Caufield gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead at 14:01. Slafkovsky got his second straight assist with a pass from behind the net to set up Caufield, who snapped a quick shot past Luukkonen.<\/p>\n
Texier made it 3-1 at 7:39 of the second period when he put away his own rebound after he tipped Kaiden Guhle<\/a>\u2019s point shot. Carrier had the secondary assist for a second straight goal.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought our start was good,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cWe give them the power play, they score on it and they get a little bit of life. You can\u2019t do that to good teams. That\u2019s the way their big boys get going and start to feel the puck and get some confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Quinn scored the Sabres\u2019 first short-handed goal of the season at 9:52 to cut the lead to 3-2.<\/p>\n Thompson tied it 3-3 at 10:12 of the third period. He scored on a backdoor pass from\u00a0Josh\u00a0Doan<\/a>, who spun around on the outside of the right circle to set up Thompson for a shot behind Fowler stick side.<\/p>\n \u201cA great look to the back post,\u201d Thompson said about Doan\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n Suzuki had the only shot on goal during a two-man advantage for 45 seconds in the second period when Zach Benson<\/a> was called for elbowing Caufield at 15:35 with Dennis Gilbert<\/a> already in the penalty box.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was 3-1 then? It would have been nice to put the nail in the coffin there,\u201d St. Louis said. \u201cBut Buffalo is not an easy team to play when you have a lead. They open up their game a lot and you have to be calculated with your decisions. Even in the offensive zone, you can\u2019t make \u2018almost\u2019 plays. The \u2018almosts\u2019 are the plays that they live for. They\u2019re hoping you make an \u2018almost,\u2019 and then it goes the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: Forward Oliver Kapanen<\/a> made his season debut for Montreal after being injured in the preseason and had three shots on goal in 11:40. \u2026 Defenseman David Reinbacher<\/a>, Montreal\u2019s first-round pick (No. 5) in the 2023 NHL Draft, played 9:09 his third NHL game and first of the season. \u2026\u00a0Caufield\u2019s 14th overtime goal tied him with Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> and Sebastian Aho<\/a> for the most in the NHL since Caufield debuted in the 2020-21 season. He also tied Connor McDavid<\/a> for the most in NHL history at age 25 or younger. \u2026 Caufield had four points (three goals, one assist) in the two games against the Sabres this week. \u2026 Quinn has seven points (three goals, four assists) in his past four games. \u2026 Thompson scored his 218th goal with the Sabres to move past Jason Pominville<\/a> for 10th place in team history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caufield gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead at 14:01. Slafkovsky got his second straight assist with a pass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-937402","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\/937402","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=937402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}