BOSTON — The Montreal Canadiens finished off a four-game season sweep of the rival Boston Bruins with a 3-1 victory Sunday night.
First-line wingers Dale Weise and Max Pacioretty both scored a goal and set up another, and Carey Price stopped 34 shots, losing a shutout on a goal by rookie right winger David Pastrnak with 4:31 left in the game.
The Bruins then pressed for the tying goal but didn’t really come close. Montreal defenseman Andrei Markov’s long, empty-net goal sealed it with 30.5 seconds remaining.
The Canadiens, who eliminated the Bruins in seven games in last year’s Eastern Conference semifinals, outscored Boston 16-6 in the 2014-15 regular-season series. The Bruins scored only two goals in the last three games against the Habs.
Wiese deflected a Pacioretty shot off the post and then tapped in his own rebound 38 seconds into the second period, Wiese’s third goal in two nights and ninth of the season. Then, at the start of the third, Wiese, on his knees, got the puck ahead to a wide-open Pacioretty, who beat Boston goalie Tuukka Rask on a breakaway for his 24th goal of the season, his fourth against the Bruins.
Price, 21-8-3 lifetime against the Bruins, was originally credited with another save on Boston’s goal. The score initially was waved off, but a review clearly showed the puck over the line goal line, Pastrnak’s fifth goal but his first in nine games.
Rask played well, making 31 saves, but still fell to 3-13-3 lifetime against the Canadiens in the regular season.
The Canadiens, 6-2 home winners over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night, moved to 7-4-1 on the back end of back-to-backs. The Bruins, who edged the New York Islanders 2-1 Saturday night, fell to 2-6-2 in the same category, with all four of the losses to the Canadiens coming on the second night of two in a row.
NOTES: Bruins G Tuukka Rask got his 11th straight start. Boston rookie G Malcolm Subban missed the chance to face his brother, Canadiens D P.K. Subban. … Another snowstorm hit the Boston area and made getting to the game difficult, but TD Garden was almost full at game time. … The Montreal power play, which went 0-for-3 Sunday, entered the night hitting at a 21.7 clip since starting the season 3-for-42 in the first 16 games. Before connecting on all three tries against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night, the Habs were 0-for-10 over the previous four games and 1-for-15 over the last five. … The Canadiens host the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, while the Bruins end their three-games-in-four-nights homestand against the Dallas Stars on Tuesday before a five-game trip west.