MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens ended a four-game losing streak with a 3-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Bell Centre on Tuesday.
Tomas Tatar put Montreal ahead 3-2 at 13:08 of the third period. He tapped in Jordie Benn‘s cross-crease pass from the right corner.
Carey Price made 31 saves, and Max Domi and Paul Byron scored for Montreal (32-21-7), which avoided matching its longest losing streak of the season.
The Canadiens, who lost five straight (0-3-2) from Nov. 19-27, hold the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference and are two points ahead of the Blue Jackets; Columbus holds the second wild card and has a one-point lead on the Carolina Hurricanes.
Josh Anderson scored in the second period for Columbus (33-23-3) and assisted on Nick Foligno‘s goal that tied it 2-2 at 9:07 of the third period. Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves.
Domi gave Montreal a 1-0 lead at 1:21 of the first period on a backhand after his pass on a 2-on-1 bounced back to him off Columbus forward Eric Robinson’s leg.
Byron, who played his 400th NHL game after missing the past six because of an arm injury, made it 2-0 at 17:12.
Anderson made it 2-1 at 1:05 of the second on a wrist shot inside the right post from the right face-off dot on a 2-on-1.
Forward Artemi Panarin (illness) did not play for Columbus, which was also without defenseman Ryan Murray, who sustained an upper-body injury in a 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday. Panarin leads the Blue Jackets with 67 points (24 goals, 43 assists).
Columbus forward Brandon Dubinsky played his 800th NHL game after missing the previous seven because of a hip injury.
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