Henrik Lundqvist came to play, his teammates on the other hand did not. With an almost non-existent home crowd behind them the Rangers showed just as much emotion as their fans tonight at MSG.
Montreal riding their 4-3 overtime win on Friday came to play while the Rangers didn't seem to wan to return the conviction on home ice and dropped their sixth straight home playoff loss.
It took almost 38 minutes for a scoreless game to be broken on a power play goal by Montreal's Arturri Lehkonen after J.T. Miller was called for a faceoff violation for moving the puck with his hand.
The Canadiens rode the momentum of that goal into the third period and picked up another power play goal with 25 seconds left on a 4 minute power play by Shea Weber after Mats Zuccarello was called for a high stick that cut the Montreal player. Adding a goal with less than 5 minutes to go, Alexander Radulov put the game away with the Habs third of the game.
rangers Brady Skjei broke Carey Price's shutout bid with 2:56 to go in regulation but the existing 2 goal lead was not to be overcome by the Rangers.
Montreal now leads the series 2 games to one.
Game 4 is once again at MSG on Tuesday at 7:00 PM.
EASTERN CONFERENCE QUARTER FINALS GAME 3
FINAL GAME REPORT
NEW YORK RANGERS 1 MONTREAL CANADIENS 3
POWER PLAY: NYR 0/3 MTL 2/3
SHOTS ON GOAL: NYR 21 MTL 30
GOALTENDERS:
Montreal - C. Price (20 SV)
New York - H. Lundqvist (26 SV)
SCORING SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
No Scoring
2ND PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
17:37 Montreal PPG - Artturi Lehkonen (1) ASST: Brendan Gallagher (2), Tomas Plekanec (2) 1-0
3RD PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
07:42 Montreal PPG - Shea Weber (1) ASST: Alex Galchenyuk (2), Alexander Radulov (3) 2-0
15:35 Montreal Alexander Radulov (2) ASST: Phillip Danault (2) 3-0
17:04 New York Brady Skjei (1) ASST: Kevin Klein (1), Mika Zibanejad (1) 3-1
PENALTY SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
03:52 Montreal Jeff Petry - Hooking - 2 minutes
15:29 Montreal Alex Galchenyuk - High-sticking - 2 minutes
2ND PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
16:05 New York J.T. Miller - Face-off Violation - 2 minutes
3RD PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
04:07 New York Mats Zuccarello - High-sticking - 4 minutes
09:10 Montreal Artturi Lehkonen - Interference - 2 minutes
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