Patrik Laine scored in overtime to give the host Montreal Canadiens a thrilling 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday.
MONTREAL -- Patrik Laine scored 3:20 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5-4 on Sunday night.
MONTREAL (AP) — Patrik Laine scored 3:20 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5-4 on Sunday night.
After two highlight-reel saves by his netminder Jakub Dobes, Patrik Laine scored the overtime winner as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the New York Rangers 5-4 on Sunday night at Bell Centre.
The Rangers are having a very disappointing season. And the Montreal Canadiens, meanwhile, were corrected the day before by the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 7-3 loss.
Patrik Laine scored in overtime to give the host Montreal Canadiens a thrilling 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday. Brendan Gallagher and Christian Dvorak both collected one goal and one assist,
Coming back on four separate occasions, the Montreal Canadiens’ first lead of their Sunday night tilt against the New York Rangers ended up the 5-4 overtime winner.
This edition of the Hidden Game is dedicated to the late, great and immortal Red Fisher. The dean of Montreal hockey writers, first for the Star and later The Gazette, died seven years ago on Sunday.
Patrik Laine scored 3:20 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5-4 on Sunday night.
Laine’s game-winner came moments after Artemi Panarin and Vincent Trocheck were stopped point-blank by rookie goalie Jakub Dobes. It also sent the Rangers to their second overtime loss in four games after blowing a third-period lead to the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.
After suffering a 7-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs last night, the Montreal Canadiens hoped to bounce back by hosting the New York Rangers tonight and they did.
The Rangers are in no position to be whiffing on winnable games. A season-best point streak that reached eight games Sunday night, after a 5-4 overtime loss to the Canadiens, is not nearly enough to erase the damage of the Blueshirts’ awful stretch from the end of November through December.