A winning goal scored in extra time will always bring great joy to its author. The character Justin Barron achieved on Monday night was truly extraordinary.

The Montreal Canadiens defenseman made a splash during a power play at 1:09 of overtime and the Habs defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in the Manitoba capital.

Barron scored on a wrist shot that beat goaltender Connor Hellebuyck in the top right corner after Nikolaj Ehlers was fouled for tripping Mike Matheson with 27 seconds left in the third period.

Barron’s goal, his sixth of the campaign, came in front of his parents in the Canada Life Center stands, but also his brother Morgan, who was on the ice at the same time.

“It’s funny how chance can make things happen. (Adam) Lowry gets penalized, my brother gets sent to the ice. “Mats” (Mike Matheson) is punished and I am sent to the ice. It’s something very special,” said the hero of the game.

In the win, Josh Anderson scored a goal, his fourth of the season, and was assisted by Christian Dvorak (3), who also scored on the power play.

The Canadian scored 26 shots against Hellebuyck, brilliantly starting his long seven-game streak away from the Bell Centre.

Goaltender Jake Allen stopped 30 shots and ended a seven-game losing streak. His last victory came on October 28 in a shootout against the Jets at the Bell Center.

He was particularly strong in the third period, where he fired 15 shots.

Gabriel Vilardi and Cole Perfetti scored the Jets’ goals.

“Jake played a great game tonight. We took two penalties and our numerical advantage gave us two goals. “That makes a small difference,” analyzed head coach Martin St-Louis.

“We didn’t create many chances offensively, but we didn’t miss many chances on the other side either. It’s positive,” he added.

The Habs will continue this first stretch of their long absence from the Bell Center by visiting the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.

Two cautious teams

While the Canadian players performed well in the first half, in which both clubs played cautiously, they were extremely good for much of the middle half. Their work allowed them to return to the locker room with a one-goal lead after 40 minutes of play.

Anderson scored a third goal for the first time in his last two games at 4:57 of the second period.

The powerful Habs forward was charging toward the opposing net when the puck hit his left skate and veered behind Hellebuyck, who had just stopped a Matheson shot.

About ten minutes later, Anderson contributed to the Canadian’s second goal on a power play at the end of a contested sequence.

Using his right hand, Anderson regained the puck on the fly for the first time after parrying a shot from Gallagher off Hellebuyck’s pad.

After placing the puck on the ice, he began diving toward Dvorak, who was stationed at the opening of the net to the left of the Jets’ goaltender. Dvorak had no trouble putting the puck behind Hellebuyck.

The Jets called for a video replay and ruled that Anderson had not touched the puck with his stick before it reached Dvorak and that therefore the referees should have called a stoppage of play for a hand pass.

After a review, it was determined that Anderson made contact with the puck after placing it on the ice.

“I wasn’t worried about the first goal. I didn’t really move. “The puck just hit my skate without me moving,” Anderson noted.

“Everything happened very quickly with the second goal. “You feel like the puck is touching your stick, but you don’t know if it was someone who touched your stick or if it’s the puck,” Anderson said.

In the last two minutes of the game, the Canadian suffered his only loss of the half, which proved costly.

The Jets’ continued pressure paid off at 19:04 when Vilardi was able to grab a loose puck, which he pushed behind Allen, who had just blocked a shot from Josh Morrissey.

That goal seemed to shake the Jets, who completely dominated the third period.

Allen finally faltered when Perfetti capitalized on Vladislav Namestnikov’s long-range effort with just over seven minutes left in regulation time.

“It’s not always going to be perfect, but you have to find other ways to win games,” Allen remembers.

“ [Les Jets] had the momentum in the first 12 or 13 minutes of the third period and scored a goal. But we still stuck to our game plan. “In the third period we didn’t create many chances on offense, but we had good possession of the puck, which led to a penalty and ultimately a very nice goal on the power play,” emphasized Allen.

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