Shea Weber scored twice as the Montreal Canadiens ended their seven-game losing skid with a convincing 5-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.
Alex Galchenyuk, Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty also scored for the Canadiens (2-6-1), which had not won since their season opener.
Carey Price made 26 saves and Jonathan Drouin had two assists.
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Keith Yandle scored the only goal for the Panthers (3-5-0) while James Reimer stopped 32-of-37 shots in defeat.
Reimer got the start with Roberto Luongo still injured.
Montreal scored five goals for the first time this season. Their previous high was three.
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Claude Julien’s men had scored a combined five goals on their winless California road trip (0-3-0) coming into Tuesday’s game.
But being back home, where Montreal was previously winless this season, sparked the team’s struggling offence.
Down 1-0, the Canadiens broke the game wide open with three goals in 1:35 in the second period.
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