All good things must come to an end.

The Montreal Canadiens suffered their first loss in 11 games on home ice this season, and the 4-3 overtime defeat at the hands of the Florida Panthers was Carey Price’s first in well over a calendar year.

Price, who made 20 saves, has been beyond brilliant this season. In 10 games coming into Tuesday’s action, Price had a .957 save percentage, a 1.40 goals-against average, and two shutouts.

But the goaltender felt substandard in the loss to Florida.

“I thought we played a really good game,” he said. “I just needed to make a couple of more saves and we would’ve won that one.”

Sometimes you just don’t get the bounces, and this was one of those nights for Price.

Florida’s third goal from Denis Malgin, scored at 17:42 of the second period, bounced off a stick and hit the ice before going through Price. And the game-winner, which dribbled off Aaron Ekblad’s broken stick, was a change-up that went through Canadiens defenceman Nathan Beaulieu’s legs. Alex Galchenyuk had broken his stick earlier in the sequence, opting to make a line change.

“For sure those were bad bounces, and that’s going to happen sometimes,” said David Desharnais in French. “We’re going to get some against us and our opposition is going to get some against them, too.”

It seems as though the Canadiens have been on the right side of the bounces through many of their opening 16 games this season, as they stormed out of the gate to a 13-2-1 record.

The team has been heavily outshot for a sequence of six games recently but it managed to win five of them thanks to opportunistic scoring and otherworldly goaltending. On a night where Montreal outshot the Panthers 37-24 and out-chanced them by a considerable margin, they ended up getting a taste of their own medicine.

It came in the form of goaltender Roberto Luongo, who made several quality saves—none better than the point-blank stop on Tomas Plekanec in the second period.

Plekanec, who is stuck on one goal this season, is one of a few who hasn’t had any bounces go his way thus far. Brendan Gallagher, who is typically Montreal’s most consistent player, has equaled a career mark by going goalless in his last 11.

“I’d be lying if you said you don’t think about it or you don’t deal with it,” said Gallagher. “Tonight I felt like I had a couple of chances. I was around the net, I had some more shots.

“You want to contribute. For me, I don’t look at goals and assists. I look at ability to create offensive-zone chances and eventually the goals and stuff will take care of itself.”

One player who created chances and capitalized on them was Desharnais, who hadn’t registered a point in his last 11 games prior to Tuesday. He scored a goal and assisted on one by Max Pacioretty.

Canadiens forward Paul Byron scored his sixth of the year to tie the game at 3-3 in the third period but the team suffered its second straight loss for the first time this season.

Now the question is, how will they respond?

“One of the things I think we’ve done a good job of is, win or lose, the next day at the rink our mentality has been the same,” said Gallagher. “You think about this one for a couple of hours and then you’re focusing on the next one. We just have to regroup, we have a lot of hockey coming up here.”

The Canadiens will play their third set of November back-to-backs this Friday and Saturday against the Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs, respectively. Those games represent Montreal’s first opportunity this season to show how it’ll deal with adversity.

There’s a strong probability Alexander Radulov, who missed Tuesday’s game due to illness, will be back in Carolina to help the Canadiens rebound.