MONTREAL – Paul Byron and Alex Galchenyuk scored and Carey Price made 31 saves as the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game winless run with a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.
The Canadiens (14-3-2) have won 12 straight games against their oldest rival dating to Jan. 18, 2014.
William Nylander scored for the Leafs (8-7-3), who were coming off a pair of home wins in which they scored 12 goals.
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Montreal fired 29 shots at Frederik Andersen.
Byron was on the doorstep to jam the rebound of a Shea Weber shot past Andersen 15:45 into the opening period. It was the diminutive winger’s seventh of the season, only four shy of his career high for a season.
The Canadiens were only five seconds into a power play when Galchenyuk got his seventh of the season. He won a faceoff back to Weber, who slid the puck to Alexander Radulov on the right wing for a perfect feed in front for the Canadiens’ scoring leader to score into an open side at 0:32 of the second frame.
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