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 Center David Desharnais and left wingers Tomas Fleischmann and Max
Pacioretty also scored for Montreal.
Centers John Tavares and Anders Lee replied for the Islanders.
Goaltender Carey Price made 21 saves for the Canadiens (16-4-2)
while Thomas Greiss stopped 23 shots for New York (10-8-3).
Tavares opened the scoring at 18:41 of the first period. The
Islanders won a puck battle behind the Canadiens net and got it to
defenseman Travis Hamonic at the point. He took a quick shot that
Price stopped but the Montreal netminder didn't hang on to the
rebound. Right winger Kyle Okposo tried to sneak it behind the left
leg of an outstretched Price and Tavares was there for the loose
puck to notch his 10th of the season.
The Canadiens' power play snapped an 0-for-15 drought to tie things
up in the second period. After defenseman P.K. Subban's point shot
hit Islanders blue-liner Brian Strait at the inner hashmarks, right
winger Dale Weise skated in close to try to beat Greiss and
Desharnais, untouched in front, was there to knock in the rebound at
9:37.
Fleischmann's seventh of the season put the home side ahead 2-1 at
14:09. With Montreal shorthanded, Fleischmann stripped Okposo of the
puck at the Canadiens' blue line and skated up the ice 2-on-0 with
left winger Lars Eller before rifling a wrist shot from the top of
the slot past Greiss.
Lee evened the score at 11:53 of the third period, just as a New
York power play expired. After Hamonic kept a Montreal clearing
attempt from leaving the zone, he sent the puck over to defenseman
Johnny Boychuk, whose shot from the point wound up in a scramble in
front. Center Mikhail Grabovski dished the loose puck over to Josh
Bailey to the right of the net and Bailey fed an uncovered Lee on
the other side.
Galchenyuk restored the Canadiens' lead on the power play at 16:31.
Subban showed patience at the blue line before sending a perfect
feed to Galchenyuk in the right circle for the one-timer. The goal,
the center's third of the season, was his first since Oct. 29.
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Subban's assist was his 246th career point, moving him past Jean-Guy
Talbot into 10th place on the Canadiens' all-time points list among
defensemen.
Pacioretty capped off the scoring with an empty-netter on the power
play with 8.9 seconds remaining for his 300th career point.
NOTES: Montreal RW Devante Smith-Pelly missed the game with a
lower-body injury suffered in Friday's game against the Islanders in
Brooklyn. ... RW Sven Andrighetto, called up on Saturday, made his
season debut for the Canadiens. ... Montreal scratched D Jarred
Tinordi and C Bud Holloway, who was recalled Sunday morning, while C
Torrey Mitchell and D Alexei Emelin remained on injured reserve,
both with lower body injuries. ... Islanders D Adam Pelech drew in
for D Marek Zidlicky while LW Taylor Beck dressed in place of RW
Steve Bernier. ... G Jaroslav Halak backed up Thomas Greiss, leaving
G Jean-Francois Berube as the scratch for New York. ... The game was
the final meeting of three regular season matchups between the two
clubs, all taking place over two and a half weeks in November.
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