Artturi Lehkonen scored twice to help the visiting Montreal Canadiens to a 2-1 win against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

The Canadiens have won five in a row after losing their first three games under interim coach Martin St. Louis.

Andrew Hammond made 26 saves for Montreal in his first game against the Senators since the team traded him to the Colorado Avalanche in 2017.

Colin White, in his season debut after recovering from preseason shoulder surgery, scored for the Senators. Matt Murray made 30 saves.

Lehkonen gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 16:47 of the first period. Denied in tight by the stretched pad of Murray moments earlier, Lehkonen made the most of a second chance when he pounced on the rebound of defenseman Ben Chiarot's point shot and lifted the puck into the right side of the net.

It was the fourth time in eight games, and fourth consecutive overall, under St. Louis that Montreal led after the first period after doing so just 10 times in the team's first 45 games.

White tied it 1-1 on the power play at 1:23 of the second period. Connor Brown skated down the right wing before going behind the net and feeding White in front. It was White's first goal in 304 days.

Murray kept the game even through the second half of the frame, getting his left pad on Jake Evans driving the net and diving to deny Mike Hoffman from the left side on a 2-on-1.

Lehkonen put Montreal back in front 2-1 at 14:21. Evans sent a bouncing pass from the left wall to Lehkonen, who fired a one-timer from above the left circle.

Tim Stutzle came close to netting the equalizer on the power play in the waning seconds of the middle frame but his shot from the lower right circle was blocked by Canadiens forward Laurent Dauphin.

--Field Level Media