Carey Price makes 37 saves in Canadiens’ 3-1 win over Blue Jackets
Andrew Shaw (65) celebrates with teammates Brendan Gallagher (11), Byron Froese (42) and Nicolas Deslauriers (20) after scoring during third period NHL hockey action against the Columbus Blue Jackets, in Montreal on Monday, November 27, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes.
MONTREAL — Carey Price made 37 saves as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1 on Monday.
Brendan Gallagher, Jonathan Drouin and Andrew Shaw, into the empty net, scored for the Canadiens (10-12-3) in Price’s second straight victory since returning from injury.
Rookie Pierre-Luc Dubois scored for the Blue Jackets (15-8-1), who lost for the first time since Nov. 10. Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 saves.
Bobrovsky had allowed just six goals on Columbus’s six-game winning streak coming into Monday’s contest.
It is only the second regulation-time loss for the Blue Jackets against an Atlantic-Division opponent this season (7-2-1).
Coming off a dominant 3-0 win against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday, the Canadiens picked up where they left off.
Montreal scored on its first two shots on Bobrovsky, the league leader in save percentage and goals-against average.
Gallagher, after capitalizing on a giveaway by Cam Atkinson, got the first at 3:11 with a sharp-angle shot that beat Bobrovsky five-hole for his team-leading 10th goal of year and his 200th career point.
Gallagher had 10 goals in 64 games last season.
Drouin doubled Montreal’s lead with a power-play goal at 8:10 of the first. Using Shaw as a screen, Drouin roofed the puck on Bobrovsky with a slapshot from the face-off dot for his first goal since Nov. 5, ending an eight-game goalless drought.
Shaw added the empty-netter with 1:24 remaining in the game.
In his second game back from injury, Price followed up his shutout performance against the Sabres with some jaw-dropping stops to deny the Blue Jackets.
A sprawled-out Price made two quick pad saves on captain Nick Foligno five minutes into the game, the first coming when Price had his back to the puck. Midway through the second period, the Canadiens goalie denied Boone Jenner twice in quick succession from the crease.
Columbus outshot Montreal 18-7 in the second period and Dubois finally found the back of the net for the visitors at 16:08. Dubois crashed the net and poked a loose puck past price. Coach Claude Julien challenged the play for goaltender interference but the goal stood.
Notes: Canadiens defenceman Shea Weber missed his fourth consecutive game with a lower-body injury. … Columbus beat Montreal 2-1 in overtime earlier this month (Nov. 14).
Kelsey Patterson, The Canadian Press
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