Carey Price stopped all six Carolina attempts in the shootout, Maxim Lapierre scored the winner, and the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Hurricanes 3-2 last night.
Price stopped Tuomo Ruutu, Jussi Jokinen, Rod Brind'Amour, Sergei Samsonov and Bryan Rodney before Lapierre finally beat Carolina's Manny Legace on Montreal's sixth attempt.
Price then got enough of Matt Cullen's shot off a deke on the Hurricanes' next attempt to leave the puck on the goal line.
Price, who tied a team record with 53 saves Saturday, stopped 30 shots, including consecutive saves on Brandon Sutter and Erik Cole during the waning seconds of overtime.
Montreal was left short-handed 3:01 into overtime after Jaroslav Spacek was assessed a double minor for high-sticking defenseman Joe Corvo.
Andrei Kostitsyn drew Montreal even in the third. Kostitsyn got a rebound behind the Hurricanes' net and banked a shot in off Legace's skate. Max Pacioretty also scored for Montreal, which ended a three-game skid at home.
Sutter and Jokinen scored 2:52 apart in the second period for Carolina.
The Hurricanes ending a franchise-record skid at 14 games with a 5-4 shootout win over Minnesota on Sunday.
Michael Leighton made 10 saves before leaving 7:12 into the second period because of a lower-body injury.
Already missing top center Eric Staal and goalie Cam Ward because of injury, Carolina was also without Scott Walker and Joni Pitkanen, who were hurt Sunday. Aaron Ward returned to the Hurricanes' lineup after missing Sunday's game because of a lower-body injury.
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