NEW YORK (AP) — After scoring his first career hat trick Ryan Johansen Jersey , Joel Armia was more concerned with the Montreal Canadiens getting another win.Armia had three goals and the Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 4-2 on Friday night for their fourth victory in six games.“It feels good,” Armia said, “but I think for our group it doesn’t matter who scores the goals right now. We just need to get wins. … The most important thing for us is just to finish real well and get some momentum going into the next game.”Brendan Gallagher also scored and Carey Price stopped 28 shots. The Canadiens, who hold the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race, pulled five points behind Toronto for third place in the Atlantic Division.Vladislav Namestnikov and Brendan Lemieux scored, and Henrik Lundqvist finished with 32 saves as the Rangers lost their third straight and fourth in five games (1-2-2). Brady Skjei had two assists.Armia pushed Montreal’s lead to 3-1 when he brought the puck up the right side and beat Lundqvist with a wrist shot 4:29 into the third period.Lemieux, playing his second game with the Rangers since arriving from Winnipeg in a trade for Kevin Hayes, pulled them within one when Skjei’s pass went off Jesper Fast’s skate and Lemieux’s stick with 2:32 to go. It was his 10th of the season and first with New York.Armia got his 10th to complete his first career hat trick on an empty-netter with 36.7 seconds to go.He acknowledged he was thinking about the hat trick after he scored his second goal of the night.“I knew if I get out there and have a chance, I’m going to bury it,” said Armia, who couldn’t remember if he had ever scored three goals in a game at any level.Montreal coach Claude Julien credited Price for helping keep the team close until it got going in the second period.“He made some big saves Viktor Arvidsson Jersey ,” Julien said. “We had a slow start, didn’t think we were very good in the first period. They came out strong. … Carey kept us in and gave us some big saves. Even in the second period, (he) made some huge saves and eventually we managed to score some goals.”Trailing 1-0 after the first, the Canadiens went ahead with two goals in the middle period while sending 18 shots at Lundqvist.Gallagher tied the score with his 28th, deflecting a centering pass from Tomas Tatar up high over Lundqvist’s shoulder at 7:27. Gallagher has five goals in his last five games.The Canadiens took the lead with the help of a fortuitous bounce with 5:22 left in the period. Montreal defenseman Christian Folin sent a dump-in pass from the left side that rebounded off the end boards. Lundqvist got a piece of the puck, but it came out in front and Armia knocked it in before the diving goalie could stop it.“It’s a tough bounce, obviously,” Lundqvist said. “We played a good game leading up maybe to their first goal, and then that put us on our heels a little bit. And the second goal didn’t help our game there. … It changed the momentum.”Tatar nearly added to the lead, but Lundqvist turned away his breakaway attempt with 3 1/2 minutes to go in the second.“As the game progressed, we got better Robin Lehner Jersey Womens ,” Price said. “It’s a game of momentum.”The Canadiens outshot the Rangers 11-9 in the first but trailed after 20 minutes.Namestnikov got the Rangers on the board, deflecting a pass from Skjei past Price for his ninth 4:41 into the game. Namestnikov has five goals and eight points in the last eight games.Namestnikov also had several other scoring chances in the first period but was denied on an attempt in front with less than seven minutes remaining and then again about four minutes later. Price also stopped his wraparound try in the final minute.NOTES: Gallagher has eight goals and 11 points in his last 12 games. … Armia had his second multigoal game of the season. The other was at Columbus on Jan. 18. … The Canadiens took two of three in the season series, also winning 5-2 at home on Dec. 1. The Rangers won the first meeting, 5-3 at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 6. … Libor Hajek made his NHL debut for the Rangers one day after being called up from Hartford of the AHL. The 21-year-old defenseman, acquired with Namestnikov from Tampa Bay at last season’s trade deadline in the deal that sent D Ryan McDonagh and forward J.T. Miller to the Lightning, had five assists and 36 penalty minutes in 58 games with the Wolf Pack. Hajek was paired with Neal Pionk. … New York D Brendan Smith played right wing on a line with C Boo Nieves and LW Connor Brickley to start the game.UP NEXTCanadiens: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night before a three-game California trip.Rangers: Host the Washington Capitals on Sunday to complete a three-game homestand. Edmonton fired Peter Chiarelli on Wednesday in an indictment of his roster moves in three-plus years as general manager, with the Oilers in striking distance of a playoff spot during another losing season.The team announced Chiarelli’s abrupt dismissal in the aftermath of its third consecutive loss. Edmonton has lost 12 of its past 16 games going into the All-Star Break. The Oilers are 14-14-2 since firing coach Todd McLellan and replacing him with Ken Hitchcock.CEO Bob Nicholson will oversee hockey operations and the search for Chiarelli’s replacement. Nicholson said at a news conference in Edmonton that Keith Gretzky will assume GM responsibilities for the time being, including the point role ahead of the Feb. 25 trade deadline.Nicholson said the Oilers, who are three points out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, still believe they can make the playoffs but won’t sacrifice the future to try to make quick fixes. He said the organizational decision was made this week to fire Chiarelli, who was told at the second intermission of a loss Tuesday night to Detroit so he could quietly leave the arena.Nothing else about Chiarelli’s tenure in Edmonton was quiet. He was hired in 2015 after the Oilers won the draft lottery and selected star Connor McDavid. He was heralded as the right executive to get the Oilers back to respectability.They’ve made the playoffs just once in McDavid’s three seasons despite him putting up 329 points in 258 games http://www.officialdevils.com/authentic-adidas-cory-schneider-jersey , leading the league in scoring twice and winning the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP.“There’s something in the water here in Edmonton that we don’t have right,” Nicholson said at the news conference. “And we got to get that figured out.”Chiarelli is the second GM to be fired this season. The Philadelphia Flyers dismissed Ron Hextall in November and named Chuck Fletcher his replacement.Nicholson said Hitchcock will remain coach for the rest of the season as Edmonton tries to close the gap and qualify for the postseason with 32 games left.Moves made by Chiarelli along the way contributed to the Oilers struggling for much of the first four seasons of McDavid’s career. Chiarelli traded 2010 top pick Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils one-for-one for defenseman Adam Larsson. Hall won the Hart last season and led the Devils to the playoffs.He signed Milan Lucic to a $42 million, six-year contract that now appears to be unmovable. The big winger has 96 points in 214 games with the Oilers, including just five goals this season.And he traded 2008 first-round pick Jordan Eberle to the New York Islanders for Ryan Strome, who he sent to the New York Rangers earlier this season for Ryan Spooner. The Oilers put Spooner on waivers Monday.Chiarelli was expected to give the woebegone Oilers steady leadership with McDavid. He won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011 but made similar personnel mistakes in Boston, most notably a failed trade of Tyler Seguin to the Dallas Stars that contributed to losing his job.Edmonton had missed the playoffs in nine consecutive seasons before replacing Craig MacTavish with Chiarelli. A trip to the second round of the playoffs in 2017 looked like the start of success, but the Oilers finished 17 points out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference despite McDavid putting up an NHL-best 108 points to win the Art Ross Trophy.Last summer, Chiarelli did little to improve the roster around McDavid.The result was 11 losses in their first 20 games that led to the firing of McLellan and later a series of reactionary moves. Beyond the Strome for Spooner deal, Chiarelli sent 24-year-old forward Drake Caggiula to Chicago for bottom-pairing defenseman Brandon Manning. This week, he signed goaltender Mikko Koskinen to a three-year contract extension worth $4.5 million a season.