MONTREAL — Sean Monahan scored his 2nd objective of the video game with 2:12 staying, raising the Canadiens to a 4-3 success over the New york city Islanders and ruining Patrick Roy’s go back to Montreal on Thursday evening.
After the Canadiens surrendered a 3-1 lead in the 3rd duration, Monahan terminated a one-timer right into the Islanders’ web to place Montreal back ahead.
Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield each had an objective and a help for Montreal, which broke a three-game losing touch. Sam Montembeault quit 43 shots and was attributed with a help on Monahan’s initial objective.
Mathew Barzal and Bo Horvat each had an objective and aid, Kyle Palmieri additionally racked up and Noah Dobson had 3 aids as the Islanders was up to 1-2-0 under Roy. Semyon Varlamov made 22 conserves.
Roy, the Hall of Popularity goaltender that aided lead the Canadiens to Stanley Mug success in 1986 and 1993, was employed as the Islanders’ trainer last Saturday after over 7 years far from the NHL. He got a deafening ovation from the Bell Centre group when the Canadiens presented an image mosaic of their previous netminder throughout the vocal singing of “O Canada.
The Canadiens led 3-1 with 9 mins staying in the 3rd when onward Brendan Gallagher captured Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech with an arm joint to the head. Gallagher got a five-minute significant and Barzal and Palmieri racked up on the occurring power play to also the rating at 3 with 3:32 left.
Monahan after that racked up to place Montreal back in advance and the Canadiens held on in spite of a late Islanders press, that included a discharged the message by Horvat.
Roy was the piece de resistance going into the evening, with followers sporting his jackets and holding indicators throughout warmups that check out “Bon Retour 33,” a shoutout to his No. 33 that awaits the Bell Centre rafters.
Roy needed to utilize his timeout prior to the video game was 13 mins old due to the fact that the Canadiens leapt bent on a 3-0 lead.
Suzuki tipped home a feed from Juraj Slafkovsky on the power play to open up the racking up at 7:06 of the initial duration.
Caufield increased Montreal’s lead at 11:36 by hemming and haw Varlamov for his 17th of the period.
Simply 43 secs later on, Mike Matheson hurried down the ice and laid a backhand enter the port for Monahan to rack up one more power-play objective.
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Islanders: Host the Florida Panthers on Saturday.
Canadiens: At Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
