MONTREAL — David Pastrnak scored twice and set up another goal to help the Boston Bruins beat Montreal, 4-1, on Saturday night, their third win in eight days against the Canadiens.
Torey Krug had a goal and two assists and Riley Nash added an empty-netter for Boston, which is 12-0-4 in its past 16 games.
Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, which ended a stretch of five games in eight days since their midseason break at 1-2-2. The [...]
MONTREAL — David Pastrnak scored twice and set up another goal to help the Boston Bruins beat Montreal, 4-1, on Saturday night, their third win in eight days against the Canadiens.
Torey Krug had a goal and two assists and Riley Nash added an empty-netter for Boston, which is 12-0-4 in its past 16 games.
Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, which ended a stretch of five games in eight days since their midseason break at 1-2-2. The Canadiens were coming off a 3-1 win on Friday night in Washington.
Pacioretty got his seventh goal in seven games 11:29 into the second period. Paul Byron lost the puck, stole it back from Charlie McAvoy from behind and then slipped a backhand pass to Pacioretty on a 2-on-1.
Pastrnak beat goalie Carey Price with a quick shot along the ice that caught the goaltender's left skate and went in at 14:09.
Krug was allowed to walk in from the blue line, take a feed from Pastrnak and beat Price over the right shoulder at 15:56.
The Bruins looked to have another goal on a power play at 11:00 of the third period, but a video review showed the play was offside.
Pastrnak got one that counted, his 20th of the season, at 17:03 when Jordie Benn couldn't handle a puck in front of Price and the Czech forward swept in to put it in the net.
Around the boards
The Bruins won in a shootout last Saturday in Montreal before winning 4-1 at home on Wednesday against their longtime rivals. ... A moment of silence was held before the game for sports writer Red Fisher, who covered the Canadiens from 1955 to 2012. Fisher died on Friday at 91.
Up next
The Bruins host New Jersey on Tuesday night. The Canadiens host Colorado, also on Tuesday night.
Shattenkirk sidelined
Kevin Shattenkirk signed with his boyhood dream team for a discount, taking $26.6 million spread over four years from the Rangers. He badly wanted to make a good first impression.
But it has been an uneven season for the 28-year-old defenseman and power-play quarterback from New Rochelle. One big reason now seems apparent.
Shattenkirk said on Friday that he has been playing with a meniscus tear in his left knee since the start. After speaking with the medical staff on Thursday, he decided it was time to repair it. So he will undergo surgery on Monday. He’s out indefinitely, but he said this won’t end his season.
“It’s tough,” Shattenkirk said. “Thinking about this year, you want everything to go perfectly. I think I’ve been trying to battle through this for a lot of reasons. … You have to think about yourself. … I’ve been worried about more things, trying not to disappoint a lot of people, me included in that.
“It’s never easy to be sidelined. But I also feel like what I was putting out on the ice, I wasn’t giving the guys on my team the best I had. That almost makes you feel even worse.”
The Rangers recalled defenseman Tony DeAngelo from Hartford to take Shattenkirk’s roster spot.
“It’s really unfortunate,” coach Alain Vigneault said. “ … From my understanding, a lot of times they feel that it can heal on its own, even while you’re playing. In Kevin’s case, it didn’t.”
Shattenkirk has five goals and 18 assists in 46 games and is a team-worst minus-14. The knee began bothering him late in the preseason. He was given a cortisone injection, which helped before wearing off after about eight-to-10 weeks, and a PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injection last week.
Fines imposed
Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Brown has been fined $10,000 for cross-checking Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz.
The incident occurred at 6:36 of the third period of the Penguins' 3-1 win on Thursday night. Brown was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for boarding.
Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin was fined $5,000 for spearing Brown at 6:57 of the first period.