NHL - Results - Monday, January 18, 2016

Edmonton @ Florida 4-2
Taylor Hall's two goals helped the Oilers defeat the Panthers, but they lost Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to a hand injury that could sideline him for a while. Nugent-Hopkins sustained the injury in the second period when he blocked a shot by Dmitry Kulikov during a Florida power play. He left the ice 2:47 into the second period with Edmonton leading 2-0. Coach Todd McLellan described it after the game as a "long-term injury." Hendricks returned to the lineup and had a fight with Erik Gudbranson 4:16 into the game. Less than two minutes after the fight, at 5:50, Hall opened the scoring. After taking a centering pass from Purcell, Hall beat Montoya on a breakaway with a shot high on the blocker side. Eberle made it 2-0 at 17:52 of the first after a turnover in the Florida zone. After Benoit Pouliot intercepted Willie Mitchell's backhand pass, he fed Nugent-Hopkins at the side of the net, and Eberle redirected another feed across the goal crease. Hall extended the lead to 3-0 at 4:19 of the second period when he took a feed from Purcell along the boards, skated back toward the middle of the ice and beat Montoya from the high slot with a low wrist shot to the glove side. Reilly Smith made it 3-1 at 2:45 of the third period when a clearing attempt in the Edmonton zone went off his back, he grabbed the loose puck and beat Talbot with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle. After Montoya stopped Nail Yakupov on a breakaway a minute later, Howden made it a one-goal game at 5:35 when he banged home Shawn Thornton's backhand pass across the crease. Purcell put the game away with an empty-net goal with 1:28 remaining. He scored from the blue line while Panthers goalie Al Montoya was attempting to return to the net after beginning to leave for the extra attacker.
Buffalo @ Phoenix 2-1
The Sabres had an opportunity to jump in front at 1:28 of the second period when Evander Kane was awarded a penalty shot after Mikkel Boedker took him down from behind on a breakaway. Kane missed the net with a wrist shot to Domingue's glove side. The Sabres kept up the pressure, forcing Martin Hanzal and Connor Murphy to take penalties 1:48 apart to gain a brief 5-on-3 power play. Boyd Gordon was kicked out of a faceoff in the Coyotes end, leaving Michael Stone to take the draw. The Sabres won the faceoff, and Ryan O'Reilly pushed it back to Ristolainen. Eichel one-timed Ristolainen's pass by Domingue just as the first penalty was expiring at 10:07 for a 1-0 lead. After failing on another power play of their own, the Coyotes gave the Sabres another opportunity with the man-advantage when Kyle Chipchura hooked down Johan Larsson.

McGinn took an Eichel pass and tried to slide the puck across to O'Reilly on a set play, but the puck banked off Stone's skate and past Domingue at 17:35 to give the Sabres a 2-0 lead. The Coyotes turned up the pressure in the third and cut into the Sabres lead at 8:04, shortly after a McGinn penalty ended. Doan found Vermette at the bottom of the right circle, and his shot squeezed under just inside the post. The game ended with all 10 skaters involved in a skirmish that began with Zach Bogosian punching Coyotes rookie Anthony Duclair after the final buzzer. Bogosian was assessed a game misconduct penalty, and Ristolainen, Vermette, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, and Dirty Dog Shane Doan each received a 10-minute misconduct penalty among the 61 minutes of penalties handed out for the postgame incident.