Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres

Regular season · Friday, October 6, 2006 · HSBC Arena

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4–5

27–37

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Game summary

The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 in a shootout on Friday, October 6, 2006 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Canadiens 37–27.

Saku Koivu scored twice. Michael Ryder, Chris Higgins, Jiri Novotny, Jason Pominville, Daniel Brière and Maxim Afinogenov also scored.

Goals
MTL	1	2	1	0	0	4	27
BUF	0	1	3	0	0	5	37

Scoring

1st period

Michael Ryder (1)Sheldon Souray (1), Andrei Markov (1)1–007:00 MTL ·

2nd period

Chris Higgins (1)Saku Koivu (1)2–003:50 MTL
Jiri Novotny (1)Thomas Vanek (1), Jaroslav Spacek (1)2–106:57 BUF
Saku Koivu (1)Michael Ryder (1), Chris Higgins (1)3–118:04 MTL

3rd period

Jason Pominville (1)Jochen Hecht (1), Toni Lydman (1)3–200:51 BUF
Saku Koivu (2)Chris Higgins (2), Alex Kovalev (1)4–211:27 MTL ·
Daniel Brière (1)Dmitri Kalinin (1)4–315:16 BUF
Maxim Afinogenov (1)Thomas Vanek (2), Chris Drury (1)4–419:45 BUF

Team stats

MTLBUF

2737

56%44%

2/50/5

1010

1014

1614

1622

17

Penalties

6:49 into the first periodAndrew Peters · interference2 min
13:22 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
12:27 into the second periodSheldon Souray · elbowing2 min
12:59 into the second periodSaku Koivu · high sticking2 min
12:59 into the second periodSaku Koivu · high sticking2 min
9:23 into the third periodBrian Campbell · holding2 min
10:15 into the third periodJiri Novotny · interference goalkeeper2 min
10:37 into the third periodTeppo Numminen · hooking2 min
13:11 into the third periodChris Drury · hooking2 min
15:41 into the third periodMichael Ryder · hooking2 min

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