MONTREAL (AP) 鈥� T.J. Oshie scored the 300th goal of his career, while Aliaksei Protas and Anthony Mantha each had a goal and an assist as Washington delivered with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
Sonny Milano also scored for Washington, which snapped a two-game skid and earned its second win in 10 outings.
Alex Ovechkin earned an assist but fell just short of tying his career-high seven-game goal streak.
The Capitals captain entered the night with goals in six straight, joining Brett Hull (seven games in 2003-04) and Johnny Bucyk (six games in 1974-75) as the only players to do so at 38 or older.
Darcy Kuemper stopped 28 shots.
鈥淲e talked about it before the game,鈥� Oshie said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 not a point out there that we don鈥檛 need right now.鈥�
Nick Suzuki, Arber Xhekaj and Alex Newhook scored while Jake Allen made 30 saves for Montreal. Joel Armia had two assists.
Suzuki and Juraj Slafkovsky extended their career-high point streaks. The captain pushed his run to 10 games 鈥� the longest active streak in the league 鈥� while Slafkovsky reached eight in the losing effort.
鈥淲e were right there,鈥� Allen said. 鈥淚t was a battle, but it was just a few costly mistakes and they had some guys who put it in the net.鈥�
The Canadiens have lost two straight after on Thursday.
Tied 2-2 after 40 minutes, Milano scored 3:27 into the third period by tipping a pass from Max Pacioretty past Allen. It was Milano鈥檚 first game back from a 27-game absence due to an upper-body injury.
Capitals coach Spencer Carbery commended his team鈥檚 sense of urgency to stick with it in a back-and-forth affair.
鈥淚 loved the resiliency. This game for us, as we try to stay in this fight, we had to have two points,鈥� Carbery said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 no skirting around it, we needed two points tonight so for us to deliver 鈥� I liked a lot of the things we did tonight.鈥�
Suzuki evened things up again with a power-play goal at 9:45 for his 20th of the season, firing a shot off a defender鈥檚 leg and past Kuemper after a cross-ice pass from Slafkovsky.
Washington took a 4-3 lead with 8:03 left in the period as Protas ended a 29-game goal drought by pouncing on a rebound.
With Allen pulled for an extra attacker, Capitals forward Tom Wilson took a minor penalty with 1:27 left to give Montreal a 6-on-4 advantage.
The Canadiens peppered Kuemper with shots in a frantic 90-second spree spent almost entirely in Washington鈥檚 zone, but couldn鈥檛 find the equalizer.
After a couple injury-plagued seasons, Oshie was proud to reach the 300-goal milestone.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 have many milestones or goals that I set for myself,鈥� he said. 鈥淏ut this was one coming into the year that I wanted to reach.鈥�
Defenseman Joel Edmundson played his first game in Montreal since the Canadiens traded him to Washington in July after three seasons with the team.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Host New Jersey on Tuesday night.
Canadiens: Host Buffalo on Wednesday night to finish a two-game homestand.
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