Phoenix @ Carolina 4-5
When Martin Hanzal high-sticked John-Michael Liles with 2:15 remaining, the Hurricanes had the opportunity they needed, and Faulk delivered a wrist shot over Anders Lindback's blocker for the game-winner. Phoenix started the scoring 49 seconds into the game on Tobias Rieder's sixth goal of the season. Cam Ward (19 saves) denied Stefan Elliott's shot from inside the blue line, but Rieder was alone in front to covert the rebound. Carolina tied the game quickly when Versteeg spun to his forehand in the slot and beat Lindback along the ice for his third goal at 2:18. Versteeg was a healthy scratch for the first time. After two goals early in the period, each team struck for another in the late stages. The Coyotes went up 2-1 on Nicklas Grossmann's third of the season at 16:55. Grossmann shot into an open net from the left circle after Brad Richardson patiently waited to draw Ward toward him before passing across the slot to Richardson. Carolina made it 2-2 on McClement's first goal of the season at 18:38. He hunted down a chip-in by Noah Hanifin behind the net, then held off Zbynek Michalek to wrap the puck and score on his own rebound. Eric Staal put Carolina up 3-2 at 6:37 of the second period. After an Oliver Ekman-Larsson turnover, Elias Lindholm held the puck in the left circle until he spotted Staal in the slot. Elliot tied the game at 6:34 of the third period when he moved around Brett Pesce in the right circle and sent a backhand shot past Ward. Antoine Vermette's power-play goal at 13:41 gave the Coyotes their third lead of the game after he screened Ward and capitalized on a rebound of Mikkel Boedker's shot. Ron Hainsey made it 4-4 when his shot from the slot handcuffed Lindback at 15:38.
Florida @ New Jersey 2-4
Schneider denied Huberdeau on a penalty shot with 2:06 remaining in the second period and the Devils holding a 3-2 lead. Henrique thought the save against Huberdeau was the key moment of the game. Huberdeau received his chance when Adam Larsson was called for tripping on a breakaway. Cammalleri gave the Devils a 4-2 lead 6:44 into the third when he scored his 11th of the season from the left circle. Cammalleri, who has four goals and seven points in the past three games, took the pass from Severson and drove a shot past Luongo for his ninth multiple-point game of the season. Huberdeau scored his third of the season 13:07 into the second to pull Florida within 3-2. The goal was a result of tremendous work by the Panthers, in particular Jaromir Jagr, who continually battled with Larsson along the boards to maintain possession in the Devils zone. Henrique scored his 13th of the season off a wraparound attempt 3:43 into the second to give the Devils a 3-1 lead. Aleksander Barkov just missed at cutting the deficit 9:19 into the second when he fanned on a shot from low in the right circle with Schneider out of position. The puck rolled harmlessly into Schneider, who was able to get a stoppage while on his back.
Ekblad scored his fifth of the season 45 seconds into the second on a slap shot from the right point that deflected off the shin pad of Andy Greene before hitting Schneider in the right arm and trickling over the goal line. Jagr assisted on the goal, his first point on Florida's five-game road trip. Stempniak scored the fastest goal to open a game for the Devils this season when he controlled a pass from Cammalleri in the slot and backhanded a shot past Luongo 26 seconds into the first. Palmieri made is 2-0 when he took a pass from Severson, skated low into the right circle and took a wrist shot that beat Luongo to the short side at 12:55.
Ottawa @ NY Rangers 1-4
Ryan McDonagh and Derick Brassard scored first-period power-play goals, and Brassard added an insurance goal midway through the third period, converting on a breakaway after a pass from McDonagh. Henrik Lundqvist made 23 saves, allowing only a second-period goal by Ottawa defenseman Mark Methot. Jesper Fast scored into an empty net with 1:31 to play for the Rangers, who played like the team that went 13-1-1 in the 15 games before their six-game slump. Neither team generated much offense until Ottawa's Mika Zibanejad was sent off for an offensive-zone interference penalty at 7:16 of the first period. The Rangers capitalized when Keith Yandle controlled the puck along the left half-wall and slid a pass back to McDonagh, whose straightaway slap shot from a few feet inside the blue line went through traffic and past Anderson at 8:40. It was the fourth goal of the season for New York's captain and his first in 10 games.
Just over five minutes later, the Rangers converted a bench minor against the Senators into their second power-play goal. McDonagh took a wrist shot from nearly the same spot he scored from earlier; this one was tipped by Brassard past a defenseless Anderson at 13:47. Lundqvist preserved the two-goal lead in the final 30 seconds when he robbed Zibanejad twice and Zack Smith once in a five-second span during a scramble at the left post. Ottawa failed to score on a power play early in the second period but cut the Rangers' lead in half at 6:01 when Methot's slap shot from the left point hit the stick of New York Marc Staal and deflected past Lundqvist. It was Methot's second goal of the season.
Lundqvist used his glove to rob rookie Dave Dziurzynski on a snap shot from the slot with 57 seconds remaining in the second period to preserve the Rangers' 2-1 lead. The Rangers allowed Ottawa only two shots on goal in the first half of the third period before Brassard picked up McDonagh's bouncing breakout pass and took a slap shot from the slot that beat Anderson at 10:08 for his ninth of the season.
Buffalo @ Edmonton 2-4
Jack Eichel scored at 6:58 of the first period to give Buffalo a 1-0 lead, snapping a backhand shot past Nilsson. Purcell tied the game at 9:36, tipping a point shot from Hall past Chad Johnson. Eberle scored at 16:06 to put Edmonton up 2-1, converting a centering pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Hall extended the Oilers' lead to 3-1 on the power play at 18:55. The Oilers left wing fed Purcell at the side of the Sabres' net, then headed to the front for a return pass. Purcell flipped the puck in front where it hit center Zemgus Girgensons and landed in the crease, allowing Hall to tap it in. O'Reilly cut the lead to 3-2 on a power play 13:22 into the second period. The Sabres leading scorer took a pass in front from Zach Bogosian, outwaited Nilsson, and lifted a shot over the fallen goaltender. Gazdic restored Edmonton's two-goal lead at 17:43 with his first goal of the season, which he was able to celebrate three times. He crashed the net on a scramble in front and the puck went in off his skate but the goal was reviewed. The call on the ice stood after iit was ruled there was no distinct kicking motion on the play. The Sabres then challenged the goal on goaltender interference, but the goal still stood.
Tampa Bay @ Los Angeles 1-3
Andy Andreoff opened the scoring with his second goal of the season 12:24 into the game. With the teams at even strength, Andreoff took a pass from Nick Shore and let go a slap shot from the left circle that went off the stick of Andrej Sustr and past Vasilevskiy. Boyle tied it with his second goal in as many games 27 seconds into the second period. After Ryan Callahan got control of the puck in the neutral zone, he passed it to Boyle and the latter beat Quick with a wrist shot from the right circle to make it 1-1. But the Kings restored the lead 12 seconds later on McNabb's first goal of the season. Anze Kopitar won a faceoff in the Lightning zone and the puck got back to McNabb, who beat Vasilevskiy with a shot from the bottom of the left circle. The move didn't light a spark for the Lightning; Milan Lucic made it 3-1 at 3:47 of the second period when he redirected a nifty cross-ice feed from Jeff Carter past Bishop for his 10th goal of the season and third in the past two games.
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