NHL - Results - Friday, January 15, 2016

Boston @ Buffalo 4-1

The Bruins went ahead 2-1 when Ryan Spooner set up Zdeno Chara for his sixth goal 29 seconds into the third period. Chara's wrist shot floated through a screen and past Sabres goalie Robin Lehner for his first goal in 19 games. Spooner made it 3-1 with 9:07 left in the third with his 10th goal. He sent the puck from the right-wing wall toward the net, and it bounced off the paddle of Lehner's goal stick and into the net with Matt Beleskey providing a screen. Brett Connolly scored an empty-net goal with 1:09 left. David Legwand gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead with 5:23 left in the first period with his third goal of the season and first in 21 games. Legwand gathered the puck behind the Boston net and put a wraparound shot past Gustavsson. Beleskey tied it 1-1 at 1:01 of the second period with his eighth goal. He followed up a rebound of a shot by Spooner and put a shot over Lehner's shoulder. Zemgus Girgensons left the game with 9:07 left in the first period after he collided with Kevan Miller in the neutral zone. He did not return.

Vancouver @ Carolina 3-2 OT

Linden Vey's first goal of the season gave the Canucks at 1-0 lead at 13:14 of the first period. Vey forced a turnover in the neutral zone, skated the puck into the left circle and beat Ward to the short side. The Hurricanes tied the game on Kris Versteeg's power-play goal at 18:27. Jaccob Slavin set up Versteeg for a heavy slap shot from above the right circle, and he beat Markstrom cleanly over the glove for his third goal in the past four games. Vancouver killed a double minor to Jake Virtanen that overlapped the first and second intermission, then took the lead on Horvat's seventh of the season at 9:32 of the second period. Horvat scored on a wrist shot from the right wing after taking a pass through the neutral zone from Taylor Fedun, who was called up Thursday from Utica of the American Hockey League. The Canucks were pinned in their own end for much of the third period until John-Michael Liles tied the game with 2:10 remaining. Liles' pass across the crease from the bottom of the left circle hit the skate of Vancouver defenseman Matt Bartkowski and caromed into the net.
Markstrom was sharp throughout. He stopped a hard shot from Michal Jordan in slot late in the third period, then got square to stop Eric Staal's backhand shot in overtime. Horvat gave the Canucks the win when he one-timed a pass by Radim Vrbata from the right circle past Cam Ward. Vancouver was skating 4-on-3 during a delayed penalty.