Canadiens come back to win at home

The Montreal Canadiens finally got a home win, and it took two rallies to get it.

Alexander Perezhogin scored midway through the third period to give Montreal a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.

Mike Ribeiro scored his second goal of the season 2:02 into the third to tie it at 3 and Perezhogin gave Montreal its only lead of the game at 9:12 with the Canadiens' third power-play goal.

Montreal, 4-0 on the road this season, won for the first time in three home games.

"A few times we lost the momentum again, with penalties," Canadiens captain Saku Koivu said. "This is a team with a lot of offense up front and they're really going to capitalize on our mistakes. They did that early in the game, but we stuck with the game plan, came back and got some goals, and then at the end we got the bounces. They weren't pretty goals but we'll take them and get the first win."

Boston's Brian Leetch scored in the first period and assisted on Nick Boynton's goal in the second to become the seventh defenseman — and 69th player — in NHL history to reach 1,000 career points.

"I hope they don't mention I was on the ice for all four goals in the loss," said Leetch, taking care of that himself. "Hopefully they won't remember that, because that was disappointing."

Jose Theodore of Montreal made 20 saves, including holding off Boston on a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:13 shortly after Perezhogin's goal.

DEVILS 4, PANTHERS 3: At East Rutherford, N.J., Alexander Mogilny had the game-winning goal and two assists. Martin Brodeur stopped 21 shots for the Devils, who snapped a two-game losing streak in which they were outscored 10-2. The Panthers dropped their second straight game.

COYOTES 4, OILERS 3, OT: At Edmonton, Alberta, Derek Morris scored one minute into overtime to give the Coyotes the win over the Oilers in Wayne Gretzky's first game in Edmonton as an NHL coach.

Oleg Saprykin scored twice in the first period for the Coyotes and Shane Doan added a goal in the third. It was the second straight road win for Gretzky and the Coyotes, who won 2-0 at Calgary on Monday night.