Montreal Canadiens

East 2nd Round · Game 6 · Best of 7

Ugh, no.

Montreal Canadiens lost to the Buffalo Sabres

50-23-9, 109 PTS 8 – 3

48-24-10, 106 PTS

Final · Sat, May 16

Series tied 3-3

Game Details

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Recap

Sabres rally to beat the Canadiens 8-3 to force Game 7

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 18 saves after starter Alex Lyon stopped only one of the four shots he faced, and the Buffalo Sabres roared back to beat the Montreal Canadiens 8-3 on Saturday night and force a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference semifinal...

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Bell Centre · Montreal

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
BUF	2	3	3	8
MTL	3	0	0	3

Game Leaders

Buffalo Sabres

Jack Quinn · 2Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · 4Assists
Rasmus Dahlin · 5Points

Montreal Canadiens

Jake Evans · 1Goals
Jake Evans · 1Assists
Jake Evans · 2Points

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 17:49

PPG Zach Metsa Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Ryan McLeod (3), Rasmus Dahlin (10)8–3

3rd 14:12

ENG Tage Thompson Goal (5) Snap Shot, assists: none7–3

3rd 9:58

PPG Jack Quinn Goal (2) Slap Shot, assists: Tage Thompson (10), Rasmus Dahlin (9)6–3

2nd 12:59

Konsta Helenius Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Jason Zucker (2), Rasmus Dahlin (8)5–3

2nd 10:54

PPG Jack Quinn Goal (1) Slap Shot, assists: Rasmus Dahlin (7), Tage Thompson (9)4–3

2nd 1:00

Zach Benson Goal (5) Backhand, assists: Tage Thompson (8), Bowen Byram (3)3–3

1st 13:56

PPG Jason Zucker Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Josh Norris (2), Jack Quinn (5)2–3

1st 10:14

SHG Jake Evans Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Mike Matheson (2)1–3

1st 8:12

PPG Ivan Demidov Goal (2) Slap Shot, assists: Lane Hutson (11), Cole Caufield (5)1–2

1st 1:40

Arber Xhekaj Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Jake Evans (6)1–1

1st 0:32

Rasmus Dahlin Goal (3) Backhand, assists: Mattias Samuelsson (3), Zach Benson (4)1–0

Team Stats

Buffalo SabresMontreal Canadiens

Shots & Puck

36 Shots on Goal 22

18 Blocked Shots 9

19 Hits 31

60.7 Faceoff % 39.3

3 Takeaways 5

18 Giveaways 11

Special Teams

4/6 Power Play 1/3

0 Short-Handed Goals 1

32 Penalty Minutes 58

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
Z. Benson	1	1	3	6	20:04	10	1	2	0	3:53	0:41	15:30	27	1	0	0	0.0	0	1
J. Doan	0	0	0	2	16:31	0	1	0	0	3:30	0:00	13:01	22	1	2	0	100.0	0	0
J. Greenway	0	0	-1	0	8:15	0	1	1	0	0:00	2:24	5:51	13	0	1	1	50.0	2	0
K. Helenius	1	0	1	2	12:36	0	0	2	0	0:00	0:00	12:36	19	1	3	3	50.0	0	0
P. Krebs	0	0	-1	0	6:25	12	1	0	0	0:00	0:00	6:25	13	0	3	3	50.0	1	2
B. Malenstyn	0	0	-1	1	8:22	0	1	0	1	0:00	2:27	5:55	12	1	0	0	0.0	1	0
R. McLeod	0	1	0	1	21:56	0	0	1	0	1:54	2:30	17:32	29	1	11	7	61.1	1	0
J. Norris	0	1	1	2	15:27	4	3	0	0	2:13	0:00	13:14	25	0	11	6	64.7	0	2
J. Quinn	2	1	1	3	18:18	0	1	1	1	4:00	0:00	14:18	25	1	0	0	0.0	1	0
T. Thompson	1	3	3	6	18:14	0	3	0	0	4:17	0:00	13:57	26	4	2	2	50.0	2	0
A. Tuch	0	0	-1	4	19:10	2	1	1	1	2:20	0:56	15:54	26	0	1	0	100.0	1	1
J. Zucker	1	1	0	2	13:29	0	1	0	0	1:52	0:00	11:37	21	1	0	0	0.0	0	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
B. Byram	0	1	1	2	19:53	0	3	1	2:08	0:00	17:45	24	0	3	0
R. Dahlin	1	4	2	3	19:56	2	0	0	3:23	0:00	16:33	25	0	1	1
Z. Metsa	1	0	-1	1	12:19	0	0	1	0:33	0:17	11:29	15	0	0	0
O. Power	0	0	1	0	22:22	0	1	2	0:57	2:17	19:08	24	0	2	0
M. Samuelsson	0	1	1	1	22:53	0	1	1	0:00	2:12	20:41	27	1	0	0
C. Timmins	0	0	1	0	17:26	0	0	5	0:00	4:12	13:14	19	2	3	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
U. Luukkonen	18	18	0	1.000	49:41	15	3	0	0
A. Lyon	1	4	3	.250	10:14	1	0	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
J. Anderson	0	0	0	1	14:03	2	1	0	1	0:00	3:09	10:54	21	0	0	0	0.0	1	1
Z. Bolduc	0	0	-1	0	13:39	0	7	0	0	0:47	0:00	12:52	17	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
C. Caufield	0	1	-1	2	16:01	0	0	0	0	3:26	0:00	12:35	18	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
K. Dach	0	0	-1	2	11:24	10	3	0	0	1:03	0:00	10:21	16	0	1	2	33.3	0	1
P. Danault	0	0	-1	0	12:06	2	3	1	0	0:00	1:30	10:36	20	1	3	11	21.4	0	1
I. Demidov	1	0	0	5	17:14	0	0	0	1	3:42	0:00	13:32	18	1	0	0	0.0	1	0
J. Evans	1	1	1	1	16:13	12	1	1	0	0:00	3:59	12:14	20	0	8	6	57.1	0	2
A. Newhook	0	0	-1	3	16:32	0	2	1	0	0:39	2:06	13:47	22	0	1	3	25.0	0	0
J. Slafkovsky	0	0	-1	3	17:46	0	0	1	0	3:37	0:00	14:09	19	1	0	0	0.0	2	0
N. Suzuki	0	0	-1	2	19:20	0	2	0	0	3:47	0:44	14:49	21	1	9	11	45.0	0	0
A. Texier	0	0	-2	0	13:04	0	1	0	0	0:41	0:00	12:23	20	0	0	0	0.0	1	0
J. Veleno	0	0	0	0	9:59	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:57	9:02	13	1	0	1	0.0	0	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
A. Carrier	0	0	-2	0	17:32	12	0	0	0	0:00	2:40	14:52	27	0	0	2
N. Dobson	0	0	0	1	25:22	0	2	1	0	0:17	1:33	23:32	27	1	2	0
K. Guhle	0	0	0	0	19:27	0	0	0	1	0:00	3:41	15:46	22	0	0	0
L. Hutson	0	1	0	1	24:28	2	1	2	2	4:12	0:42	19:34	27	4	2	1
M. Matheson	0	1	-2	0	22:05	4	3	1	0	0:14	3:47	18:04	29	0	0	1
A. Xhekaj	1	0	0	1	7:12	12	3	1	0	0:00	0:00	7:12	9	0	0	2

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Fowler	1	2	1	.500	8:23	1	0	0	0
J. Dobes	27	33	6	.818	49:58	19	6	2	2

Injury Report

Montreal Canadiens

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

Buffalo Sabres

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

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