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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. Devon Hall Jersey . Pierce was ejected in the third quarter of Indianas 103-86 win Monday. George Hill stole a bad pass and was going in for a layup, and Pierce hustled back and appeared to be trying to wrap him up. Darius Bazley Jersey . 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Only time will tell whether Canberras lack of big-game experience will be their achilles heel in the NRL finals series, according to coach Ricky Stuart.The Raiders sealed a top-four berth and a second chance in September after skipper Jarrod Croker led a second-half comeback against Parramatta to claim an eighth-straight win on Sunday.Canterbury were the only top-eight team not to come away with a win in round 24 as eighth-placed Gold Coast opened up a three-point lead on ninth-placed Warriors.For the Raiders, it is the first time they will finish in the top four since 2004, however Stuart feared his teams shallow finals experience would count against them and that they may have also peaked early.I am worried about plateauing out. I can only ask so much of the players, Stuart said.Have they got it? I dont know. Its going to be hard because weve been up for a long time. Will we plateau out? Time will tell. Will lack of experience tell in the semi-finals? Time will tell.But its going to be great education for them. Were on a journey here. I havent got a Johnathan Thurston, a Cameron Smith or a Cooper Cronk. Ive got a team. We dont live off one player.Just five of the Canberra players who took the field against the Eels have played finals football.They say you need experience to win semi-final football, maybe that will be the case, Stuart said.But itll give us a great educcation going into next year and the years after that.ddddddddddddWere very happy with where we sit. We havent achieved anything yet outside the fact that were in the top four.The Raiders celebrated the win by announcing post-game that major sponsor Huawei has signed on for three more years, making them the clubs longest-serving major sponsor at the end of the 2019.At the start of the year we did not have a major sponsor. Our sponsor Huawei were looking like going elsewhere, Raiders chief executive Don Furner said.But through the form of the team, were very pleased. Were the first team anywhere in the world they sponsored, and I want to make it clear, they stuck through us through those tough times.The Bulldogs went down 20-10 in Brisbane with prop Sam Kasiano facing up to a three-game ban for kicking Corey Parker in the mouth on Thursday.Penrith and Gold Coast all but secured the last two finals spots after smashing Wests Tigers and Newcastle respectively, while Melbourne also ran away from Manly.Defending premiers North Queensland snapped a three-game losing streak by belting the Warriors, and the Sydney Roosters leaped to a season-high 13th spot by walloping St George Illawarra.Cronulla round out the weekend against South Sydney on Monday. ' ' '