Montreal will call up a goaltender from St. John’s in the American Hockey League to serve as Condon’s backup Friday.
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The New York Rangers were beat pretty convincingly tonight by the Montreal Canadiens, and lost the game by a final score of 5-1.
Rick Nash scored for the Rangers in their largest loss of the season. Adam Henrique scored for the Devils. His Rangers were out-classed throughout the majority of their game against the Nashville Predators on Monday night, but still managed a 3-0 victory thanks to their All-World goaltender, who made 31 saves to once again have a disjointed offensive performance swept under the rug.
Evander Kane and Jack Eichel scored for the Sabres.
Varlamov surrendered three goals on 15 shots before being yanked in Wednesday’s loss to the Senators. He was replaced by Chad Johnson, who made 12 saves.
Asked if that heavy workload has worn him down at all, and Lundqvist admitted that, “The last couple games have been very intense, a lot of scoring chances – it’s been tougher”.
WASHINGTON – Washington’s Evgeny Kuznetsov had a goal and two assists, and Nicklas Backstrom and Dmitri Orlov had a goal and an assist each as the Capitals outscored Winnipeg. Ryan McDonagh’s blind pass at the start of the third period led to DSP’s goal to put the Canadiens up 3-1. It was also the first time Crosby scored two regular-season goals since February, a span of 47 games. Nestrasil’s goal was an empty-netter. Alex Galchenyuk made it 4-1 at 1:29 and the rout was on. The Hurricanes won for the first time in eight games this season in a game decided by three goals or more.
It’s not clear exactly what type of injury Price is dealing with, but it is concerning that he is dealing with the same setback that cost him nine games earlier this season. As the top line of Nash, Mats Zuccarello (team bests of 10 goals, 11 assists) and Derick Brassard (six goals, 14 points) remains intact, coach Alain Vigneault shook up his bottom three lines Monday, telling reporters he is “just trying to create a different feel… trying to find combinations”. Andrew Shaw added an empty-netter for the Blackhawks, who improved to 2-1-1 on their annual circus road trip. Varlamov is 4-6-1 with an.
Miller scored his second career goal with 1:44 left to tie the game.
Casey Cizikas and Frans Nielsen also scored for the Islanders. They didn’t lose again in regulation until this past Thursday’s 2-1 defeat at Tampa Bay (14 games later). 933 and a goals-against average of 1.96.
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Following a disastrous 56-point season, Arizona set a simple goal of competing for a playoff spot in 2015-16.
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Smith-Pelley scored twice for Montreal. “Even though the last little bit here we haven’t been playing our best but we’ve been getting the wins, it’s never been kind of like this where we were a step behind, a little in between, indecisive, and it was just kind of like that all over the ice”.
