Daniel Alfredsson scored his 399th goal and had two assists
for Ottawa, which gave up leads of 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2. Chris Neil and Erik
Karlsson each had a goal and an assist, and Craig Anderson made 32 saves.
Tomas Kopecky drew Florida even at 3 when he scored the
tying goal with 1:12 left in the third and goalie Scott Clemmensen pulled for
an extra attacker. Kris Versteeg passed from behind the net to Kopecky, who
beat Anderson from the goalmouth as the Panthers’ erased their third one-goal
deficit.
Michal Repik and Shawn Matthias also scored for Florida.
At Nashville, Martin Erat
scored with 8.4 seconds remaining to rally Nashville past Columbus.
Mike Fisher, Patric Hornqvist, Nick Spaling, Roman Josi, and
David Legwand also scored for Nashville, which has won six of its last seven.
Jeff Carter had a hat trick in the first period and Ryan
Johansen had the other two goals for the Blue Jackets, who have lost four
straight.
The Predators trailed 5-2 midway about 8 minutes into the
second period before scoring the game’s last four goals. Spaling and Josi’s
goals pulled the Predators within one less than six minutes later, and
Legwand’s power-play score with 3:46 to go in the third tied it.
At New York, Brandon Dubinsky scored
his first goal in more than a month, Marian Gaborik moved into a tie for the
NHL lead with his 20th, and Martin Biron was solid in net to lead the Rangers.
Dubinsky staked the Rangers to a 1-0 lead in the first
period, and Gaborik and Michael Del Zotto connected in the second for New York,
which has won three straight.
Biron stopped 24 shots and earned an assist on Dubinsky’s
second goal of the season. John Mitchell scored an empty-net goal with 1:33
remaining to seal it.
P.A. Parenteau got the Islanders even at 1 with a power-play
goal just 18 seconds into the second period, and Matt Moulson added a
man-advantage goal 8:29 into the third.
At Toronto, Nazem Kadri scored the
tiebreaking goal in the third period, lifting Toronto past Buffalo.
David Steckel and Phil Kessel also scored for Toronto and
James Reimer had 40 saves.
Kadri, recalled from Toronto of the AHL on Wednesday after a
22-game stint in the minors, got his first goal of the season when he scored
off Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller’s glove at 5:52 of the third.
Jason Pominville and Derek Roy scored for the Sabres.
Pominville gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead with his 11th goal of the
season on the power play at 11:49 of the second. After Steckel and Kessel put
the Maple Leafs ahead later in the period, Roy tied the score at 1:29 of the
third.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Blake Wheeler
scored two goals and Ondrej Pavelec stopped 27 shots for his third shutout of
the season, leading Winnipeg past slumping Montreal.
Wheeler, who also had an assist, has overcome early scoring
troubles with three goals in the last three games to increase his season total
to five. The 6-foot-5 winger has also been one of the Jets’ best set-up guys
with 19 assists.
Tanner Glass and Tim Stapleton also scored for Winnipeg,
which has earned seven of a possible 10 points on a six-game homestand which
ends Friday night against Pittsburgh.
Carey Price made 30 saves for the Canadiens, who lost their
fifth straight.
At Edmonton, Alberta, Jordan Eberle scored
two goals and Edmonton snapped a four-game losing skid.
Ryan Smyth and Lennart Petrell also scored for the Oilers,
who have only won three of their last 12 games.
Dany Heatley scored for the Wild, who have now lost six
games in a row since a seven-game winning streak.
Eberle gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead on the power play nearly 16
minutes into the game as he stopped a clearing attempt, made a toe-drag move to
throw off a defender and then sent a wrist shot past Wild goalie Niklas
Backstrom.
Smyth made it 2-0 with 1 1/2 minutes left in the first
period and the Oilers went up by three early in the second on Petrell’s
short-handed score. Eberle made it 4-0 less than 2 minutes later FLAMES 3, RED
WINGS 2: At Calgary, Alberta, Curtis Glencross scored twice, including the
game-winner at 5:47 of the second period for Calgary.
Glencross got the winner when he broke into the Detroit zone
on a 2-on-1 with Roman Horak. Instead of passing, Glencross fired a low shot
that bounced off the post and in behind Red Wings goalie Ty Conklin to put
Calgary up 3-0.
Blake Comeau also scored for the Flames, who won their
second straight overall and fifth in a row at home. Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 29
shots.
Jiri Hudler and Ian White scored third-period goals for the
Red Wings, who have lost two straight. Conklin finished with 24 saves for
Detroit.
At Los Angeles, Dustin Brown scored in
the third period and got the deciding goal in a shootout, lifting Los Angeles
in Darryl Sutter’s debut as the Kings’ coach.
Mike Richards scored in his return to the lineup from a
concussion, Drew Doughty had two assists and Jonathan Quick made 20 saves.
Despite their second straight 3-2 shootout win, it was the
13th straight game in which the Kings scored fewer than three goals in
regulation — their longest such streak in franchise history. The previous worst
was a nine-game stretch under interim coach John Torchetti during the 2005-06
season, when they beat San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov 4-0 in the season finale.
Niklas Hagman and Lubomir Visnovsky each had a goal and an
assist for the Ducks and Jonas Hiller made 32 saves.
