made it 2-0 with a power-play goal 2:52 into the third period. He put in a loose puck off a goal-mouth scramble for his ninth goal. But Boston scored two goals 2:14 apart to tie it. Soderberg put the Bruins on the board with a power-play goal 5:05 into the third, snapping in a rebound for his 13th goal. Eriksson got his 21st goal at 7:19 when he put Smith's pass from below the goal line into an empty net after Mrazek overplayed Smith.
Carolina @ Florida 1-6 - Jagr's two points moved into a tie for fourth with Ron Francis on the NHL's all-time point list with 1,798. Brandon Pirri continued his scoring surge with his fifth goal in six games; it was his 19th in his past 26 games. Chris Terry scored for Carolina with 1:19 left in regulation, allowing the Hurricanes to avoid their third consecutive shutout loss to the Panthers. Florida has never shut out an opponent three consecutive times. Terry's power-play goal extended his point streak to four games (2-2-4). Anton Khudobin, who stopped 106 of 109 shots while going 3-0 against Florida last season, made 29 saves. Despite Carolina having an 11-2 shot advantage in the first 10:36, the first period was evenly played and scoreless until Mitchell gave Florida a 1-0 lead with 49.4 seconds left by scoring his third goal of the season. Mitchell scored off a faceoff when his shot changed direction after hitting Terry's skate.
The Panthers blew the game open with three second-period goals, continuing a season-long trend. Florida began the night with 84 goals in the second period, 25 more than in the first or third. Pirri scored first at 5:01 after Jagr carried the puck down the right wing. When Jagr lost control and the puck slid between two Carolina payers, Pirri came over from the middle of the ice, shot while spinning around and beat Khudobin between the legs. Jagr scored his fifth goal in 16 games with the Panthers since coming over in a trade with the New Jersey Devils on Feb. 26 at 13:01 when he one-timed Barkov's beautiful pass from behind the net. Barkov made it 4-0 at 16:27 off a 2-on-1 with a backhand rebound after Khudobin had stopped his wrist shot. Trocheck's two goals came 38 seconds apart in the third period. He scored at 6:07 with a wrist shot from the high slot and at 6:45 on a rebound in front of the net.
NY Rangers @ Minnesota 3-2 - J.T. Miller scored the game-winner 6:48 into the third period, deflecting a shot from the point by Ryan McDonagh past Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk less than a minute after Thomas Vanek tied the score 2-2. The Rangers took advantage of the Wild, who hadn't played since Saturday, by scoring 2:09 into the game and twice in the first period. The Rangers took advantage of a Wild turnover for a 1-0 lead. A pass by Vanek was intercepted by Carl Hagelin at the blue line. He took a quick shot toward the net that was deflected by Dominic Moore past Dubnyk. New York scored on its first power play for a 2-0 lead. Rick Nash's shot from a bad angle deflected in off Dubnyk's blocker at 14:37. Nash's 41st goal tied his NHL high, established in 2003-04, his second season with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Minnesota made it 2-1 at 5:24 of the second period when a backhand flip by Matt Dumba deflected past Lundqvist off Jason Pominville's skate. The goal ended a nine-game drought for Pominville, whose 17th goal gave him 50 points for the eighth time in his NHL career. Vanek tied the game after Dumba's shot wide of the net caromed to him in front at 5:53. Vanek has eight goals and 12 points in his past 12 games.
Vancouver @ Chicago 1-3 - Corey Crawford and the Chicago Blackhawks' fourth line made sure a chance to clinch a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs at United Center wasn't squandered. Led by Crawford's 35 saves and two goals from its fourth line, Chicago defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 to clinch its seventh straight trip to the playoffs. Jonathan Toews and fourth-line center Marcus Kruger each scored in the third period, minutes after Crawford made several outstanding saves to keep the game tied. Canucks goalie Eddie Lack also made 35 saves, and Derek Dorsett scored his seventh goal, tying the game 1-1 at 18:46 of the first off a Chicago turnover. Blackhawks rookie Teuvo Teravainen opened the scoring at 6:51 of the first period with his fourth goal, rewarding the Blackhawks' fourth line for a strong shift when he scored with a wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle. After feeding Marcus Kruger a pass to the front of the net, the Finnish rookie drifted into the right circle and got a return pass from Kruger off a rebound of the initial shot. Teravainen forced a turnover midway through the third, then returned the favor and sprung Kruger for a breakaway. Kruger scored at 10:31 for the game's final goal, 2:27 after Toews made it 2-1 off a rebound of a point shot by Johnny Oduya. Crawford made 10 saves in the second to keep the Canucks from taking a lead on good scoring chances by Linden Vey and Yannick Weber. He made 15 in the third, including another good one against Weber at 6:22 during a 3-on-2 rush.
Minutes later, after Toews' goal, the Blackhawks goalie made an outstanding save against Nick Bonino to preserve the one-goal lead. The Blackhawks are in the playoffs for a seventh consecutive season for the first time since 1991 to 1997, but the goal now is to chase down the Blues, and possibly the Nashville Predators, who lead the Central with 103 points, for some sort of home-ice advantage.
Edmonton @ Los Angeles 2-8 - Dustin Brown, Drew Doughty and Jordan Nolan ended goal-scoring droughts of at least 19 games in a 8-2 win against the Oilers at Staples Center. The Kings (38-25-14) tied the Winnipeg Jets with 90 points and own the first tiebreaker with more regulation/overtime wins. Los Angeles also got help in the Western standings because three teams ahead of them, the Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Wild, all lost.
Brown ended a 19-game scoring drought and Doughty a 24-game drought in a first-period blitz for the Kings, whose three goals in the first 9:13 of the game equaled their total from their previous four home games. Doughty capped the outburst with a wrist shot through traffic for his first goal since Feb. 7. It gave the Kings three goals on six shots. Brown threaded a wrist shot from a steep angle on the left side 2:23 into the game for his first goal since Feb. 18. Gaborik scored off Anze Kopitar's saucer pass on a 3-on-3 rush at 7:07. Nolan ended a 20-game scoring drought when he drove to the net and stuffed the puck past Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens to give the Kings a 4-1 lead at 12:14 of the second.
Jeff Carter scored his team-leading 27th and 28th goals, on the power play at 18:38 of the second and on a breakaway at 9:21 of the third, and the Kings got their first eight-goal game since April 1, 2010. Fifteen players made the scoresheet for Los Angeles. Edmonton goalie Tyler Bunz made his NHL debut when he was inserted for the third period and allowed two goals on his first four shots, which prompted Oilers coach Todd Nelson to call timeout while Scrivens gave Bunz a pep talk. Kings center Jarret Stoll returned after a nine-game absence because of a head injury.
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