In Montreal, Brady Tkachuk scored with 78 seconds left in regulation to give the visiting Ottawa Senators a 5-4 win over the Canadiens Canadiens Tuesday night.
It was Ottawa’s fourth straight win.
“You felt the momentum on their side,” Tkachuk said. “Of course it was a lucky break, but it felt pretty good to silence the crowd and kind of take all that momentum away.”
Anton Forsberg made 28 saves in the Sens win.
Ottawa improved to 24-23-3 on their fourth win in a row.
Claude Giroux and Tim Stutzle scored, his first of the night, in the opening period for a 2-0 lead to the Senators.
Montreal dropped to 20-27-4.
“I think we started off pretty good, played the first two periods the way we wanted, and then the third wasn’t our best period,” Montreal’s Nick Stutzle said. “But then we stuck with it, and then had a big goal there by ‘Chucky.'”
Montreal’s Kirby Dach scored off the power play in the first to cut the deficit in half, 2-1.
In the middle frame Ottawa’s Alex DeBrincat and Montreal’s Mike Hoffman exchanged power play goals for a 3-2 score in favor of the Senators.
“We battled hard,” Suzuki said. “We weren’t very happy with our first period, but I think the rest of the way we played really hard, had a ton of chances, and just a real unfortunate bounce there at the end in the last minute.”
Montreal’s Rafael Harvey-Pinard scored twice in the third period. His two strikes came around a power play goal from Stutzle, to make the scored 4-4 ahead of Tkachuk’s heroics.
“It’s going pretty good right now,” Harvey-Pinard said. “I’m still not 100 percent satisfied. I think I can do more in little details, but I think I’m doing a good job. So, I just need to play with consistency and bring that night after night.”
Jake Allen made 24 saves in the Habs loss.
“Obviously we battled hard and we fought back all night, and we weren’t out of it, we stayed in it,” Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj said. “Tough bounce at the end, but that’s just how some games go.”
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