Kaiden Guhle had a goal and an assist, and Jacob Fowler made 20 saves for the Canadiens (5-3-2), who have won two of their past three games (2-0-1).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Montreal will next play the Winnipeg Jets in the 2026 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic at Winnipeg\u2019s Princess Auto Stadium on Sunday (7 p.m. ET; SN, TVAS, TNT, truTV, HBO MAX).<\/p>\n
Connor Bedard scored the lone goal, and Spencer Knight made 24 saves for the Blackhawks (3-7-0), who have lost two in a row.<\/p>\n
Bedard put the Blackhawks ahead 1-0 at 4:23 of the first period. Bedard took a feed from Patrick Kane in the neutral zone, skated into the offensive zone and roofed a wrist shot past Fowler\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
Evans tied the game 1-1 at 17:29 with his first goal of the season. He picked up a one-touch pass from Kirby Dach along the goal line to the left of the net, swung out in front and beat Knight glove side.<\/p>\n
Evans\u2019 short-handed goal at 7:45 of the second period put the Canadiens up 2-1. Evans moved down the left side on a 2-on-1 rush and scored on a wrist shot from the left face-off dot.<\/p>\n
Guhle pushed the lead to 3-1 at 18:26 with a wrist shot from the left point that found the net through traffic. Josh Anderson provided a screen in front, preventing Knight from seeing the puck.<\/p>\n
Mike\u00a0Matheson, who missed the past four games with a lower-body injury, scored his first goal of the season on an empty net at 17:22 of the third period to secure the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n
Montreal played without captain Nick Suzuki, who will be out 2-4 weeks because of an upper-body injury. It was the first time the 27-year-old forward missed a game in the NHL since making his debut in the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaiden Guhle had a goal and an assist, and Jacob Fowler made 20 saves for the Canadiens (5-3-2),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-944079","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\/944079","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=944079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}