In Montreal, the Canadiens broke out of all sorts of slumps on Saturday night in a 7-1 win over the visiting Winnipeg Jets.
Brendan Gallagher struck for two goals.
The Habs improved to 2-1-2 under new head coach Dominique Ducharme.
“I had no doubt about that,” Ducharme said. “Every day they show up, they’re engaged. I was really happy for them. They’ve put in so much, those guys care a lot. And to see them getting rewarded with a lot of success tonight. It won’t be like that every night, but our players got rewarded tonight. I think it’s good for them because they put in the work.”
Carey Price made 28 saves to get the win.
Mathieu Perreault scored the Jets’ only goal, the goal came after the Habs had gone to 7-0 in the game.
“You’ve got to give them credit, they were a desperate team,” the Jets’ Blake Wheeler 
said. “They’re trying to get on a roll here, and you know they made their opportunities count.”
Josh Anderson and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the Canadiens.
“Our guys are just paying really good attention to the details of the game,” Anderson said. “They’ve been bringing that every night, and tonight, maybe the first couple minutes of the game we were a little bit sloppy, but after that we started supporting each other on the ice, and things started going our way finally.”
Joel Armia, Paul Byron and Jeff Petry scored the final three goals for Montreal.
Connor Hellebuyck surrendered four goals and made 15 saves before getting the hook.
“I felt great out there, I thought the guys were good in front of me,” Hellebuyck said. “So they had a good night, hats off to them. They took it to us tonight.”
Laurent Brossoit, who made six saves in a mop role.
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