In Boston Saturday, the Montreal Canadiens’ Carey Price made 33 saves to post a 3-0 shutout of the Bruins.
“I had my cake and I ate it too. So it’s a good day,” Price said about the triple success of passing Roy, getting a shutout and defeating the rival Bruins.
Price has 290 wins for the Habs, second on the franchise list.
“I think we had to bounce back from what we felt was a tough loss [4-3 at the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday], one that got away from us,” Montreal head coach Claude Julien said. “It was important to come in here and try and gain two points. First period, the first five, six minutes, we were on our heels, and then we got playing a little bit and got a lead.
“… We did what we had to do in the third period to protect the lead and try to win this game.”
Brendan Gallagher and Max Domi struck in the first period for Montreal to stake them to a 2-0 lead over the Bruins who were sporting an undefeated record on home ice.
The Bruins dropped to 6-3-2 with the loss.
“I talked about [not] winning battles, I thought we were forcing plays also,” Bruins center Patrice Bergeron said. “From top to bottom, when the ice is behind them, you’ve got to put it deep and go get it and win those battles, put the puck on net. There’s a lot of things we didn’t do.”
The shutout was Price’s 41st in his NHL career.
“I don’t think we gave up too much,” Gallagher said. “There was a portion of the game where we got a little sloppy in the neutral zone, kind of like us being on our heels a little bit. We kind of corrected that and got back to playing the way we were playing when teams have to come through us, and we don’t give them many chances, it’s tough to score on us.”
Jordie Benn closed out the scoring with an empty-net goal.
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Tuukka Rask made 20 saves in the loss.
“They defended well. They checked fast in their own end. And we just didn’t have it, I thought we just didn’t execute well enough. I mean two goals shouldn’t beat you at home, we have the ability to score but that’s a credit to their goaltender and, like I said, the way they check,” Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy said after the game.
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