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stopped 22-of-24 shots for his 35th win of the season.scored for the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Lightning , who were playing their third game in four nights.Andrei VasilevskiyMontreal is even with the Blue Jackets after Columbus lost 6-2 to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday. Both teams are one point back of the Carolina Hurricanes, who beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1.
Thompson's first in a Canadiens uniform made it a 1-1 game at 12:23 of the first. After Montreal's dump-in ricocheted off a referee,The Canadiens kept pressing but Pasquale grew in confidence with every save.with the glove on the breakaway before stopping Byron on a break exactly one minute later.
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