Monday only had a pair of games, beginning with the Detroit Red Wings hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins. Brent Johnson and Jimmy Howard were called on to start. Pittsburgh opened the scoring with Pascal Dupuis netting his 12th of the season, with help from Chris Conner and Jordan Staal. Chris Kunitz extended the Penguins lead with his 22nd of the year, assisted by Dupuis and Kris Letang. Dupuis struck again in the second period with a shorthanded goal for Pittsburgh, his second of the game and 13th of the season fueled by Staal and Ben Lovejoy. Tyler Kennedy made it 4-0 Penguins with his 17th of the year, with help from Kunitz and Craig Adams, prompting Joey MacDonald to replace Jimmy Howard. Detroit got on the board with Henrik Zetterberg notching his 21st of the season off of Danny Cleary and Brad Stuart. Valtteri Filppula also tallied for the Red Wings, his third period goal made possible by Stuart and Tomas Holmstrom for his 16th of the year. Detroit pulled to within a goal on a Cleary tally, his 24th of the season coming with the mad advantage via Niklas Kronwall and Nicklas Lidstrom. The Red Wings tied it with the third of the year from Mike Modano, also on the power play, powered along by Filppula and Lidstrom. The tie lasted into the shootout, where the lone tally by James Neal put Pittsburgh on top 5-4 over Detroit. Neal, Dupuis, and Filppula earned the three stars.
On the West Coast, the Los Angeles Kings hosted the Calgary Flames. Miikka Kiprusoff and Jonathan Quick played between the pipes. Los Angeles tallied first in the third period with Jarret Stoll notching his 19th of the season off of Brad Richardson and Wayne Simmonds. Just over a minute later, Calgary tied the game with Olli Jokinen recording his 16th of the year, thanks to Steve Staios and Cory Sarich. The tie lasted into the shootout, where Alex Tanguay exchanged a goal with Stoll before the Kings topped the Flames 2-1 with Anze Kopitar's marker. The three stars went to Quick (27 for 28 saves), Stoll, and Kiprusoff (26 for 27 saves).
Many more games on Tuesday. I have a lot of work left to do, but it will be much less after the week ends.
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