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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

2nd Round, Game 3 · May 10, 2026 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 28
Montréal Canadiens 6 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:53 BUF Tage Thompson (3) Rasmus Dahlin (4) 1 - 0
15:31 MTL Alex Newhook (4) Jake Evans (3) 1 - 1
2nd Period
06:05 MTL Cole Caufield (2) PP Lane Hutson (6), Ivan Demidov (3) 1 - 2
10:43 MTL Zachary Bolduc (2) Joseph Veleno (1), Alexandre Carrier (2) 1 - 3
12:17 MTL Juraj Slafkovský (4) PP Lane Hutson (7), Cole Caufield (4) 1 - 4
14:46 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (2) PP Tage Thompson (6), Josh Doan (5) 2 - 4
3rd Period
08:46 MTL Kirby Dach (4) Alexandre Texier (3), Phillip Danault (3) 2 - 5
15:14 MTL Alex Newhook (5) Nick Suzuki (6), Jake Evans (4) 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:42 BUF Josh Norris Interference 2
11:47 MTL Alex Newhook Roughing 2
11:47 BUF Josh Doan Roughing 2
18:44 MTL Zachary Bolduc Roughing 2
18:44 MTL Zachary Bolduc Roughing 2
18:44 BUF Conor Timmins Roughing 2
20:00 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
2nd Period
04:43 BUF Josh Doan Tripping 2
11:32 BUF Beck Malenstyn Interference goalkeeper 2
11:32 BUF Jordan Greenway Roughing 2
11:32 MTL Zachary Bolduc Roughing 2
14:30 MTL Kirby Dach Holding the stick 2
17:47 BUF Alex Tuch High sticking 2
3rd Period
04:22 MTL Lane Hutson Interference 2
12:13 MTL Kaiden Guhle High sticking 2
17:13 BUF Logan Stanley Roughing 2
17:13 MTL Kaiden Guhle Cross checking 2
17:13 BUF Zach Benson Slashing 2
17:13 BUF Zach Benson Misconduct 10
17:13 BUF Logan Stanley Misconduct 10
17:13 MTL Zachary Bolduc Misconduct 10
17:13 MTL Kaiden Guhle Misconduct 10
20:00 BUF Sam Carrick Roughing 2
20:00 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 60 43 28 2 3.7 51.2
Montréal Canadiens 62 46 37 6 5.4 48.8

How the game went

2024681012Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens aheadBuffalo Sabres ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.7 expected, 2 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 5.4 expected, 6 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 0:53 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 14:46 of 2nd, a 8% chanceMTL goal, 15:31 of 1st, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 6:05 of 2nd, a 25% chanceMTL goal, 10:43 of 2nd, a 20% chanceMTL goal, 12:17 of 2nd, a 30% chanceMTL goal, 8:46 of 3rd, a 31% chanceMTL goal, 15:14 of 3rd, a 29% chanceMTL 5.4BUF 3.7

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Montréal Canadiens

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs12:3750.035.50-2
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Zach Benson9:3664.787.10-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn5:2641.728.40-1
Sam Carrick · Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn5:0950.015.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power8:1546.226.40-0
Logan Stanley · Conor Timmins8:0658.851.80-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin7:1263.666.41-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 -2 2 3 1 23:04 0.23 14-16 0.92-1.23
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 -2 0 3 0 21:06 0.38 17-16 1.02-1.63
91 Josh Doan R 0 1 1 0 4 4 2 15:32 0.29 13-6 0.99-0.13
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -1 12 3 1 18:07 0.60 14-8 0.99-0.15
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 -1 12 0 0 11:51 10-9 0.37-0.54
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 13:45 0.34 13-8 0.99-0.20
10 Sam Carrick C 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 06:17 0.05 5-5 0.08-0.47
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 13:31 6-8 0.12-0.47
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:47 0.03 5-7 0.13-0.33
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 16:53 0.28 16-16 1.02-1.68
21 Conor Timmins D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 17:22 12-14 0.47-0.75
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 15:28 0.30 6-12 0.16-0.40
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 23:05 0.10 18-9 1.13-0.39
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:32 0.30 18-18 0.80-1.78
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:42 14-14 0.87-0.80
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 12:15 0.03 5-7 0.08-0.47
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:51 0.16 6-8 0.16-0.33
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -2 2 4 6 20:06 0.62 17-16 1.02-1.63
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Alex Lyon L 36 31 5 58:39 4.69 -0.31

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský9:5333.336.60-1
Phillip Danault · Josh Anderson · Alexandre Texier8:1550.053.20-0
Joseph Veleno · Kirby Dach · Zachary Bolduc6:4053.886.21-0
Jake Evans · Alex Newhook · Ivan Demidov6:1963.671.81-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Alexandre Carrier11:4652.279.41-1
Noah Dobson · Lane Hutson6:2068.844.41-0
Kaiden Guhle · Arber Xhekaj4:3827.314.50-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
15 Alex Newhook C 2 0 2 2 2 4 4 16:43 0.64 10-5 0.67-0.22
13 Cole Caufield R 1 1 2 -1 0 3 1 17:17 0.88 8-15 0.36-0.62
48 Lane Hutson D 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 20:35 0.04 18-11 1.23-0.86
71 Jake Evans C 0 2 2 2 0 3 1 13:12 0.19 8-5 0.48-0.22
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 1 0 1 -1 0 4 1 18:12 0.70 10-15 0.39-0.74
76 Zachary Bolduc R 1 0 1 1 16 1 1 10:43 0.20 8-7 0.53-0.21
77 Kirby Dach C 1 0 1 2 2 4 1 12:12 0.68 10-10 1.09-0.31
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 19:44 0.44 9-15 0.36-0.74
24 Phillip Danault C 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 14:39 0.46 14-13 1.25-1.11
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 24:31 15-17 1.35-0.54
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 13:38 0.10 10-11 1.00-0.64
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 1 1 1 0 1 5 12:18 0.32 11-10 0.60-0.69
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 14:52 0.25 7-6 0.33-0.23
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 25:06 14-15 1.09-0.82
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 15:26 0.40 12-11 0.81-1.07
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 1 14 0 2 17:48 11-20 0.99-0.96
53 Noah Dobson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:45 0.01 14-10 0.32-1.04
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 07:10 0.10 6-9 0.27-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 28 26 2 59:53 3.39 +1.39