Vancouver @ Buffalo 2-3
Rasmus Ristolainen's second goal of the game came with 16.8 seconds left.
Ristolainen took a wrist shot from inside the blue line after a pass from Marcus Foligno that beat Miller for his third goal of the season. Ristolainen's game-winner was set up when Tyler Ennis skated past Ben Hutton into the zone. Ristolainen skated past Daniel Sedin and eluded Matt Bartkowski before he passed to Foligno. Foligno then passed back for the winning shot. Ristolainen gave the Sabres a 2-0 lead 8:10 into the second period. After Jake Virtanen was penalized for elbowing, Ristolainen received a pass from Jack Eichel and took a slap shot that went through Miller's five-hole. Chris Higgins tied the game with 9:45 left in the third period with his first goal of the season in his second game. Higgins skated around Zemgus Girgensons and Jake McCabe and slipped the puck through Ullmark. Henrik Sedin made it 2-1 with 6:27 left in the second period. His third goal of the season came after he received a pass from Daniel Sedin and took a wrist shot at the side of the net over Ullmark.
Florida @ Los Angeles 1-4
Jeff Carter, Drew Doughty and Anze Kopitar scored in a span of 4:18 in the second period to give Los Angeles a 4-1 win. Carter put Tyler Toffoli's pass into an open net at 13:16 after Toffoli deftly circled to the high slot. Carter (seven) and Toffoli (nine) have combined to score 16 of the Kings' 35 goals. Doughty scored his first goal of the season on a one-timer from Jake Muzzin that slipped through Florida goalie Roberto Luongo on a power play at 16:39. Kopitar's second-chance nudge at the puck at the left post at 17:34 made it 3-1. Nick Bjugstad scored Florida's goal with 29 seconds left in the first period. He carried the puck across the right side of the neutral zone and beat Quick with a shot to the far side.
Boston @ Montreal 2-4
David Desharnais scored a tie-breaking power-play goal with 1:08 left in the third period. Desharnais put the rebound of Alex Galchenyuk's shot past Jonas Gustavsson. The go-ahead goal came after Boston center David Krejci was penalized for cross-checking Canadiens center Tomas Plekanec with 2:03 remaining. Lars Eller drew the Canadiens even for a second time with his fifth goal of the season at 8:58 of the third period. Max Pacioretty scored into an empty net with 47.9 seconds remaining. Frank Vatrano scored in his first NHL game to give the Bruins a 2-1 lead at 8:51 of the second. Loui Eriksson scored a power-play goal in the first period to give Boston an early lead. Plekanec tied it at 1-1 with a power-play goal at 1:09 of the second, but had an apparent second goal disallowed by a coach's challenge. Plekanec appeared to have tied the game 2-2 at 4:01 of the third, but the on-ice ruling was overturned when Julien used his challenge and the referees determined that Brendan Gallagher had interfered with Gustavsson in the crease before the puck went in the net.
Vatrano put Boston ahead 2-1 when he cut back high along the right side of the Canadiens' zone after taking a pass from Colin Miller and curled in to beat Condon with a wrist shot from five feet inside the blue line. Boston took a 1-0 lead 1:50 into the game when Patrice Bergeron won a faceoff in the Canadiens' zone and drew the puck back to Ryan Spooner. Bergeron one-timed Spooner's return pass from the top of the right circle, and his shot deflected off Eriksson's right skate and past Condon.
Players on each team wore winter tuques in their respective 2016 Bridgestone Winter Classic colors during the pregame warmup. The Canadiens on Friday unveiled the jersey they will wear when they face the Bruins at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on Jan. 1.
Toronto @ Washington 2-3 SO
The Capitals didn't panic when they had a goal waved off with 2:39 remaining.
Instead, they scored another one and went on to a 3-2 shootout win. Nicklas Backstrom tied the game at 2-2 with 0.8 seconds remaining and sent it to overtime. After he scored, the first thing he did was look up at the scoreboard to make sure it counted. Alex Ovechkin scored in the fourth round of the shootout to give the Capitals the win, and tied Sergei Fedorov for most NHL goals by a Russian-born player with his 483rd in the second period. Ovechkin would have passed Fedorov, but his goal in the final three minutes was disallowed after a coach's challenge for goalie interference. Ovechkin tied the game 1-1 at 4:51 of the second period. He reached his milestone in 772 NHL games, 476 fewer than Fedorov. Winnik scored at 2:36 of the first period for a 1-0 Toronto lead. Evgeny Kuznetsov's scoring chance for Washington was blocked by Reimer and the rebound created an odd-man rush. Winnik beat Holtby on his glove side for his second of the season. Winnik was injured later in the period and did not return.
