Mike Keenan moves up to fourth on all-time wins list

CALGARY, Alberta - Matthew Lombardi and Dustin Boyd scored short-handed goals Monday night to propel the Calgary Flames to a 6-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens.

With the win, Flames coach Mike Keenan tied Pat Quinn for fourth all-time in NHL coaching victories with 657.

With the Flames trailing 2-1 in the second period, Lombardi tied the game, pouncing on Sergei Kostitsyn's miscue and racing in alone on Jan Halak, beating the goaltender with a backhander.

Thirty-two seconds later, Dion Phaneuf's shot deflected in off a Canadien to give Calgary its first lead of the night.

At 18:43 it was Andrei Markov's turn to mishandle the puck on a Canadiens power play. Eric Nystrom passed ahead to Boyd, who went in all alone to score his first goal in 16 games for a 4-2 lead.

Michael Cammalleri, Rene Bourque and David Moss also scored for Calgary, which snapped a season-high four-game losing streak. Lombardi added two assists for his second three-point game of the season.

The victory increased the Flames' lead over Minnesota atop the Northwest Division to seven points.

Matt D'Agostini and Tomas Plekanec scored for Montreal, which began a season-long six-game road trip with a sixth straight defeat away from home.

Calgary put the game away in the third period with Bourque's score and Moss getting the night's lone power-play goal of the night.

Making his first start in nine games, Halak saw 41 shots in dropping to 11-10-1. Miikka Kiprusoff made 22 saves to improve to 31-15-3.

Calgary really poured it on in the second period, outshooting Montreal 20-4. Despite the disparity in shots, the biggest save of the period belonged to Kiprusoff. After going more than 14 minutes without a save, Kiprusoff stacked his pads to deny Andrei Kostitsyn of what looked like the tying goal.

Boyd's goal came just over 30 seconds later.

In Montreal's first visit to Calgary in more than three years, D'Agostini opened the scoring midway in the first period. Chris Higgins found the Canadiens rookie open in the slot with a centering pass.

The lead didn't lasted long. Cammalleri deflected in Adam Pardy's tricky bouncer from the blue line, tying it 1-1.