Eric Fehr and Jake Guentzel scored in the second period as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Canadiens, 4-1, on Wednesday night in Montreal.
Defensemen Ian Cole and Olli Maatta also scored for Pittsburgh, which won its second game in a row after a three-game skid.
Sven Andrighetto scored for Montreal, which lost its second straight and has two wins in its last six games. The Canadiens’ offense remained in a rut coming off a 1-0 loss Monday in Detroit.
Penguins goalie Matt Murray was back in form after Monday’s wild 8-7 win over Washington, making 19 saves. But Carey Price’s woes continued as Pittsburgh outshot Montreal, 26-20. Price allowed three or more goals for the eighth time in 10 games.
A tight-checking first period saw Pittsburgh strike first as Cole took a feed from Evgeni Malkin on a counterattack and scored on a high shot inside the near post with Patric Horqvist screening Carey Price. Malkin picked up his seventh point in five games.
Fehr, who got into the lineup with Matt Cullen out 3-4 weeks with a foot injury, was left alone in front to take a pass from Chris Kunitz and score 5:19 into the second. Guentzel made it 3-0 at 17:38 when he tipped a point shot from Cameron Gaunce, who was making his Penguins debut.
Andrighetto got one back at 18:11 when he banked one in off Murray from the side of the net.
Concor Sheary got away with tripping defenseman Jeff Petry behind the Montreal net and fed the puck to Maatta at the point for a low shot that went through Price’s pads 15:36 into the third frame.
Jets 6, Coyotes 3 — Ondrej Pavelec made 30 saves in his season debut, and host Winnipeg halted a four-game losing streak with goals from six players in a victory over Arizona.
It was Pavelec’s first NHL game this season after the veteran goalie was sent to the AHL’s Manitoba Moose at the end of training camp. The 29-year-old Pavelec was recalled Tuesday to start instead of Connor Hellebuyck and Michael Hutchinson, who each struggled during the team’s winless skid (0-3-1).
Josh Morrissey, Blake Wheeler, Andrew Copp, Shawn Matthias, Jacob Trouba, and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets.
Arizona’s Mike Smith stopped 29 of the 35 shots he faced before being replaced by Louis Domingue following Winnipeg’s sixth goal midway through the third period.
Domingue made four saves for the Coyotes, who have lost three straight. Their last win was 4-3 against the Jets at home last Friday.
Josh Jooris, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Jakob Chychrun had Arizona’s goals.
