Cole Caufield scored the winner with 22 seconds remaining in overtime as the\u00a0Montreal\u00a0Canadiens edged the Boston Bruins 3-2 in an evenly matched rivalry matchup Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Caufield tapped a pass from Nick Suzuki into the back of the net for his 40th of the season, becoming the first Canadien to reach the mark since Vincent Damphousse in 1993-94.<\/p>\n
Suzuki and Josh Anderson also scored while Jakub Dobes made 26 saves for\u00a0Montreal\u00a0(37-20-10), which snapped a two-game losing skid.<\/p>\n
Brendan Gallagher picked up an assist in his 900th NHL game, all for\u00a0Montreal.<\/p>\n
Pavel Zacha had both goals for Boston (37-23-8), which lost 4-3 in overtime Monday at New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Swayman stopped 28 shots.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens sat third in the Atlantic Division and one point ahead of the Bruins \u2014 with one game in hand \u2014 heading into Tuesday\u2019s games.<\/p>\n
Zacha opened the scoring on the power play 2:22 into the first period when he shovelled home a backhand after Alexandre Carrier\u2019s double-minor for high-sticking put the Canadiens on a four-minute penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Suzuki replied at 10:30, casually deking to his backhand following a net-front pass from Juraj Slafkovsky to beat Swayman and tie the game.<\/p>\n
Five minutes into the second period, Zacha tipped Viktor Arvidsson\u2019s pass for his second of the night after defensive-zone confusion between Montreal\u2019s Lane Hutson and Oliver Kapanen left the Bruins centre all alone in front of the net. Anderson evened the score again at 13:15 in the second with a deflection on Hutson\u2019s point shot.<\/p>\n
TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Gallagher became the 13th player in franchise history to reach 900 games with the Canadiens. The milestone came three days after the 33-year-old from Edmonton was a healthy scratch for the first time since his first NHL game in January 2013.<\/p>\n
Bruins: Star winger David Pastrnak extended his point streak against\u00a0Montreal\u00a0to 14 games, tying Bobby Orr for the longest by a Bruins player against the Canadiens.<\/p>\n
KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n
Dobes stretched out for a blocker save to rob Bruins defenceman Charlie McAvoy from the slot midway through the third period as \u201cDo-by! Do-by!\u201d chants ensued inside the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n
Montreal\u00a0nearly jumped ahead with three minutes remaining in regulation when Swayman slid out of his net to challenge Caufield. Suzuki and Kaiden Guhle followed with opportunities but couldn\u2019t finish through a pile of bodies in front of the goal.<\/p>\n
KEY STAT<\/p>\n
The Canadiens, who went 0-for-1 on the night, are now scoreless in their last nine power plays.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Bruins: Host the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Visit the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Caufield scored the winner with 22 seconds remaining in overtime as the\u00a0Montreal\u00a0Canadiens edged the Boston Bruins 3-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-543778","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\/543778","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=543778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}