{"id":678552,"date":"2026-05-19T00:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678552\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:27:47","slug":"bolduc-adds-power-play-goal-habs-lead-2-0-after-1-in-game-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678552\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolduc adds power play goal, Habs lead 2-0 after 1 in Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one more battle between the Canadiens and the Sabres to determine who will play the Carolina Hurricanes in Round 3 of the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo won 8-3 in Game 6, saving off elimination in Montreal and sending the series back to Buffalo for Game 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens were in this position in the first round, having lost Game 6 at home, before heading to Florida, where they defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a look back at the series, the Sabres won Game 1 by a score of 4-2, while the Habs responded with a 5-1 victory in Game 2. The series shifted to Montreal, where the Canadiens got their second victory, winning 6-2 in Game 3, before the Sabres won Game 4 by a score of 3-2. Game 5 was back in Buffalo, where the Canadiens won 6-3, before the series was back in Montreal for Game 6, in a game that was won 8-3 by the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>CityNews will have coverage of Game 7, with puck drop being at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Game coverage<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens took an early lead in the first period, after Kaiden Guhle shot the puck off Phillip Danault\u2019s skate and past Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PHILLIP DANAULT OPENS THE SCORING IN GAME 7 ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/leWLoOHB7u\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/leWLoOHB7u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/2056523602791419966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 18, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Just over the halfway point in the first period, Jake Quinn got one of the best chances for the Sabres, but Jakub Dobe\u0161 made a beautiful robbery on the chance, to keep Montreal ahead.<\/p>\n<p>On a power play, Nick Suzuki would send a behind-the-back pass out of the corner across the ice to Zachary Bolduc, who would rifle a shot over the shoulder of Luukkonen to make it 2-0 with 6:31 to go in the first period.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ZACHARY BOLDUC WITH AN ABSOLUTE SNIPE ????<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL HAS A 2-0 LEAD! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifuXCneGv6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ifuXCneGv6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/2056528013378941305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 19, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779121264_781_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s one more battle between the Canadiens and the Sabres to determine who will play the Carolina Hurricanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-678552","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\/678552","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=678552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}