Sam Montembeault backstops Canadiens to 3-0 win over Oilers

Sam Montembeault stopped 30 shots arsenic the Montreal Canadiens blanked Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 connected Monday.

Brendan Gallagher, Kaiden Guhle and Jake Evans — into an bare nett — scored for Montreal (7-10-2), which matched its longest triumph streak of the play with a 2nd consecutive victory.

Montembeault earned his 2nd shutout of the run aft a 48-save showing against Toronto successful the season-opener.

Calvin Pickard made 23 saves for Edmonton (9-8-2). The Oilers lost their 2nd successful a enactment aft falling 4-3 successful overtime to Toronto connected Saturday.

Gallagher deflected a hard walk from Mike Matheson into the apical close country to unfastened the scoring with 31 seconds near successful the 2nd period.

The seasoned guardant astir added different earlier the buzzer erstwhile Christian Dvorak recovered him successful the slot, but Pickard robbed Gallagher with a pad save.

In the 3rd period, Guhle bushed Pickard abbreviated broadside aft a beauteous passing play betwixt Cole Caufield and Jake Evans to marque it 2-0 astatine 5:52.

The Oilers pulled their goalie for an other attacker with 4:52 remaining, lone for Evans to people into the unfastened cage with 3:08 left.

Takeaways

Canadiens: Montreal outshot the Oilers 11-9 successful the 3rd period. They besides denied the Oilers on 3 power-play opportunities. Despite its stacked offence, Edmonton ranks successful the bottommost 3rd of the league with the man-advantage this season.

Oilers: Edmonton was without defenceman Darnell Nurse. Head manager Kris Knoblauch announced earlier Monday that Nurse volition beryllium retired 5 to 10 days. Nurse was injured by a deed to the caput from Toronto guardant Ryan Reaves connected Saturday.

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Key moment

Montembeault stood gangly connected a partial interruption from Jeff Skinner midway done the third, denying the backhand with a pad prevention to gain “Monty! Monty!” chants from the Bell Centre crowd.

Key stat

Edmonton guardant Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played successful his 900th NHL game, each with the Oilers. Drafted archetypal wide by the franchise successful 2011, Nugent-Hopkins has 252 goals and 455 assists successful that span.

Up next

Oilers: Wrap up a three-game Eastern Canada roadworthy travel against the Ottawa Senators connected Tuesday.

Canadiens: Host the Vegas Golden Knights connected Saturday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 18, 2024.