MONTREAL — The Boston Bruins are glad they will be able to enjoy the next few days in Lake Placid, N.Y., without having to contemplate conjuring up a hockey miracle of their own.

David Krejci and Nathan Horton scored first-period goals to lead Boston to a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night as the Bruins won on the road after dropping the first two games of their first-round series at home.

Tim Thomas stopped 34 shots for Boston and Rich Peverley scored in the second. Chris Kelly scored into an empty net with 25.6 seconds remaining.

With two days off before Game 4 on Thursday night, the Bruins will practice today and Wednesday at the site of the U.S. hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Olympics.

“I think it’s a good idea to just kind of get away, relax, a little bit more quiet environment, and for myself personally I’ll be happy to look around and see a lot of the things from the 1980 Olympics,” said Thomas, a member of the Americans’ silver medalists in 2010 in Vancouver.

Thomas, who turned aside 14 of 15 shots in the third to hold off Montreal’s comeback bid, would not have been in any mood for sightseeing if he and the Bruins had let their 3-0 lead early in the second slip away.

“Tim has given us a chance to win all year and he came up with another big performance tonight,” said Patrice Bergeron, who had a pair of assists. “It’s the playoffs and we all want to win and we know they’re not going to stop. Even though they were down three goals, they kept going and we expected that, and we know Thursday is going to be a tough game again.”

Coming into the Bell Centre facing a 2-0 series deficit with a streak of six straight playoff losses, it looked as though Boston might need a miracle of its own to solve Canadiens goalie Carey Price.

“I think it was important for us to have a good start, and we did that,” Coach Claude Julien said. “We scored some early goals, which helped the confidence. I thought the guys were ready to play tonight and weren’t as tense as they were the first two games at home and that really helped as well, gave us more energy.”