{"id":885716,"date":"2026-10-17T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885716\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:08:08","slug":"sabres-at-canadiens-how-to-watch-lineup-notes-and-storylines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885716\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres at Canadiens | How to watch, lineup notes, and storylines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in five days, the Buffalo Sabres take on the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre. Saturday\u2019s puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The division rivals\u2019 first matchup this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/news\/buffalo-sabres-montreal-canadiens-recap-zellweger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went Montreal\u2019s way in a shootout<\/a>. The Rasmus Dahlin-less Sabres managed just 16 total shots and handed the Canadiens\u2019 top players too many scoring chances, although Buffalo did overcome a 3-1, third-period deficit to earn a point in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-goal comebacks have been the story of the early season for the Sabres (4-3-1). The numbers:<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve climbed out of two-goal holes in four games, collecting seven points with those efforts.<br \/>\nThey have three wins when trailing after two periods; no other team has two.<br \/>\nThey rank 32nd leaguewide in second-period goal differential (-10) but second in third-period differential (+7).<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Thursday in Toronto, Buffalo rallied back from 4-2 before Owen Power beat the Leafs in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t like playing from behind, but obviously we\u2019ve fought our way back, clawed our way back into games down by a couple goals,\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to fix the start, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the details of the Sabres\u2019 last regular-season visit to Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time in five days, the Buffalo Sabres take on the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-885716","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\/885716","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=885716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}