Kirby Dach snaps scoring drought with clutch goal off ‘lucky bounce’ [Video]

Across 240 career NHL games, Montreal Canadiens centre Kirby Dach had never before found himself in such a long stretch of games without a goal.

It had been 19 straight games since Dach last beat an NHL netminder, his only goal of the season having come back on Oct. 26 against the St. Louis Blues.

Thanks to a rather fortunate bounce, however, that goalless drought is now a thing of the past.

“It’s nice,” said Dach after his team’s 3-2 shootout victory over the Anaheim Ducks at Bell Centre on Monday night. “It’s kind of the only way one was going to go in, I guess, was to have a whole open net in front of me.”

With Anaheim having just scored 11 seconds before to grab a 2-1 lead in the game, Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal mishandled the puck behind his own net. Juraj Slafkovsky recovered it, sending it …