On an night where four Canadian teams scrapped for crucial points in various NHL playoff races, only the Ottawa Senators came away happy.
Here are four stories from Thursday's games:
Senators roar back on Habs
When Montreal went up 2-0 at home to Ottawa, the Canadiens seemed well on their way to victory. Wrong! The Senators, desperate to stay alive in the Eastern playoff race, roared back with five unanswered goals to beat the Habs 5-2.
A Max Pacioretty tip-in of a P.K. Subban shot opened the scoring in the first period for the Canadiens. They came right back a little over two minutes later when Pacioretty took off on a shorthanded breakaway and was able to beat Andrew (Hamburglar) Hammond in the Senators' goal.
The Senators were able to draw even in the second period on a blast by Erik Karlsson and a deflection, credited to Eric Condra. In the third they completed the comeback as Mark Stone, Karlsson and Marc Methot poured in three more goals.
It was the first time the Canadiens had conceded five goals in a game since Nov. 23. The Habs lost ground to Tampa Bay, which earned a point from an overtime loss in Boston to match the Canadiens with 91 points on top of the Atlantic Division.
Despite their win, Ottawa remained seven points back of the Bruins who hold the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Jets fall out of playoff spot
After losing 5-4 in St. Louis just 63 seconds away from obtaining at least a point for a tie, the Jets were in South Florida against a hungry Panthers team trying to cut their gap behind the Boston Bruins. Tied at 2-2 late into the third period, the Jets surrendered a pair of goals to fall 4-2 and fall out of the final wild card position in the Western Conference. Aleksander Barkov drilled in the game-winner.
Winnipeg is one point behind Los Angeles, which now holds the second wild card after blanking Vancouver 4-0.
Canucks come up flat vs. Kings
For the third time in as many starts against the Kings this season, the Canucks lost, and Thursday it wasn't pretty in a 4-0 shutout in Vancouver. Jonathan Quick turned aside 19 shots for his fifth shutout of the season as the Kings climbed over Winnipeg into the last wild card spot in the west and to within a point of the Canucks for second in the Pacific Division. L.A. now has 79 points, the same number as Calgary, which gets the edge over L.A. by having more non-shootout wins.
The teams meet again in Los Angeles March 21 and finish their series in Vancouver April 6. In all three losses to the Kings, each of them with Quick in goal, the Canucks have failed to mount more than 19 shots on net.
Oilers score moral victory of sorts
Too bad moral victories don't give your team any points in the standings. If they did, the Oilers would have added one or two more points to the 47 they've earned this season. They came all the way back from a four-goal disadvantage to tie the Pittsburgh Penguins, only to lose 6-4.
The Penguins poured in three goals in the opening period, two by Brandon Sutter, and when Sidney Crosby scored 61 seconds into the second period the Oilers' Ben Scrivens was lifted, replaced by Richard Backman.
Goals by Anton Lander and Jordan Eberle halved the gap in the second period and by midway of the third it became a game as Benoit Pouliot and Derek Roy knotted the score at 4-4.
Alas, it was only a tease as Steve Downie at 14:38 and Patric Hornqvist snapped the Penguins out of their reverie and sent the Oilers off to Columbus with another loss on their ledger.
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