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Corey Perry, Artturi Lehkonen and Nick Suzuki
also scored in the win, while goaltender Carey Price made 26
saves for the Canadiens, who have a 3-0 lead on the Jets in the
best-of-seven series.
The Canadiens will try to complete the sweep at home on Monday.
Adam Lowry scored for the Jets, who are yet to lead at any point
of this series.
Connor Hellebuyck stopped 28 shots.
For their sixth consecutive game, the Canadiens opened the
scoring when Perry netted his third goal of the playoffs before
the five-minute mark. After gaining the puck behind the net,
Perry headed to the front and sent a shot inside the far post.
Lehkonen's first of the postseason doubled the lead before the
midway point of the second period. Shortly after Winnipeg
captain Blake Wheeler hit the crossbar, Lehkonen buried the
rebound amid a scramble.
Armia's first short-handed goal extended the edge to 3-0. After
he stole the puck in his own zone to create a two-on-one, Armia
did a toe drag to get around a diving defender and buried the
shot at 13:41 of the period.
Lowry put the Jets on the board with 2:09 remaining in the
second with his second goal of the playoffs, but Suzuki all but
quashed Winnipeg's comeback hopes at the 8:52 mark of the third
period when he converted Cole Caufield's pass for a power-play
goal that made it a 4-1 game.
Armia, who played three seasons for the Jets before being traded
to Montreal in June 2018, notched his second of the game with an
empty-net goal at 16:42 to round out the scoring.
While the Jets received some good news with forward Paul Stastny
returning to the lineup after missing the first two games due to
injury, the Canadiens were without defenseman Jeff Petry after
he appeared to get a finger caught in a camera hole in the glass
late in the second period.
--Field Level Media
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