MONTREAL – Having never comeback from an 0-3 series deficit, the Habs had never forced a Game 6 under those circumstances either. Until Saturday.
Staving off elimination for a second game in a row to pull within a single win of a return trip home for a deciding Game 7, the Habs achieved the feat for the first time with the help of some first-timers of their own.
Heading into the contest with just three forwards in the lineup who had yet to find the back of the net this postseason, that number dropped to just one by the end of the night, as Devante Smith-Pelly and Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau each scored their first playoff goals in a Canadiens uniform.