Then after Keith Yandle made it a one-goal game, Jonathan Drouin bagged an empty-netter. Shut out in their last three games against Florida, the Canadiens scored twice inside the game’s first three minutes. Eight minutes in, Henrik Borgstrom pounced on a turnover and beat Antti Niemi to make it 2-1. The game was tied 14 minutes in when a weird deflection off Paul Byron was steered past Niemi by Dennis Malgin. Promptingto Comment: “The kid lives in Mtl., where hitting the bars is a rite of passage.”Shots were 28-26 Canadiens.

Source: National Post December 28, 2018 22:34 UTC