Montreal Canadiens

East 2nd Round · Game 5 · Best of 7

YES!

Montreal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres

48-24-10, 106 PTS 6 – 3

50-23-9, 109 PTS

Final · Thu, May 14

Series: MTL leads 3-2

Game Details

KeyBank Center (Buffalo) · 19,070 fans · TNT, truTV, HBO Max View tournament bracket →

Recap

Suzuki, Evans cap 2nd-period surge, Canadiens beat Sabres 6-3 to take 3-2 lead in 2nd-round series

Captain Nick Suzuki and the Canadiens' top line brought the offense, goalie Jakub Dobes shook off a rough start, and Montreal is one win from advancing to the Eastern Conference finals.

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KeyBank Center · Buffalo

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
MTL	2	3	1	6
BUF	3	0	0	3

Game Leaders

Montreal Canadiens

Nick Suzuki · 1Goals
Juraj Slafkovsky · 3Assists
Nick Suzuki · 3Points

Buffalo Sabres

Jason Zucker · 1Goals
Jack Quinn · 1Assists
Jason Zucker · 1Points

2026-27 Atlantic Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
Boston	2	1	0	4
Florida	1	0	2	4
Montreal	1	0	1	3
Ottawa	1	0	0	2
Buffalo	1	1	0	2
Tampa Bay	1	1	0	2
Toronto	1	2	0	2
Detroit	0	2	0	0

Scoring

3rd 3:32

PPG Ivan Demidov Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Juraj Slafkovský (5), Nick Suzuki (8)6–3

2nd 17:33

PPG Nick Suzuki Goal (4) Snap Shot, assists: Juraj Slafkovský (4), Lane Hutson (10)5–3

2nd 16:15

Jake Evans Goal (1) Poke, assists: Ivan Demidov (5), Alex Newhook (2)4–3

2nd 8:01

Josh Anderson Goal (3) Snap Shot, assists: Lane Hutson (9), Phillip Danault (5)3–3

1st 10:15

Konsta Helenius Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Mattias Samuelsson (2), Rasmus Dahlin (6)2–3

1st 7:54

Alexandre Texier Goal (3) Deflected, assists: Alexandre Carrier (3), Phillip Danault (4)2–2

1st 7:45

Josh Doan Goal (3) Slap Shot, assists: Owen Power (5)1–2

1st 6:31

Cole Caufield Goal (4) Snap Shot, assists: Nick Suzuki (7), Juraj Slafkovský (3)1–1

1st 2:00

Jason Zucker Goal (1) Deflected, assists: Jack Quinn (4), Conor Timmins (2)0–1

Team Stats

Montreal CanadiensBuffalo Sabres

Shots & Puck

26 Shots on Goal 36

25 Blocked Shots 11

19 Hits 22

55.9 Faceoff % 44.1

5 Takeaways 4

16 Giveaways 11

Special Teams

2/2 Power Play 0/2

0 Short-Handed Goals 0

16 Penalty Minutes 16

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
J. Anderson	1	0	2	1	14:29	2	0	1	0	0:00	1:09	13:20	21	0	1	0	100.0	2	1
Z. Bolduc	0	0	-1	0	9:52	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:00	9:52	16	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
C. Caufield	1	0	0	3	16:48	0	1	0	0	1:33	0:00	15:15	21	1	0	0	0.0	1	0
K. Dach	0	0	0	4	9:05	0	3	0	1	0:00	0:00	9:05	17	2	1	1	50.0	0	0
P. Danault	0	2	1	0	16:00	0	1	1	0	0:00	1:08	14:52	23	1	14	4	77.8	1	0
I. Demidov	1	1	0	5	14:44	0	2	1	0	1:33	0:00	13:11	17	1	0	0	0.0	2	0
J. Evans	1	0	1	1	17:50	0	0	1	1	0:00	2:54	14:56	22	0	7	6	53.8	1	0
A. Newhook	0	1	1	0	16:15	10	1	1	0	0:00	2:09	14:06	21	1	0	2	0.0	0	1
J. Slafkovsky	0	3	-1	2	19:17	2	1	1	0	1:33	0:00	17:44	24	1	0	1	0.0	1	1
N. Suzuki	1	2	0	1	20:45	0	2	2	0	1:33	0:42	18:30	23	0	6	10	37.5	2	0
A. Texier	1	0	1	3	12:27	0	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	12:27	18	0	1	0	100.0	0	0
J. Veleno	0	0	-1	1	9:56	0	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	9:56	17	1	3	2	60.0	0	0

