Price's Stops Help Canadiens Beat Bruins 3-1
BOSTON (AP) -- Rookie defenseman P.K. Subban scored his first NHL regular-season goal, and Carey Price stopped 34 shots to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.
Tuukka Rask continued his hard-luck season, losing for the fifth time in five appearances despite making 38 saves. The Bruins have lost three of their last four after opening the season with seven wins in their first nine games.
Former Boston College star Brian Gionta also scored for Montreal, and Scott Gomez made it 3-1 midway through the third period. Montreal has won four in a row in Boston.
The Canadiens, who lost nine straight games to the Bruins -- including playoffs -- in 2008-09, have now won six of the last seven against their Original Six rival. Price, who shut out the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, has allowed six goals in the last four games.
Subban scored 5:19 minutes into the first period. Zdeno Chara tied it for Boston with 4:11 left in the period on a powerful wrist shot after Patrice Bergeron made a nice play to keep the puck in the zone on the side boards.
Montreal appeared to go ahead late in the second, but replay showed Jeff Halpern redirected the puck into the net with his skate.
In the third, Gionta put took a crossing pass from Mike Cammalleri and, from his knees, swept it past Rask to make it 2-1.
Gomez made it 3-1 on a power play midway through the third when he put a rebound of Andrei Kostitsyn's shot off the crossbar and off Rask's back before it trickled into the net.
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