BOSTON - Carey Price wishes all his teammates could have his latest shutout show up on their stat sheet.

Patrice Brisebois' power play goal late in the second period was the winner and Price did the rest for his first career playoff shutout in a 1-0 win over Boston that put the Bruins on the brink of elimination.

Price has had a season full of milestones, but he said the shutout Tuesday night beats them all.

"The only thing that makes it special is that we only won by one," Price, 20, said of his 27-save performance. "But it wasn't only me out there. I thought everybody deserved a goose egg tonight. I wish a shutout like that can be under everybody's column."

The Canadiens lead the series 3-1 and have a chance to close it out in Game 5 on Thursday night at the Bell Centre, where the Bruins haven't won in six tries this season.

"It's pretty simple," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "We just need to go into Montreal and win the next game."

Price didn't necessarily have to be brilliant, but he was there to make the saves when he needed to and backstopped a suddenly offensively challenged Canadiens team to a tight road victory.

"I think right now he's in his comfort zone and it's going to be tough to get him out of it," said Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau. "He wasn't extraordinary, but when it came time to shut the door in the third period that's what he did, when it came time to win the fourth game he was really solid. That's what we hope he'll be able to do in the next game."

Brisebois, Montreal's oldest player by exactly 11 months, made his NHL debut when Price was only two years old. His slapshot through a crowd off a great Andrei Kostitsyn rush gave his team the win.

"I knew that was a big goal, our power play's struggling right now and we're looking for solutions," Brisebois said of his ninth career playoff goal.