The habs looked poise to avenge their only loss of the playoffs, with a 1-0 victory in game 2. And they followed that up with an even better effort as they beat the ducks 4-1 in game three for their first lead of the series. Roman Hamrlik opened the scoring with a slapshot from the point that squeaked through Giguere, but soon after the ducks answered as Chris Kunitz one timed one home. But with under 3 minutes to go in the 2nd Chris Higgins scored to make it 2-1 and the habs did not look back. Smolinski scored late in the third to seal it and Komisarek got the empty netter. Carey Price stopped 23 of 24 shots for first star honours. The series is now at 2-1 for Montreal staying in Anaheim for game four.
