National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Buffalo 6, Montreal 1
Thursday, January 4, 2024 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 4, 2024
Where: Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Referees: Beau Halkidis, Graham Skilliter
Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Bryan Pancich
Attendance: 21105
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 0246
Montreal 0101
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
13:16 - Canadiens Joel Armia (2) Hooking
 15:19 - Sabres Bench (2) Too many men on ice
2nd Period
Scoring
5:33 - Sabres Casey Mittelstadt (PP) Assists: Jeff Skinner , Rasmus Dahlin
6:59 - Sabres Jeff Skinner (PP) Assists: Alex Tuch , Tage Thompson
13:19 - Canadiens Joel Armia (SH) Unassisted
Penalties
5:00 - Canadiens David Savard (2) Slashing
 6:14 - Canadiens Mitchell Stephens (2) Interference
 12:14 - Canadiens Michael Pezzetta (2) Tripping
 17:59 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Tripping
3rd Period
Scoring
6:45 - Sabres Jack Quinn (EV) Assists: JJ Peterka , Connor Clifton
8:35 - Sabres Tage Thompson (EV) Assists: Jeff Skinner , Alex Tuch
14:31 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (EV) (EN) Assists: Mattias Samuelsson , Casey Mittelstadt
18:32 - Sabres Tage Thompson (EV) Assists: Jeff Skinner , Jack Quinn
Penalties
13:19 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Roughing
 13:19 - Canadiens David Savard (2) Roughing
 13:19 - Canadiens Mike Matheson (2) Roughing
 13:19 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Roughing
 14:43 - Sabres Zach Benson (2) Delay of game
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Devon Levi G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 E 0 0 17:54
Zach Benson LW 0 0 0 E 2 2 17:09
Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 17:07
Jordan Greenway LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 18:39
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 E 0 1 11:52
Jack Quinn RW 1 1 2 +2 0 3 13:26
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 +2 0 5 21:32
Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 +1 6 2 14:40
Owen Power D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 17:38
Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 E 0 4 21:17
Zemgus Girgensons LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 11:58
Casey Mittelstadt C 1 1 2 +1 0 2 17:46
Jeff Skinner LW 1 3 4 +1 0 4 15:57
Victor Olofsson LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 12:16
Tage Thompson C 2 1 3 +1 0 4 17:28
Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 19:32
JJ Peterka RW 0 1 1 E 0 3 11:28
Alex Tuch RW 0 2 2 +1 0 1 16:23
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Cayden Primeau G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Jake Allen G 0 0 0 0 0 59:26
Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 E 2 3 19:57
Brendan Gallagher RW 0 0 0 -2 0 2 15:32
Mitchell Stephens C 0 0 0 E 2 0 11:04
Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 23:18
Josh Anderson RW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 17:05
Juraj Slafkovsky LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 19:46
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 18:54
Cole Caufield RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 20:28
Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:07
Joel Armia RW 1 0 1 E 2 3 15:12
Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17:45
Justin Barron D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 16:47
Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 15:34
Michael Pezzetta LW 0 0 0 -1 2 2 10:04
Jesse Ylonen RW 0 0 0 -2 0 5 13:28
David Savard D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 16:45
Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 16:30
Sean Monahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 19:00
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Devon Levi W (9-7-2) 33 32 1 .970 0 60:00
Montreal
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Jake Allen L (5-10-3) 37 32 5 .865 0 59:26