After taking on the Chicago Blackhawks last night, the Montreal Canadiens flew to Denver to take on the Colorado Avalanche tonight. This will be the first match between the two sides this season and the Habs will hope to sign a third consecutive win against the former Nordiques.

Lehkonen scored a goal in Tuesday's 3-2 overtime win over the Rangers.

The Montreal Canadiens continue to impress, this time by going into Dallas and defeating the Stars, one of the NHL's top teams on the season.

In one of the more low-event games of the season, the Avalanche let the Montreal Canadiens hang around for too long. The result, a 2-1 shootout loss after the game-tying goal was given up on a broken play late in regulation.

Montreal got the equalizer from Caufield with 6:35 remaining on an odd-man rush with Nick Suzuki. Both teams had breakaway chances in the overtime. Blackwood stopped Kaiden Guhle’s shot in the first minute and Dobes denied Artturi Lehkonen in the final ...

Montreal has gone 7-11-1 on the road and 17-18-3 overall ... TOP PERFORMERS: Cale Makar has 13 goals and 35 assists for the Avalanche. Artturi Lehkonen has seven goals and one assist over the last 10 games. Cole Caufield has 20 goals and 15 assists ...

Guhle is a gamer, he's a hockey player. He possesses everything he needs to face those big challenges [of playing against the best players]. It's not the first time he does it, we have assets that help us play against a fast game [like Colorado's].

Blackwood stopped Kaiden Guhle’s shot in the first minute and Dobes denied Artturi Lehkonen in the final minutes. Canadiens: Montreal had a happy flight home after their season-long road trip ...

The Rangers dominated the first part of overtime, including several chances on a power play, before the Avalanche capitalized in the final minute of overtime. Logan O'Connor passed it to MacKinnon above the left circle, MacKinnon sent a pass to Toews in the right circle, and he beat Shesterkin on the short side to win it for Colorado.

It will be three years on Saturday since Kent Hughes was named GM of the Montreal Canadiens. The one who will celebrate his 55th birthday next week has accomplished quite a bit during his early years in the management of the Habs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kent Johnson and Kirill Marchenko scored in the shootout as the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Kirby Dach scored twice and the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Utah Hockey Club 5-3 on Tuesday night. Mike Matheson, Patrik Laine and Cole Caufield also scored for Montreal, which has won eight of its last 10.