canadiens 5, canucks 4, ot

Nick Suzuki scored a power-play goal 48 seconds into overtime and had two assists as Montreal beat Vancouver on Monday.

Lane Hutson also had a goal and two assists, Cole Caufield had a goal and an assist, and Kaiden Guhle and Kirby Dach also scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault stopped 16 shots to help the Canadiens win for the fifth time in six games and eighth in their last 10.

J.T. Miller had two goals and two assists, and Jake DeBrusk and Jonathan Lekkerimaki also scored for Vancouver, which has lost seven of its last nine. Kevin Lankinen made 19 saves.

Captain Quinn Hughes, last year’s Norris Trophy winner as the NHL’s top defenseman, had two assists in his return from a four-game absence for the injury-plagued Canucks. He played in his 400th career game.

Dach and Hutson scored in the first seven minutes of the third period to give Montreal a 4-3 lead. Then 12 seconds after Caufield took a penalty, Miller set up DeBrusk on the power play for his 17th to tie the score at 8:51.

Hutson became the fastest defenseman in Canadiens history to hit 30 points, reaching the milestone in 42 games. Chris Chelios held the previous record of 45.

sabres 4, capitals 3, so

JJ Peterka had a goal and an assist and had the deciding goal in the shootout to help lead Buffalo to a win against Washington.

Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 saves and stopped three of four shooters in the shootout to end their three-game losing skid. Tuch also scored during the shootout.

Peterka opened the scoring with his 11th of the season 4:42 into the first period. He assisted on Thompson’s second period power-play goal that put the Sabres ahead 3-2.

Tom Wilson scored twice, Aliaksei Protas added a goal and an assist.

Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was kept off the scoresheet. He needs 23 goals to pass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record of 894. He’s scored four times in six games since he returned to the lineup after missing 16 games with a broken leg.

Peterka’s shootout winner came after he skated slowly to the right of Lindgren and snapped a shot that beat him low to his left-hand blocker side.