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.

Josh Anderson scored a goal, his fourth of the season, and set up Christian Dvorak’s goal.

The Canadian shot 26 times at Hellebuyck.

Goaltender Jake Allen stopped 30 shots and ended a seven-game losing streak. He was particularly strong in the third period, where he fired 15 shots. His last win was on October 28th against the Jets at the Bell Center.

Gabriel Vilardi, late in the second period, and Cole Perfetti, late in the third period, scored the Jets’ goals.

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

The next day, the Canadian will be in Chicago, where he will face the talented Connor Bedard for the first time since the Montreal team opened locally on October 14th.

Two cautious teams

To use an old cliché, the Canadian played “a good away game” in the first period against a rival that had dominated the Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche – two of the good teams in the NHL – in their previous two games .

Allen and Hellebuyck were barely engaged in the first 20 minutes of play as they received six and five shots, respectively.

The two goalies still had help from the vertical bars, Allen twice after shots from defenders Dylan Samberg and Perfetti. Between these two occasions, Mitchell Stephens also hit the post.

The Canadiens’ players were adequate in the first half, but were exceptionally good for much of the middle half, returning to the locker room with a one-goal lead.

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

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

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.

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

Four of the five Habs players on the ice were trapped in their zone for more than a minute, including David Savard for more than two minutes.

That sustained 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.

As expected, the Jets started the third period so energetically that they received eight of the first nine shots of the period.

The Jets’ eleventh shot in the third period made it possible to equalize. Allen initially blocked a long-range shot from Vladislav Namestnikov, but was unable to control the return.

Left alone on the left by the Canadian goalkeeper, Perfetti took advantage of this setback to score the equalizer just over seven minutes before the end of regulation time.