Craig Anderson made 45 saves, and the Ottawa Senators avoided elimination with a 5-1 road victory over the host Montreal Canadiens on Friday in Game 5 of their first-round Eastern Conference series.
Bobby Ryan, Patrick Wiercioch, Erik Karlsson, Erik Condra and Mike Hoffman scored for Ottawa.
Tom Gilbert scored the only goal for Montreal, and Carey Price stopped 20 shots. The Senators went 2 for 4 on the power play, and the Canadiens were 0 for 3 for the night, dropping to 1 for 19 in the series.
Montreal leads the best-of-seven series by three games to two.