Pens coach Olczyk gets fired up, but team goes ice cold in defeat

Pittsburgh was outshot 37-17 in the loss.
MONTREAL (AP) -- Pittsburgh coach Ed Olczyk was less vocal after another loss than he was during the game.
Olczyk went on a tirade after Saku Koivu scored Montreal's second goal midway through the second period of the Canadiens' 4-1 win over the Penguins on Monday night.
Though his reason wasn't readily apparent, the first-year coach stood atop his team's bench and screamed at referees Stephane Auger and Ian Walsh after Koivu beat Sebastien Caron 8:47 into the second, shortly after a faceoff in Pittsburgh's zone.
"It had nothing to do with what happened on that goal at all," Olczyk said.
When asked if the reason was an icing call that led to the faceoff, Olczyk replied, "I'm not going to comment on that."
The Penguins were assessed a bench minor following the second period.
"I'm not really sure what was going on there," Penguins center Brian Holzinger said. "Obviously starting the third period with a penalty certainly hurt us, but Eddie's a competitive guy and he wants his team to win, and if he doesn't agree with something, he's going to let people know."
Playing better
Koivu and Sheldon Souray had a goal and an assist apiece, and Jose Theodore made 16 saves for Montreal.
Pierre Dagenais and Niklas Sundstrom also scored for the Canadiens, who have just four losses in 15 games (8-4-3).
"We're doing the little things a lot better now than we did at the beginning of the year," Koivu said.
Montreal, which hasn't had a winning streak in two months, will try to put consecutive wins together for the first time since Oct. 20-23 on Tuesday in Washington.
"We've got a chance before the Christmas break to put two wins together, which we haven't done in a really long time," Souray said. "It was a tough win tonight and we got it, and now we can look forward to (Tuesday), and those points are just as huge."
Tomas Surovy scored for Pittsburgh, which was outshot 37-17. The Penguins, last in the Eastern Conference, are winless in three (0-2-0-1).
"For a lot of games this year, we've really given up a lot of shots," Holzinger said. We're not happy with the amount of shots that we gave up here tonight, obviously. When we're playing at our best, we're playing good solid defense and limiting those shots and trying to capitalize on the offensive opportunities we get."