Nov. 24 – Cole Caufield scored the tying goal and also had an assist and Jesse Ylonen scored the winning goal in the sixth round of the shootout as the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a 2-0 deficit to beat the host San Jose Sharks 3-3 on Friday. 2 defeated afternoon.

Johnathan Kovacevic also scored and Cayden Primeau made 31 saves for Montreal, which won its second straight road game.

William Eklund had a goal and an assist in the first multi-point game of his career, Tomas Hertl had two assists and Mike Hoffman also scored a goal for San Jose, which lost its third straight game. Mackenzie Blackwood finished the game with 22 saves.

After Eklund and Nick Suzuki traded goals to open the shootout, Hoffman hit the post with a shot to start the third period. Ylonen then won at the end of the sixth round when he beat Blackwood with a backhand and then fired a forehand shot into an open right side of the goal for the winning goal.

San Jose, coming off a 7-1 loss at Seattle on Wednesday that head coach David Quinn called “embarrassing,” took a 1-0 lead at 5:06 of the second period. Hoffman received a pass behind the net from Eklund and fired a wrist shot from the high slot into the top corner, past Primeau’s glove side. It was Hoffman’s fifth goal of the season as a team leader, with all goals coming in the last five games.

Midway through the half, Eklund made it 2-0 with a power play goal – a one-timer from the top of the right circle into the far corner – and scored his fourth goal of the season.

Montreal cut it to 2-1 with 1:58 left when Kovacevic shot from the right circle through traffic into the top left corner.

Caufield tied the score at 3:26 of the third period when he ended a 2-on-1 rush by firing a wrist shot from the edge of the right circle into the far post for his sixth goal of the season.

–Field level media

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