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MONTREAL - Max Pacioretty thinks the Montreal Canadiens just made a big statement by beating a Western Conference powerhouse.Pacioretty scored twice and Carey Price made 31 saves to lead the first-place Canadiens to a 4-1 victory over the visiting St. Louis Blues on Thursday night.We had stretches where weve struggled to score goals, and we came in and scored four against a team that doesnt give up many, said Pacioretty. That really helps the confidence.The Blues descended on the Bell Centre winners of 10 of their previous 12 games. Second in the Central Division and just two points from the Western Conference lead, St. Louis is a defensively stingy club that came to Montreal with a league-low 1.89 goals-against-average.It shows that we can play with the big boys in the West, said Pacioretty, who got the eventual winner midway through the second period. Theyre a great team over there, and hopefully we opened a few eyes tonight.With the game tied 1-1 in the second, Pacioretty broke the deadlock at 7:32 — his team-leading ninth goal of the year. The sharpshooter got the better of goaltender Jake Allen on the breakaway after taking a stretch saucer pass from linemate Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau from his own zone.That was an amazing pass, said Pacioretty, who added his second of the game in the third period on another clever pass by David Desharnais. I just had a feeling that it was going to land right over. Passes dont get much softer and nicer than that. I credit my first goal to (Parenteau) completely.The Canadiens (15-5-1) stretched their lead atop the Eastern Conference to three points with the victory.Montreal head coach Michel Therrien was reluctant to give too much import to the victory.It was a great challenge, he said. This is one of the elite teams in the NHL — really well balanced, and they play really well defensively. Its the kind of game that can give you a lot of confidence.But its a little early to make statements.Montreal is making a knack of bouncing back from tough losses. On Tuesday, the Canadiens were dominated at home by the Pittsburgh Penguins en route to a 4-0 loss. Earlier in the year, Montreal answered embarrassing defeats by the Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks with victories.The Blues (12-6-1) got off to a promising start on Thursday, as Ken Hitchcocks men pinned the Canadiens in their own zone for lengthy periods of time in the first period.Vladimir Tarasenko brought back memories of the defunct Montreal Expos when he scored the opener at 7:45 of the first, batting the puck out of midair like a baseball slugger at the plate. The 22-year-old displayed impressive hand-eye co-ordination on the goal, which came on just the Blues third shot on Price.After St. Louis took the lead, the period was played largely in the neutral zone and along the boards, and the Canadiens failed to score a goal in the first period for the 16th time this season.After going 96:09 without scoring — Montreal had not found the back of the net since the third period against Detroit on Sunday — the Canadiens scored twice in quick succession against the Blues.Dale Weise jumped on a defensive blunder by Kevin Shattenkirk to tie the game 1-1 at 4:50 of the second. Shattenkirk made an ill-advised pass out from behind his net that was intercepted by Weise. The Blues defenceman then skated right into his own goalie.Weise patiently waited for Allen to go down before beating the Blues goalie up high for his fourth of the year.Its a nice bounce for me, said Weise, who has already bettered his goal total from last season. Just standing there, throw your stick out front and it hits you. I made a little pump fake, and then saw he took his goalie out. I tried to get in there as quick as I could.With Montreal up 2-1 in the third, Price made back-to-back saves on two different odd-man rushes 20 seconds apart, first on Jori Lehtera and then on Jaden Schwartz. The Canadiens goaltender stopped 31-of-32 shots for his 12th win of the season.Pacioretty scored his second of the game shortly afterwards, before Lars Eller added a fourth for the Canadiens at 12:03.Blues coach Ken Hitchcock thought his team made too many mental mistakes.We made some puck errors that ended up in our net, said Hitchcock. We made a big push when it was 2-1 — we got all the scoring chances. Their third one really took the wind out of our sails. We made some casuals plays and they ended up at the back of our net.Montreal has speed, and they really took advantage of our mistakes. They scored on their opportunities, and we missed on ours.The Habs were exceptionally well disciplined for the second game in a row, as Therriens men took no penalties against St. Louis league-best power play on the road (30.4 per cent).Earlier in the day, the Canadiens acquired veteran defenceman Bryan Allen from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Rene Bourque.Allen has 29 goals and 106 in 716 career regular season games.Hes a big guy with a lot of character who played for one the best Western Conference teams, Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin said before Montreals home game against the St. Louis Blues. I cant see why he wouldnt be able to help us here in Montreal.Notes: Therrien made no changes to the attacking lines that lost to Pittsburgh on Tuesday. 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"At the roundabout I saw everybody going the wrong way around and I came full speed on the right side and I felt that this was the moment. Normally you wait for the climb but this climb is not so steep to attack, so I thought I would attack before the climb." The top three in the overall standings remained unchanged and Evans has a 57-second advantage over Rigoberto Uran. Rafal Majka is third, while Pozzovivo moved up into fourth, 1:20 behind Evans. "I think we have to be satisfied with our work so far," Evans said. "The team, they put me in the position Im in now. Im very proud of my guys and we will rest well tomorrow." Victorias Ryder Hesjedal finished the stage in 14th and is 17th overall. Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., was well back iin 161st and is now last overall in the field at 181st.dddddddddddd Despite a relatively flat opening half of the stage, the break took a while to form with the peloton holding the pace high. A group of 14 riders eventually escaped 50K (31 miles) in and swiftly built an advantage of more than seven minutes as the peloton seemed happy to let them go, with no threat to the overall lead among the escapees. However, with 35K (22 miles) remaining, BMC put its foot down and the peloton started slashing the gap which dropped to 3:19 at the top of the second and penultimate climb. Weening saw the danger and made his move, followed by Malacarne. The pair built up an advantage of more than 35 seconds with 12K (7.5 miles) remaining and that was up to a minute as they approached the steepest part of the final climb, with gradients of 14 per cent. The duo worked together before becoming more cagey in the final kilometre, each waiting for the other to start the sprint. Malacarne made his move with 250 metres to go, but Weening rounded him to take his second victory in this years race, after helping Orica-GreenEdge win the opening time trial. Pozzovivo jumped from the peloton with less than 5K (3 miles) remaining, catching and passing Enrico Barbin to finish third. Monday is a rest day before Tuesdays 10th stage, which is one for the sprinters -- a flat 173K (107.5-mile) leg from Modela to Salsomaggiore. 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