Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, January 17, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 in overtime on Friday, January 17, 1986 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 35–31.
Gaetano Orlando scored twice. John Tucker, Larry Robinson, Bobby Smith, Hannu Virta, Chris Nilan, Guy Carbonneau and Pat Hughes also scored.
Tom Barrasso made 31 saves on 35 shots for the win; Patrick Roy stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
John Tucker (17)Normand Lacombe (3), Phil Housley (20)0–101:07 BUF
Larry Robinson (14)Ryan Walter (24), Kjell Dahlin (28)1–102:39 MTL · 
Bobby Smith (19)Larry Robinson (39), Tom Kurvers (15)2–116:03 MTL
2nd period
Gaetano Orlando (9)Gilles Hamel (21), Bob Halkidis (4)2–202:03 BUF
Hannu Virta (5)Dave Andreychuk (24)2–312:44 BUF
Chris Nilan (8)Bob Gainey (14), Guy Carbonneau (21)3–317:48 MTL
3rd period
Guy Carbonneau (14)Bob Gainey (15), Mike Lalor (5)4–306:08 MTL
Pat Hughes (3)Bob Halkidis (5), Phil Housley (21)4–412:11 BUF
Overtime
- Gaetano Orlando (10)Hannu Virta (14)4–501:11 BUF
Team stats
MTLBUF
3531
0%0%
1/30/4
810
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:03 into the first period
Gilles Hamel · slashing2 min - 4:48 into the first periodDave Andreychuk · roughing2 min
- 4:48 into the first period
Petr Svoboda · high sticking2 min - 4:48 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · roughing2 min
- 10:08 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · slashing2 min
- 13:57 into the first periodRic Seiling · interference2 min
- 18:22 into the first periodRic Seiling · elbowing2 min
- 0:59 into the third periodBob Gainey · cross checking2 min
- 1:12 into the third periodJohn Tucker · high sticking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Randy BucykC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve RooneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Bob HalkidisD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 26Pat HughesR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 32Normand LacombeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 35 | 4 | .886 |
| 35Daren PuppaG | 0 | 0 | – |