Nick Suzuki had a goal and two assists, and Mike Matheson and Kirby Dach scored for the Canadiens (33-17-9), who have points in seven consecutive games (5-0-2). Jakub Dobes made 27 saves.<\/p>\n
Alex Ovechkin scored his 920th and 921st career goals for the Capitals (31-24-7), who had won three in a row and six of seven, including a 3-2 victory against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday. Anthony Beauvillier had two assists, and Charlie Lindgren made 19 saves.<\/p>\n
Caufield gave Montreal a 1-0 lead 30 seconds into the first period. He blocked Jakob Chychrun\u2019s shot at the left point and raced forward to recover the puck before driving in alone and scoring on a wrist shot past Lindgren\u2019s glove from the right hash marks.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin tied it 1-1 at 13:16 when he put away a loose puck from the right edge of the crease after Declan Chisholm\u2019s one-timer from the left point struck Beauvillier in front of the net.<\/p>\n
Caufield gave Montreal a 2-1 lead at 14:19 with his third goal in two games. He was on the right side of the goalmouth to put in\u00a0Suzuki\u2019s pass across the crease.<\/p>\n
Matheson extended it to 3-1 at 12:22 of the second period when he drove the slot to take a pass from Zachary Bolduc and deked Lindgren before shooting past his glove as he cut to the right.<\/p>\n
Dach pushed it to 4-1 at 16:34 after he took a pass back from Suzuki at the top of the right face-off circle and scored on a one-timer glove side.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin\u2019s second goal of the game cut it to 4-2 at 12:12 of the third period with a shot from in front.<\/p>\n
Suzuki scored into an empty net at 16:44 to make it 5-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Evans then shot the puck the length of the ice for a short-handed goal at 18:35 with Lindgren pulled for the extra attacker for the 6-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Suzuki had a goal and two assists, and Mike Matheson and Kirby Dach scored for the Canadiens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-506649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}