In Glendale, Carey Price put on a strong showing for the visiting Montreal Canadiens and made 32 saves to help the Habs to a 4-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes.
“Start of the first period, (the Canadiens score) seconds in; start of the second period, (they score) seconds in,” Coyotes coach Rich Tocchet said. “They’re killers. You can’t give freebie (goals) up to Carey Price. He’s too good of a goalie.”
Brendan Gallagher and Shea Weber scored for Montreal.
“Those goals at the start of periods are huge,” Gallagher said. “It carries over for the rest of the period. For us to start the way we did was huge.”
Gallagher scored 22 seconds into the game.
Jakob Chychrun scored for the Coyotes who got only as close as 3-1 in the loss.
“He’s obviously one of the best in the League, and you need to play a good game against him,” Chychrun said. “You have to have a lot of chances to put a few by him, (create) a lot of traffic, and we just weren’t doing all of those little things.”
Nick Cousins and Jonathan Drouin also scored for the Habs.
“Obviously, it’s fun to score against your former team and especially a big goal there in the third to kind of pad our lead,” Cousins said.
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Antti Raanta made 32 saves in the loss.
“The start was the worst possible. I have to make that save (against Gallagher),” Raanta said. “It’s tough when it’s 30 seconds and you’re trailing. Then you’re trailing the whole game and you’ve been traveling a lot. It takes energy trying to chase the game all the time.”
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