Had he ever scored a goal like that at any level, Thompson was asked afterward.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, not like that, but I\u2019ll take it,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t get in the first couple break-ins on the power play and you do that sometimes,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou want to just keep it simple, rim it, and try to get on the forecheck. I rimmed it and obviously saw it hit the glass and saw, kind of just scanned around looking for it and then a few guys put their hands up.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a nice feeling when you see that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt (stinks),\u201d forward Cole Caufield<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cHonestly, I thought we played a pretty good game. Obviously, there\u2019s some things we can get better at, but seeing a fluke going in like that, it\u2019s obviously not the bounce you want.\u201d<\/p>\n Make no mistake. There were still 33 minutes remaining in the game after Thompson\u2019s goal at 7:00 of the second knotted the game at 2-2, plenty of time for Montreal to get its mojo back.<\/p>\n But thanks in part to the 28-save performance of Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>, who was starting for the first time since Game 2 of the Sabres\u2019 first round series against the Boston Bruins, it was Buffalo that went on to win the game and took back home-ice advantage in the series.<\/p>\n Ironically, in that same game against Boston, Luukkonen also allowed a long-distance goal from the neutral zone, that one a backhand by the Bruins\u2019 Morgan Geekie<\/a> that helped them go on to win 4-2. Alex Lyon<\/a> started the next seven games for Buffalo before coach Lindy Ruff turned back to Luukkonen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n This time he, himself, was the benefactor of his own team scoring a weird goal from distance.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see how far, if at all, it propels the Sabres and hinders the Canadiens moving forward.<\/p>\n NHL.com senior writer Amalie Benjamin contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Had he ever scored a goal like that at any level, Thompson was asked afterward. \u201cNo, not like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-667980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}