Petry gets tiebreaking goal in 3rd, Canadiens beat Penguins

jeff Petry scored 5:33 into third period as Montreal Caniens rallied from two goals down and beat Pittsburgh 4-3 in Game 3 on Wednesday night, pushing Penguins to brink of elimination in best-of-five series.

Shea Weber h a goal and two assists for Montreal, Paul Byron ded a goal and an assist, and Jonathan Drouin also scored. Ben Chariot also h h assists.

Carey Price stopped 30 shots for Caniens — 12th seed in Eastern Conference as part of NHL’s 24-team restart to its pandemic-delayed season. Montreal can vance to rmal first round with 16 teams with win in Game 4 on Friday.

Patric Hornqvist, Jason Zucker and Teddy Blueger scored for fifth-seeded Pittsburgh, which led 3-1 after Blueger’s goal 5:34 into second. Matt Murray finished with 27 saves.

PANRS 3, ISLANDERS 2

TORONTO (AP) — Mike Hoffman and Brian Boyle scored 2:07 apart in opening minutes of third period, and Florida avoided a sweep.

Erik Haula also scored and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 20 shots. 10th-seeded Panrs trail best-of-five series 2-1 with Game 4 on Friday.

Jean-Gabriel Pau and Brock Nelson, with 1:27 remaining, scored for Islanders, East’s seventh seed. Semyon Varlamov stopped 19 shots and me a costly error leing to Hoffman’s go-ahe goal 41 seconds into third period.

With Varlamov penalized for playing puck inside trapezoid 7 seconds into frame, Panrs defenseman Keith Yandle faked a shot in high slot, before feeding Hoffman, who blasted puck in from right circle.

Boyle me it 3-1 when he corralled a loose puck inside Islanders zone and snapped a 40-footer inside left post.

COYOTES 4, PREDATORS 1

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Cor Garland and Taylor Hall each scored in third period to le Arizona.

Coyotes, seeded 11th in West in NHL’s restart, can eliminate sixth-seeded Predators in Game 4 on Friday in this best-of-five qualifying series.

Christian Dvorak scored on Arizona’s first shot of game, and Coyotes scored three in third for victory capped by Carl Soderberg’s empty-netter inside final two minutes.

Predators thought y h a 2-1 le 1:13 into third period on a goal by Kyle Turris, but Coyotes won ir challenge of offside with Nashville center Matt Duchene found over blue line on review. Turris later hit post with 6:19 left.

Garland put Coyotes ahe to stay with his wrister from slot at 7:08 of third.

Darcy Kuemper me 39 saves for victory in his third start in four games and second in two days.

Viktor Arvidsson scored Nashville’s lone goal, and Juuse Saros h 24 saves..

LIGHTNING 3, BRUINS 2

TORONTO (AP) — Tyler Johnson scored tiebreaking goal with 87 seconds left and Tampa Bay handed Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston its second straight loss in NHL’s playoff seeding round.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 25 shots for Lightning, who improved to 2-0 in three-game round-robin. Tampa Bay would earn . 1 seed in East with a victory over Philelphia on Saturday.

Tuukka Rask me 32 saves for Bruins, who led NHL with 100 points in pandemic-shortened regular season but can w finish higher than . 3 seed in Eastern Conference.

Charlie McAvoy and Chris Wagner scored to help Boston rally from a 2-0 deficit. But in final minutes Yanni Gourde received a long pass at blue line and shot it off Rask’s left skate. puck was sitting re for Johnson to flick it in.

AVALANCHE 4, STARS 0

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — High-scoring 21-year-old rookie defenseman Cale Makar connected on an early power-play goal, 30-year-old Pavel Francouz recorded a shutout in his postseason debut and Coloro past Dallas in round-robin play.

Joonas Donskoi, Vlislav Namestnikov and Andre Burakovsky also scored as Avalanche improved to 2-0 in three-game round that will determine playoff seeding for top four teams in Western Conference. Stars have lost both of ir games and are likely to finish where y started as fourth seed.

Donskoi scored 3 seconds after a power play ended in first period, and Burakovsky connected early in third period after Mattias Janmark was called for tripping late in second.

Burakovsky’s shot hit crossbar before deflecting off back of Stars goalie Anton Khudobin into net. Donskoi and Burakovsky h assists on or’s goal.

Khudobin finished with 36 saves.

Im credits: AP