Audette rescues Canadiens with OT goal against Pens

Pittsburgh lost its second in a row and is winless in six games.
MONTREAL (AP) -- The Montreal Canadiens weren't pleased with the officiating in their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The final score was another matter, though.
Donald Audette scored 1 minute, 12 seconds into overtime for the Canadiens, who got a career-best three goals from Saku Koivu Monday in a 5-4 victory.
The Penguins scored all their goals on the power play, going 4-for-7 with the man advantage to raise their league-best efficiency to 29.3 percent (27-for-92).
"I don't think hockey is what you saw tonight," Koivu said. "I think it's a good thing that they're trying to get away from the stickwork, or grabbing and holding, it'll create more room for all the players, but I don't think the way to do is to call 15 or 16 penalties a game. That totally takes the flow out of the game."
Many penalties
Montreal went 3-for-8 as 17 minor penalties were called in the NHL's only scheduled game.
"Both sides deserved their penalties tonight," Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux said. "Until the players accept that hooking isn't allowed, it's going to be like that. And the players who can't adjust, they'll end up in the AHL."
None of the goals came while the teams were skating 5-on-5. All eight goals in regulation were scored on special teams.
Penguins defenseman Dick Tarnstrom had a goal and three assists, and Lemieux had two assists and scored his 10th goal with 8:49 remaining in the third period to tie it at 4-4.
Lemieux, who has 10 goals and 24 assists in 17 games, leads the NHL with 34 points.
Audette, who also had two assists, beat goalie Johan Hedberg for the winner after taking a pass from Joe Juneau.
Held without a point in his first 12 games, Audette ended a 23-game goal-scoring drought that dated to last Nov. 24 in Saturday's 3-1 win over New Jersey.
Koivu nets 2
Koivu scored twice on the power play and got the Canadiens' first short-handed goal of the season.
Koivu scored a power-play goal early in the first and added a short-handed goal early in the second. He completed his first three-goal game in 364 regular season appearances with another power-play score midway through the second.
Koivu, who also assisted on Patrice Brisebois' power-play goal, which put Montreal up 4-2 with 3:35 remaining in the second, tied a career high with four points. It was his fourth four-point game, and first since he had two goals and two assists against Pittsburgh on Feb. 28, 2001.
Alexsey Morozov and Jan Hrdina also scored with the man advantage for Pittsburgh, which lost its second in a row and is winless in six (0-3-1-2).
Montreal got its first shorthanded goal of the season 51 seconds into the second to take a 2-1 lead as Koivu's shot on a 2-on-1 pass from Richard Zednik bounced over a sprawled Hedberg.
Lemieux, who assisted on Tarnstrom's first-period goal, set up Morozov's tying goal at 6:49. But Koivu restored the Canadiens' one-goal lead with his third of the game on a 5-on-3 power-play with 9:11 remaining.