MONTREAL (AP) ¡ª The MVPs for the Montreal Canadiens on
Wednesday night never touched the ice.For coach Claude
Julien
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coaches as anybody else.Officials overturned Alex Galchenyuk¡¯s would-be tying
goal late in the third period, and the Canadiens held off the Arizona Coyotes
2-1 on Wednesday night.Mike Reilly scored in the third period, Carey Price made
30 saves and Montreal turned away Galchenyuk in a return to his old city.It
looked like Galchenyuk had tied it with 3:39 left when he beat Price with a
no-look shot on the power play. The Canadiens challenged successfully for
offsides, and the goal was overturned.All a credit to video replay coaches Mario
Leblanc and Eric Gravel, Julien noted.¡°Every time the puck crosses the blue
line, they check the replay,¡± he said. ¡°Good work on their part. They deserve
all the credit because I didn¡¯t see it. They said it was offside and they showed
it to me. That saved us.¡±If the challenge had failed, Montreal would have been
given a two-minute penalty.¡°From the bench it was tough to see,¡± captain Shea
Weber said. ¡°The guys on the ice said it was possibly offside. That was the
difference in the game right there.¡±¡°That¡¯s a good
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Canadiens, who have won five of six.Price earned his 20th victory of the season.
He has stopped 133 of the last 137 shots he¡¯s faced during a four-game personal
winning streak.Conor Garland scored for the Coyotes, who were playing the second
game of a back-to-back set after a 3-2 victory in Ottawa on Tuesday night.
Calvin Pickard, in his Coyotes debut, stopped 22 shots.Reilly put Montreal ahead
2-1 with a one-timer from the point 4:48 into the third.Galchenyuk was the
Canadiens¡¯ first-round draft pick in 2012 and played six seasons with Montreal.
This was his first game in Montreal since being traded to the Coyotes for Max
Domi on June 15. The 24-year-old was honored with a video tribute during a
commercial break in the first period. Both Galchenyuk and Domi were held
pointless.The Canadiens got on the board first when their league-worst power
play scored against Arizona¡¯s league-best penalty kill.After a scramble in front
of the goal, Tomas Tatar jumped on a loose puck and fed Drouin, who snapped a
nine-game goalless drought with a wrist shot at 9:29 of the first period.The
home team could have easily scored a second or third goal, but Pickard was up to
the challenge.Pickard made two big saves to start the second period ¡ª point
blank on Joel Armia in the slot with his mask before denying Victor Mete with
the outstretched pad seconds later. The 26-year-old later stopped Armia on the
breakaway.¡°Credit to our guys,¡± said
Pickard
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hard. Back-to-back, coming into a tough environment and we were right there
until the end. These guys deserve a lot of credit.¡±Garland tied it at 18:28 of
the second period while playing with the man advantage. Garland was left all
alone at the side of the net after Artturi Lehkonen was forced to sprint to the
bench because of a broken stick.NOTES: Arizona¡¯s Oliver Ekman-Larsson
(lower-body injury sustained last game) did not play. ¡ With the All-Star break
followed by a bye week, the Canadiens don¡¯t play again until Feb. 2.UP
NEXTCoyotes: Play at San Jose on Saturday night.Canadiens: Host New Jersey on
Feb. 2. NEW YORK (AP) ¡ª The league-best Tampa Bay Lightning are finding
different ways to get wins. They needed their goalie to cement their latest
victory over the New York Rangers.Steven Stamkos scored in the second period to
give Tampa Bay a three-goal lead, Louis Domingue stopped 31 shots and the
Lightning held on to beat the Rangers 3-2 Saturday night.¡°We got in our groove
after the first,¡± said Domingue, who had 15 saves in the third period to improve
to 17-4-0 this season. ¡°Our forecheck has been awesome. We get some huge blocked
shots and there you have it.¡±Domingue got the start after Andrei Vasilevskiy
