In Montreal, the Canadiens’ Joel Armia’s second goal of the game tied the match with the St Louis Blues on Saturday, 4-4.
Josh Anderson then hit for the winner to complete the rally in a 5-4 win for the Habs to end their seven-game skid.
Jake Allen made 18 saves in the win.
“It always feels good to win,” Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis said. “I think this team needed that tonight and we earned it.”
The Canadiens moved to 16-21-3.
The Blues’ Brandon Saad and Armia traded goals for a 1-1 tie into the early second period.
“I just made sure I’m ready to go whenever I played next,” Armia said. “That was probably the main mindset there, just to get yourself ready mentally and physically to play whenever you’re called up.”
St Louis dropped to 19-18-3.
“We just lost coverage around our net on a couple of plays,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “One play, we don’t get it out at the blue line and the puck comes back at us. Just mistakes, too many penalties.”
The Blues went up, 2-1, on a marker from Alexey Toropchenko, but the Habs replied with two, Kirby Dach and Cole Caufield put them up, 3-2.
Nikita Alexandrov and Pavel Buchnevich (power play) scored for St Louis to get them back in front, 4-3.
Jordan Binnington made 22 saves in the loss.
“Well, we’ve got a game tomorrow, so that’s the nice part,” Blues defenseman Justin Faulk said. “We’ve just got to realize that it wasn’t good enough, and we’re lucky that we can just roll right over tomorrow and hopefully start with a fresh mindset and know we’ve just got to pick up our game a bit more.”
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