Tampa Bay @ Washington 3-5
Washington trailed 3-0 after Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos scored at 9:04 of the second period, but then scored five unanswered goals, including three on the power play. Oshie's first goal pulled the Capitals to within a goal and gave them a sense of urgency the Lightning were unable to match. Grubauer made a big save against Vladislav Namestnikov, and Oshie cashed in on the other end. Killorn opened the scoring with his fifth goal at 8:18 of the first period. He scored on a transition play started by Braydon Coburn. Jonathan Marchessault received Coburn's pass and hit Killorn on his way to the net. Killorn held on to the puck and deked until Holtby went down, scoring behind him at the post.
Sustr ended a 106-game goal drought when he scored at 6:54 of the second period to put the Lightning up 2-0. Nikita Kucherov started the play at the other end, beat Matt Niskanen with a spin move and passed to a wide-open Sustr, who beat Holtby with a wrist shot from the right faceoff dot for his first goal since April 5, 2014. Stamkos' 12th of the season midway through the second period ended Holtby's night. Victor Hedman fed the puck to Stamkos in the neutral zone, and he beat two Capitals defenders to score from the slot. Ovechkin cut the deficit to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 13:49 of the second period. John Carlson passed to Ovechkin, whose shot was blocked. Oshie grabbed the rebound and sent a behind-the-back pass to Ovechkin, who scored on his second attempt. Oshie scored to make it 3-2 when he went end to end and beat Bishop at 7:54 of the third period. Ovechkin scored his second power-play goal of the night at 10:02 to tie it 3-3 when he skated into the zone unchallenged and scored to Bishop's glove side. The goal was his 16th of the season. Johansson scored the go-ahead goal on the power play with 5:44 remaining. It was his sixth goal of the season. Oshie scored an empty-net goal with 25 seconds remaining.
Florida @ Carolina 2-0
Willie Mitchell one-timed Huberdeau's pass for his first goal of the season, breaking a scoreless tie and lifting the Panthers to a 2-0 win. In a game that had few quality scoring chances, Huberdeau curled away from the Carolina defense in the left corner before sending a pass across the slot to Mitchell at the bottom of the right circle. Florida was sharp down the stretch too. Dmitry Kulikov tied up Kris Versteeg's stick in the slot to thwart a scoring chance with 3:30 left. Then with Cam Ward (16 saves) pulled for an extra attacker, Reilly Smith blocked a slap shot from Justin Faulk. Smith found the empty net with 21 seconds remaining, extending his goal-scoring streak to four games.
Vancouver @ Detroit 4-3 SO
Linden Vey scored in the seventh round of the shootout to give the Canucks a 4-3 win. Vey, recalled from Utica of the American Hockey League earlier in the day, snapped a shot from between the hash marks past Jimmy Howard for the win after Vancouver's Radim Vrbata and Detroit's Brad Richards had scored earlier in the tiebreaker. Zetterberg tied it 3-3 with 1:07 left in the third period and Howard pulled for an extra attacker. He beat Miller from the bottom of the right circle high on the short side. It was Zetterberg's sixth goal. Vrbata gave the Canucks a 3-2 lead 5:33 into the third period when he picked up a rebound, skated across the top of the crease and slid a backhand shot past Howard for his 10th goal. Datsyuk made it 2-2 at 3:29 of the third period with his third goal. He scored into the open side of the net from the bottom of the right circle after taking a pass from Brendan Smith. Baertschi made it 2-0 with 2:52 left in the second period when he scored from the bottom of the left circle off a cross-slot pass from Bo Horvat on a 3-on-2 rush. It was Baertschi's third goal of the season. Andersson cut the lead to 2-1 just 1:45 later when he got position in front of the net and tipped Danny DeKeyser's pass from the left-wing corner past Miller for his first goal of the season. McCann gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead with 1:03 left in the first period when he put a carom off the end boards past Howard from the inside part of the right circle. Blashill brought in former NHL player and Hockey Hall of Famer Adam Oates to consult with the coaching staff for the next three days. Oates began his playing career in Detroit.
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