The Capitals have allowed the first goal in four consecutive games. Ovechkin tied it with his first power-play goal of the season. Kuznetsov's cross-ice pass got to Ovechkin, who sent a backhand past Reimer for his eighth of the season.
Van Riemsdyk scored at 9:27 of the third period to give Toronto a 2-1 lead. He beat Holtby with a backhand on the power play, his fifth goal of the season.
Ovechkin can pass Fedorov at Detroit on Tuesday, where Fedorov played most of his career. Fedorov scored 483 goals in 1,248 games with the Detroit Red Wings, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Capitals.
"We competed hard. It was our fourth in six (days) and back-to-back (Toronto lost to the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in overtime on Friday). [Washington are] a good team. I thought the game was even, through two (periods) for sure, obviously the 5-on-3 advantage for a whole minute I thought was a huge point in the game, and we got a good kill there. You would like the win, we were set up pretty good to win that and we didn't get her done, but we got points in three of the four we played this week and that was good." Former Whitley Warrior Mike Babcock said.
"Last year, that would be called a goal [his third-period goal that was disallowed]. It's something new for us. I don't know who's making the call, the referees or guys from Toronto, but it is what it is. Sometimes it's a goal, sometimes it's not. Obviously, it [stinks], but I think it's OK. You have to think about the game." Alex Ovechkin said.
Ottawa @ Carolina 2-3 OT
Jordan Staal stepped into a shot from the right circle in overtime to lift the Hurricanes to a come-from-behind win. Carolina pushed the game to overtime after a dominant stretch of more than two minutes with goaltender Cam Ward off for the extra attacker. After a goal-mouth scramble, Jeff Skinner gathered a puck outside the crease and fired it past a sprawling Andrew Hammond with 3.3 seconds remaining. Hammond was sharp all game, particularly when Carolina took a combined 29 shots in the second and third periods. He squeezed his pads on a heavy shot from Justin Faulk with 1:13 remaining, reaching behind him to make sure the puck didn't trickle into the net. In the moments prior to the tying goal, Hammond stopped Faulk again before Staal batted a rebound over the net. Kris Versteeg then hammered a shot from the point, and Skinner got off a shot in close, but Hammond, who finished with 43 saves, made the stop.
Faulk put Carolina up 1-0 with his League-leading fifth power-play goal at 4:21 of the second period. Victor Rask won the faceoff back to Faulk, who beat Hammond over the blocker. The goal came on the second of three straight Ottawa penalties in a span of 3:44. When Faulk went off for delay of game a few minutes later, the Senators tied it on their first power-play opportunity. Patrick Wiercioch sent a backhand pass just out of the reach of Ron Hainsey to Alex Chiasson who drove the net for a re-direct at 11:37. Ottawa made it 2-1 on Chris Wideman's first NHL goal. After Bobby Ryan held in Carolina's clearing attempt along the wall, Mika Zibanejad found Wideman along the goal line for a bad-angle shot under Ward's glove.
NY Rangers @ Phoenix 4-1Antti Raanta came within 4.6 seconds of recording his second shutout in three starts, but had to settle for 39 saves and a satisfying road victory. Cheap shot Shane Doan ruined the shutout with a rebound putback on the power play.
J.T. Miller and Chris Kreider scored 2:29 apart in the second period to give the Rangers a 3-0 lead and chase pizza boy Mike Smith, who has allowed 13 goals in his last 132 minutes of play and has been pulled in two of his last three starts. The Coyotes lost the defenseman Nicklas Grossmann, who sustained a lower-body injury in a collision with Rangers forward Jarrett Stoll late in the first period and didn't return. The first period featured 27 shots on goal and numerous top-shelf scoring chances, but just one goal. That came when Dan Girardi wristed a shot from the just off the wall that Fast deflected down in the right circle. The puck skipped under Smith at 8:00 for Fast's second goal of the season. After Doan whiffed on a clearing attempt in the slot in his own zone, Miller pounced on the puck and pushed it between Smith's pads at 2:07 for his second goal. Kreider ended Smith's night at 5:36 when he fired a wrist shot from the right circle that trickled between Smith's pads, putting the Coyotes in a 3-0 hole. Hayes capped the period with his fourth goal, a power-play shot from the left point into traffic that eluded Lindback at 13:26.
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