Carolina @ Washington 2-4 - Ovechkin became the sixth player in NHL history to have six 50-goal seasons, joining Mike Bossy, Wayne Gretzky, Marcel Dionne, Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux. Green scored on the rush at 2:46 of the first period to give Washington a 1-0 lead. His cross-ice pass was deflected past Cam Ward by Justin Faulk. The goal was Green’s eighth. Ovechkin took a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov and sent a shot past Ward for his 50th to give Washington a 2-0 lead at 11:12 of the first. The Hurricanes scored two goals in less than six minutes in the second period. Gerbe made it 2-1 with his ninth goal at 5:00. Holtby, pinned at the far post after stopping an Alexander Semin stuff attempt, left the crease wide open. The rebound trickled toward the slot, and Gerbe scored past two Capitals players in the crease, Eric Fehr and Karl Alzner. Eric Staal scored his 22nd goal at 10:33 of the second, tying the game 2-2. With Washington defenseman Brooks Orpik tied up by Andrej Nestrasil, Staal received a cross-ice pass from Chris Terry and beat Holtby with a glove-side wrist shot. Laich gave the Capitals a 3-2 lead with his seventh goal at 17:06 of the second. Jason Chimera led the odd-man rush, beating three Carolina players, and sent a cross-ice pass to Laich, who sent a backhand past Cam Ward. Ovechkin picked up his second point of the game when Joel Ward tipped his pass on the rush past Cam Ward to make it 4-2. Ovechkin has 77 points, two behind Pittsburgh forward Sidney Crosby for the League lead.
Tampa Bay @ Toronto 1-3 - Toronto took a 1-0 lead with Tampa Bay's Brendan Morrow in the penalty box for tripping. Nazem Kadri tipped Joakim Lindstrom's one-timer past goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy at 8:53 of the first period. David Booth made it 2-0 at 12:03 when his sharp-angle shot from the right side beat Vasilevskiy to the far side. It was Booth's seventh goal of the season, first in eight games. The Lightning made it 2-1 at 18:04 when Ryan Callahan tapped home a rebound in front after goalie James Reimer made a splits save on Ondrej Palat with Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly off for holding. Rielly scored 24 seconds into the third period, his eighth goal of the season, to make it 3-1. The left-shooting defenseman broke to the Tampa Bay net on the right side, took a pass from Kadri and put a high wrist shot past Vasilevskiy on the short side.
Ottawa @ Detroit 2-1 SO - Clarke MacArthur scored his 14th goal late in the third period to send the game to overtime, and Senators goalie Andrew Hammond made 16 saves through overtime before stopping two of four Red Wings shooters in the tiebreaker. Nyquist and Tomas Tatar scored in the shootout for Detroit, who are in third place in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of Boston. Red Wings forwards Pavel Datsyuk and Riley Sheahan were late scratches. Datsyuk played the past two games after missing the previous five because of a lower-body injury. Sheahan, who missed his third consecutive game, appeared ready to return to the lineup Tuesday after he participated in the morning skate. Detroit was also without right wing Erik Cole because of an upper-body injury, and it lost forward Drew Miller when he was accidentally kicked in the face by Stone 1:10 into the game and sustained two deep lacerations around his right eye. Miller did not return. MacArthur tied the game 1-1 with 4:02 left in the third period. His shot from the high slot area found its way past a crowd before going off a Red Wings player's skate and past Mrazek.
Nyquist opened the scoring 5:43 into the second period on the Red Wings' sixth shot on goal. After taking a drop pass from Justin Abdelkader on the rush, Nyquist's wrist shot from the top of the right circle beat Hammond high on the long side. Mrazek stopped Senators forward Mike Hoffman on a breakaway with about 9:40 remaining in the first period, and Stone sent a backhand wide of the Red Wings net on a breakaway with about nine minutes left.
Vancouver @ Nashville 5-4 SO - The Canucks had to kill a five-minute penalty with 3:54 remaining and 1:06 into overtime after Alexandre Burrows was given a major penalty and game misconduct for a hit on Predators forward Paul Gaustad. Kevin Bieksa, one of their best penalty killers, was given a 10-minute misconduct at the same time Burrows was ejected. Gaustad left the game after the hit from and did not return. Mike Fisher tied the game 4-4 at 14:57 of the third period on a power play. Bonino tried to clear the puck out of the defensive zone, but it bounced off of Fisher and past Canucks goaltender Eddie Lack for Fisher's 19th goal. Chris Higgins gave the Canucks a 4-3 lead at 5:48 of the third period on a one-timer off of a pass from Burrows. Higgins drove through the middle of the ice and redirected a feed past Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne for a power-play goal. It was Higgins' 12th goal of the season. Burrows tied the game 3-3 at 1:23 of the third period on a shorthanded breakaway. Burrows hesitated, then put it past Rinne for his 16th goal. Cody Franson opened the scoring on a power play 4:30 into the game on a wrist shot from the point. Colin Wilson drove to the net and Franson shot the puck past Lack for his seventh goal of the season and first since being acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Taylor Beck doubled Nashville's lead at 8:15 of the first period on a breakaway. Beck took a pass from Gaustad and sent a wrist shot that trickled through Lack's pads for his eighth goal. Lindey Vey scored to make it 2-1 at 4:04 of the second period on a wrist shot that beat Rinne through the five-hole. Vey skated into the Predators zone and his shot got around two defensemen for his 10th goal. Jannik Hansen tied the game at 6:04 of the second on a slap shot that beat Rinne on the blocker side. Hansen used Roman Josi as a screen and scored his 15th goal to make it 2-2. Viktor Stalberg gave the Predators a one-goal lead with 29.4 seconds remaining in the second period on a wrist shot that beat Lack. Stalberg took a pass from Anton Volchenkov and shot from the right faceoff circle for his second goal.
NY Rangers @ Winnipeg 3-2 - New York erased two one-goal deficits to set up a 2-2 game before Chris Kreider slipped by Dustin Byfuglien on a rush and sent a backhand shot past goaltender Ondrej Pavelec with 3:46 left in the third period. Jim Slater scored on Winnipeg's fourth shot of the game for a 1-0 lead at 3:16 of the first period, but Mats Zuccarello tied it at 9:42 with his 15th goal. Lee Stempniak, who the Jets acquired from the Rangers in a trade March 1, put Winnipeg back on top 1:25 into the second period. Derick Brassard's power-play goal at 10:13 of the second erased another one-goal lead for the Jets. Winnipeg took a 1-0 lead when Slater squeezed his bouncing rebound past Lundqvist. Two of Slater's four goals have come in the past three games. Down 1-0, Zuccarello broke loose from Mark Stuart in front of the net before he followed up the rebound of Rick Nash's point shot and stuffed it past Pavelec. The Jets went ahead 2-1 when Stempniak took Mathieu Perreault's drop pass and snapped a shot under the crossbar for his 12th goal. Stempniak has three goals and three assists in 13 games with Winnipeg. After Perreault was called for interference against Rangers center Dominic Moore, Brassard stepped into a left-side shot and sent it through Nash's screen for his 17th goal.
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