The Sabres scored seven straight goals to come back after trailing 3-1 in the first period to tie the best-of-7 series 3-3 while winning their fifth of six road games in these playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we simplify our game on the road,\u201d Dahlin said. \u201cWe are playing more aggressive, stuff that you should be doing at home also, but I like our road game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> stopped the 18 shots he faced after replacing Alex Lyon<\/a> at 10:14 of the first, when Jake Evans<\/a>\u2019 short-handed goal put the\u00a0Canadiens up 3-1. Lyon allowed three goals on four shots.<\/p>\n \u201cFive points is pretty good, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much else for you to say about that,\u201d Luukkonen said about Dahlin\u2019s contribution to the win. \u201cI mean it\u2019s an elimination game for us, our captain steps up and that\u2019s how you lead a team. I think that\u2019s been the whole year how well he has played. He\u2019s not always the loudest on the bench or in the locker room but you take things over when you need to and he very much showed it today.\u201d<\/p>\n Evans had a goal and an assist and Arber Xhekaj<\/a> and Ivan Demidov<\/a> scored for Montreal, the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not play a good game,\u201d Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis said. \u201cWe had a few little moments, but not many. They\u2019re a good team. They played a good game.\u201d<\/p>\n Jakub Dobes<\/a> allowed six goals on 33 shots before he was replaced midway through the third period by Jacob Fowler<\/a>, who saved one of two shots over the final 10:02.<\/p>\n Game 7 is in Buffalo on Monday (7:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been in this situation all season where people have doubted us, had us out, had our backs against the wall all season,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cSo it\u2019s no different. Obviously the stage is bigger and the stakes are higher here, but at the end of the day it\u2019s still the same game.<\/p>\n \u201cSo nothing really changes for us. We\u2019re a good team, we know that, and I think that belief in this room is really the only thing that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n St. Louis said he\u2019s looking for the Canadiens to \u201cbounce forward\u201d in Game 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI just feel \u2018bounce back,\u2019 you come back to where you were,\u201d St. Louis said. \u201c’Bounce forward,’ you\u2019re actually further than where you were,\u201d before adding \u201cphysics\u201d as an explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sabres scored seven straight goals to come back after trailing 3-1 in the first period to tie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-675124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675124","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=675124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}