Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, October 23, 1985 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–4 on Wednesday, October 23, 1985 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Canadiens 31–26.
Mats Naslund scored twice and Hannu Virta scored twice. Kjell Dahlin, Serge Boisvert, Mike Foligno, Dave Andreychuk and Bob Gainey also scored.
Patrick Roy made 27 saves on 31 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 21 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Kjell Dahlin (5)Serge Boisvert (2)1–003:49 MTL
Mats Naslund (7)Bobby Smith (3), Stephane Richer (6)2–006:50 MTL · 
Hannu Virta (1)Mike Foligno (7), Gilbert Perreault (5)2–115:21 BUF
2nd period
- Mats Naslund (8)Kjell Dahlin (5), Bobby Smith (4)3–112:39 MTL ·
Serge Boisvert (1)Bob Gainey (2)4–114:03 MTL
3rd period
Mike Foligno (3)Gilbert Perreault (6), David Fenyves (1)4–200:12 BUF- Hannu Virta (2)Sean Mckenna (5), Paul Cyr (2)4–303:05 BUF
Dave Andreychuk (4)Gilles Hamel (4), John Tucker (2)4–403:51 BUF · 
Bob Gainey (1)Guy Carbonneau (5), Mike Lalor (1)5–406:27 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLBUF
2631
0%0%
2/71/6
1921
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:51 into the first period
Petr Svoboda · interference2 min - 2:16 into the first period
Mikael Andersson · holding2 min - 5:21 into the first periodGilles Hamel · high sticking2 min
- 7:20 into the first periodSerge Boisvert · holding2 min
- 16:34 into the first periodMike Ramsey · high sticking2 min
- 16:34 into the first periodRyan Walter · roughing2 min
- 2:38 into the second periodLarry Playfair · fighting5 min
- 2:38 into the second periodSteve Rooney · fighting5 min
- 5:12 into the second periodDavid Fenyves · interference2 min
- 7:18 into the second periodLindy Ruff · charging2 min
- 7:43 into the second periodLarry Robinson · interference2 min
- 9:30 into the second periodMike Ramsey · hooking2 min
- 9:30 into the second periodMike Ramsey · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 10:45 into the second periodMike Foligno · roughing2 min
- 3:40 into the third periodSergio Momesso · charging2 min
- 5:34 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 16:51 into the third periodMike Lalor · cross checking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 12Serge BoisvertR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Steve RooneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 36Sergio MomessoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 31 | 4 | .871 |
| 37Steve PenneyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8David FenyvesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Chris LangevinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tom BarrassoG | L | 26 | 5 | .808 |