MTL@PIT: Game recap

PITTSBURGH - The Canadiens got redemption in the second game of their back-to-back on Tuesday, beating the Penguins 6-4 to sweep their season series with Pittsburgh.

There was one lineup change for the game, with Justin Barron returning to action and Chris Wideman sitting in his stead. Sam Montembeault got the start in goal.
The Penguins opened the scoring early in the first, when Jake Guentzel buried a rebound to beat Montembeault just 21 seconds into the game.
Then, with Josh Anderson in the box for interference, Evgeni Malkin doubled his team's lead at the 4:49 mark of the first with a one-timer from near the faceoff dot to Montembeault's left.
But those pair of early goals gave the Canadiens a jolt of motivation, and they scored four unanswered goals before the period was up.
First, Mike Hoffman accepted a drop pass from Rem Pitlick and wristed it past Penguins starter Tristan Jarry for his 11th of the season just 32 seconds after Malkin's tally.
Pitlick and Barron earned the helpers.

Next up, Jesse Ylonen took a pass from Mike Matheson and brought it to the high slot where he, too, sent a wrister through traffic that found twine and evened the score at 7:13 of the first.
Matheson and Rafael Harvey-Pinard got assists on the play.

Then, Denis Gurianov picked up the puck in the corner and backhanded it up high as he was crossing the crease to give the Canadiens their first lead of the night.
Gurianov's goal - his third in as many games - was scored at 11:31 of the period with assists from Alex Belzile and Jonathan Drouin.
That helper from Drouin was the 200th of his NHL career.

Finally, with just 11 seconds remaining in the frame, Joel Edmundson beat Jarry with a blast from the point to give Montreal a two-goal lead to close out the period.
Johnathan Kovacevic and Drouin got the assists.

Casey DeSmith replaced Jarry in goal for Pittsburgh to start the second.
The Pens brought themselves back within one in the latter half of the period, when Kris Letang beat Montembeault through traffic at 10:57 of the period.
Pittsburgh tied things up in the dying minutes of the second with another power play marker, this one from Guentzel.
The teams headed to the room tied at 4-4 with 20 minutes left to play in regulation.
In the third, Anthony Richard gave the Habs a go-ahead goal after he grabbed Barron's two-line pass and drove it in for a wrister to beat DeSmith and make it a 5-4 game just past the period's third minute mark.
Barron and Edmundson got apples on the play.

Josh Anderson added an empty-netter with 34.6 seconds to go in regulation.
Montembeault made 39 saves in the win.
The Canadiens left for Florida following the game. They take on the Panthers at FLA Live Arena on Thursday night.