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Price bewilders Bruins as Habs win in OT

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The Bruins forced overtime against the rival Canadiens with under a minute left in the third, but Carey Price was too much for them and Jeff Petry netted the winner only 15 seconds into the extra period.

The Bruins and Canadiens don’t play quite like they used to. For one thing, Monday’s game was a white-knuckle race of speed. There was a lot of skill on display in this one, even though there weren’t a ton of goals in Montreal’s 3-2 OT win against Boston.

(Granted, there was some of that old-school nastiness, such as in this fight.)

That speed was on display when Paul Byron scored a tremendous 2-1 shorthanded goal, and for a long time, Carey Price was able to hold down the fort. The Bruins eventually broke through, however, when David Krejci scored a power-play goal with Boston’s net empty. Montreal was 38 seconds short of locking that down.

The Habs didn’t take long to end things during the 3-on-3 OT, however.

Defenseman Jeff Petry emphatically showed off forward-like hand-eye coordination to bat in a rebound with his backhand just 15 seconds into OT to give Montreal an impressive win.

Price ended up stopping 41 out of 43 shots, as the Bruins almost doubled up the Canadiens to the tune of a 43-22 SOG advantage. Boston enjoyed nice efforts from Krejci, along with the even-more-usual suspects (such as Brad Marchand, who generated a goal and an assist along with six SOG).

With this result, the Canadiens climb (at least briefly) to the top wild-card spot with 55 points and 35 games remaining. The Bruins moved up to 57 points with 36 games left in 2018-19, yet they lost some ground ahead of Montreal for the third seed in the Atlantic. Both Montreal and Boston gained on the Maple Leafs (58 points, 37 games remaining) for the second seed, as Toronto lost a sloppy game to Colorado on Monday.

James O’Brien is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @cyclelikesedins.