Cole Caufield scored the go-ahead aim halfway by means of the third interval and Sam Montembeault made 38 saves to guide the Montreal Canadiens to a 2-1 win over the Rangers in New York on Sunday.
Caufield transformed a cross from captain Nick Suzuki at 8:56 of the ultimate interval for the decisive aim. Caufield leads the Canadiens with 26 targets and has scored in seven of the final eight video games.
The younger scorer mentioned profitable on the street — which the Canadiens hadn’t performed in regulation time since Dec. 6 at Seattle — was particularly satisfying at Madison Square Garden.
“You should capitalize on their errors and I bought rewarded,” the 22-year-old Caufield mentioned. “And that is the second-best place to play after the Bell Centre.”
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Caufield scored his team-leading twenty sixth of the yr to present Montreal the sting over New York.
Kirby Dach additionally scored for Montreal, which was coming off a 2-1 loss to the Islanders on Saturday. The Canadiens have 4 wins of their final 16 video games. They are 4-11-1 since Dec. 12.
“It was a gutsy win,” Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis mentioned. “Our engagement was excessive. We got here into the sport with focus. … It was battle. We did a fairly good job of shutting them down.”
Montembeault, who additionally performed in opposition to Islanders, denied a point-blank probability by Panarin with 4 minutes to go, and he made 13 saves within the third interval to enhance to 8-7-2 this season.
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Artemi Panarin scored for the Rangers, who had gained 5 of their final six video games and had factors in seven-straight, with a 5-0-2 mark. They hadn’t misplaced in regulation since dropping a 4-0 resolution at dwelling in opposition to Washington on Dec. 27.
“We had been type of flat. It was a kind of video games,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant mentioned. “The vitality stage did not look nice. They bought one bounce on the finish and beat us 2-1.”
New York is 6-2-2 in its final 10 video games, and 13-3-2 since Dec. 5.
“Their goalie made some good saves. They performed a fairly stable recreation,” Rangers captain Jacob Trouba mentioned. “They had been quick and so they forechecked exhausting. They did not make it straightforward.”
After a scoreless first, Dach notched his eighth aim at 4:54 of the second with assists to Christian Dvorak and Caufield.
Panarin tied it for New York at 16:03 of the second along with his twelfth aim. He leads the Rangers with 47 factors, together with 35 assists.
It was the fourth-straight recreation the Rangers failed to attain on the ability play.
The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 14-10 within the first. Both groups had 12 photographs within the second.
St. Louis, who was a part of the Rangers run the Stanley Cup Finals in 2014 and Eastern Conference Finals in 2015, gained for his second straight as Canadiens coach on the Garden. St. Louis grew to become coach of Montreal late final season.
“It’s enjoyable to win,” he mentioned with amusing. “And a terrific constructing to win in.”
