After falling to the Canadiens, the Panthers have been eliminated from playoff contention.
Brett Kulak, Artturi Lehkonen, Phillip Danault and Max Domi also scored for the Canadiens , who have won four of their past five games.
Carey Price stopped 33-of-34 shots in his ninth consecutive start. Price has allowed 13 goals in his past eight games. Frank Vatrano scored the only goal for the Panthers , who were officially eliminated from playoff contention. James Reimer, who had not played in exactly one month, was pulled in the first period after allowing three goals on nine shots. His replacement Sam Montembeault stopped 15-of-18 shots.Montreal is in a tight three-team playoff race with the Carolina Hurricanes and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Canadiens are in the second wild-card spot, one point behind Carolina and two points ahead of Columbus. Both the Blue Jackets and Hurricanes have a game in hand on Montreal.Tatar got the ball rolling at 6:58 of the first period when he beat Reimer with a shot off the post and in on a feed from Andrew Shaw behind the net.
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