Semyon Varlamov stopped Montreal shooters Mike Cammalleri, Maxim Lapierre and Tomas Plekanec.
Backstrom secured the win when he put a shot past Carey Price, who had stopped Tomas Fleischmann and Alexander Ovechkin.
Eric Fehr scored his second goal of the game to draw Washington even at 3 with 11.4 seconds remaining in regulation.
Fehr, who opened the scoring 8:47 in, got his second of the game - his sixth of the season - when he backhanded a...
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