RECAP | Penguins – Canadiens: Habs Down Pens in Shootout

Rick Stephens

October 14, 2018

FINAL SO \| Game 4, Home Game 2 \| Saturday October 13, 2018 Bell Centre, Montreal, QC.
CANADIENS Montreal	4-3	PENGUINS Pittsburgh

Lineup Forward lines and defense pairings [one_half]Tatar – Danault – Gallagher Byron – Kotkaniemi – Armia Drouin – Domi – Lehkonen Hudon – Plekanec – Shaw [/one_half] [one_half_last]Mete – Petry Reilly – Juulsen Benn – Ouellet [/one_half_last] Goaltenders Niemi Lindgren Scratches Alzner, Scherbak, Peca, Price (flu) Injuries Weber, Schlemko, De la Rose, Deslauriers Game Report Coming off a 3-0 shutout to the Los Angeles Kings in the home opener, the Canadiens wanted a good start. And they didn’t get it. The Habs were a disaster in their own end. Missed checks and turnovers were commonplace. On the first Penguins goal, Mike Reilly, Jeff Petry, Charles Hudon and Phillip Danault each had an opportunity to make a play that would have nullified the attack. Instead they flailed around with a half-hearted effort. Dominik Simon opened the scoring assisted by the Montreal-raised Daniel Sprong and Kris Letang. The sloppiness continued in the Montreal zone as Letang added another Pittsburgh goal before the end of the first period. Antti Niemi wasn’t looking particularly good. But Montreal was a different team to start the second period and they caught a bit of a break. Tomas Tatar took a whack at a rolling puck and it found the back of the net just 11 seconds into the second frame. Before the midpoint of the period, Brendan Gallagher scored and Tatar added his second of the game. The Canadiens earned their first lead. The Penguins tied up the game in the third period on the power-play. The Canadiens had a goal disallowed for the second consecutive game due to goalie interference by Andrew Shaw. Montreal couldn’t take advantage of a power-play in overtime. Paul Byron was the Bell Centre hero with the game-deciding goal. === ▲ Tomas Tatar, Brendan Gallagher, Noah Juulsen ▼ Andrew Shaw, Charles Hudon, Mike Reilly

Statistics
CANADIENS		PENGUINS
40	Shots	28
52	Face-offs	48
1-for-6	Power Play	1-for-2
4	Penalty Minutes	12
26	Hits	32
78	Corsi For	48

Scoring

FINAL	1	2	3	OT	SO	T
Canadiens (2-1-1)	0	3	0	0	1	4
Penguins (2-1-1)	2	1	0	0	0	3

Scorers	Goalies
MTL: Tatar (1), Gallagher (2), Tatar (2)-PPG; game-deciding goal: Byron PIT: Simon (1), Letang (3), Kessel (4)-PPG	MTL: Niemi (W) 1-0-0 PIT: DeSmith (L) 1-0-1

NHL Three Stars
	Tomas Tatar MTL Kris Letang PIT Brendan Gallagher MTL

Video Highlights

Post-game Press Conference

Phillip Danault

“We kept calm and continued to believe in ourselves and in our system. We created some sparks right from the start of the second and that helped us gain our momentum.”

Brendan Gallagher

“We wanted to compete, that’s all we wanted to do. I thought all four lines did a good job there tonight.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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