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Canadiens fend off late charge from Caps

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Updated Nov 21, 2009 5:30 AM ET
     
 
The Montreal Canadiens were leading by a goal late in the game, ready to pull off a road upset of the Washington Capitals. Then Maxim Lapierre gets sent off for hooking with 1: 52 left. The Capitals pull their goaltender for the final minute. Montreal netminder Carey Price loses his stick. And the Canadiens can't clear the zone. They are under siege with no stoppage in sight. Talk about a frenzied two-minute drill. "It felt like we were in our own end for 10 minutes," Price said after Montreal's 3-2 victory Friday night. "There was a lot of red out there. Especially when I lost my stick. I've got six players against four with no stick. That makes it pretty tough." Somehow Price and the Canadiens held on. The closest Washington came to tying it was when Mike Green rattled the right post in the final seconds. Montreal won for only the third time in nine road games, despite getting outshot 27-8 over the last two periods. "The last 31/2minutes were kind of hectic," Canadiens coach Jacques Martin said. "But up to that point I felt we were managing the game well." Patrice Bergeron scored with 47 seconds into overtime, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres. Bergeron won a faceoff and then was in the slot to tip in a shot by Zdeno Chara. Buffalo outshot Boston 15-6 in the third period and had several good chances to take a lead against goalie Tuukka Rask, who made his third straight start. Rask stopped 25 shots, including a point-blank save on Thomas Vanek three minutes into the third and a blocker stop on Jochen Hecht's snapshot from the left circle with about four minutes remaining. Buffalo's Ryan Miller made 24 saves, including 14 in the second period. Paul Gaustad scored for Buffalo, which has lost two straight. Bryan McCabe's goal 40 seconds into overtime gave the Florida Panthers a 2-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings. Stephen Weiss scored Florida's other goal. Nathan Horton had two assists and Scott Clemmensen stopped 39 shots. Pavel Datsyuk also scored for Detroit, which lost its second straight at home. Chris Osgood made 18 saves. Owen Nolan's goal with 67 seconds remaining, his second of the game, sent the struggling Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders. Nolan had been dragged down in front of Islanders goalie Martin Biron on an earlier sequence and had just climbed back to his feet when the puck came his way from Eric Belanger. The 37-year-old Nolan knocked it in for a late lead. That gave a big lift to a team that was 0-2-2 in its previous four. Jon Sim had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who lost in regulation for the first time in six games despite holding a 2-1 lead in the third period.
Tagged: Tuukka Rask, Islanders, Bruins, Wild, Carey Price, Owen Nolan, Capitals, Canadiens, Patrice Bergeron

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