MONTREAL - The San Jose Sharks arrived at Bell Centre on Tuesday with a day-old loss in Toronto still on them, and by the second intermission they were down 3-1. Macklin Celebrini made sure the back end of the back-to-back went home with two points.
The 20-year-old captain scored twice and set up the tying goal, finishing the comeback with a power-play one-timer from the right faceoff circle 2:13 into overtime. Ivar Stenberg made the pass, and San Jose beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3.
The opening came when Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes went to the box for interfering with Collin Graf, 20 seconds before the winner. Celebrini needed one touch to end it.
"We didn't want to just give them the game, we wanted to take it to them," Celebrini said, according to NHL.com.
How the comeback came together
Celebrini had already opened the scoring at 13:49 of the first period. Will Smith's forecheck forced Jake Evans into a pass that drifted into the slot, and Celebrini picked it off, went in alone and beat Dobes.
Montreal then scored three straight. Nick Suzuki tied it late in the first, Juraj Slafkovsky flipped the puck around Darnell Nurse and swept it past Alex Nedeljkovic early in the second, and Cole Caufield's shot at 14:03, set up by Suzuki from behind the net, made it 3-1.
San Jose's push started with Michael Misa, who cut the lead to one at 5:36 of the third after Lane Hutson coughed up the puck, The Associated Press reported. With Arber Xhekaj in the box for unsportsmanlike conduct, Celebrini slid a one-touch pass to Tyler Toffoli in the slot, and Toffoli one-timed the equalizer at 11:09.
Celebrini finished with two goals, an assist and six shots in 23:07 of ice time, per ESPN's box score. Nedeljkovic made 31 saves. The goals were his fourth and fifth of the season, and the assist was his ninth.
"I think we really earned it and found a way to win," Toffoli told reporters, per NHL.com.