Brendan Gallagher and captain Nick Suzuki each had a goal and an assist on Sunday, helping the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
Cole Caufield and Jake Evans also scored for the Canadiens, while Cayden Primeau blocked 23 shots.
Ste-Flanelle won a second match in a row, after a series of four defeats.
On Saturday evening, the Canadiens earned a 5-2 victory against the Blues at the Bell Centre.
“We were very confident going into the weekend,” said Canadiens coach Martin St-Louis. “We had done our homework and we were ready.”
“These kinds of results bring us closer to the version of ourselves that we want to offer,” he added. “Sometimes, experiencing failures helps guide you towards a better version of yourself.”
The Flyers’ goals came from Travis Konecny and Travis Sanheim, with the latter scoring twice.
The end of the game was tense: Sanheim’s second goal and Konecny’s goal came with 2:12 and 1:43 left in the third period, respectively.
Primeau grew up in Philadelphia, where his father Keith played for the Flyers for the last six years of his career.
Following this victory by the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, Vegas and San Jose are the only NHL clubs not to have won a game abroad this season.
The St. Louis team will play again Tuesday evening at home, against the Seattle Kraken.
For the Flyers, Aleksei Kolosov made 20 saves in his NHL debut, becoming the first Belarusian goaltender to start a game in the league.
The 22-year-old was a third-round pick of the Flyers in 2021.
He spent roughly four seasons in the KHL before arriving in North America at the end of last season, playing two games with Lehigh Valley (AHL).
Gallagher broke a 1-1 tie at 4:48 of the second period by deflecting a shot from the blue line by Logan Mailloux with his leg from the slot.
“You take that kind of goal when it happens,” the 32-year-old veteran said with a smile. “Playing in this league is demanding enough in itself, so that kind of goal is easy to take.”
The sequence began when Josh Anderson made a long pass against the boards towards the blue line, where Mailloux grabbed the puck.
With 221 NHL goals, Gallagher joined Guy Carbonneau in 21st place in Canadiens history.
The visitors doubled their cushion by taking advantage of a penalty on Jamie Drysdale midway through the second period.
Caufield had an early chance, but Rasmus Ristolainen stepped up to deflect it. Caufield later recovered on the power play, scoring from a difficult angle, from the right circle. It was the 23-year-old American’s fourth goal in as many games.
Mike Matheson was an accomplice in the goal, collecting a fifth point in his last four matches.
Evans added to the lead at 16:01 of the second period, also from the right circle. He completed a pass from the blue line to Gallagher, whose stick was shattered during the snap.
Late in the third period, Sanheim scored from the slot and Konecny from around the net, but the Canadiens held on and earned the victory.
Philadelphia entered the game with the worst goals-against average in the National League this season (4.50).
The Canadiens created an opportunity in the second minute of the game when Caufield stole the puck from Konecny at the blue line. He passed it to the left mouth, but Kirby Dach was unable to get a quality shot off.
Two minutes later, a low wrist shot from Lane Hutson hit the post to Kolosov’s left.
The Flyers had the man advantage midway through the first period but then took just one shot, from distance.
The superiority came from an altercation between Arber Xhekaj and Sean Couturier, where Nick Seeler quickly came to jostle the CH player. Only the young Habs defender was punished.
Suzuki made it 1-0 at 10:42 of the first period, earning a point for the seventh straight game. He got a pass from Dach in front of the net on the rebound of a Jayden Struble shot.
Sanheim broke the deadlock at 17:24 with a wrist shot.
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