Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, April 4, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–2 on Friday, April 4, 1986 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.
Goals came from Doug Smith, Dave Andreychuk, Mike Foligno, John Tucker, Mats Naslund and Chris Chelios.
Jacques Cloutier made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Doug Soetaert stopped 12 of 15.
Scoring
1st period
Doug Smith (18)Gilbert Perreault (37), Jacques Cloutier (2)0–108:49 BUF · 
Dave Andreychuk (36)John Tucker (34)0–209:47 BUF
2nd period
Mike Foligno (41)Gilbert Perreault (38)0–310:07 BUF
John Tucker (31)Dave Andreychuk (51), Hannu Virta (22)0–415:31 BUF
3rd period
Mats Naslund (43)Brian Skrudland (13)1–408:22 MTL
Chris Chelios (8)Chris Nilan (15), Larry Robinson (62)2–418:53 MTL
Team stats
MTLBUF
2424
0%0%
0/41/4
2321
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:58 into the first period
Stephane Richer · high sticking2 min - 14:17 into the first periodChris Nilan · holding2 min
- 15:37 into the first periodLarry Robinson · tripping2 min
- 16:48 into the first period
Mike Foligno · roughing double minor4 min - 16:48 into the first periodMike Ramsey · hooking2 min
- 16:48 into the first periodBrian Skrudland · roughing double minor4 min
- 2:16 into the second periodBill Hajt · tripping2 min
- 4:41 into the second periodChris Nilan · slashing2 min
- 12:34 into the second periodGaetano Orlando · slashing2 min
- 12:34 into the second periodBrian Skrudland · slashing2 min
- 11:12 into the third periodHannu Virta · holding2 min
- 15:14 into the third periodBill Hajt · fighting5 min
- 15:14 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · fighting5 min
- 16:09 into the third periodGaetano Orlando · tripping2 min
- 19:42 into the third periodRic Seiling · delaying game2 min
- 19:42 into the third periodChris Nilan · charging2 min
- 19:42 into the third periodBobby Smith · delaying game2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | L | 15 | 3 | .800 |
| 33Patrick RoyG | 9 | 1 | .889 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 7John TuckerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | W | 24 | 2 | .917 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |