{"id":655971,"date":"2026-05-08T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:39:15","slug":"montreal-canadiens-look-to-even-series-with-buffalo-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655971\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens look to even series with Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 08, 2026 at 7:25AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 08, 2026 at 6:18AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Canadiens look to earn a split of the first two games of their second-round series with the Buffalo Sabres when the Atlantic Division rivals clash tonight at the KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens trail a series for the first time in these NHL playoffs after dropping Wednesday\u2019s opener 4-2 in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal won the opening game of their first-round series with Tampa, and the teams alternated wins and losses the rest of the way resulting in a tight seven-game win for the Habs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Buffalo, which is in the post-season for the first time since 2011, offered Montreal a different look on Wednesday, winning with puck-moving guile rather than brute strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal\u2019s 51-goal forward Cole Caufield has been kept in check throughout the playoffs and will be looking to break out in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The series heads to Montreal\u2019s Bell Centre for Game 3 on Sunday.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 08, 2026 at 7:25AM EDT Published:\u00a0May 08, 2026 at 6:18AM EDT The Montreal Canadiens look to earn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-655971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}