Coach Guy Carbonneau has put his three best forwards on the same line, but the trio has yet to pay a dividend.

Carbonneau admits that Saku Koivu, Alex Kovalev and Alex Tanguay are all basically the same type of player. They are playmakers who like to control the puck, but the coach is confident that they'll find a way to produce goals.

Two games into the experiment, it hasn't happened. The Canadiens have split their last two games, winning in St. Louis and losing in Carolina, and the stacked line is still trying to develop some chemistry. Tanguay seems to be having the most difficulty. He's the Canadiens' leader in goals (8) and points (17), but he has gone two games without a shot on goal.

The punchless Carolina Hurricanes kept peppering Carey Price, and got a couple of pucks past the Montreal goalie just in time. Sergei Samsonov and Ray Whitney scored 3 1/2 minutes apart in the third period, and Carolina put a season-high 48 shots on net in its come-from-behind 2-1 victory over the Canadiens on Tuesday night.

With the game on the line, the Montreal Canadiens relied on Alexei Kovalev to put the finishing touches on a victory. He did just that, too, scoring the lone goal in a shootout to give the Canadiens a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night. Kovalev beat Manny Legace with a high backhander on Montreal's third shootout attempt after the Blues missed on all three of their shots in the...

Despite their regular-season struggles against the Montreal Canadiens, the Philadelphia Flyers felt right at home with a playoff mentality at the Bell Centre. Scottie Upshall and Jeff Carter scored second-period goals to lead Philadelphia to a 2-1 victory over Montreal on Saturday night. The Flyers, who eliminated the Canadiens from the playoffs in five games last spring, ended a seven-game losing...

The Bruins enjoyed a rare lopsided victory against the Montreal Canadiens and ended a long drought in the process. Marco Sturm and Stephane Yelle each scored two goals and Boston snapped a 12-game losing streak against Montreal with a 6-1 victory Thursday night. "You lose eight in a row in the regular season, you question yourself and take a mental beating," Bruins coach Claude Julien said.

Chris Higgins scored three goals and Carey Price got his first shutout of the season to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-0 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night. Higgins scored a short-handed goal 7:22 in before extending the Canadiens' lead to 2-0 with his second of the game 14:11 into the second.