Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, April 7, 1985 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–4 on Sunday, April 7, 1985 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 27–17.
Goals came from Ric Seiling, Ron Flockhart, Craig Ramsay, John Tucker, Guy Carbonneau, Mario Tremblay, Gaetano Orlando, Steve Rooney and Petr Svoboda.
Doug Soetaert made 13 saves on 17 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 22 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Ric Seiling (16)Gilbert Perreault (53)0–100:22 BUF
Ron Flockhart (10)Petr Svoboda (25), Guy Carbonneau (33)1–109:27 MTL
Craig Ramsay (12)Brent Peterson (22), Larry Playfair (14)1–211:05 BUF
John Tucker (22)Mike Foligno (29), Paul Cyr (24)1–317:38 BUF
2nd period
Guy Carbonneau (23)Petr Svoboda (26)2–310:27 MTL
3rd period
Mario Tremblay (31)Mats Naslund (37), Petr Svoboda (27)3–304:02 MTL
Gaetano Orlando (3)Gilles Hamel (30), Sean Mckenna (16)3–404:39 BUF
Steve Rooney (1)Larry Robinson (33), Bobby Smith (40)4–407:14 MTL · 
Petr Svoboda (4)Ron Flockhart (17), Guy Carbonneau (34)5–412:05 MTL
Team stats
MTLBUF
2717
0%0%
1/20/2
44
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 13:38 into the first period
Paul Cyr · holding2 min - 11:20 into the second period
Petr Svoboda · holding2 min - 5:29 into the third periodLarry Playfair · holding2 min
- 12:14 into the third periodLarry Robinson · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 29Ron FlockhartC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve RooneyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Alfie TurcotteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | W | 17 | 4 | .765 |
| 37Steve PenneyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 7John TuckerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 31David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | L | 27 | 5 | .815 |