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Scoring Summary

Period Time Team Goal Strength Score
1 03:11 MTL Cole Caufield (22) — Noah Dobson (21) EV 1-0
1 04:05 BUF Tage Thompson (23) — Noah Ostlund (7) , Jason Zucker (11) PP 1-1
1 10:30 BUF Josh Doan (15) — Tage Thompson (23) , Noah Ostlund (8) PP 1-2
1 14:20 MTL Ivan Demidov (11) — Lane Hutson (38) , Nick Suzuki (37) PP 2-2
2 03:05 MTL Nick Suzuki (15) — Lane Hutson (39) , Cole Caufield (23) PP 3-2
2 08:55 BUF Alex Tuch (16) — Tage Thompson (24) , Rasmus Dahlin (27) EV 3-3
3 05:12 BUF Tage Thompson (24) — Josh Doan (19) EV 3-4
3 18:20 BUF Tage Thompson (25) — Zach Benson (17) EN 3-5

Penalty Summary

Period Per Time Team Player Penalty Min M
1 03:46 MTL Lane Hutson High Sticking 2
1 09:21 MTL Kaiden Guhle Interference 2
1 12:50 BUF Zach Benson Slashing 2
1 13:46 BUF Bowen Byram High Sticking 2
2 02:32 BUF Jacob Bryson Holding 2
2 10:20 BUF Bowen Byram Roughing 2
2 10:20 MTL Mike Matheson Roughing 2
3 00:37 MTL Phillip Danault Tripping 2
3 07:08 BUF Jordan Greenway Roughing 2
3 07:08 MTL Brendan Gallagher Roughing 2
3 08:39 MTL Oliver Kapanen Tripping 2

Team Statistics

Statistic Montréal Canadiens Buffalo Sabres
Shots 23 27
Faceoff % 58.9% 41.1%
Hits 26 21
Blocked Shots 18 6
Giveaways 13 14
Takeaways 4 6

Skaters

Montréal Canadiens

# Player Pos G A PTS +/- PIM S HIT BLK GV TK SHFT TOI
11 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 16 10:58
13 Cole Caufield R 1 1 2 -1 0 5 0 0 2 1 21 19:17
14 Nick Suzuki C 1 1 2 -1 0 2 0 0 1 0 24 22:17
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 13:27
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 2 1 0 20 18:14
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 3 2 3 0 20 14:58
27 Sammy Blais L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 0 1 12 07:29
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 0 0 0 17 12:04
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 17 13:45
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 17 11:12
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 1 20 16:02
93 Ivan Demidov R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 0 1 0 19 16:10
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 26 22:32
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 18 14:56
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 4 0 0 23 21:00
48 Lane Hutson D 0 2 2 -1 2 1 0 2 3 0 28 25:55
53 Noah Dobson D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 4 0 0 26 21:39
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 13 10:29

Buffalo Sabres

# Player Pos G A PTS +/- PIM S HIT BLK GV TK SHFT TOI
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 24 16:06
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 19 11:10
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 15 14:27
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 10:55
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 19 14:21
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 1 0 15 08:45
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 2 16 09:22
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 26 18:29
72 Tage Thompson C 3 2 5 2 0 3 0 1 2 0 25 20:43
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 19 17:21
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 0 1 0 25 18:44
91 Josh Doan R 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 19 16:55
4 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 33 25:05
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 1 2 0 32 25:24
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 30 23:04
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 33 27:39
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 07:38
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 06:02

Goalies

Montréal Canadiens

# Goalie SA SV GA SV% EV PP SH TOI
32 Jacob Fowler 26 22 4 .846 20/22 2/4 0/0 58:08
35 Samuel Montembeault 0 0 0 — 0/0 0/0 0/0 00:00

Buffalo Sabres

# Goalie SA SV GA SV% EV PP SH TOI
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 0 0 0 — 0/0 0/0 0/0 00:00
92 Colten Ellis 23 20 3 .870 19/20 1/3 0/0 59:47
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