A very slow Wednesday around the NHL, with only two games, both in the east. Leading off...
The Buffalo Sabres host the Carolina Hurricanes. Cam Ward and Ryan Miller guard the cages. Carolina started with a Jaroslav Spacek goal, his fourth of the season, assisted by Jamie McBain and Jussi Jokinen. Buffalo tied it when Tyler Myers made his seventh of the year, with a lone assist by Patrick Kaleta. The Sabres gained the lead on a power play goal by Thomas Vanek, his twenty-third of the season, powered by Christian Ehrhoff and Jason Pominville. Chad LaRose retied it for the Hurricanes on his thirteenth of the year, made possible by Jeff Skinner. Buffalo would take the game 3-2 in overtime when Pominville sank his twenty-fourth of the campaign, a power play goal guided in by Ehrhoff and Vanek. The three stars went to Pominville, Myers, and Vanek, while Ehrhoff gets an honorable mention.
We wrap up the short slate in Pittsburgh, as the Penguins bring in the Toronto Maple Leafs. Jonas Gustavsson and Brad Thiessen are protecting the nets. Toronto got things going in the second period as Phil Kessel potted his thirty-fourth of the season, thanks to Jake Gardiner and Tyler Bozak. The Maple Leafs added on with a Carl Gunnarsson netted his fourth of the year, courtesy of Mikhail Grabovski and Clarke MacArthur. Pittsburgh got one back as Pascal Dupuis recorded his sixteenth of the season, coming off of Matt Niskanen and Jordan Staal. Staal tied it in the third period for the Penguins with his twenty-second of the year, via Brooks Orpik and Dupuis. Pittsburgh iced it at 3-2 on another Dupuis goal, his second of the game and seventeenth of the campaign, fueled by Steve Sullivan and Ben Lovejoy. The three stars were Dupuis, Staal, and Gunnarsson.
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