MONTREAL -- It took two broken sticks and a bad deflection for the Florida Panthers to beat Montreal and goalie Carey Price on Tuesday night.Aaron Ekblad snapped his stick on an awkward slap shot that sneaked by Price in overtime, helping Florida beat the NHL-leading Canadiens 4-3.Price sought his 11

MONTREAL -- It took two broken sticks and a bad deflection for the Florida Panthers to beat Montreal and goalie Carey Price on Tuesday night.Aaron Ekblad snapped his stick on an awkward slap shot that sneaked by Price in overtime, helping Florida beat the NHL-leading Canadiens 4-3.Price sought his 11th straight win, which would have matched George Hainsworths 1927 record for a single-season winning streak by a Habs goaltender.Instead, some bad luck in overtime handed Montreal its first home loss of the season after starting the year 10-0-0 at the Bell Centre.First, Alex Galchenyuk cracked his stick and had to sprint to the bench for a replacement.While he did, Ekblad wound for a shot from the right hash marks, but his stick splintered on the attempt and the puck trickled toward the net. It deflected off the boot of defenseman Nathan Beaulieu before sliding past Price 2:59 into OT.What can you do? Beaulieu said. It was a lucky one. The hockey gods didnt want us to win tonight.Alex Petrovic, Kyle Rau and Denis Malgin scored for the Panthers, and Roberto Luongo made 34 saves.It was a funny night, Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said. There were some funny goals. We just talk about putting pucks to the net and getting people going there. Sometimes you get the lucky breaks and the lucky bounces. To get four by Carey is not easy to do.Max Pacioretty, David Desharnais and Paul Byron had goals for Montreal, which is in its first two-game winless streak this season. Price made 20 saves in his first loss of the season.The loss was Montreals first when scoring the first goal of the game (12-0-1).Price allowed more than two goals in a game for just the second time this season.Montreal trailed 3-2 entering the third period, but Byron got his team-leading sixth goal 5:46 in. Luongo stopped an initial shot by Brendan Gallagher from a tight angle, but the puck squeaked through his pads to Byron for a tap-in.Alex Galchenyuk assisted on that goal and extended his point streak to six games.Pacioretty scored on a power play 2:12 into the game, but then Petrovic tied it less than three minutes later following an ugly giveaway by Philip Danault.Rookie defenseman Michael Matheson -- a Montreal native playing his first game at the Bell Centre -- set up Raus score. Matheson fed Rau in the slot with a no-look, between-the-legs pass, and Rau finished to make it 2-1 with 4:38 left in the first.I felt three or four guys around me, so I thought someone has to be open, Matheson said. I knew we were changing, so I just tried to apply some pressure. I ended up keeping the puck down low for a little bit. I was just trying to buy some time.Desharnais recorded an assist on Paciorettys goal for his first point in 12 games. In the second period, Desharnais scored his first goal since the teams home opener on Oct. 18 -- blocker side on Luongo from in close at 4:22 to tie it at 2.Malgin beat Price late in the second with a weak shot from far out that took a strange deflection off defenseman Jeff Petry.Game notes Montreal F Alexander Radulov missed the game due to illness. That meant winger Chris Terry made his season debut for the Habs. ... D Joel Hanley was a healthy scratch for Montreal. Greg Pateryn was back in the lineup as a result. ... The Canadiens have outscored their opponents 40-16 at home this season.UP NEXTPanthers: At Toronto on Thursday night in the second game of a four-game trip.Canadiens: At Carolina on Friday night. Vapormax Mens Sale . With Parker having a quiet game for once, Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw provided the scoring as France won its first major basketball title by beating Lithuania 80-66 on Sunday. 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In his most recent races, Front Pocket Money had come from several lengths off the pace. But on Saturday, in the Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes, he took jockey Antonio Gallardo to the lead. Despite being pressured the entire race, he stayed there, too, winning the six-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds by three-quarters of a length.Divine Warrior was quickest from the gate in the $100,000 Jersey Shore, but Front Pocket Money moved up to take the lead from his inside before going a furlong. Dogged by Colonel Sharp on the turn, Front Pocket Money began to inch away from that rival in upper stretch, then refused to let Yellow Chips come up inside of him in the final furlong.The win was the third on the afternoon for Gallardo, who is now 6 for 12 in stakes this season at Monmouth. On Tuesday, Gallardo won the 1,000th race of his career while riding at Presque Isle Downs, where he leads the standings.Sometimes you have to go to Plan B, and that was Plan B, Gallardo said about going to the lead with Front Pocket Money. He broke sharp and was comfortable on the lead. I didnt want to fight him.Front Pocket Money is trained by Steve Asmussen, who is scheduled to start Gun Runner in next Sundays Grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth. Front Pocket Money paid $6.80 as the second choice in the six-horse field. He was timed in 1:09.93.Front Pocket Money is now 3 for 5 in his career for owners J. Kirk and Judy Robison. The Jersey Shore was his first stakes win.Yellow Chips, the longer-priced of two horses in the race trained by Eddie Plesa Jr., ran very well to finish second. Bumped both sides at the start, Yellow Chips raced welll behind the field early.dddddddddddd. He advanced steadily while saving ground on the far turn, tried to come up inside the winner in the stretch but could gain little ground in the final sixteenth.Colonel Sharp finished third, three-quarters of a length behind Yellow Chips.Plesas other entrant, Full Salute, the narrow 2-1 favorite, attended the early pace outside horses, but dropped back before reaching the far turn and finished fifth.Lamplighter: Longshot Franklin Towers leads throughoutFranklin Towers, by far the longest shot in the five-horse Lamplighter Stakes at 20-1, refused to let 4-5 favorite Noble Quality by in the stretch and hung on by a neck.Franklin Towers set all of the pace in the Lamplighter, a 1-1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds. Rated on the pace to the stretch inside of 7-1 Brass Compass through splits of 23.86, 47.60, and 1:11.89, Franklin Towers put that rival away in upper stretch, then dug in when asked by jockey Nik Juarez to earn the decision.Trained by Jane Cibelli, Franklin Towers paid $42.40 and was timed in 1:40.80. Two starts back he had won a maiden race over the Monmouth turf. In his first try against winners, he finished eighth in a Laurel Park turf allowance.Noble Quality saved ground while racing behind the early leaders. He remained bottled up along the inside on the far turn, came outside the winner in upper stretch but could not get by. It was 2-1/2 lengths back in third to 5-2 second Choice Vulcans Forge, who rallied from last place. ' ' '