QUEBEC -- Brandon Prust scored on a breakaway at 14:31 of the third period to lift to the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 NHL pre-season win over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night.
Jiri Sekac and Sven Andrighetto also scored as Montreal swept a two-game series on consecutive nights from the Avalanche, both by 3-2 scores.
Erik Johnson and Ryan O'Reilly tallied for Colorado.
The Avalanche were the Quebec Nordiques until 1995 and they got a rousing ovation at what will likely be the last NHL game played at the Pepsi Colisee, as a new rink is nearing completion nearby. The Canadiens were booed.
Colorado, which was the "home" team, dressed something close to a full NHL lineup while Montreal barely met the minimum of eight NHL players or first round draft picks.
But the first period was played evenly, with Colorado opening the scoring on a power play at 17:40 when Johnson took a cross-ice pass from Matt Duchene and beat Dustin Tokarski from the left circle.
Sekac just missed a scoring chance when Andrighetto kept the puck in at the blue-line and saw his long shot deflect off Johnson's back and fool Semyon Varlamov 8:54 into the second frame.
Gabriel Dumont hit a goalpost, then shot the puck over the glass, and Colorado didn't take long to score on the power play as O'Reilly found room in front to beat Tokarski with a low shot 3:52 into the third.
But moments later, Sekac used second effort to circle the net and stuff in a goal.
Then David Desharnais sent Prust in alone to flip a backhand shot over Varlamov.
