Canadiens 3, Devils 2 (SO)

The Canadiens, who won their fourth successive and lead the National Hockey League with 38 points, erased a 2-0 second period deficit. Lars Eller kept a clearing pass by Devils defenseman Jon Merrill in the attacking zone and Andrighetto beat Schneider with a shot that handcuffed the goaltender for his second goal in two games.

The teams will meet again tonight at Bell Centre to complete the home-and-home series.

It’s unclear if Mike Condon will get the nod again after making 25 saves and turning aside four of five shootout attempts Friday.

“I think it’s a good point in the sense that when you play, the objective is to get points out of the game and we were able to do that”, Hynes said.

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For most of his career, Schneider shared the net with a Montreal native – Roberto Luongo in Vancouver and Martin Brodeur with the Devils – so that meant taking a seat on the bench for most of those games. Condon began to skate off the ice before realizing the game was not yet over.

Right winger Sven Andrighetto scored the deciding goal during a shootout to help the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night at the Prudential Center. Jacob Josefson had the only New Jersey tally in the shootout. “That’s a high-end offensive team”.

Andrighetto pulled Montreal within 2-1 with 4:43 left in the second period, and then Galchenyuk tied it with 8:46 left in the third.

The Devils continued to exchange odd-man rushes with the Canadiens in the second period and it paid off for them 1:09 into the second when Adam Henrique finished off a 4-on-2 to give them a 1-0 lead.

Galchenyuk scored by using his speed on a breakaway.

“I’m relaxed, having fun and just trying to go out there and made plays”, said Galchenyuk, who was switched to a line with Plekanec and Pacioretty in the period.

Schneider didn’t get the start in New Jersey’s only set of games on back-to-back days, which were the first two of the season.

Alex Galchenyuk tied the game at 2-2 when he took a pass from Max Pacioretty and outraced two defenders to beat Cory Schneider on a breakaway at 11:14 of the third period.

Head coach Michel Therrien said he had re-injured the same lower-body part that sidelined him earlier in the season for nine games.

Schneider robbed Plekanec with a diving glove save with 3:32 left in the first period and stopped David Desharnais in close on a rebound a minute later.

Despite coughing up their lead with 20 seconds left in regulation, the Philadelphia Flyers still managed to beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 in overtime. Devils RW Tyler Kennedy played his first game of the season after signing a one-year contract on Friday….

If Condon is rested, the Canadiens would start Dustin Tokarski, who was recalled from St. John’s on Thursday. Canadiens D Alexei Emelin was a healthy scratch…. D Andrei Markov picked up his 400th assist with the Canadiens on Galchenyuk’s goal.