Bolduc also had an assist, and Jayden Struble scored his first goal since Nov. 26, 2024 for Montreal (40-21-10), which has won three straight. Jakub Dobes made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Damon Severson scored and Jet Greaves made 18 saves for Columbus (38-23-11), which has lost two of three.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets are 19-4-4 since Rick Bowness replaced Dean Evason as coach on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n
Bolduc put the Canadiens up 2-1 with a shot over Greaves\u2019 right shoulder after driving the left side of the slot to take a pass from Jake Evans for his first goal since Dec. 23. He has been a healthy scratch twice since then and had nine assists in his previous 31 games without scoring.<\/p>\n
Mason Marchment shot wide of the right post with 37 seconds remaining when he got to a loose puck sitting behind Dobes in the crease after Adam Fantili shot from the slot.<\/p>\n
Struble put Montreal up 1-0 at 9:54 of the first period to end an even longer goal drought. He drove in from the left point to take Bolduc\u2019s pass at the left face-off dot before snapping a shot past Greaves stick side after failing to score in his previous 87 games.<\/p>\n
Severson tied it 1-1 at 12:17 on a 2-on-1 when he drove in undefended to take a pass across from Boone Jenner and shot over Dobes\u2019 right shoulder from the right hash marks.<\/p>\n
Dobes sprawled to the ice and stuck out his left pad to stop Marchment\u2019s deke to his backhand on a breakaway with 2:10 remaining in the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bolduc also had an assist, and Jayden Struble scored his first goal since Nov. 26, 2024 for Montreal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-563455","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\/563455","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=563455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}