NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Oliver Kapanen’s decisive objective in the shootout gave the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils for his or her eighth straight win on Saturday.
Kapanen scored on a wrist shot previous Devils goalie Jake Allen in the fifth spherical of the shootout.
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The win gave Montreal 100 factors for the primary time because the 2016-17 season when it amassed 103 factors.
Ivan Demidov, Lane Hutson and Jayden Struble scored for Montreal, and Jakub Dobes had 35 saves.
Timo Meier, Jack Hughes and Dawson Mercer scored for New Jersey and Allen stopped 26 pictures.
Cole Caufield picked up two assists, however failed to notch his fiftieth objective for Montreal. Caufield will get one other shot Sunday when these two groups face off once more in Montreal. He is sitting at 49 targets.
Caufield is trying to be the primary Montreal Canadiens participant to rating 50 targets in a season in greater than three a long time.
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Mercer scored from Meier and Nico Hischier at 13:08 of the second interval to reduce the Montreal lead to 3-1.
Hutson’s unassisted objective got here simply 1:16 after Demidov scored on the facility play at 8:12.
Struble’s second objective of the season and simply the sixth of his profession supplied Montreal with a 1-0 lead late in the primary interval.
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New Jersey is at Montreal on Sunday.