MONTREAL (AP) — Carey Price lost his temper after being bumped twice in his crease and made 19 saves to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Thursday night.

Torrey Mitchell scored twice and Phillip Danault, Artturi Lehkonen and Max Pacioretty also had goals for the Canadiens in their return from a five-game trip.

Adam Henrique scored a goal and set up one by Taylor Hall for New Jersey, which ended a two-game winning streak.

Montreal had a season-high 49 shots on Cory Schneider.

A wild first period included three goals, four goal reviews and Price's meltdown.

With 18 seconds left in the first period, Kyle Palmieri slid into Price's knees, and the goaltender jumped on him and started pummeling him with his blocker. Price was pulled away in the ensuing melee.

Palmieri got a minor for goalie interference while Price got 4 minutes for roughing.

Danault, who skipped the team skate Thursday morning due to an illness, opened the scoring at 12:49 on a disputed goal when he tipped Nathan Beaulieu's shot past Schneider. It stood through an official review for a high stick and Devils coach John Hynes' challenge that Schneider was interfered with by Danault just outside the crease.

Henrique tied it at 16:19 when the rebound of P.A. Parenteau's shot went off him into the net just before Henrique rammed into Price. Again, the goal was upheld after two reviews.

At 17:15, Mitchell elected to shoot on a 2-on-1 and the rebound went in off New Jersey forward Nick Lappin's skate. Andrew Shaw picked up his second assist of the game on the goal.

There was another small bump on Schneider before Lehkonen scored into an open side at 9:59 of the second, but at that point, both coaches had used up their challenges.

Pacioretty was alone in front to score on a backhand that trickled through Schneider's pads 45 seconds into the third after Alexander Radulov forced a turnover.

Henrique made a clever backhand pass for Hall to score into an open side on a power play at 3:07. Hall has scored in three straight games.

Mitchell reached in from behind the net to tuck in his second of the game at 15:49.

NOTES: Montreal announced that D Greg Pateryn, who took a shot off a foot on Tuesday in St. Louis, will be out about eight weeks with a fractured ankle. .... Canadiens Ds Nathan Beaulieu (neck) and Zach Redmond (broken foot) returned from injuries. Offseason signing Redmond made his Canadiens debut.

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Canadiens: Host Colorado on Saturday night.

Devils: Return home to host St. Louis on Friday night.