Suddenly hot Habs tip Sens
Carey Price made 25 saves to lead the Canadiens to a 2-1 victory against the struggling Ottawa Senators last night in Montreal for their third straight win.
Jonathan Drouin and Phillip Danault scored in the second period for Montreal. Price improved to 3-0-0 while allowing just two goals on 100 shots since he returned last week after missing 10 games with a lower body injury.
Mark Stone scored his 14th goal for Ottawa, which has lost seven games in a row for it’s longest skid since also going 0-6-1 in 2012. The Senators have not won since sweeping a pair of games from Colorado in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 10-11.
Ottawa goalie Mike Condon, pressed into service by Montreal when Price missed most of the 2015-16 season with an injury, started against his former team for the first time and finished with 28 saves.
Ducks 3, Blues 2 — Antoine Vermette scored twice and John Gibson stopped 37 shots to lead visiting Anaheim over St. Louis.
Kevin Roy also scored for the Ducks, who jumped out to a 3-0 lead and held on to snap a four-game losing streak. Vermette snapped an 11-game scoreless drought with his first multigoal game since Nov. 25, 2015.
Gibson, who was pulled after giving up four goals on 22 shots in a 7-3 loss at Chicago on Monday, improved to 8-9-1. St. Louis had won four of its previous five.
Avalanche 3. Jets 2 — In Denver, Nathan MacKinnon scored a power-play goal 59 seconds into overtime after he had a goal waved off 30 seconds earlier, and Colorado beat Winnipeg.
MacKinnon celebrated with his teammates when his shot hit a Jets player and went into the net 29 seconds into the extra period. But replay showed that Colorado was offside. Thirty seconds later, he hit the back of the net again — and this one counted.
Alexander Kerfoot had a goal and an assist and Nikita Zadorov also scored for the Avalanche.
Elsewhere in the NHL — Minnesota Wild left winger Zach Parise has resumed skating for the first time since surgery on his lower back five weeks ago. Parise has not played yet this season and will need several more weeks of rehabilita- tion before rejoining the team.
The Wild also waived defenseman Kyle Quincey.