Collin Graf had a goal and two assists while Mario Ferraro also scored for San Jose (32-26-6), which ended Montreal\u2019s three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
John Klingberg provided two assists and Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 25 shots.<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki replied for Montreal (36-19-10), while Noah Dobson pitched in with two assists and Jakub Dobes made 17 saves.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens held third place in the Atlantic, four points behind the division-leading Buffalo Sabres with two games in hand, heading into Saturday\u2019s games.<\/p>\n
The Sharks were one point shy of the Los Angeles Kings for the Western Conference\u2019s second wild-card spot, with two fewer games played.<\/p>\n
Caufield opened the scoring at 7:21 in the first period, beating Nedeljkovic cleanly with a wrist shot off the rush for his 38th to set a new career-high.<\/p>\n
Celebrini equalized with his 34th when he picked the top left corner from the slot at 13:12. Ferraro later floated a wrist shot from the point and fooled an unsuspecting Dobes before Celebrini\u2019s attempt deflected off Graf’s leg, giving San Jose a 3-1 lead at 16:20 in the second period.<\/p>\n
Suzuki ripped a shot glove side past Nedeljkovic with 2:22 remaining in the middle frame to cut into the lead.<\/p>\n
Celebrini iced the game, scoring his second into an empty net at 17:56 in the third.<\/p>\n
Both teams had goals overturned. Montreal\u2019s Lane Hutson scored early in the first period, but officials ruled they\u2019d whistled the play dead before the puck crossed the goal line. In the second period, Celebrini\u2019s power-play goal was waved off for offside.<\/p>\n
Sharks: Rookie forward Igor Chernyshov left early in the first period after a scary fall. Chernyshov collided with Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson in the neutral zone before losing his balance twice when he attempted to stand up. The Sharks announced he wouldn\u2019t return but provided no further update.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Veteran winger Brendan Gallagher \u2014 the longest-serving Canadien \u2014 was a healthy scratch for the first time since suiting up in his first NHL game Jan. 22, 2013, as Caufield returned from a brief cold.<\/p>\n
Oliver Kapanen came the closest to tying the game for the Canadiens, firing a shot off the crossbar with nine minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Caufield scored his 16th goal in 19 games on a Saturday this season, the most by a Canadien since Brian Bellows in 1992-93.<\/p>\n
Sharks: Visit the Ottawa Senators on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin Graf had a goal and two assists while Mario Ferraro also scored for San Jose (32-26-6), which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-537214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537214","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=537214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}