Columbus @ Montreal 1-2
Max Pacioretty scored a power-play goal with 2:09 remaining in the third period to give Montreal a 2-1 win. Pacioretty extended his point streak to five games with his team-leading 13th goal. He took a centering pass from Dale Weise and fired a low shot past Sergei Bobrovsky. The Canadiens got the power play when More Cow Bell was called for tripping P.K. Subban with 2:34 remaining. Paul Byron scored at 2:51 of the first period. Nick Foligno drew the Blue Jackets even with his first goal in 21 games at 17:23 of the first period. Byron put Montreal ahead when he drove the left side and flipped a return pass from Christian Thomas over Bobrovsky's right pad and into the net off the left post for his third goal. Foligno tied it with his second goal of the season and first since Oct. 16. The Columbus captain picked up a rebound of Ryan Johansen's shot off a faceoff that struck the end boards and drove behind the net for a wraparound, jamming a backhand inside the left post. Alexei Emelin got a game misconduct for his blindside hit on Matt Calvert at 17:57 of the first period. [Aww what a shame, I bet CBJ whined about it too]. Speaking of which Brandon Dubinsky returned to the lineup after serving a one-game suspension for his cross check to the head of Sidney Crosby on Friday. Calvert was attended to on the ice by a trainer after the open-ice hit by Emelin, though he remained in the game.
John Tortorella whined and opined again: "We found a way to beat ourselves with sloppiness, you just can't lose a game like that the way we did, this is what kicks you at the end of the year; you have no chance of competing in any type of postseason play if you lose games that way."
Philadelphia @ Ottawa 4-2
Wayne Simmonds scored the winner at 16:35 of the second period, putting in his own rebound off an odd-man rush. It started when Erik Karlsson pinched at the Philadelphia blue line and got the puck, but his pass failed to find the mark, and the Flyers broke back the other way. Simmonds assisted on Couturier's empty-net goal with 1:45 remaining. The game was tied 1-1 on goals by Gostisbehere and Smith after an evenly played first period, but the Flyers dominated the second period, scoring on two of their 18 shots to take a 3-2 lead. Medvedev, 33, scored his first NHL goal just as a penalty to Michalek for roughing expired at 3:14 to put the Flyers ahead 2-1. Hoffman tied it again 76 seconds later when he converted a 2-on-1 down low off a pass from Bobby Ryan. The Senators had an apparent goal disallowed at 15:33 of the second when it was ruled Ryan deflected the puck into the net with a high stick.
Buffalo @ Detroit 4-5 SO
Brad Richards scored the only goal of the shootout to give the Red Wings a 5-4 win. Justin Abdelkader had two goals, an assist and a fight for a Gordie Howe Hat Trick. The Red Wings led 2-0 and 3-1 but had to tie it on a power-play goal by Abdelkader with 6:29 left in the third period and kill a Sabres power play in overtime. Abdelkader tied the game 4-4 by skating from right to left in the right circle and shooting along the ice past Ullmark for his seventh goal. The Sabres took a 4-3 lead with two goals in the first 3:22 of the third period. Kane's second of the game, on the power play, tied the game 3-3 at 53 seconds. Bogosian scored his first of the season when his screened shot from the left circle found its way past Mrazek. Girgenson's power-play goal with 2:51 left in the second period made it 3-2. He deflected Ristolainen's shot out of midair and past Mrazek for his second goal. Tatar, who turned 25 Tuesday, gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead 1:34 into the first period with a backhand from the high slot on the game's first shot. Abdelkader was credited with his first goal of the game, with 9:28 left in the first period, when Jonathan Ericsson's shot from the point hit him in the chest and bounced over Ullmark's shoulder into the net.
Kane scored with 2:30 left in the first period. He beat Mrazek with a wrist shot from the right circle on a 2-on-1. Miller made it 3-1 4:21 into the second period. He took a pass from Abdelkader in the left circle and snapped a shot under the crossbar for his first goal of the season, first in 32 games. Abdelkader fought with Josh Gorges late in the second period [39:04], while Henrik Zetterberg, Brendan Smith and Abdelkader got into a scrap with Evander Kane exactly two minutes earlier.
Vancouver @ Los Angeles 1-2 OT
Anze Kopitar scored at 2:02 of overtime to give the Kings a 2-1 win. He converted Jeff Carter's pass on the right side after Alexander Edler tried to make a cross-ice pass in his own zone. Kopitar scored the overtime winner after the Kings outshot the Canucks 15-1 and got the tying goal in the third period but couldn't break through against Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom, who made 38 saves. Drew Doughty tied it 1-1 at 6:54 of the third with a slap shot through traffic on the power play. Nick Shore worked the puck from the boards and screened Markstrom, who made saves on the previous 27 shots. Daniel Sedin gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead at 7:39 of the first period on his 12th goal of the season and eighth in 11 games. His one-timer from the right side beat Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick five-hole on the power play. Milan Lucic was serving a high-sticking penalty, one of three offensive-zone penalties taken by the Kings. Vancouver defenseman Andrey Pedan made his NHL debut and played left wing because Jake Virtanen, Chris Higgins and Christopher Tanev, were all out upper-body injuries.
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