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OTTAWA -- Carey Price made 43 saves to help the Montreal Canadiens defeat the Ottawa Senators 2-0 at Canadian Tire Centre on Sunday to win their best-of-7 Eastern Conference First Round series 4-2.
The Canadiens will face the winner of the First Round series between the Detroit Red Wings and Tampa Bay Lightning. The Red Wings lead the series 3-2 with Game 6 in Detroit on Monday.
Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty scored for the Canadiens.
The Canadiens ended the Senators season of comebacks. The Senators were 14 points out of a playoff spot in February, but finished the season 23-4-4 to earn the first wild card spot into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. They trailed the series 3-0 and won Games 4 and 5.
Craig Anderson made 18 saves for the Senators.
The Senators power play was 0-for-4 Sunday. Montreal's Jacob De La Rose was penalized for tripping with 3:14 left in the third period, but Price made saves on Ottawa centers Kyle Turris and Mika Zibanejad.
The Canadiens scored the first goal of the game for the first time in the series and held a 1-0 lead after the first period.
Gallagher scored his first of the playoffs at 13:26 when he knocked down a high shot by defenseman Greg Pateryn and put the puck in from the edge of the crease on the stick side.
The Senators had two power play opportunities in the opening half of the first period, but managed one shot. The Senators entered the game with the second-best power play in the playoffs at 31.2 percent.
Price kept the Canadiens ahead 1-0 when he slid to his right and stopped a shot by Turris with less than five minutes remaining in the first period.
It looked like the Senators had tied the game at 6:55 of the second period when forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau knocked in a loose puck, but the play had been blown dead. The puck trickled away from Price after he stopped a shot by Senators defenseman Mark Borowiecki.
The Senators outshot the Canadiens 28-7 after the goal by Gallagher, but couldn't beat Price.
Pacioretty scored an empty-net goal with less than one second left in the game.
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