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Away: Buffalo Sabres3Home: Montréal Canadiens (winner)4

Final/OT · 2026–27 · Regular season

Sat, Oct 17, 11:00 PM UTC

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Scoring summary

Period 1

  1. Josh Norris

    Buffalo Sabres · 08:21 · Even strength

    Assists: Konsta Helenius

    BUF – MTL1 – 0

  2. Zachary Bolduc

    Montréal Canadiens · 11:45 · Power play

    Assists: Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovský

    BUF – MTL1 – 1

  3. Cole Caufield

    Montréal Canadiens · 14:01 · Even strength

    Assists: Juraj Slafkovský, Alexandre Carrier

    BUF – MTL1 – 2

Period 2

  1. Alexandre Texier

    Montréal Canadiens · 07:39 · Even strength

    Assists: Kaiden Guhle, Alexandre Carrier

    BUF – MTL1 – 3

  2. Jack Quinn

    Buffalo Sabres · 09:52 · Shorthanded

    Assists: Zach Benson, Mattias Samuelsson

    BUF – MTL2 – 3

Period 3

  1. Tage Thompson

    Buffalo Sabres · 10:12 · Even strength

    Assists: Josh Doan, Jiri Kulich

    BUF – MTL3 – 3

Overtime

  1. Cole Caufield

    Montréal Canadiens · 00:54 · Even strength

    Unassisted

    BUF – MTL3 – 4

Three stars

  1. No. 1

    C. Caufield

    Montréal Canadiens

  2. No. 2

    A. Carrier

    Montréal Canadiens

  3. No. 3

    Z. Bolduc

    Montréal Canadiens

Game context

Competition

Regular season

Venue

Centre Bell

Networks

SNE · NHLN · TVAS · MSG-B

Official links and sources

Official NHL Gamecenter