Zach Benson had two assists, and Alex Lyon made 26 saves for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Division. They are playing in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n
Nick Suzuki and Kirby Dach scored, and Jakub Dobes made 12 saves for the Canadiens, who are the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game 2 of the best-of-7 series will be here on Friday (7 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, TNT, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n
Doan gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 4:31 of the first period. Benson\u2019s leg kick in the left face-off circle fooled Dobes into thinking he was going to shoot, and he instead sent a pass behind the skates of sliding Montreal defenseman Noah Dobson over to Doan, who was driving to the back door for the tap-in.<\/p>\n
McLeod scored on the power play to make it 2-0 at 13:26. Benson collected the puck in front and quickly fed it to McLeod on the goal line, where he put it into an open right side.<\/p>\n
Suzuki cut it to 2-1 with a goal on the man-advantage at 19:16. Juraj Slafkovsky slid a pass through the crease to Suzuki, who tapped it in from the left post.<\/p>\n
Jordan Greenway beat Dobes with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that went bar down to push the lead to 3-1 at 3:32 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Bowen Byram increased it to 4-1 on the power play at 9:01, putting a snap shot over a screened Dobes\u2019 blocker from the top of the slot.<\/p>\n
Dach made it 4-2 at 16:31. Lyon stopped his initial shot from in close, but the rebound came back to a falling Dach, who backhanded it over the goalie\u2019s left arm from the right side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Benson had two assists, and Alex Lyon made 26 saves for the Sabres, who are the No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-628177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}