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and fired a shot from between the circles for his 10th.Forsberg scored his second of the night, skating around Dan Girardi to ge
and fired a shot from between the circles for his 10th.Forsberg scored his second of the night, skating around Dan Girardi to ge
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MONTREAL (AP) — Casey Price’s sensational save at the end of regulation was for naught after the Montreal goaltender gave up a bad goal in overtime.Lars Eller scored through Price’s legs with less than 90 seconds left in overtime and the Washington Capitals rallied to beat the Canadiens 5-4 on Monday night.Alex Ovechkin scored twice for the Capitals http://www.officialmapleleafsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-morgan-rielly-jersey , while Brett Connolly and Nicklas Backstrom added goals in regulation.Washington was without goal-scoring threats T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov, who were sidelined with upper-body injuries.Pheonix Copley, making his fourth consecutive start, gave up four goals on 22 shots before getting pulled in the second period. Braden Holtby stopped all 22 shots he faced in relief.With two seconds left on the clock in a 4-4 game, Price went post-to-post to deny Ovechkin with the knob of his stick while sprawled out on the ice. A stunned Ovechkin, who had already scored twice, applauded the save and even gave Price a low five.“Maybe a lucky save, I don’t know,” said Ovechkin, grinning. “Obviously it was a pretty cool play. It was a beautiful save. Fans were cheering for him and I was kind of the same.”Added Price, who made 29 saves in defeat: “It’s obviously pretty cool. He’s a great player and he’s had my number for a while. Nice to get him back for once.”Mike Reilly Nikita Zaitsev Jersey Kids , Brendan Gallagher, Jeff Petry and Kenny Agostino scored for the Canadiens.“Carey did everything to keep us in this game,” said coach Claude Julien. “It may be five goals against him but it’s thanks to him we were still in the game.”Forward Tomas Tatar echoed his coach’s sentiments: “We have to be really thankful for Carey giving us the point. He was outstanding tonight. We didn’t help him. He was tremendous.”With an assist on Montreal’s third goal, Max Domi became the first Canadiens player with a 10-game point streak since Vincent Damphousse in 1996.Montreal outshot Washington 44-34.Losing 4-2, Backstrom started the comeback at 13:20 of the second period, shortly after the Canadiens failed to score on a four-minute man advantage.Ovechkin tied the game at 4-4 with a one-timer just 1:02 into the third period and with the Capitals on a 5-on-3 power play.Eller scored the winner with 1:26 left in overtime, beating Price with a soft wrist shot between the pads.The game mirrored the first meeting between the teams earlier this month, when Montreal came from behind to beat the Caps, 6-4.“That game was actually a good learning experience for us and we’ve been trending in the right direction since that,” said Eller, who has four goals this season. “Today we really showed that we didn’t make those same mistakes again Womens Patrick Marleau Jersey , at least not enough to lose the game.”Down 2-1 to start the second, the Canadiens scored three quick goals in a 1:15 span.Gallagher got the first, 20 seconds into the second period, on a centering pass by Phillip Danault.After a scramble in front of the Washington goal, Petry gave Montreal a 3-2 lead on the power play when he spotted a loose puck in the crease and chipped it over Copley’s pad at 1:08.Agostino, with his first goal in a Canadiens uniform, doubled Montreal’s lead 37 seconds later, deflecting Artturi Lehkonen’s shot past Copley.The Canadiens got on the scoreboard first through Reilly’s second goal of the season at 9:20 of the first period.Connolly and Ovechkin scored 1:24 apart in the first to give Washington a 2-1 lead after 15 minutes.NOTES: Montreal’s Noah Juulsen left the game in the first period after taking a puck to the face. The Canadiens tweeted that he was taken to the hospital “for further examination.” … Montreal’s Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Washington’s Dmitry Orlov and Tom Wilson each had two assists. … Montreal defeated Washington 6-4 in the first meeting between these two teams earlier this month.UP NEXTCapitals: Home against Chicago on Wednesday.Canadiens: At New Jersey on Wednesday. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Filip Forsberg came up big for the Nashville Predators in his return after sitting out a game.Forsberg had two goals and an assist to lead the Predators to a 4-1 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night. He was held out of the previous night’s lopsided loss to Buffalo for maintenance purposes.”It’s a big win and a good test for us going up against one of the best teams in the league,” Forsberg said. ”This is the way it’s going to be in the playoffs, especially on the road Rasmus Andersson Jersey Womens , so it was good.”Craig Smith and Ryan Johansen also scored to help Nashville move closer to securing the first division title in franchise history, with the Predators’ magic number to clinch the Central at two points.”I think the guys played smart and that’s all on them,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. ”They had a meeting. They weren’t happy with (Saturday’s loss) and they straightened it out. They played a smart, hard game, especially with the turnaround.”Tampa Bay, which went 0 for 5 on the power play, played the final two periods without captain Steven Stamkos, who left the game with an undisclosed lower-body injury. Coach Jon Cooper did not have an update on Stamkos after the game.Ondrej Palat scored while Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 21 shots for the Lightning, who have lost four of five to fall two points behind the Boston Bruins for the top spot in the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference.”We don’t like to lose games, that’s bottom line,” Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman said. ”We want to win every game. But we are looking at the big picture and hopefully there is two or three months left in the season William Nylander Jersey , we want to play the right way.”Nashville opened up the scoring as Johansen led a 2-on-1 rush and pulled the puck back before beating Vasilevskiy with a wrist shot 7:50 into the game.The Predators doubled their lead early in the second with one second remaining on a power paly as Forsberg’s shot deflected off the stick of Tampa Bay defenseman Anton Stralman and trickled through Vasilevskiy’s pads at 2:46.Palat pulled the Lightning within a goal at 7:32 as he was open in the slot to take a pass from Stralman and fired a shot from between the circles for his 10th.Forsberg scored his second of the night, skating around Dan Girardi to get to the top of the crease and sip the puck under Vasilevskiy at 6:24 to make it 3-1.Smith put the game away, taking a long pass from Mattias Ekholm and skating in alone to put a shot off the inside of the far post at 9:29.”We just give up too many easy ones, they are too easy,” Cooper said. ”It’s not like they are spending an ounce of time in our zone, they just go down and find open space.”NOTES: Tampa Bay RW Ryan Callahan returned to the lineup after missing five games with an upper-body injury. … Nashville leading goal-scorer LW Viktor Arvidsson missed the game with an undisclosed lower-body injury. … The Lightning have allowed the opening goal in five consecutive games. … Forsberg is the second player in franchise history to reach 60 points three different times, joining J.P. Dumont. … Saros improved to 8-0-2 this season when starting on the second night of a back-to-back games for the PredatorsUP NEXTLightning: Host Boston on Tuesday night.Predators: At Florida on Tuesday night.
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