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NHL ROUNDUP

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Canadiens 3, Rangers 2 (SO)

Paul Byron scored in the fifth round of the shootout and Montreal beat New York on Tuesday night to give coach Claude Julien his first win in his second stint with the Canadiens. Carey Price made 28 saves for Montreal. Price stopped Kevin Hayes and J.T. Miller twice in the OT, including a diving save in the closing seconds of the extra period. Shea Weber had a goal and an assist for the Canadiens. Andrew Shaw also scored for Montreal. The Rangers' Mats Zuccarello opened the shootout with a goal and Montreal's Alexander Radulov tief it in the third round. Rick Nash and Oscar Lindberg scored in regulation for the Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves as New York snapped its five-game home win streak. Lundqvist stopped Max Pacioretty halfway through overtime and Montreal's Tomas Plekanec also hit the post late in the period. Tied 1-1 after the first period, the Canadiens took advantage of a penalty to Nick Holden to take the lead. Weber took a pass from Andrei Markov and one-timed a blast past Lundqvist for his 14th of the season at 1:42. Price then preserved the lead when he made a nice right pad save on Nash's breakaway attempt a couple of minutes later. However, Nash got the better of Price halfway through the second period. Ryan McDonagh made the pass to spring Nash on the breakaway and he beat Price with a wrister for his 17th at 9:26. Lundqvist then made a glove save on Byron's shot less than a minute later before Brendan Gallagher crashed into him and drew an interferen­ce penalty. Weber helped the Canadiens open the scoring early in the first period. He shot wide from the right point. Shaw got the puck behind the net and beat Lundqvist with a wraparound at 3:55 for his eighth. The Rangers answered halfway through the period. Jesper Fast took a pass from Lindberg at his own blue line and skated into the Canadiens zone along the right wall. Fast then centered a pass while sliding to the ice and Lindberg, who skated hard all the way toward the net, deflected the puck past Price for his third at 10:03.

Islanders 3, Red Wings 1

Calvin de Haan was credited with a go-ahead goal that caromed off an opponent late in the second period and New York went on to beat Detroit on Tuesday night. De Haan's shot from above the left circle was stopped by Petr Mrazek, but the rebound went off Detroit defenseman Xavier Ouellet and the back of the goaltender's left leg and into the net. John Tavares scored early in the third period to give the Islanders a two-goal lead and they coasted to the victory. Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist, and Thomas Greiss stopped 26 shots for New York. Henrik Zetterberg scored for Detroit and Mrazek finished with 19 saves. The Islanders, in contention for a wild-card spot, began a stretch of nine straight road games by winning for the third time in four games and improved to 8-13-4 away from home. Detroit, coming off wins at Pittsburgh and against Washington, went into their bye week with the expectatio­n the franchise will try to trade players because it has a slim chance of extending a playoff streak to 26. Mrazek made a mistake late in the first period and New York took advantage. He played the puck from behind the net, passing it to his left right onto Bailey's stick to set up the game's first goal. The Red Wings tied it with one-tenth of a second left in the first on Zetterberg's goal on the power play for the NHL's worst team with an extra skater. With 3.2 seconds left, Detroit's Fran Nielsen won a faceoff against former teammate Tavares and Thomas Vanek pushed the puck to his right to assist Zetterberg on the tying goal. Tavares, who was stopped by a spectacula­r, sprawling save in the second period, scored in the third on just to the left of the right circle off a slick pass from Bailey as he skated into the left circle.

Senators 2, Devils 1

Craig Anderson made 29 saves and Ottawa beat New Jersey despite playing without three of its top forwards. Ottawa was without Mark Stone (22 goals), Mike Hoffman (19 goals) and Bobby Ryan (12 goals) after all three were injured over the weekend. Ryan will miss 4-to-6 weeks with a broken finger, while Stone (neck) and Hoffman (groin) are day to day. Kyle Turris and Erik Karlsson scored for Ottawa, which swept the three-game season series with the Devils while allowing only two goals. Travis Zajac scored for New Jersey and Cory Schneider made 21 saves. The Devils have lost two in a row and three of four. Turris gave the Senators the lead 59 seconds into the second period after the Devils twice failed to get the puck out of their own end. The center fired the puck behind the New Jersey goal line, and Jean-Gabriel Pageau retrieved it and found Ryan Dzingel in the left circle. He sent a cross-ice pass to Turris for a shot into an open net for his 20th goal. Karlsson has points in six straight games after stretching the lead to 2-0 early in the third period with a power-play goal from the left circle. He beat a screened Schneider over the shoulder. With Tom Pyatt off for delay of game, Zajac got the Devils within a goal, putting a rebound of Joseph Blandisi's shot into an open net at 6:37. Anderson, whose wife Nicolle is battling throat cancer, was outstandin­g in the first two periods. He stopped deflection­s by Adam Henrique and Jacob Josefson in the first period and shots in close in each of the first two periods by Mike Cammalleri, who returned to the lineup after being benched for two games.

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