Live game blog

[The content of Boone's liveblog of the game v. the Ottawa Senators has been moved here. We apologize for the inconvenience, but there was a necessary change that needed to be made right away, and this is the only way it could be done. Thanks for your understanding. --HI/O geeks]

The 20-year-old wunderkind stymies the Bruins as the Canadiens win 2-1 to get their four-game divisional road trip off to a promising start.

Price made 28 saves. His positioning, puckhandling and sang-froid were exemplary.
This guy is going to be very good for a very long time.
Tim Thomas made 30 stops.
How neither goalie got a game star is a mystery.

Canadiens got goals from Alex Kovalev and Tomas Plekanec. All four lines and six defencemen played well.
And Guy Carbonneau handled his lines adroitly, using checkers down the stretch to insure against Boston breaks.
Nursing their one-goal lead in the third period, the Canadiens killed a 5-on-3 Bruins advantage for almost two minutes.

Solid win.
On to Ottawa.

Pittsburgh roared back from a 3-0 deficit as Ryan Whitney scored in the desperate dying minutes to send the game into overtime and, ultimately, a shootout.
And what a shootout.
16 shots were taken before Andrei Markov puts a backhand past Dany Sabourin

Carey Price, whose shootout heroics secured a World Junior Championship for Canada last winter, was perfect on the eight Pittsburgh shots he faced.

It was the Canadiens' longest shootout. They went seven rounds against Toronto in a losing cause 366 days ago.

The Canadiens – who did not sweep any of their 15 back-to-back series last season – bagged four points on the road against two of the Eastern Conference's better teams, Carolina and the Penguins.
The last time the Canadiens won back-to-back games on the road was Oct. 5-6, 2005 against the Bruins and Rangers.