MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens unleashed three goals in the third period and goaltender Peter Budaj protected his shutout in a 3-0 victory over Carolina Hurricanes Monday. Brandon Prust broke the deadlock at 2:06 in the final period before Tomas Plekanec and Max Pacioretty also netted shots to overwhelm the visiting Hurricanes and give the Canadiens a fourth straight win. Budaj, filling in for the flu-afflicted Carey Price, needed just 19 saves for his first clean sheet with Montreal. Cam Ward turned back 23 shots for Carolina but folded in the third as the injury-weakened Hurricanes saw their three-game winning run come to an end. Maple Leafs 3 Panthers 0: The Toronto Maple Leafs are hoping to keep things rolling on the road. Ben Scrivens notched his second consecutive shutout, and Clarke MacArthur and Nazem Kadri each had a goal and an assist to lead the Maple Leafs to a 3-0 win over the Florida Panthers. Phil Kessel also scored for the Maple Leafs, who won for the sixth time in seven games. Toronto is off to its best road start since opening 7-2-0 away from home during the 1940-41 season. Scrivens stopped 37 shots. Jose Theodore made 30 saves for Florida. Ducks 3 Blue Jackets 2: Peter Holland and Ryan Getzlaf scored 21 seconds apart in the first period, rallying the Anaheim Ducks to their fifth consecutive victory, 3-2 over the NHL-worst Columbus Blue Jackets. The Pacific Division-leading Ducks' winning streak is currently the longest in the NHL and they've also won their last five home games. They were coming off a 5-1-0 road trip, the best win percentage for a trip of five or more games in franchise history. Corey Perry added a goal in the third and Jonas Hiller made 25 saves for his first win since Feb. 2 against Los Angeles. Vinny Prospal and Derick Brassard scored for Columbus. Coyotes 4 Flames 0: Mike Smith stopped 30 shots, Keith Yandle scored in the opening minute of the first period and Mikkel Boedker did the same to start the third, lifting Phoenix to its sixth win in eight games. Yandle knocked in a rebound 41 seconds into the game for his fourth point in two games and Boedker scored 30 seconds into the third by squeezing a puck between Calgary goalie Danny Taylor's pads in front of a standing-room only crowd at Jobing.com Arena. Antoine Vermette and Raffi Torres each added goals in the third period. Taylor stopped 33 shots in his first NHL start. Senators 2 Devils 1: Jakob Silfverberg beat Martin Brodeur to his stick side in the shootout and goalie Ben Bishop turned aside 30 shots for his first victory of the season, giving the Ottawa Senators a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils. Silfverberg, who assisted on the Senators' regulation goal, skated in on Brodeur in the shootout and fired a right-handed wrist shot that caught the NHL's all-time wins leader by surprise. Bishop stopped former Senator Bobby Butler on the Devils' third shootout attempt to give Ottawa only its third road win of the season. Ilya Kovalchuk and Patrik Elias were both stopped by Bishop in the shootout. Stephen Gionta scored his second goal of the season in the opening minutes of the game, but the Devils were silenced the rest of the way by Bishop. Brodeur had 29 saves for New Jersey. Daniel Alfredsson scored for Ottawa in the third period, tying the game at 1 with 11:48 remaining on his 420th career goal. Flyers 7 Islanders 0: The line of Claude Giroux, Matt Read and Jakub Voracek combined for three goals and 10 points, helping Philadelphia break a slump with a victory over New York. Giroux scored two goals and added an assist, Read had a goal and two assists and Voracek had four assists. Ilya Bryzgalov made 19 saves for his first shutout of the season and 30th in the NHL. Zac Rinaldo scored his first goal of the season, Brayden Schenn also had a goal and Danny Briere closed the scoring with a pair in the third period as the Flyers moved to 2-3 on a six-game trip. Evgeni Nabokov finished with 18 saves for the Islanders, who trailed 1-0 after the first period. Avalanche 6 Predators 5: Paul Stastny and Jamie McGinn scored 13 seconds apart in the second period and Colorado snapped a nine-game losing streak against Nashville with a win over the Predators. — Agencies
