Hoffman scores twice, Canadiens defeat Red Wings in shootout

DETROIT -- Mike Hoffman scored twice, and Jake Allen made 41 saves to help the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 shootout win against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Tuesday.

Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki scored on Montreal's first two shootout attempts, and Allen stopped Lucas Raymond on Detroit's first try before David Perron scored to keep the Red Wings alive.
Ville Husso stopped Jonathan Drouin, and Dylan Larkin shot wide.
Brendan Gallagher had two assists for Montreal (6-6-1), which had lost three straight.
Allen made 12 saves with the Canadiens short-handed. The Red Wings went 0-for-7 on the power play.
"When you have to kill that much time, your goalie is usually going to be your best penalty-killer, and Jake did that tonight," Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. "He's the one that has to clean up every mistake your killers make."

Austin Czarnik and Raymond scored, and Husso made 31 saves for Detroit (7-3-3), which won its previous three.
"We got looks on the power play and we built momentum," said Larkin, the Red Wings captain. "We kept them hemmed in their end and wore them out, so they kept taking penalties. You'd like to see one go in, but some nights it doesn't go in."
With the game tied 2-2 and 5:32 left in the third period, Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky was given a major penalty and game misconduct for boarding Red Wings forward Matt Luff, who left the game.
Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said Luff sustained a significant injury on the play and that he'll probably be out a similar amount of time as Filip Zadina, who is sidelined 6-8 weeks with a lower-body injury.
"We don't know his exact status," Lalonde said. "We'll know more tomorrow, but he's not going to be on the ice for quite a while. As for the play, the right call was made. That's the exact play we try to avoid, and that's why -- a player got seriously injured."
Detroit had two shots in the first 1:58 of the penalty before Elmer Soderblom was called for interference to make it 4-on-4. Neither team scored, and Montreal was able to kill the rest of Slafkovsky's penalty.
"It is always going to be tough to kill a five-minute power play, but the situation is even tougher when there is only five minutes and change left in the game," St. Louis said. "Luckily, we won a couple draws, got a couple clears and then drew the penalty that let us cut the kill in half."
Larkin hit the crossbar 32 seconds into overtime, and Husso stopped Hoffman from point-blank range at 1:09.
Hoffman gave Montreal a 1-0 lead at 5:41 of the first period, knocking in the rebound of Gallagher's shot.

Allen stopped Larkin on a penalty shot at 12:52, but Czarnik scored his first goal for Detroit to tie it 1-1 at 16:29.
Hoffman made it 2-1 at 19:44, scoring on another rebound off a Gallagher shot.
The Canadiens kept the lead in the second period despite giving the Red Wings three power-play opportunities, but Raymond tied it 2-2 at 10:37 of the third with his fifth goal in six games.
"They had two chances in the first period and scored on both of them, and then I thought our skill players got tired in the second period," Lalonde said. "Allen was remarkable, and it didn't look like we'd get that second goal, but we did."
NOTES: Allen is 5-2-3 with a .937 save percentage and 1.81 goals-against average in 11 games against the Red Wings. His save percentage is his second-best against any NHL team (.946 in 11 games against the Arizona Coyotes).