Ice Breaker: Swayman stonewalls Florida, Gauthier keeps the Ducks rolling

Florida and Boston piled up 126 penalty minutes in a Sunday matinee, and the only number that mattered was Jeremy Swayman's 40 saves. Out west, Cutter Gauthier scored three more and the Ducks kept rolling like an organization that forgot it was supposed to be rebuilding. The Room's locks for the week are in Sunday's Ferda Room.

The games

Bruins 4, Panthers 1

Boston scored three times in the first 16 minutes: two even-strength goals 81 seconds apart from Elias Lindholm and Michael Eyssimont, then Morgan Geekie on a 5-on-3. Carter Verhaeghe got one back on the power play, his 10th, and JJ Peterka closed it 58 seconds into the third.

Swayman stopped 40 of 41, and Brady Tkachuk fought Nikita Zadorov off the opening draw on his way to eight shots and 25 penalty minutes.

Pabs: Second night of a back-to-back, no Barkov, no Marchand, and the cats still threw 41 at him. I'll take the push. I won't take three goals against before the first intermission. Pabs has the full recap with Maurice's postgame.

Lind's read: Boston got nine power plays to Florida's five, per NHL data. You can win the shot count 41-36 and still lose the game in the penalty box.

Sully's chirp: Brady Tkachuk had eight shots and 25 penalty minutes. He played a full afternoon at the Garden, just in two different rooms.

Ducks 5, Penguins 2

Gauthier scored three times, on the power play, at even strength and into the empty net, and added an assist. Mikael Granlund had a goal and three helpers, and Jackson LaCombe set up three more in 30:55. Kris Letang and Rickard Rakell scored power-play goals for Pittsburgh in the third, down 4-0.

By our count: LaCombe has points in 10 straight games, and Gauthier and Tristan Luneau are at eight apiece.

Sully's chirp: The Penguins scored two power-play goals down four in the third. That's showing up to the potluck after everybody's done the dishes.

Devils 4, Maple Leafs 0

Timo Meier scored twice in the second, Nico Hischier added a power-play goal and Connor Brown hit the empty net. Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves for the shutout, and Jack Hughes stretched his point streak to five games with two assists.

Lind's read: New Jersey is 5-0 in its last five with a plus-9 goal difference, per NHL data, and Toronto is 1-4 over the same stretch. The one soft spot for the Devils is a 67.6 percent penalty kill.

Jets 4, Lightning 3

Winnipeg led 3-0 on goals by Cole Perfetti, Morgan Barron and Brayden Yager. Brandon Hagel started the comeback, and Pontus Holmberg scored twice in 26 seconds to tie it late in the third. Mark Scheifele won it on the power play with two seconds left.

Sully's chirp: Tampa climbed out of a 3-0 hole in four minutes and lost with two seconds on the clock. That's running the marathon and pulling a hamstring on the finish-line selfie.

Flames 4, Flyers 3 (OT)

Calgary trailed three times and tied it three times, on goals by Zayne Parekh, Zach Whitecloud and a shorthanded one from Joel Farabee. Matt Coronato won it 4:08 into overtime. Devin Cooley made 32 saves as Philadelphia outshot Calgary 35-26.

Lind's read: The Flyers are 1-3-1 in their last five, per NHL data, and they're in Vancouver tonight on the second half of a back-to-back. Blowing three separate leads is a habit, not an accident.

Golden Knights 4, Sabres 1

Mitch Marner opened the scoring shorthanded, Jack Eichel made it 2-0, and Tomas Hertl scored twice in the third. Adin Hill stopped 28 of 29.

Sully's chirp: Marner scored a shorthanded goal on the same night the Leafs got shut out at home. Somewhere in Toronto, a guy just threw the remote at a framed jersey.

Three stars of the night

1. Cutter Gauthier, ANA. Three goals, one assist, and the Ducks are 5-0 in their last five.
2. Jeremy Swayman, BOS. Forty saves on 41 shots against a team that never stopped coming.
3. Connor Hellebuyck, NJD. Twenty-three saves and a road shutout in Toronto.

Lind's number of the night

38.5 percent. That's Anaheim's power play this season, per NHL data, and it scored three more times last night. The catch is a 73.0 percent kill. A team that converts and leaks at those rates plays a lot of 5-3 games, and right now the Ducks are winning them.

Sully's take of the morning

Look, 126 penalty minutes on a Sunday afternoon at the Garden is not a hockey game. It's a family reunion.

Brady and Zadorov went two seconds in, Hathaway and Kastelic went after the second goal, and the second period ended with four misconducts. I loved every minute of it.

Grade for the Garden: A. Grade for Florida's discipline: C-minus, because Boston got nine power plays and Swayman needed zero help. Bruins tax: in Boston they'll be selling this one on DVD by Friday.

Tonight

Three games, all late. The Rangers visit Edmonton at 8 p.m. ET (MSG), the Flyers try to shake off last night in Vancouver at 9:30 (NBCSP), and the Islanders are in San Jose at 10 (NBCSCA, MSGSN).

The one to stay up for is Islanders-Sharks, if only to watch Matthew Schaefer, who holds this season's single-game skating-distance mark, per NHL data. The Panthers are off until Tuesday in Columbus at 7:30 p.m.