{"id":678904,"date":"2026-05-19T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:18:09","slug":"alex-newhooks-overtime-winner-powers-montreal-canadiens-over-buffalo-sabres-in-game-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678904\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Newhook\u2019s overtime winner powers Montreal Canadiens over Buffalo Sabres in Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Alex Newhook<\/a> scored his second Game 7-winning goal of the postseason, this time 11:22 into overtime in the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Newhook drove up the left wing and as he approached the circle snapped a shot through a screen that beat goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> inside the far post. Newhook also scored the decisive goal, breaking a 1-1 tie 11:07 into the third period, in Game 7 of Montreal\u2019s first-round series win over Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Phillip Danault<\/a> and Zachary Bolduc<\/a> also scored for the Canadiens and Jakub Dobes<\/a> finished with 37 saves.<\/p>\n

Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> forced overtime by tying the game 6:27 into the third period. Jordan Greenway<\/a> also scored. Luukkonen finished with 22 saves.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens advance to the Eastern Conference finals, where they\u2019ll face the well-rested Hurricanes in a series set to open at Carolina on Thursday. The Hurricanes have swept each of their first two series, and been off since a 3-2 overtime win against Philadelphia on May 9.<\/p>\n

Carolina\u2019s 11-day break between playoffs games is the longest in NHL history.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens advance to the NHL\u2019s semifinal round for the first time since facing Vegas in the COVID-altered 2021 playoffs, in which Montreal eventually lost the Stanley Cup Final in five games to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

This is the first playoff meeting between the two teams since Carolina beat Montreal in six games of a 2006 first-round series. The Hurricanes also beat Montreal in 2002, after going 0-5 against the Canadiens when the franchise was based in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens continue their upward trajectory a year after being eliminated in the first round by Washington.<\/p>\n

Buffalo dropped to 1-7 in Game 7, including 1-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n

The Sabres enter their offseason following a breakout year in which they won their first Atlantic Division title and ended an NHL-record 14-season playoff drought. Buffalo\u2019s turnaround began in early December, when the team went from last in the East standings to finish second by going 39-9-5 over its final 53 games.<\/p>\n

The Sabres\u2019 first-round win over Boston was their first since 2007, and the team returns a young and talented group that reflects a promising future in Buffalo.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

John Wawrow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Alex Newhook scored his second Game 7-winning goal of the postseason, this time 11:22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96397,49,48,78846,82],"class_list":["post-678904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-buffalo-sabres-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-7","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678904","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=678904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}