National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Montreal 5, Buffalo 2
When: 7:30 PM ET, Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Where: Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Referees: Brad Meier, Evgeny Romasko
Linesmen: Steve Barton, Michel Cormier
Attendance: 21288
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 0022
Montreal 1315
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
17:27 - Canadiens Max Pacioretty (EV) Assists: Alexander Radulov , Phillip Danault
Penalties
2:52 - Sabres Taylor Fedun (2) Tripping
 5:33 - Canadiens Greg Pateryn (2) Holding
2nd Period
Scoring
7:48 - Canadiens Max Pacioretty (EV) Assists: Alexander Radulov , Phillip Danault
11:12 - Canadiens David Desharnais (EV) Assists: Sven Andrighetto
18:38 - Canadiens Paul Byron (EV) Assists: Andrei Markov , Tomas Plekanec
Penalties
None.
3rd Period
Scoring
3:24 - Canadiens Max Pacioretty (EV) Unassisted
16:04 - Sabres Dmitry Kulikov (EV) Assists: Cal O'Reilly
17:48 - Sabres Brian Gionta (PP) Assists: Cody Franson , Evander Kane
Penalties
16:32 - Canadiens Alexei Emelin (2) Cross checking
 19:48 - Canadiens Bench (2) Too many men on ice
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Anders Nilsson G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Robin Lehner G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 54:32 3:28 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Cody Franson D 0 1 1 -3 0 2 24 19:50 17:57 1:00 0:53 0 0 3 2 - - -
Evander Kane LW 0 1 1 -2 0 3 21 17:55 16:20 1:00 0:35 0 0 2 - 1 1 50
Brian Gionta RW 1 0 1 E 0 1 19 14:53 13:04 1:00 0:49 1 0 1 1 1 1 50
Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 20 19:03 16:28 2:28 0:07 0 0 - 1 7 8 47
Cal O'Reilly C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 10 6:10 6:10 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - 1 3 25
Kyle Okposo RW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 20 18:17 15:49 2:28 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 19 17:35 15:00 2:28 0:07 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Moulson LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 13 8:53 7:53 1:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 20 16:26 15:51 0:00 0:35 0 0 - 2 4 6 40
Taylor Fedun D 0 0 0 E 2 1 20 15:27 15:27 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 18 14:48 14:41 0:00 0:07 0 0 3 3 - - -
Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -5 0 0 23 17:34 16:52 0:00 0:42 0 0 - 2 - - -
William Carrier LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 14 9:59 9:59 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 E 0 6 28 26:02 22:34 2:28 1:00 0 0 5 5 - - -
Tyler Ennis LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 16 16:05 15:05 1:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Dmitry Kulikov D 1 0 1 +1 0 2 26 22:47 21:29 0:00 1:18 0 0 3 3 - - -
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 -3 0 2 17 15:12 14:43 0:00 0:29 0 0 4 1 - - -
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 E 0 1 25 21:04 17:18 2:28 1:18 0 0 1 1 12 6 67
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Carey Price G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 54:32 2:00 3:28 0 0 - - - - -
Al Montoya G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Shea Weber D 0 0 0 +1 0 4 26 24:38 21:16 1:20 2:02 0 0 2 1 - - -
Greg Pateryn D 0 0 0 +1 2 5 22 18:43 18:08 0:00 0:35 0 0 2 1 - - -
Tomas Plekanec C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 21 15:05 13:29 0:07 1:29 0 0 - - 7 10 41
Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 E 0 3 21 13:37 11:47 0:00 1:50 0 0 1 1 9 5 64
Phillip Danault LW 0 2 2 +3 0 1 25 16:56 15:44 1:03 0:09 0 0 - 2 2 8 20
Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 24 22:50 19:31 1:53 1:26 0 0 - 1 - - -
Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 11:57 10:39 0:00 1:18 0 0 - - - - -
Paul Byron LW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 21 14:33 12:42 0:07 1:44 0 0 2 2 - - -
Sven Andrighetto RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 19 15:49 14:59 0:50 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Daniel Carr LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 16 11:26 11:26 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Radulov RW 0 2 2 +3 0 1 26 17:58 16:55 1:03 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
David Desharnais C 1 0 1 E 0 2 20 14:59 14:09 0:50 0:00 0 0 - - 3 2 60
Artturi Lehkonen LW 0 0 0 +1 0 2 19 13:08 12:35 0:07 0:26 0 0 1 - - - -
Andrew Shaw C 0 0 0 E 0 1 20 14:45 13:55 0:50 0:00 0 0 3 1 3 1 75
Max Pacioretty LW 3 0 3 +3 0 3 24 16:17 15:14 1:03 0:00 0 0 - 1 1 0 100
Alexei Emelin D 0 0 0 E 2 1 25 21:59 20:38 0:00 1:21 0 0 1 3 - - -
Andrei Markov D 0 1 1 +2 0 0 23 17:43 15:31 0:40 1:32 0 0 - 1 - - -
Nikita Nesterov D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 20 14:21 14:14 0:07 0:00 0 0 2 2 - - -
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Robin Lehner L (12-13-5) 35 30 5 .857 0 60:00
Montreal
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Carey Price W (23-10-5) 39 37 2 .949 0 60:00