Buffalo Sabres vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Tuesday, December 5, 2000 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 3–2 on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 at Centre Molson. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 32–22.
Goals came from Dave Andreychuk, Stephane Robidas, James Patrick, Denis Hamel and Trevor Linden.
Martin Biron made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Jose Theodore stopped 19 of 22.
Scoring
2nd period
Dave Andreychuk (6)Denis Hamel (2), Rob Ray (1)1–011:05 BUF
Stephane Robidas (2)Oleg Petrov (7), Trevor Linden (12)1–114:17 MTL
James Patrick (1)Miroslav Satan (11)2–119:53 BUF
3rd period
Denis Hamel (3)Vaclav Varada (6), James Patrick (8)3–107:30 BUF
Trevor Linden (5)Dainius Zubrus (8), Patrice Brisebois (11)3–219:21 MTL ·
Team stats
BUFMTL
2232
46%54%
0/31/4
86
2718
197
3230
1211
Penalties
- 13:27 into the first period
Benoit Brunet · cross checking2 min - 14:39 into the first period
Chris Gratton · tripping2 min - 6:34 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · boarding2 min
- 0:13 into the third periodMartin Rucinsky · high sticking2 min
- 12:43 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · hooking2 min
- 18:06 into the third periodCurtis Brown · slashing2 min
- 18:33 into the third periodVaclav Varada · elbowing2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 55Denis HamelL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 09:25 |
| 3James PatrickD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 15:04 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:43 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 07:01 |
| 52Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 12:16 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:29 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:37 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:07 |
| 29Vladimir TsyplakovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:24 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:17 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:25 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:46 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:48 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:53 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 17:11 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:04 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:57 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:51 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dominik HasekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 14Trevor LindenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23:16 |
| 15Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 21:18 |
| 32Oleg PetrovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:49 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 27:39 |
| 56Stephane RobidasD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:39 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:50 |
| 20P.J. StockC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:33 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 20:30 |
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:23 |
| 35Andrei BashkirovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:45 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:00 |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:51 |
| 63Craig DarbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:29 |
| 78Eric LandryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:30 |
| 22Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 23:48 |
| 24Christian LaflammeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:42 |
| 28Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:03 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:09 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mathieu GaronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | L | 22 | 3 | .864 |