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
A. Carrier	1	0	1	23:27	0	1	4	0	0:00	1:46	21:41	34	1	2	0
N. Dobson	0	1	1	20:20	0	2	3	1	0:00	0:20	20:00	31	2	1	0
K. Guhle	0	1	1	20:38	0	1	5	0	0:00	1:54	18:44	24	0	0	0
L. Hutson	2	1	1	20:33	2	0	0	0	1:33	0:18	18:42	27	0	1	1
M. Matheson	0	-1	1	26:18	0	1	4	2	0:00	3:40	22:38	28	0	1	0
A. Xhekaj	0	0	0	7:16	0	1	1	0	0:00	0:00	7:16	10	0	0	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Dobes	33	36	3	.917	60:00	30	3	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
Z. Benson	0	0	0	1	21:04	10	0	1	1	2:59	0:00	18:05	25	3	0	0	0.0	1	1
J. Doan	1	0	0	3	21:32	0	3	0	1	3:01	0:00	18:31	26	2	0	1	0.0	2	0
J. Greenway	0	0	-1	1	10:03	0	1	1	0	0:00	1:23	8:40	13	0	1	0	100.0	1	0
K. Helenius	1	0	1	2	11:47	0	1	0	0	0:42	0:00	11:05	20	2	2	8	20.0	0	0
P. Krebs	0	0	-2	1	14:46	0	0	0	0	0:42	0:00	14:04	20	2	1	3	25.0	1	0
B. Malenstyn	0	0	0	0	9:21	0	6	1	0	0:00	1:23	7:58	13	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
R. McLeod	0	0	0	1	13:23	0	1	0	0	1:02	0:10	12:11	21	1	9	3	75.0	1	0
J. Norris	0	0	0	4	20:32	0	1	0	0	1:35	0:00	18:57	27	3	10	9	52.6	0	0
J. Quinn	0	1	2	3	16:10	0	0	0	0	2:58	0:00	13:12	25	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
T. Thompson	0	0	-2	3	20:05	2	0	0	0	3:01	0:00	17:04	26	0	2	9	18.2	0	1
A. Tuch	0	0	-2	2	16:59	0	4	2	0	0:59	0:10	15:50	25	0	1	0	100.0	1	0
J. Zucker	1	0	1	2	13:35	0	1	0	0	1:01	0:00	12:34	25	0	0	0	0.0	1	0

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
B. Byram	0	0	4	21:47	2	0	2	0	0:05	0:00	21:42	26	0	0	1
R. Dahlin	1	0	3	27:28	2	0	0	0	3:13	0:00	24:15	30	1	0	1
O. Power	1	0	0	21:52	0	2	1	0	0:42	0:10	21:00	26	4	1	0
M. Samuelsson	1	0	5	25:27	0	1	3	2	0:00	1:23	24:04	26	1	1	0
L. Schenn	0	-1	0	8:01	0	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	8:01	11	0	0	0
C. Timmins	1	-1	1	10:56	0	1	0	0	0:00	1:33	9:23	13	0	1	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
U. Luukkonen	18	23	5	.783	40:00	18	0	0	0
A. Lyon	2	3	1	.667	13:39	2	0	0	0

Injury Report

Buffalo Sabres

Alex Lyon GInjured Reserve
Conor Timmins DInjured Reserve
Topias Leinonen GInjured Reserve
Jack Rathbone DInjured Reserve
Jason Zucker LWInjured Reserve

Montreal Canadiens

Oliver Kapanen CDay-To-Day
Alexandre Carrier DDay-To-Day
Bryce Pickford DInjured Reserve
Lucas Condotta LWInjured Reserve
Kaiden Guhle DInjured Reserve

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