National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Montreal 5, Buffalo 2
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 7:30 PM
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 TOI
Anders Nilsson G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Robin Lehner G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Cody Franson D 0 1 1 -3 0 2 19:50
Evander Kane LW 0 1 1 -2 0 3 17:55
Brian Gionta RW 1 0 1 E 0 1 14:53
Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 19:03
Cal O'Reilly C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 6:10
Kyle Okposo RW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 18:17
Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 17:35
Matt Moulson LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 8:53
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 16:26
Taylor Fedun D 0 0 0 E 2 1 15:27
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 14:48
Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -5 0 0 17:34
William Carrier LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 9:59
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 E 0 6 26:02
Tyler Ennis LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 16:05
Dmitry Kulikov D 1 0 1 +1 0 2 22:47
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 -3 0 2 15:12
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 E 0 1 21:04
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Carey Price G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Al Montoya G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Shea Weber D 0 0 0 +1 0 4 24:38
Greg Pateryn D 0 0 0 +1 2 5 18:43
Tomas Plekanec C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 15:05
Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 E 0 3 13:37
Phillip Danault LW 0 2 2 +3 0 1 16:56
Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 22:50
Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 E 0 1 11:57
Paul Byron LW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 14:33
Sven Andrighetto RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 15:49
Daniel Carr LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 11:26
Alexander Radulov RW 0 2 2 +3 0 1 17:58
David Desharnais C 1 0 1 E 0 2 14:59
Artturi Lehkonen LW 0 0 0 +1 0 2 13:08
Andrew Shaw C 0 0 0 E 0 1 14:45
Max Pacioretty LW 3 0 3 +3 0 3 16:17
Alexei Emelin D 0 0 0 E 2 1 21:59
Andrei Markov D 0 1 1 +2 0 0 17:43
Nikita Nesterov D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 14:21
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