He scored his 48th of the season at 6:20 of the second period to give Montreal a 2-0 lead. He took a pass from behind the net from Slafkovsky and fired a shot over Shesterkin\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have a goal-scorer like that you can always find a pass and there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s going to go in,\u201d Slafkovsky said. \u201cI hope he can get it (50 goals) as soon as possible and get a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if getting 50 goals and catching MacKinnon is on his mind, Caufield first gave a quick, \u201cno.\u201d But after a pause, he gave an enthusiastic, \u201clike yeah,\u201d drawing laughs from the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just say the same as our coach, we\u2019re focused on our team game and winning games and I think individual stuff comes with that. Obviously, it helps when you\u2019re winning games, but you\u2019d be crazy not to know what\u2019s going on around the League.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo again, still hungry. A couple more games to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
His first goal came 1:44 after Newhook gave Montreal at 1-0 lead at 4:36 of the second with a one-timer on a feed from Ivan Demidov<\/a>\u00a0that beat Shesterkin. Fox cut the Canadiens\u2019 lead to 2-1 at 9:23 of the third, collecting a loose puck to the right of the goal and putting it past\u00a0Fowler, who was down on the ice.<\/p>\n The Rangers made it 2-2 at 14:08 when Cuylle went to the net and deflected in a shot from Jonny Brodzinski<\/a>\u00a0in the slot.<\/p>\n \u201cOur effort, I thought, was there all night long,\u201d Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate the goal that beat us seemed like a nothing play.\u201d<\/p>\n The Canadiens have seven games left in the regular season and still have a chance to win the division and the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. After playing at the New Jersey Devils on Saturday to conclude their current five-game road trip, they play the next four at home before ending the season with two on the road.<\/p>\n \u201cI know that we have better than tonight,\u201d coach Martin St. Louis<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cbut overall, I felt we put ourselves in a spot to win a game.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: Caufield\u2019s second goal of the game was his 12th\u00a0game-winning goal of the season, matching Lafleur (1977-78, 1975-76), Yvan Cournoyer<\/a>\u00a0(1975-76),\u00a0Bernie Geoffrion (1960-61) and Maurice Richard<\/a> (1955-56) for the second most in a single season by a Canadiens player. The only player with more is Lafleur, who had 13 in 1978-79. \u2026 It was Caufield\u2019s 12th multigoal game of the season, which is tied for fifth most in Canadiens history. The seven-game streak is Montreal\u2019s longest since Oct. 18 to Nov. 2, 2016 (8-0-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He scored his 48th of the season at 6:20 of the second period to give Montreal a 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":{"0":"post-579065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579065","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=579065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}