Colorado Avalanche vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Tuesday, January 23, 2018 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Colorado Avalanche 4–2 on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Avalanche 40–22.
Goals came from Nicolas Deslauriers, Alex Galchenyuk, Jonathan Drouin, Nathan MacKinnon, Brendan Gallagher and J.T. Compher.
Carey Price made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Jonathan Bernier stopped 36 of 39.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Nicolas Deslauriers (7)Jonathan Drouin (17), Alex Galchenyuk (16)0–105:42 MTL
Alex Galchenyuk (12)Paul Byron (9), Jonathan Drouin (18)0–207:58 MTL ·
3rd period
Jonathan Drouin (7)Jeff Petry (15), Karl Alzner (7)0–312:36 MTL
Nathan MacKinnon (24)Erik Johnson (14), Gabriel Landeskog (19)1–314:11 COL
Brendan Gallagher (17)Tomas Plekanec (14)1–418:24 MTL · 
J.T. Compher (8)Nail Yakupov (6)2–419:48 COL
Team stats
COLMTL
2240
38%62%
0/41/4
88
2343
1417
818
79
Penalties
- 5:44 into the first period
Gabriel Bourque · high sticking2 min - 8:55 into the first period
Jordie Benn · hooking2 min - 2:41 into the second periodDavid Schlemko · high sticking2 min
- 6:19 into the second periodMark Barberio · tripping2 min
- 8:16 into the second periodJakub Jerabek · elbowing2 min
- 12:25 into the second periodPaul Byron · tripping2 min
- 0:42 into the third periodMikko Rantanen · tripping2 min
- 8:16 into the third periodNail Yakupov · hooking2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 29Nathan MacKinnonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 20:16 |
| 37J.T. CompherL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:56 |
| 64Nail YakupovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:55 |
| 92Gabriel LandeskogL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 20:10 |
| 6Erik JohnsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 27:50 |
| 13Alexander KerfootC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:50 |
| 14Blake ComeauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:41 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:24 |
| 34Carl SoderbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 15:49 |
| 47Dominic ToninatoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:30 |
| 57Gabriel BourqueL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:13 |
| 83Matt NietoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:05 |
| 96Mikko RantanenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:57 |
| 12Patrik NemethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:40 |
| 16Nikita ZadorovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:01 |
| 44Mark BarberioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:59 |
| 49Samuel GirardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:28 |
| 54Anton LindholmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Andrew HammondG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 45Jonathan BernierG | L | 39 | 3 | .923 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 92Jonathan DrouinL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 18:05 |
| 27Alex GalchenyukC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 16:33 |
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 15:39 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:40 |
| 20Nicolas DeslauriersL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:18 |
| 41Paul ByronL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:05 |
| 22Karl AlznerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:37 |
| 26Jeff PetryD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:33 |
| 25Jacob de la RoseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:40 |
| 42Byron FroeseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:10 |
| 49Logan ShawR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:23 |
| 54Charles HudonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 12:24 |
| 62Artturi LehkonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:53 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | 17:18 |
| 8Jordie BennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:18 |
| 21David SchlemkoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:50 |
| 28Jakub JerabekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:15 |
| 53Victor MeteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |
| 37Antti NiemiG | 0 | 0 | – |