In Montreal, Nicolas Roy scored 78 seconds into overtime on Sunday night to rescue 
the Vegas Golden Knights in a 2-1 win over the Canadiens.
The win evens the series at 2-2 heading back to Las Vegas for Game 5 on Tuesday.
“That’s unbelievable,” Roy said. “I always dreamed about scoring at the Bell Centre. Doing it in overtime in the series, the semifinals, it’s even better.”
Robin Lehner got the start for the Knights and made 27 saves including several game-saving stops.
“I think a lot has to be said about Robin’s attitude this whole time,” Vegas’ Max Pacioretty said. “He’s been the No. 1 cheerleader on the team when he wasn’t playing. His positivity has rubbed off on us, so for him to go in there tonight, the player that we know he is was huge for our team.”
Paul Byron scored for the Canadiens with 65 seconds left in the middle frame for a 1-0 lead to Montreal.
“We played a pretty good game, it could’ve gone either way,” Byron said. “They get the goal in overtime, that’s the way it is. It’s 2-2, go back to [Las] Vegas and focus on the next game, how to get better and make a big push for the next one.”
Montreal used the physical game to try to take a 3-1 lead in the series with 40 hits on the night; Vegas delivered 24.
“[Lehner] was excellent,” DeBoer said. “I knew he’d be good.”
The Knights had difficulty finding shooting lanes and were outshot, 20-12, through 40 minutes of play.
“You take the positives out of the game and continue to look at that,” the Canadiens’ Corey Perry said. “The way we played at the start of the game, I mean, that’s our style of play. We were quick, we were on pucks, we were on top. If we keep doing that, we’re just going to keep wearing them down.”
Neither team scored on their single power play chance.
“We just need to find a way to score more goals,” the Canadiens’ Joel Edmundson said. “Overall, it was a good game. We didn’t give them too much, and when we did, Carey was there to stop it.”
Brayden McNabb finally broke through for Vegas midway through the third period off a nifty pass from below the goal line by William Karlsson.
The Golden Knights wrested home ice away from the Canadiens and made the series a best-of-3.
“It’s a world-class player coming down,” Lehner said of his save on a Cole Caulfield shot. “I just tried to play it even like I played the first goal, I just challenged him. In the prescout, either he goes high or he goes five-hole, and it just looked like he was going five-hole, so I closed my legs.” 
Carey Price made 19 saves in the loss.
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