MTL@STL: Game recap

ST. LOUIS - The Canadiens completed an exciting comeback to win their second straight game on the road, beating the Blues 7-4 at the Enterprise Center on Saturday night.

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Joel Armia and Michael Pezzetta drew into the lineup and made their season debuts, while Juraj Slafkovsky returned to action after missing three games with an upper-body injury.
Jake Allen, who played 289 games in a Blues uniform before joining the Canadiens, got the start in goal.
The Blues got on the board first, with Brayden Schenn's wrister from the inside hashmarks squeezed past Allen to give the Blues a 1-0 lead at 7:47 of the opening frame.
Montreal tied things up with 4:52 remaining in the period when Jordan Harris' point shot deflected off Nick Suzuki through traffic and in.
Harris and Cole Caufield got the assists.

The two teams headed to the room after 20 minutes all tied up at 1-1, with the Blues outshooting the Habs 10-6.
St. Louis re-took the lead at 5:10 of the second stanza courtesy of Noel Acciari, who buried a rebound from former Hab Tyler Pitlick's shot for the home side's second of the night.
A bit over four minutes later, with Josh Anderson in the box for slashing, the Blues padded their lead with a power play goal by Jordan Kyrou which made it a 3-1 game.
The Canadiens cut into the Blues' lead once again at the 10:56 mark of the period when Caufield recovered the rebound from a falling Suzuki and wired it top corner from in-close to bring the score to 3-2.
Suzuki and Kirby Dach picked up helpers on the play.

Then, the Habs tied the game with a power play goal from Slafkovsky, who one-timed it on a give-and-go from the point to beat Jordan Binnington and even things up at 3-3 at 13:05 of the second.
Wideman and Brendan Gallagher earned assists on the marker.

Montreal took its first lead of the night a little under two minutes afterward with another power play goal. Caufield was the author of this one, benefiting from some incredible patience from Suzuki who danced in towards Binnington before sending the puck cross-crease through traffic to No. 22 for a quick wrister into the Blues net.
Suzuki and Dach got the helpers on the 4-3 goal.

Montreal outshot St. Louis 11-9 in the period.
The Habs padded their lead early in the third period with a pair of goals from Christian Dvorak. First, he netted his first of the season when his cross-ice pass to Dach hit a Blues defender and went in.
The goal was scored unassisted.

Exactly 30 seconds later, Dvorak was in perfect position in front of Binnington when Josh Anderson's point shot deflected off him and into the St. Louis net.
Anderson and Harris earned the helpers on that one.

Dvorak completed the hat trick with an empty-netter with 1:35 remaining in the game.
The Canadiens' next game is on Tuesday, when they take on the Wild in Minnesota.