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WASHINGTON -- Dont look now, but Carey Price is hard to beat when hes angry.Mad at himself, his teammates and everybody for getting pulled the previous night, Price made a statement in his return to the net as the Montreal Canadiens snapped the Washington Capitals winning streak at six with a 2-1 victory Saturday night.Price stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faced in a better effort by the 2014-2015 Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender and his entire team than they displayed Friday in a lackluster loss to the San Jose Sharks.It was important for everybody to get an opportunity to bounce back, said Price, who earned his 17th win of the season and 250th of his NHL career. I didnt have any doubts about the resiliency of our hockey team and the way we would respond.Upon getting yanked for giving up four goals on 18 shots Friday, Price stared down his bench before going down the tunnel. Price explained he was just ticked off and that everything was good between him and coach Michel Therrien.I think were all professionals and were able to realize that hockeys emotional and sometimes youre not going to see eye-to-eye on things, Price said. But at the end of the day you show up to work the next day and get the job done.Price got the job done with big stops on T.J. Oshie, Marcus Johansson and former teammate Lars Eller. His teammates got the job done as Artturi Lehkonen and Jeff Petry scored and the Canadiens blocked 21 shots and contained Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals high-powered offense.Defenseman Shea Weber, who left late in the second period when he took a shot from Washingtons Dmitry Orlov off the right leg, wasnt surprised that Price or anyone else rebounded as strongly as they did.We werent good enough for him last night and we did a lot better job in protecting him and clearing everything out of the way for him tonight, said Weber, who pronounced himself feeling great after the game. Were a tight group in here and everyone wants to be good for each other and theres a responsibility in here and hes one of our teammates and weve got to be a lot better for him.The Capitals couldnt say the same about their play in front of 2015-2016 Vezina winner Braden Holtby, who made 23 saves on 25 shots. Nicklas Backstrom scored a 5-on-3 power play goal for Washington, which lost for the first time since Dec. 3 and in regulation for the first time since Dec. 1.Eller, who was traded from the Canadiens to the Capitals in June, said it was too easy a night for Price.To beat any goalie, you have to get shots, said Eller, referring to a shot drought of 15:22 that lasted from the second period into the third. We made it hard for ourselves.Capitals coach Barry Trotz said before the game that he expected Price to come back and make a statement, adding that If theres one area that I know theyre going to be good tonight, its going be in net. He wasnt wrong about the goaltender he got to know well at the World Cup of Hockey in September.They were defending pretty well and they got one of the best goaltenders in the National Hockey League in Price, Trotz said afterward. Hes been outstanding. We didnt make it hard enough, I thought, on Carey. ... 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New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday will return to the court within the next week, a league source confirmed to ESPN.Holiday has missed the first nine games, in which the Pelicans have compiled a 1-8 record, in order to tend to his wife, Lauren, as she recovers from the birth of their child and surgery to remove a benign tumor from the right side of her brain.There still is no set date scheduled for Holidays return, the source said.The Holidays have spent the opening of the season in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Lauren, a two-time gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner with the U.S. womens national team soccer team, has received medical care. Jrue in recent days has been photographed working out on the campus of the University of North Carolina.The Pelicans recently sent assistant coach Jamelle McMillan to work with Holiday while the team was away on a three-game road trip.The Vertical first reported Holidays imminent return Friday.The Pelicans have reiterated throughout Holidays absence that there has been no pressure put on him to rush back.Its a tough situation, Anthony Davis said last week. We respect his decision and whatever it is that hes doing. We know that he wants to be here, but of course his family is first.dddddddddddd. He has a wife and a family -- and now a daughter -- to take care of. We respect his time. Hell come back when he knows the time is right.Holiday, 26, was limited to a combined 74 games in his first two seasons in New Orleans because of right leg injuries, but he broke through in 2015-16, averaging 16.8 points and six assists and a career-high 19.7 player efficiency rating in 65 games. His season was cut short after he fractured an orbital wall of his right eye during a game, but did he not miss a game because of his right leg outside of planned absences in the first half of the season.My family comes before basketball, Holiday told the Times-Picayune in early September. Im obviously blessed to play this game and be in the position I am in, but my wife is the most important thing in the world to me. She comes before anything else.The Pelicans, who defeated the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday for their first win of the season, currently rank 26th in the NBA in offensive efficiency and tied for 13th in defensive efficiency. ' ' '