Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 22, 1996 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–1 on Friday, March 22, 1996 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 37–23.
Pierre Turgeon scored twice. Vincent Damphousse, Jason Dawe and Mark Recchi also scored.
Pat Jablonski made 22 saves on 23 shots for the win; Dominik Hasek stopped 33 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Pierre Turgeon (35)Mark Recchi (47), Turner Stevenson (14)1–017:50 MTL ·
2nd period
Vincent Damphousse (32)Martin Rucinsky (38), Pierre Turgeon (48)2–003:47 MTL · 
Jason Dawe (18)Brad May (26), Mark Astley (15)2–104:31 BUF
Mark Recchi (23)Peter Popovic (11), Andrei Kovalenko (24)3–107:32 MTL
3rd period
- Pierre Turgeon (36)Marc Bureau (6), David Wilkie (2)4–119:52 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLBUF
3723
0%0%
2/70/7
6779
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:01 into the first period
Brent Hughes · fighting5 min - 0:01 into the first periodBrent Hughes · game misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first periodScott Pearson · instigator2 min
- 0:01 into the first periodScott Pearson · fighting5 min
- 0:01 into the first periodScott Pearson · game misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first periodScott Pearson · game misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first periodRob Ray · fighting5 min
- 0:01 into the first periodRob Ray · misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first period
Lyle Odelein · fighting5 min - 0:01 into the first periodCraig Rivet · fighting5 min
- 0:01 into the first periodCraig Rivet · game misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 0:01 into the first periodDonald Brashear · misconduct10 min
- 0:01 into the first periodChris Murray · game misconduct10 min
- 1:21 into the first periodBob Boughner · cross checking2 min
- 3:40 into the first periodBrian Savage · interference obstruction2 min
- 4:58 into the first periodVincent Damphousse · holding2 min
- 8:02 into the first periodMark Astley · holding2 min
- 10:10 into the first periodLyle Odelein · hooking2 min
- 11:50 into the first periodBrad May · roughing2 min
- 11:50 into the first periodVincent Damphousse · cross checking2 min
- 14:34 into the first periodBob Boughner · roughing2 min
- 14:34 into the first periodBrad May · high sticking2 min
- 14:34 into the first periodVincent Damphousse · high sticking2 min
- 14:34 into the first periodVincent Damphousse · roughing2 min
- 17:27 into the first periodMark Astley · interference obstruction2 min
- 19:32 into the first periodMartin Rucinsky · boarding2 min
- 2:51 into the second periodMichal Grosek · hooking2 min
- 5:27 into the second periodRob Ray · cross checking2 min
- 5:27 into the second periodRob Ray · high sticking2 min
- 5:27 into the second periodLyle Odelein · high sticking2 min
- 1:04 into the third periodVincent Damphousse · tripping obstruction2 min
- 2:23 into the third periodPat LaFontaine · hooking obstruction2 min
- 6:03 into the third periodRandy Burridge · high sticking2 min
- 10:33 into the third periodLyle Odelein · roughing2 min
- 15:22 into the third periodDavid Wilkie · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 30Turner StevensonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27David WilkieD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 35Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 57Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 53Rory FitzpatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | W | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 10Brad MayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 43Jason DaweR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 21Mark AstleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Brent HughesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Michal GrosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Rob ConnR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Derek PlanteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Scott PearsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 4Bob BoughnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Darryl ShannonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Mike WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Andrei TrefilovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Dominik HasekG | L | 36 | 3 | .917 |