In Montreal, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 38 saves for the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning in a 2-1 win over the Canadiens on Thursday.
All the scoring came in the opening frame.
“It’s easier for me to play with 30-40 shots against than with 10 shots against,” Vasilevskiy said. “I felt pretty good and we did a great job of blocking shots, and we were pretty good in the blue paint on all the scrambles, so we did a pretty good job.”
Jeff Petry scored the lone Habs goal when he tied the game at 1-1 in the first.
“When it comes down to it, we didn’t get any points tonight,” Canadiens defenseman Shea Weber said. “And the biggest thing right now is we’ve got to collect points and get back on track here. And we’ll use the things we did well tonight to move on, but we’ve just got to find a way.”
Anthony Cirelli opened the scoring in the game for a 1-0 lead to the Bolts.
“The one big thing was getting off to a quick start, so it was really good to score on that first shift,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “It’s a different game when you play with the lead, and that kind of dictated the way we played a little bit.”
Nikita Kucherov potted what would be the game-winner at 8:28 of the first.a
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Carey Price made 21 saves in the loss.
“I thought we played a really good game,” Price said. “I thought we did everything we needed to do to get two points.”
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