NY Rangers @ NY Islanders 1-2 SO
Jaroslav Halak denied Rick Nash, Mats Zuccarello and Dan Boyle in the shoot-out after Kyle Okposo began the tiebreaker with a goal. The Rangers were given a power play 1:12 into overtime when a bad line change by Ryan Strome resulted in a bench minor for too many men. The Islanders, who moved within five points of their biggest rival, killed the power play, and the Rangers finished the night 0-for-3 with the man-advantage. Tavares broke a scoreless tie during a two-man advantage at 12:22 of the second period. With Dan Girardi and Keith Yandle in the box, Tavares took a pass from Okposo, skated into the slot and put a wrist shot past Lundqvist for his 12th goal of the season. Halak kept the Rangers off the scoreboard less than four minutes into the second period when he got across the crease to make a right pad save on Derick Brassard's one-timer from between the circles. He preserved the one-goal lead with 3:26 left in the second when he made a nice glove save on Yandle's wrist shot from the left circle. Stalberg tied it with 1:23 remaining in the second period. With the teams at even strength, he skated from behind the net into the slot and redirected Marc Staal's shot from the left circle past Halak to make it 1-1. It was Stalberg's third goal of the season.
Boston @ Edmonton 2-3 SO
Jordan Eberle scored the lone goal in the shootout, and goalie Anders Nilsson made 38 saves through overtime to help end the Bruins' winning streak at five games. Letestu scored 10:23 into the second period on a shorthanded, 2-on-1 rush with Hendricks to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead. Hendricks returned the puck to Letestu past Boston defenseman Torey Krug on a give-and-go, and Letestu tapped it past goaltender Tuukka Rask for his third goal. It was the Oilers' first shorthanded goal of the season. Hendricks scored at 9:22 of the third period to give Edmonton a 2-1 lead, tipping Letestu's centering feed past Rask, who made 34 saves. Krug scored with 1:23 left in the second to tie it 1-1. His shot from the point hit Andrej Sekera in front and changed direction past Nilsson. Chara's goal with 3:21 remaining in the third tied it 2-2. He came in off the point and put a David Krejci centering pass over Nilsson. Hendricks and Patrice Bergeron each missed on his shootout attempt before Eberle scored the deciding goal on a wrist shot past Rask in the top of the second round. Nilsson stopped Brad Marchand on the Bruins' second attempt, and Krejci shot wide in the bottom of the third round to end the game.
Tampa Bay @ Anaheim 2-1
With Clayton Stoner sitting out a cross-checking penalty, Marchessault beat John Gibson through the five-hole at 16:22 of the second period to finish off a pretty feed from Drouin and break a 1-1 tie. Cam Fowler nearly tied the game with 11 seconds left in the third period, but his slap shot hit the post. Drouin opened the scoring when he beat Gibson with a sharp-angled wrist shot off a feed by Vladislav Namestnikov 2:35 into the period. Anaheim tied it when Rickard Rakell brought Bishop out of the net with a wraparound attempt and Corey Perry scored during a scramble at 4:15 for his team-leading eighth goal of the season. The score remained tied after apparent goals by Tampa Bay's Braydon Coburn, Anaheim's Chris Stewart and Tampa Bay's Alex Killorn were washed out. Coburn's slap shot from the point went off Nikita Kucherov and into the net at 7:36 but was overturned after a video review showed he had deflected the puck with a high stick. Stewart appeared to have scored exactly 10 minutes into the period but the officials ruled the puck never crossed the goal line. Hampus Lindholm collided with John Gibson in the crease just before Killorn scored off a rebound at 14:54. But the referees waved off the goal, saying that Ryan Callahan had pushed Lindholm into Gibson; the call was upheld after Cooper used his challenge.
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