In Washington, DC, the Montreal Canadiens’ Carey Price made 26 saves in a 5-2 win over the Capitals on Friday night.
Tomas Tatar scored once and had four points on the night.
“I think the whole game was a lot of fun,” Tatar said. “We played a strong game, played the right way, and we’re happy with these two big points. Obviously, they’re a really strong team and that’s just a good effort from four lines.”
Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored the Caps goals.
“We didn’t execute our wall plays, we made lots of turnovers in neutral zone, and it just cost us the game,” Ovechkin said. “We know we have to and we can play better. You saw it, guys. We know it. It’s our fault.”
Phillip Danault and Shea Weber had goals and multi-point nights of the Canadiens.
“I really liked our game tonight from start to finish,” Habs head coach Claude Julien said. “We had to not necessarily weather their start, but we knew they were going to have a good start and I thought we started off well, too. They had a couple of really good scoring chances in the first 10 minutes that Carey made big saves on and kept us in there, and the goal was to come out of the first period either tied or ahead.
“So we managed to do that and eventually we just kind of took over.”
Nick Suzuki and Jordan Weal also scored for Montreal
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Ilya Samsonov made 35 saves in the loss.
“We made a push at the end, but we weren’t sharp,” Capitals head coach Todd Reirden said. “For the most part, we’ve been really consistent this year. That game we were off. The good thing about a back-to-back is we’re right back at it tomorrow. Make some adjustments here to our group for tomorrow and get prepared to take on obviously an excellent Boston team.”
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