MONTREAL — It wasn’t the outcome the Montreal Canadiens were looking for, but it might be the one that keeps them rolling through the start of their season.

Because despite playing a great first period, their last two periods against the New York Rangers Saturday didn’t merit a reward. They deserved to lose 4-3 in the end and staging another late comeback — after two last-second ones over the Seattle Kraken and Nashville Predators this week extended their win streak to three and improved their record to 4-1-0 — would’ve only masked issues that need to be immediately corrected.

Had Matthew Robertson’s harmless-looking shot hit the post instead of beating Samuel Montembeault clean from 60 feet away in the 45th minute of play, it might have kept the Canadiens goaltender from working on a pa

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