Washington @ Boston 3-2
After Johansson put the Capitals up 3-1 at 10:41 of the third, the Bruins pulled back within one goal when Patrice Bergeron scored a power-play goal at 11:52. Bergeron's wrist shot ticked of Justin Williams' stick and fluttered past Holtby to the far side. The Bruins had several chances after pulling Rask for an extra attacker with 1:41 remaining. Holtby preserved the Capitals lead in one sequence when he stopped Ryan Spooner's long shot and then denied Zdeno Chara's backhand attempt on the rebound from in tight with 29 seconds remaining. Andre Burakovsky opened the scoring at 15:01 of the first period. Kuznetsov circled near the right dot and hit Burakovsky making a backdoor cut to the net for a wrist shot that beat Rask high. Kuznetsov took advantage of a Bruins penalty to put the Capitals ahead 2-0. He skated up the right wall and then toward the net before beating Rask high with a wrist shot from near the right hash marks at 12:40 of the second period. Boston went 9:21 between shots on goal in the first period. On its second shot after that drought, Loui Eriksson beat Holtby after a feed from Brett Connolly on a 3-on-2 to cut Washington's lead to 2-1 at 15:26.
Evgeny Kuznetsov: "I think the whole team has bigger points, right? I don't care about my game."
Florida @ Buffalo 5-1
The Florida Panthers extended their franchise-record winning streak to 10 games and got some help from the fourth line to make it happen. Corban Knight and Derek MacKenzie each had a goal and an assist in a 5-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center. MacKenzie put the Panthers ahead 2-1 at 8:54 of the second period when he picked up the puck in the neutral zone from Knight and skated into the Sabres zone on a 2-on-1 with Quinton Howden against Cody Franson. MacKenzie took a wrist shot from the right circle that beat goalie Linus Ullmark up high for his fourth goal. Knight gave the Panthers a 3-1 lead 5:35 into the third period. Howden picked up the puck from Dmitry Kulikov and made a backhand pass in front to Knight, who was alone and put a wrist shot past Ullmark for his second goal of the season. The line of MacKenzie, Knight and Howden combined for five points. Jonathan Huberdeau also scored and assisted on a goal by Jaromir Jar. Huberdeau made it 4-1 with a breakaway goal with 3:54 left in the third. He received a pass from Aleksander Barkov, deked and tucked the puck past Ullmark for his fifth goal of the season. Brandon Pirri scored an empty-net goal with 1:21 left, his ninth of the season, to extend his point streak to three games. The win started a six-game road trip. Jagr gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead 9:45 into the first period. He received a pass from Huberdeau across the zone and shot a one-timer past Ullmark for his 14th goal.
Jagr's goal was the 736th of his NHL career. He is five behind Brett Hull for third in League history. Ryan O'Reilly tied the game 1-1 2:14 into the second period with a power-play goal. He received a no-look backhand pass across the crease from Jack Eichel and shot a one-timer past goalie Roberto Luongo for his 16th goal.
Gerard Gallant: "[The fourth line] had a big effect. When you're going to win hockey games like you've been winning lately, you're going to need scoring from everybody, and that line had two goals tonight and played really hard. When they're working hard and competing hard, that's what you need from your team."
Montreal @ Philadelphia 3-4
All the attention was focused on the new first line, but it was the second line that scored two goals in the Flyers' 4-3 victory. Brayden Schenn had a goal and two assists to help the Flyers end a three-game losing streak. His linemate Sean Couturier had a goal and an assist, as did rookie defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere. Although the Flyers' new first line of Claude Giroux between Jakub Voracek and Simmonds garnered much of the attention, it was the reconfigured second line of Couturier centering Schenn at right wing and Michael Raffl at left wing that was their most productive. Schenn opened the scoring at 5:06 of the first period when he finished a breakaway started when Couturier poked the puck away from Andrei Markov at the Philadelphia blue line. Couturier scored the eventual game-winner at 5:41 of the third period. He was in the right place when Nick Schultz's hard shot went over the net, bounced off the glass and landed in the crease for an easy tap-in goal that gave the Flyers a 4-2 lead. The Canadiens got within 4-3 on Carr's goal with 56.2 seconds left. Video review showed the puck crossed the goal line before Neuvirth was able to kick it out.
Montreal, which had not played since the Winter Classic, had its best push in the third period but had four shots on goal in the first and 13 shots after two. The Canadiens went 0-for-4 with five shots on goal on the power play. It was the Flyers' second line that did most of the damage. Philadelphia took a 2-1 lead on Gostisbehere's goal at 3:20 of the second, and then Schenn helped set up Simmonds' power-play goal at 8:12 of the second. Giroux beat Brian Flynn on a faceoff in the left circle in the Canadiens zone. Schenn grabbed the loose puck, circled around the linesman, and got it to Gostisbehere, who took a slap shot from the right point that Simmonds redirected past Scrivens for his 10th of the season.
Tampa Bay @ Calgary 1-3
Stajan scored on Calgary's fourth shot of the game. Entering the Tampa Bay zone on a 3-on-2, TJ Brodie pulled up and passed to Giordano, who sent a cross-crease pass to Stajan that he tapped by Bishop with a second effort to give the Flames a 1-0 lead at 3:56. Jones doubled Calgary's lead with 4:30 remaining in the second period. Giordano pinched down from the left point to grab a loose puck and, from the corner, sent a pass into the slot that Jones redirected over Bishop's glove. Ramo made a blocker save against Valtteri Filppula 5:07 into the third, and Brodie swept the rebound out of the crease. After Ramo stopped Victor Hedman's point shot, Nikita Kucherov rolled a rebound attempt wide from seven feet out at 12:04. Ramo also stopped Kucherov's wraparound attempt at 16:04. Stamkos scored at 18:21 of the third. With Bishop on the bench for the extra attacker, he corralled a wide shot by Anton Stralman off the end boards before beating Ramo. It ended Ramo's shutout streak at 152:55. His previous career-high for time between goals against was 142:59, set from Nov. 22-Dec. 2, 2014. With the net still empty, Bouma scored with 57.1 seconds remaining. Tampa Bay has lost three of their past four games and is sixth in the Atlantic Division.
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