In Washington, DC, Ben Chiarot‘s second goal of the game came in extra time and gave the visiting Montreal Canadiens 4=3 win over the Capitals.
“We’ve had our ups and downs, but he’s been fairly consistent,” Canadiens coach Claude Julien said. “He’s been a great addition. His size (6-foot-3, 225 pounds). His grit. You don’t expect that from him, but he’s already scored a couple or overtime goals.”
Carey Price got the win for the Canadiens in DC – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Tom Wilson forced the extra session when he scored with two seconds left on the clock in the third period.
“They play a difficult brand to play against,” Wilson said. “They’ve got some skill and speed. But I think we started pretty well. Just those goals that are going in kind of at the wrong times of the games to kill our momentum.”
Carey Price made 29 saves to get the win.
“We had very few lapses in our game tonight,” Price said. “I thought overall we played with a lot of poise.”
Shea Weber and Brendan Gallagher also scored for the Habs.
“I thought [the defensemen], they really handled themselves well at five when we lost Xavier [Ouellet],” Julien said. “I thought they did a great job, but also I think our forwards did a great job in coming back and helping tonight and making their job a little bit easier because it could have been a lot harder.”
Lars Eller scored and Alex Ovechkin added 699th goal in the loss.
“When you’re going through struggles in the game and you’re not really carrying the play like we want to, then you just try to spur on different things or try to look for different looks,” Capitals head coach Todd Reirden said. “I went with the one shift with him with our fourth line and he gets a chance right around the front of the net. He obviously scores off the face-off, and you’re hoping that we can get the next one and move forward on this.”
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Braden Holtby made 28 saves in the loss.
“I’m seeing way too many turnovers right now,” the Capitals’ Carl Hagelin said. “You can see when we get the puck deep, we create some offense. Especially against a team like this who have five guys back and they backcheck really hard with a lot of speed, you’ve got to get it deep. You’ve got to make them make mistakes. It was too easy of a game for them.”
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