Sam Montembeault made 29 saves and Patrik Laine scored his second power-play objective in as many video games, lifting the host Montreal Canadiens to a 3-0 victory over the reeling Nashville Predators on Thursday.
Montembeault turned apart all 13 photographs he confronted within the third interval to protect his third shutout of the season and fourth in his profession.
Jake Evans collected a objective and an help, Laine transformed a 5-on-3 man-advantage and Joel Armia discovered the empty web to seal the win.
Captain Nick Suzuki and rookie defenseman Lane Hutson every notched an help to increase their respective level streaks to 5 video games for the Canadiens, who improved to 2-0-0 on their five-game homestand.
Nashville’s Justus Annunen completed with 27 saves in his first begin since being acquired from the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.
Annunen, nevertheless, obtained nothing in the best way of offensive assist because the Predators misplaced their sixth straight sport total (0-3-3) and fell to 2-8-4 on the highway.
Previous to the sport, Nashville introduced ahead Ryan O’Reilly is week-to-week with a lower-body damage. A former Selke and Conn Smythe Trophy winner, O’Reilly stays one sport faraway from 1,100 in his NHL profession.
With the Predators on the ability play, Jonathan Marchessault’s ill-advised blind backhanded move from beneath the objective line within the offensive finish resulted in a rush the opposite manner. Evans elected to maintain the puck and wired a shot from the left circle that sailed previous Annunen to open the scoring at 7:50 of the primary interval.
Evans’ objective was his fifth in 26 video games this season. He had seven objectives in 82 video games in 2023-24.
Laine gave the Canadiens a 2-0 lead at 1:14 of the third interval by wiring a shot from the left circle previous Annunen. Laine was enjoying in his second sport since sustaining a sprained knee within the preseason.
Nashville practically halved the deficit later within the third interval, nevertheless referee Tom Chmielewski instantly waved off the obvious objective after deeming that Gus Nyquist kicked the puck into the online.
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