MONTREAL (AP) — Alex Galchenyuk scored in overtime for the second straight night, Carey Price made 26 saves and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Blue Jackets 1-0 on Tuesday night to extend their winning streak to three games.
Price got his third shutout this season. He started after Al Montoya backed the Canadiens in a 4-3 come-from-behind victory at New Jersey on Monday.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots for the Blue Jackets, who had won two straight.
Montreal’s Max Pacioretty thought he had scored 1:11 into overtime after a beautiful pass by Andrei Markov. The puck crossed the line on Pacioretty’s rebound, but the play was whistled dead first, and a lengthy video review did not overturn the call.
With Columbus’ Seth Jones in the box for holding, Galchenyuk scored with a slap shot from the point that soared into the roof of the net at 3:53 of the extra period.
The Blue Jackets signed 36-year-old defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron to a contract for the rest of the season.
Bergeron has 82 goals and 153 assists in 490 career NHL games with the Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota Wild, Anaheim Ducks, New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers from 2002-13.