Canadiens beat Golden Knights for 3rd straight win

MONTREAL (AP) Brendan Gallagher and Jordie Benn scored in the first period and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Tuesday night for their third straight win.

Max Pacioretty also scored for Montreal, which has gone 5-1-0 since starting the season 2-7-1. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren, called up from AHL Laval last week when Carey Price went out with a lower body injury, won his second game in a row and has won all five of his NHL starts over the last three seasons.

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Erik Haula scored for Vegas, which ended a six-game trip 1-4-1. The Knights were coming off a shootout loss in Toronto on Monday night and were playing their sixth game in nine days.

The Canadiens outshot the Knights 13-2 in the opening period, but Vegas battled back and had a 31-28 edge for the game.

Tomas Plekanec won a race to a dump-in and fed Gallagher alone at the side of the net for his seventh goal at 8:24. Benn got his first on a point shot through heavy traffic at 10:55.

Vegas got one back when Bellemare deked past Jeff Petry and beat Lindgren from close range at 17:41.

Pacioretty was at the doorstep to redirect Petry's shot past Maxime Legace 3:31 into the second frame.

The Knights had Legace pulled for an extra attacker when Jonathan Marchessault fed a cross-ice pass that Haula one-timed into an open side with 1:17 left to play.

NOTES: Montreal center Jonathan Drouin did not play in the third period due to an upper body injury.

UP NEXT

Golden Knights: Host Winnipeg on Friday night.

Canadiens: Host Minnesota on Thursday night.

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