MONTREAL - Brady Tkachuk enjoys being a villain at the Bell Centre.

The Ottawa Senators captain famously — or infamously — dropped the gloves for the United States as part of three fights in nine seconds against Canada at last February’s 4 Nations Face-Off.

On Tuesday, he scored his first goal of the season and taunted the crowd as the Senators ground down the Canadiens for a 5-2 win to cap a season-long seven-game road trip.

"Massive win,” Tkachuk said. “It's a four-point swing, these types of games. And usually these big games are after the bye week (later in the season), but with how close everything is, it's important in early December.

“Last game of the road trip, we wanted to get this road trip on an over .500 record and then that'd be a successful trip. It was a great game by ab

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