The Capitals led 3-1 heading into the third period, before
Mike Brown, Kris Versteeg and Tyler Bozak scored in a span of 3:03 for Toronto.
Semin leveled it at 4 on a power play. Then he and Alex
Ovechkin scored for Washington in the shootout, while Capitals goalie Michal
Neuvirth stopped both of Toronto's attempts.
Nikolai Kulemin gave the Leafs a 1-0 lead at 14:29 of the
first period before Mike Green, Jason Chimera and Tomas Fleischmann scored for
Washington in the second.
At Chicago, rookie forward Bradley
Mills scored his first NHL goal with 3:51 left in the third period to break a
deadlock as New Jersey beat Chicago despite an injury to Martin Brodeur.
The star goalie left in the second period with a bruised
right elbow. Brodeur finished with eight saves. He was replaced by Johan
Hedberg, who stopped 21 of 24 shots.
With nine points, the Devils moved out of last place in the
league.
Jason Arnott and Travis Zajac also scored for the Devils,
who won for the second time in seven games. Jamie Langenbrunner and Andy Greene
had empty-net goals.
Viktor Stalberg, Brian Campbell and Fernando Pisani scored
for the defending Stanley Cup champions.
At Dallas, Loui Eriksson scored twice,
including a penalty-shot goal, and Kari Lehtonen made 21 saves as the stars
earned a fight-filled victory over Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
A frustrated Crosby, who entered with only four penalty
minutes this season and rarely fights, squared off against Matt Niskanen at
12:33 of the second period while Pittsburgh trailed 4-1.
That was one of four bouts in the first two periods.
Stephane Robidas and Brad Richards each had a goal and an
assist for Dallas. Steve Ott added a goal, and James Neal had two assists.
At Glendale, Ed Jovanovski had the
first three-goal game of his 15-year career as Phoenix overcame some early
defensive miscues to beat Nashville.
Known as a hard-nosed defenseman, Jovanovski gave the
Coyotes an unexpected jolt of offense with his hat trick, scoring the go-ahead
goal with just more than 14 minutes left.
Lee Stempniak added his 100th career goal and Ilya Bryzgalov
made 28 saves to help Phoenix pull out its second home win before another
barely-there crowd of 6,761.
Francis Bouillon, Sergei Kostitsyn and Patric Hornqvist
scored for Nashville.
At Buffalo, Tim Thomas made 33 saves in
his seventh straight win, and Brad Marchand and Michael Ryder had a goal and
assist each to lift the surging Boston Bruins to victory.
Thomas (7-0), who entered with a 0.50 goals-against average
after consecutive shutouts, had his shutout streak of 167 minutes, 12 seconds
snapped by Drew Stafford's second-period goal that made it 4-1.
Andrej Sekera also scored for Buffalo, which played without
ailing goalie Ryan Miller. The Sabres came in with the second-fewest points (8)
in the NHL after winning the Northeast Division last season.
Thomas allowed more than one goal for the first time this
season, but tied a career high for longest winning streak.
Patrice Bergeron, Blake Wheeler and Milan Lucic also scored
for Boston (7-2), which set a franchise record by winning its fifth consecutive
road game to open a season.
At Raleigh, Cam Ward made 31
saves and Jon Matsumoto scored his first two NHL goals in Carolina's rout of
New York.
Rick DiPietro played the whole game and allowed all seven
goals on 32 shots as the Islanders lost their fifth straight.
Joe Corvo, Eric Staal, Brandon Sutter, Jiri Tlusty and Jeff
Skinner also scored for the Hurricanes. Sergei Samsonov had three assists,
helping Carolina set a season high for goals.
At Sunrise, Chris Mason made 52
saves and Fredrik Modin scored twice to lift Atlanta over Florida.
Dustin Byfuglien tied it for the Thrashers at 9:59 of the
third period and Niclas Bergfors scored the game-winner 71 seconds later on a
slap shot from the left faceoff dot.
Mason stopped 22 shots in the second period. The 55 shots by
Florida tied a franchise record set on Dec. 18, 2005, in a 3-2 win at
Washington.
At Calgary, Mike Modano and Justin
Abdelkader scored second-period goals to lead Detroit to its fifth victory in
six games.
The Flames led 1-0 after the first on a power-play goal by
Mark Giordano before the Red Wings rallied.
The Flames have lost three straight and finished their
five-game homestand - their longest of the season - with a 2-3 record.
At Anaheim, Kyle Palmieri scored
the equalizer late in regulation of his first NHL game and Ryan Getzlaf netted
the winner 2:53 into overtime for Anaheim.
Teemu Selanne, who had a goal and an assist, hustled after a
loose puck near the left boards just outside the blue line, stickhandled past
defenseman Mike Lundin and circled the net before backhanding a pass to
Getzlaf. The Ducks' captain won the game with his fifth goal this season.
Jonas Hiller made 32 saves for the win.
Blair Jones and Steven Stamkos scored for the Lightning.
