nhl roundup | Wednesday’s games

Canadiens 3, Islanders 2

NEW YORK

Shea Weber scored a power-play goal with 2:57 remaining to lift the Montreal Canadiens to their fifth straight victory. With the Islanders’ Nick Leddy off for slashing, Weber fired a shot from the point. It was just the second power-play goal in 23 opportunities given up by New York’s league-leading penalty-killing unit. Paul Byron and Phillip Danault also scored to help Montreal improve to 6-0-1 and remain the only team in the NHL without a regulation loss. Al Montoya, who played for the Islanders from 2010-12, stopped 26 shots in his first start since Oct. 18. The Canadiens beat New York for the seventh straight time. John Tavares and Dennis Seidenberg scored for New York.

Rangers 5, Bruins 2

NEW YORK

Brandon Pirri scored twice to help the New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins. Rick Nash, Kevin Hayes and Jimmy Vesey also scored for New York, and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots. The Rangers won their third straight game, overcoming a 2-0 deficit to improve to 5-2-0. David Pastrnak and Austin Czarina scored for Boston. The Bruins have lost three straight to drop to 3-4-0. Zane McIntyre made 26 saves in his first NHL start. He was called up prior to Boston’s 5-0 home loss to Minnesota on Tuesday night to back up Malcolm Subban due to injuries to Tuukka Risk and Anton Khudobin. Down 2-0 after the first, the Rangers scored three times in the final 10:44 of the second. Nash began the comeback with a power-play goal at 9:16. He curled to the net before corralling a rebound of Derek Stepan’s point shot and flipping it over goalie Zane McIntyre for his third of the season. Hayes tied it with 3:25 left in the second, banking a shot from behind the net off of McIntyre’s pants.

Associated Press