Final / OT/Mon May 18, 2026/2025-26 playoffs

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTT
20013
01102

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsMTLBUF
04:30MTLPhillip Danault (1)Kaiden Guhle, Alexandre Texier10
14:29MTLZack Bolduc (3)Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson20

2nd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsMTLBUF
13:19BUFNHL 8478413 (2)Mattias Samuelsson, Beck Malenstyn21

3rd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsMTLBUF
06:27BUFRasmus Dahlin (4)Owen Power, Ryan McLeod22

OT

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsMTLBUF
11:22MTLAlex Newhook (7)Alexandre Carrier32

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
MTL
Away / Home
BUF
3
Goals
2
25
Shots on goal
39
23
Missed shots
25
22
Blocked shots
11
60
Shot attempts
91
28
Hits
21
32
Faceoffs won of 69
37
46.4%
Faceoff win %
53.6%
22
Giveaways
16
7
Takeaways
3
1
Penalties
1
2
Penalty minutes
2
1
Power plays
1

Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.

Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.


04/Montréal Canadiens

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Lane HutsonD011-1010331:17
Nick SuzukiC0110012210-1029:30
Alexandre CarrierD0110011527:03
Kaiden GuhleD0110013422:52
Alex NewhookC101+102300-319:52
Alexandre TexierL011000100-317:51
Phillip DanaultC101-1220114-1217:16
Zack BolducR101-102319:11
Mike MathesonD000+1010231:28
Noah DobsonD000-1010126:30
Juraj SlafkovskýL0000031023:07
Jake EvansC000+100107-722:33
Ivan DemidovR000+1003022:19
Cole CaufieldR0000053121:16
Josh AndersonR0000032117:10
Kirby DachC000-101418:58
Oliver KapanenC000001001-24:45
Arber XhekajD000+100101:52
Skaters3582252822

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Jakub Dobes39372.94971:22
NHL 8484170

A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.


05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD1010051133:11
Owen PowerD011+1010028:47
Mattias SamuelssonD011+1020228:35
Ryan McLeodC011+1021011-520:39
NHL 8478413101+1023011:11
Beck MalenstynL011+1014010:42
Bowen ByramD000-2010128:18
Zach BensonL000-1220024:07
Tage ThompsonC000-105000-521:56
Josh NorrisC000-1011018-821:37
Alex TuchR000+105221-021:25
Jack QuinnR000-1020019:12
Conor TimminsD0000030018:43
Josh DoanR000+1031118:38
Jason ZuckerL000-100310-116:39
NHL 8484797000-103311-1016:37
Peyton KrebsC000+101226-311:13
Zach MetsaD000000003:25
Skaters2462392111

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen25223.88071:22
Alex Lyon

A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.


06/Penalties

2 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st12:34BUFZach BensonDelay of game (puck over the glass)2
3rd01:34MTLPhillip DanaultHigh-sticking2Mattias Samuelsson

07/Game

Date
Mon May 18, 2026
Venue
Season
2025-26
Type
Playoff
Decision
Final / OT
NHL game id
2025030217

Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. 3 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.