BOSTON (AP) — Zachary Bolduc scored to give the Canadiens the lead and Montreal scored four goals in five minutes to break a third-period tie and escape the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Tuesday night.
Sammy Blais, Ivan Demidov, Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki and Juraj Slafkovski also scored for Montreal. Jacob Fowler stopped 26 shots for the Canadiens in a game that began with fistfights but ended in a resigned defeat for the Bruins.
Marat Khusnutdinov and Alex Steves scored in the first period to give Boston a 2-1 lead, but Demidov tied the game in the second minute when he intercepted a poor pass from Nikita Zadorov to David Pastrnak and fired a shot past Jeremy Swayman on goal.
The Bruins shrugged off a goal in the final seconds of the second period and the score was still 2-2 when Zadorov broke his stick trying to clear the zone and left the puck to Bolduc.
The Canadiens winger passed the ball and then tipped the ball away to make it 3-2. Caufield scored on a power play 99 seconds later and Suzuki scored with a two-man lead.
Swayman stopped 23 shots for the Bruins.
Boston broke a four-minute power play when Steeves was ejected for a high-stick double minor late in the second and then appeared to take the lead with 5 seconds left in the period, but Elias Lindholm's goal after a scrum in the crease was disallowed due to goaltender interference.
Next
The Canadiens play Tampa Bay on Sunday.
The Bruins host Buffalo on Saturday.
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