The game featured a major brawl and both starting goalies leaving with injuries in playoff hockey's return to Montreal.

Christian Dvorak scored unassisted at 4:17 to give the Canadiens their third straight one-goal lead at 4-3 before Juraj Slafkovsky, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, made it 5-3 on a pass from Cole Caufield at 13:23.

Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson ended up on the player benches fighting as the Capitals and Canadiens were making their way off the ice for the second intermission during Friday’s Game 3 between the