blanked the Islanders 1-0 in a shootout win on Friday night.Yanni Gourde and
Erik Cernak also scored to help the Lightning get their 39th win and become the
first team to reach 80 points this season ¡ª 15 points ahead of second-place
Toronto in the Atlantic Division.¡°You want your team to get the lead, extend it
and hold onto it,¡± Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. ¡°For the better part of this
year, we¡¯ve been able to do that.¡±Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes had goals for
the
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Lundqvist finished with 20 saves as New York lost for the second time in three
games since the All-Star break.The Rangers had a chance to tie it when former
captain Ryan McDonagh took a tripping penalty with 5:51 left in the third, but
they were unable to generate any shots on the ensuing power play. They also
pulled Lundqvist for an extra skater with just over two minutes left to no
avail.Gourde opened the scoring at 6:51 of the first, tapping a loose puck past
Lundqvist for his 13th. McDonagh ¡ª in his second game back at the Garden since
he was traded to the Lightning late last season ¡ª had an assist on the
goal.Cernak, a 21-year-old defenseman from Slovakia, made it 2-0 with his first
career goal at 4:41 of the second, rifling the puck past Lundqvist from the
slot. Another former Rangers captain ¡ª Ryan Callahan ¡ª had an assist.¡°It was a
long time, 30 games, and it was great to score my first goal,¡± said the 6-foot-4
Cernak
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to the Lightning two years later. ¡°Hopefully it¡¯s not my last one.¡±McDonagh and
Callahan were among five former Rangers skating for the Lightning. The list also
included defensemen Dan Girardi and Anton Stralman, and forward J.T.
Miller.Stamkos made it 3-0 with his 28th at 8:33 of the second period with
assists to Victor Hedman and Nikita Kucherov, who leads the Lightning with 80
points.Zuccarello ¡ª playing his 500th game for the Rangers and becoming the
first player from Norway to reach that milestone ¡ª got the Rangers on the
scoreboard with 3:43 left in the middle period with his ninth.Hayes narrowed the
deficit to 3-2 when he converted a cross-ice pass from Zibanejad at 6:49 of the
third on a power play. After Zuccarello¡¯s pass went awry out of the Lightning
zone, Lundqvist retrieved the puck and sent it up the ice to Zibanejad. It was
the third assist this season for Lundqvist. The Swedish goalie made a dazzling
save with six minutes left in the third, denying Callahan on a breakaway with a
right pad save.The 31-year-old Zuccarello has points in his last seven games ¡ª
with five goals and eight assists in the stretch ¡ª and the trio of Kreider,
Zibanejad and Zuccarello has 35 points combined over the last seven games in
which all three have played.¡°We battled hard. We played a really good game,¡±
Zuccarello said. ¡°But it¡¯s not enough. You¡¯ve got to win hockey games and we
didn¡¯t do it.¡±Domingue made eight saves in the first period, including two stops
on Ryan Strome on a breakaway. Domingue stopped the original shot, the blocked
Strome¡¯s rebound attempt. He also stopped Kreider from in close in the last
minute of the third.¡°Tonight you could say we deserved to
win
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result-driven business. You have to find ways to win.¡±NOTES: D Marc Staal played
his 812th game with the Rangers, passing Jim Neilsen for fourth place on the
franchise list for defensemen. Only Harry Howell, Brian Leetch and Ron Greschner
played more games on the Rangers blue line. ¡ The Rangers scratched D Tony
DeAngelo for the second straight game. ¡ Tampa Bay¡¯s leading goal-scorer Brayden
Point was a late scratch with a lower-body injury. ¡ The Lightning also
scratched F Danick Martel and D Mikhail Sergachev. ¡ The Lightning won the
previous meeting, 6-3 at home on Dec. 10. The teams meet again on Feb. 27 at the
Garden.UP NEXTLightning: Host Vegas on Tuesday night.Rangers: Host Los Angeles
on Monday night.