Evan Rodrigues nearly stuffed one home with 9:42 left. The Penguins controlled much of the action in the final period. Pittsburgh got one back when Carter tipped Jake Guentzel's pass between Fleury's legs 5:34 into the third. I've shot the puck a lot this year and it hasn't gone in," Jones said. Penguins: Begin a week-long, four-game road trip to western Canada on Monday in Calgary."It feels nice. The team said in a statement it would “not comment further.” He was promoted to that role during the summer of 2014, after having initially joined the Canadiens as director of player personnel in May 2012. The Canadiens announced during the game that assistant general manager Scott Mellanby resigned. He was third on the team last season with 22 goals. Rust, who has two goals and nine points in 12 games, missed seven games earlier this season with a lower-body injury. Sullivan didn’t indicate whether Rust would join the team on its upcoming four-game road trip. Penguins forward Bryan Rust missed Saturday’s game with a lower-body injury, which happened during Friday’s warmups. Montreal, which reached the Stanley Cup Final last season, is 6-15-2 after 23 games. Pittsburgh only allowed two goals during its five-game win streak. The Canadiens lost 4-1 at Buffalo, while Pittsburgh shut out the New York Islanders 1-0 in New York. It was the second game of a back-to-back for both teams. “I thought it was a crucial game for us.” “It was just a matter of getting some positive vibes going back home,” Allen said. Lehkonen whacked a loose rebound past DeSmith for his third goal in four games.Ĭarter scored for Pittsburgh with about three minutes left, but Anderson added his first of the Canadiens’ three empty-net goals with less than two minutes to go. Rodrigues tied the game and Jake Guentzel continued a career-best nine-game point streak with a secondary assist on the goal it’s also the NHL’s longest active point streak.īut Dvorak beat DeSmith from the top of the crease and Lehkonen gave the Canadiens a 3-1 lead at 6:16 of the third period. The puck skipped over Kris Letang’s stick at the offensive blue line and Drouin took it the other way for a breakaway, beating DeSmith with a backhander between the legs. The Canadiens are 2-9-1 on the road.ĭrouin opened the scoring with 4 1/2 minutes left in the second period. Montreal’s only other road victory this season came Oct. To give up that one as quickly as we did was a little bit discouraging.” “You’d like to think you can build on that and create some momentum. “It was unfortunate that (Montreal) scored right after our power-play goal to tie it up,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. Rodrigues and Jeff Carter also scored for Pittsburgh, which frantically tried to rally after falling behind 3-1 and 4-2 in the third period.Ĭasey DeSmith stopped 27 shots in just his fourth start of the season. Sidney Crosby scored a goal and had two assists for Pittsburgh, which saw its five-game winning streak end.
“I just thought it was an important game to play well with a lot of effort, and most importantly, get the win.” “Obviously, we’ve been down in the dumps a little bit as a group, and not playing our best hockey,” Allen said.
Jonathan Drouin scored his third goal in the second period for Montreal, which snapped a seven-game road slide and a two-game losing streak, and Jake Allen stopped a season-high 47 shots. That’s a good way to react.”Īrtturi Lehkonen also added to Montreal's third-period fluffy, as well as Josh Anderson's two empty-netters and an empty-netter from Tyler Toffoli. “But obviously, doing that and getting rewarded with a goal is huge.
“You can’t always answer with scoring a goal back,” Canadiens coach Dominique Ducharme said. PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Montreal Canadiens scored five third-period goals, and the most important one came shortly after Pittsburgh tied the game.Ĭhristian Dvorak scored the first of those five, helping the Canadiens end a lengthy road drought by beating the Penguins 6-3 on Saturday night.Įvan Rodrigues tied it at 1 with his power-play goal at 2:33 of the third period, but Dvorak scored 32 seconds later to help keep Montreal in front for good during a wild third period in which the teams combined for five goals in the final 2:37.
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