The Forman Faceoff: November 24th NHL Recap

Monday, November 24, 2014

November 24th NHL Recap

Pittsburgh Penguins 3, Boston Bruins 2 (OT) - (from Boston) - The Penguins improved to 14-4-2 on the season thanks to a 3-2 OT win over the Boston Bruins, dropping them to 13-9-1.

Goals:

PIT - Sidney Crosby (9) - from Craig Adams and Kris Letang (3:33 1ST)

BOS - Milan Lucic (4) - from Loui Eriksson and Carl Soderberg (1:43 2ND)

BOS - Joe Morrow (1) - from Dougie Hamilton and Simon Gagne (2:11 2ND)

PIT - Evgeni Malkin PPG (9) - from Kris Letang and Sidney Crosby (9:42 2ND)

PIT - Evgeni Malkin (10) - from Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang (0:32 OT)

Goalies:

WG - Marc-Andre Fleury (27 saves on 29 shots: 12-3-1) LG - Tuukka Rask (30 saves on 33 shots: 10-6-1)

Three Stars:

3. Kris Letang (3 assists) - Pittsburgh

2. Sidney Crosby (1 goal, 2 assists) - Pittsburgh

1. Evgeni Malkin (2 goals, OT winner) - Pittsburgh

New York Islanders 1, Philadelphia Flyers 0 (SO) - (from New York) - The Islanders improved to 15-6-0 on the season thanks to a 1-0 shootout win over the Philadelphia Flyers, dropping them to 8-9-3.

Goals:

Shootout winner - Frans Nielsen (NYI)

Goalies:

WG - Jaroslav Halak (21 saves on 21 shots: 10-4-0) LG - Steve Mason (46 saves on 46 shots: 4-6-2)

Three Stars:

3. Frans Nielsen (shootout winner) - New York

2. Jaroslav Halak (21 saves on 21 shots for the shutout) - New York

1. Steve Mason (46 saves on 46 shots) - Philadelphia

Detroit Red Wings 4, Ottawa Senators 3 (from Detroit) - The Red Wings improved to 11-5-5 on the season thanks to a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators, dropping them to 9-7-4.

Goals:

OTT - Kyle Turris PPG (4) - from Erik Karlsson and Bobby Ryan (5:19 1ST)

DET - Gustav Nyquist PPG (10) - from Henrik Zetterberg and Niklas Kronwall (16:45 1ST)

DET - Riley Sheahan PPG (4) - from Tomas Tatar and Jimmy Howard (2:23 2ND)

DET - Stephen Weiss (1) - from Kyle Quincey and Danny DeKeyser (13:34 2ND)

DET - Stephen Weiss (2) - from Darren Helm and Tomas Jurco (17:52 3RD)

OTT - Erik Karlsson (6) - from Kyle Turris and Jared Cowen (2:43 3RD)

OTT - Chris Neil (3) - from Mike Hoffman and Zack Smith (19:25 3RD)

Goalies:

WG - Jimmy Howard (23 saves on 26 shots: 9-4-4) LG - Craig Anderson (39 saves on 43 shots: 5-4-3)

Three Stars:

3. Gustav Nyquist (1 goal) - Detroit

2. Kyle Turris (1 goal, 1 assist) - Ottawa

1. Stephen Weiss (2 goals, GWG) - Detroit

Minnesota Wild 4, Florida Panthers 1 (from Florida) - The Wild improved to 12-8-0 on the season thanks to a 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers, dropping them to 7-6-6.

Goals:

MIN - Jason Zucker (7) - from Mikko Koivu (5:58 1ST)

MIN - Nino Niederreiter (10) - unassisted (17:43 1ST)

FLA - Shawn Thornton (1) - from Dmitry Kulikov (5:34 2ND)

MIN - Jason Zucker (8) - from Mikko Koivu (17:19 2ND)

MIN - Zach Parise EN (8) - from Jason Pominville and Ryan Suter (18:31 3RD)

Goalies:

WG - Niklas Backstrom (29 saves on 30 shots: 3-2-0) LG - Roberto Luongo (35 saves on 38 shots: 6-5-5)

Three Stars:

3. Shawn Thornton (1 goal) - Florida

2. Mikko Koivu (2 assists) - Minnesota

1. Jason Zucker (2 goals) - Minnesota

Three Stars of the Night:

3. Steve Mason - Mason stopped a whopping 46 shots in the Flyers 1-0 shootout loss to the Islanders.

2. Stephen Weiss - Weiss scored his 1st 2 goals of the season (including the game-winner) in the Wings 4-3 win over the Senators.

1. Evgeni Malkin - Malkin scored 2 goals, including the OT winner, in the Penguins 3-2 win over the Bruins.

Interesting Stats of the Night:

-Marc-Andre Fleury picked up his 300th career win. He is the 3rd youngest goalie in NHL history to reach 300 wins at 29 years old, 361 days, behind only Martin Brodeur (29 years old 223 days) and Terry Sawchuk (29 years old, 323 days). Fleury also reached 300 in 547 games, which is the 3rd fastest in NHL history behind Jacques Plante and Andy Moog.

-Joe Morrow scored his 1st NHL goal for the Bruins against the team that drafted him the Pittsburgh Penguins.

-Stephen Weiss scored his 1st and 2nd goals of the season, and his 1st goal since October 14th, 2013. Weiss also picked up his 400th career point on the 2nd goal.

-Steve Mason picked up his 1st shutout of the season.

-Jaroslav Halak picked up his 3rd shutout of the season.

-Jimmy Howard picked up his 6th career assist.

-Shawn Thornton scored his 1st goal as a member of the Panthers.

Current Winning/Losing Streaks (3 or more games):

New York Islanders - 4 game winning streak

Buffalo Sabres - 3 game winning streak

Edmonton Oilers - 4 game losing streak

San Jose Sharks - 3 game losing streak

Forman Faceoff Highlights of the Night:

-Sidney Crosby goal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0KKgC83fg&list=UUqFMzb-4AUf6WAIbl132QKA

-Evgeni Malkin goal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEhrkSe0H6U&list=UUqFMzb-4AUf6WAIbl132QKA