NHL - Results - Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Phoenix @ New Jersey 2-3 OT - Adam Larsson turned a transition off a turnover in the Devils' end into a 3-on-1 in the opposite direction. After knocking Martin Hanzal off the puck at the Devils blue line, Larsson skated down his left wing with Lee Stempniak and Travis Zajac. He eventually got a return pass from Zajac and knocked a shot past goaltender Mike Smith at the left post. Anthony Duclair and Mikkel Boedker had third-period goals for the Coyotes. Boedker pulled the Coyotes into a 2-2 tie when his shot from the left circle deflected off the leg of Devils defenseman David Schlemko and past goaltender Cory Schneider with 50.9 seconds remaining in the third period and goalie Mike Smith pulled for an extra attacker. It was Boedker's first goal of the season. Cammalleri, who had a career-high eight shots on goal, gave the Devils a 2-1 lead at 7:09 of the third period. He took a drop pass from Zajac and fired a wrist shot from the high slot over the left shoulder of Smith. Schneider made a tremendous left-pad save against Boedker less than two minutes before Cammalleri's goal when Arizona had a 5-on-3 power play. Duclair pulled the Coyotes into a 1-1 tie 47 seconds into the third with a power-play goal. He took a pass from fellow rookie Max Domi at the right hash and beat Schneider with a backhand. Duclair leads all rookies with five goals, and the Coyotes have nine goals by rookies, the most of any NHL team. Zajac gave the Devils a 1-0 lead by scoring a shorthanded goal with 27 seconds remaining in the second. With Kyle Palmieri serving an interference penalty, Zajac took a pass from Jacob Josefson down the slot and beat Smith with a backhand to give the Devils their first lead of the season. The shorthanded goal was the fourth allowed by the Coyotes this season. The Coyotes barely missed scoring the game's first goal with 1:38 remaining in the second when Schneider stopped a shot by Antoine Vermette from the right circle and then, while falling backward, denied cheap shot Shane Doan on the rebound. Doan was playing in his 1,400th career NHL game. He is the 34th player in League history to play as many games and is seven shy of tying Dale Hunter (1,407).
NY Islanders @ Columbus 4-0 - After the Blue Jackets' power play failed to tie the score on three successive attempts in the third period, the Islanders responded with three goals in 5:26. Columbus, which was 0-for-6 with the man-advantage, is the seventh team in NHL history to start a season with seven straight regulation losses and the first since the Chicago Blackhawks in 1997-98. The Blue Jackets (0-7-0) will play seven of their next eight games on the road.
Hickey's goal with 8:40 left came off a turnover by Columbus defenseman Cody Goloubef. Clutterbuck made it 3-0 with a wrist shot from the left circle at 13:36 and Tavares extended his point streak to four games with an empty-net goal at 16:46. The Blue Jackets reached the nadir of futility in the third period on their three power plays in the first seven minutes. The first two penalties against the Islanders were for delay of game and Columbus got one shot on each of the power plays. Halak came up big on the next kill, making three saves, including two with the right pad against Bonne Jenner. On the second attempt, the puck bounced over Halak's pad but was cleared away by Hickey. The Islanders took a 1-0 lead on Kulemin's second goal of the season with 1:02 left in the first period against Columbus goaltender Curtis McElhinney, who had 25 saves in his second straight start in place of Sergei Bobrovsky. Halak nearly lost his shutout 23 seconds into the third on a shot by Blue Jackets forward Brandon Dubinsky from between the circles. After making the initial save, the puck fell behind Halak but he reached back with his glove and grabbed the puck inches from the goal line.
Washington @ Calgary 6-2 - Alex Ovechkin reached the 900-point mark with a second-period goal and also had an assist. Ovechkin is the first player in Capitals' history to get to 900 points. With 479 goals, he is four shy of Sergei Fedorov (483) for the most among Russian-born NHL players. He leads all players in goals since 2001-02 though his NHL career didn't begin until 2005.
Braden Holtby made 17 saves to help the Capitals win their first road game of the season. They won three of four games on their season-opening homestand.
Sean Monahan and Mark Giordano scored for Calgary (1-5-0), which has lost four straight home games to start the season for the first time in franchise history.
Ovechkin's goal 30 seconds into the second period broke a 1-1 tie and gave him 900 points in 764 games. Barreling down the wing, he sent a shot from the top of the left circle that trickled away from goaltender Karri Ramo, who couldn't locate the puck before Ovechkin slid it into the net. Ovechkin has goals in each of the four games he's played this season. Nicklas Backstrom and T.J. Oshie scored on one-timers 41 seconds apart midway through the second period to break the game open for Washington. Justin Williams set up behind the net, spotted Backstrom creeping into the high slot and set him up for a one-timer that beat Ramo over the glove at 10:56. At 11:37, Oshie made it 4-1 off a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov, sending the puck through Ramo from six feet out to put Washington ahead by three. Ovechkin had the second assist for career point No. 901. Oshie's goal ended Ramo's night after 14 saves on 18 shots. Jonas Hiller made 10 saves on 12 shots in relief. The Flames have been outscored 11-2 and outshot 68-31 in second periods this season. Giordano got the Flames within two at 3:09 of the third, but Jason Chimera ended any hopes of a comeback at 6:53 when he fired a shot past Hiller's blocker on a 2-on-1 with Jay Beagle to put Washington up 5-2. Backstrom added his second of the game with 3:46 remaining, backhanding a shot over Hiller's glove to complete the rout.
Monahan opened the scoring nine minutes into the first period. After pressure from Michael Frolik on the forecheck, Johnny Gaudreau corralled a turnover by Capitals defenseman John Carlson and dropped for Monahan, who quickly fired a shot over Holtby's glove to put Calgary up 1-0. Andre Burakovsky responded at 16:02. Kuznetsov stripped Flames defenseman Dennis Wideman, cut behind the net and from his backhand sent a no-look pass out the short side to Burakovsky, who put it into the net for his first of the season before Ramo could react.