5/16/26 – 8:00 pm at Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec
TV – US – ABC, Canada – CBC Hockey Evening In Canada
Buffalo – 50-23-9 | – 109 factors – 1st place within the Atlantic Division
Montreal – 48-24-10 | – 106 factors – third place within the Atlantic Division
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Particular Groups
Buffalo
Energy Play(Reg) – 19.5% (twenty first)
Energy Play(Playoffs) – 6 for 42 – 14.3% (eleventh)
Penalty Kill(Reg) – 81.9% (4th)
Penalty Kill(Playoffs) – 30 for 38 – 78.9% (twelfth)
Montreal
Energy Play(Reg) – 23.1% (tenth)
Energy Play(Playoffs) – 11 for 48 – 22.9% (sixth)
Penalty Kill(Reg) – 78.2% (18th)
Penalty Kill(Playoffs) – 37 for 47 – 78.7% (thirteenth)
Prime Scorers
Buffalo
Tage Thompson: 11 GP, 4 G, 7 A, 11 PTS
Josh Doan: 11 GP, 3 G, 7 A, 10 PTS
Rasmus Dahlin: 11 GP, 2 G, 6 A, 8 PTS
Montreal
Lane Hutson: 12 GP, 2 G, 10 A, 12 PTS
Nick Suzuki: 12 GP, 4 G, 8 A, 12 PTS
Juraj Slafkovský: 12 GP, 4 G, 5 A, 9 PTS
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Beginning Goalies
Buffalo – Alex Lyon (4-3, 2.25 GAA, .917 Sv %)
Montreal – Jakub Dobes (7-5, 2.28 GAA, .914 Sv %)
Different Sabres Tales
Canadiens Sluggish In Game 1 Loss
Sabres Line Mixtures and Pairings
Forwards
Peyton Krebs – Tage Thompson – Alex Tuch
Zach Benson – Josh Norris – Josh Doan
Jason Zucker – Konsta Helenius – Jack Quinn
Jordan Greenway – Ryan McLeod – Beck Malenstyn
Ex., Tanner Pearson, Josh Dunne, Tyson Kozak
Protection
Mattias Samuelsson – Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Energy – Bowen Byram
Luke Schenn – Conor Timmins
Ex. Logan Stanley, Michael Kesselring, Zach Metsa
Goaltenders
Alex Lyon
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
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Colten Ellis
Accidents
Justin Danforth (decrease physique, Oct. 18; injured reserve)
Jiri Kulich (blood clot, Nov. 4; injured reserve – out for the season)
Noah Ostlund (decrease physique, Apr 28; week-to-week)
Sabres Playoff Stats Leaders
Pictures: Dahlin (38), Tuch (37), Thompson (35)
Hits: Samuelsson (43), Malenstyn (37), Tuch (34)
Blocked Pictures: Timmins (25), Samuelsson (22), Dahlin (14)
Notes
A win tonight would mark the second time Buffalo has earned 5 wins of their first six highway contests in a single playoff yr. Buffalo cut up the primary two highway video games of this sequence, rising victorious in the latest highway matchup between the 2 groups in Sport 4 (3-2).
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In his final six video games, Zach Benson has registered six factors (3+3).Benson has 4 targets within the playoffs and is the primary Sabres skater age 21 or youthful to register 4 or extra targets in a single playoff yr since Pierre Turgeon in 1988 (4; 18 years previous).
Josh Doan’s plus-5 ranking is the very best mark by a Sabres ahead within the first 11 video games of their playoff profession since Paul Gaustad (plus-5) and Derek Roy (plus-6) from April 22 to Might 13, 2006. In his final eight video games, Doan has registered 10 factors (3+7), together with at the very least one level in every of his final six contests.
In his final seven video games, Rasmus Dahlin has posted seven factors (2+5), together with an help in three straight video games. With an help tonight, Dahlin would be part of Owen Energy as the one Sabres defensemen who’ve registered an help streak of at the very least 4 video games on this yr’s playoffs. Dahlin would turn into simply the fourth Buffalo defenseman all-time (Energy, Alexei Zhitnik, Jason Woolley) to register an help streak of 4 or extra video games within the playoffs.
Tage Thompson has tallied 11 factors (4+7) in 11 playoff video games so far, together with 4 factors (2+2) in his final three video games.Thompson’s 4 multi-point video games within the playoffs are tied for the third most amongst all NHL skaters.
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Bowen Byram has recorded 4 targets within the playoffs and is one aim
away from recording essentially the most targets by a Sabres defenseman in a single playoff yr all-time.
Mattias Samuelsson (43 hits; three targets) is the one NHL defenseman with 40 or extra hits and three or extra targets within the playoffs.
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