Domi, Drouin each has three points in Canadiens win against Senators

MONTREAL -- Max Domi and Jonathan Drouin each had three points, and the Montreal Canadiens ended the Ottawa Senators' three-game winning streak with a 5-2 win at Bell Centre on Tuesday.

Domi had two goals and an assist, and Drouin had a goal and two assists for the Canadiens (13-10-5), who are 2-1-0 following a five-game losing streak (0-3-2).
"We've got chemistry and we're enjoying playing together," said Drouin, who combined with Domi on each of Montreal's first three goals. "We know where each other is, we know when to pass and set each other up, so it's fun to have a player like that who you can really play with."
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Artturi Lehkonen and Brendan Gallagher scored for the Canadiens, who had scored two goals or fewer in five of their previous six games. Carey Price made 28 saves in his fifth straight start.
"To win big games like tonight against teams that we need to beat, it takes your big players to rise to the challenge and lead the way, and that's what they did," coach Claude Julien said.
Dylan DeMelo and Mark Stone scored, and Craig Anderson made 36 saves for the Senators (12-13-3), who also won three straight from Oct. 13-20.
Ottawa will host Montreal at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday.
"I think we did exactly what we wanted to do," Domi said. "We wanted to come out and set the pace of the game. And these are two huge games. They're the two biggest games of the season as far as we're concerned in here."
Drouin gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead with his 10th goal, a backhand between Anderson's pads off a pass from Domi at 14:30 of the first period.

DeMelo tied it at 1-1 at 8:49 of the second with a one-timer from the right point after Ottawa won a face-off in the Montreal zone.
The Canadiens responded with four straight goals, including three in 3:39.
"We were right there," Senators coach Guy Boucher said. "It's 1-1, five minutes left in the second period, and we gave it away. We gave them a goal, and right away we tried to get it back and we overdo it, and again it bites us in the butt."
Domi scored on a one-timer from the slot on a pass from Drouin for a 2-1 lead at 14:38.
Domi scored his 13th at 17:29 for a 3-1 lead. Drouin drove the right side and dropped a backhand pass to Domi, who scored on a wrist shot from the right circle.
"He's just so good," Domi said. "He's easy to play with, honestly. When you start knowing what a guy is going to do with the puck it's pretty cool, and he's just unbelievable. The talent he has with the puck is with some of the elite players in the NHL, so it's fun to play with him and we're lucky to have him."

Lehkonen made it 4-1 with his fifth goal 48 seconds later. Gallagher's 12th goal at 4:21 of the third made it 5-1.
Stone scored his 13th goal to make it 5-2 at 12:29.
"That five minutes in the second period, if we can get out of the period 1-1 we're really happy with that going on the road," Stone said. "We kind of came unraveled. I don't know what we're going to do about it but we're going to have to find something and correct it."

They said it

"You give them odd-man rushes and stuff that you can't give that type of team because they've got a lot of speed. They've got a lot of guys that are going to distance themselves from your guys that are below, so we didn't do a good job of being above. They got three rush goals, which we know we can't give them, and then after that it was just all over the place, so we lost the game at the end of the second period for sure." -- Senators coach Guy Boucher
"Any time you win it's fun, right, and that was a huge win for our group and we needed that, so I think as a whole we're in a good spot. We've just got to find a way to kind of get this behind us, take the confidence and the positive out of it and take it into our next game. It's going to be a huge one for us." -- Canadiens forward Max Domi

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Need to know

It was Domi's eighth NHL three-point game, his second of the season. He had three assists in a 6-5 overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Nov. 8. … Drouin has five three-point games in the NHL, most recently a goal and two assists in a 4-2 win against the Colorado Avalanche on Jan. 23, 2018. … Drouin has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in his past 13 games. … The Senators are 3-9-1 on the road.

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What's next

Senators: Host the Canadiens on Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET; TSN5, TSN2, RDS, NHL.TV)
Canadiens:At the Senators on Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET; TSN5, TSN2, RDS, NHL.TV)