Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 2, 2007 · HSBC Arena
RDS · MSG
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 8–5 on Friday, March 2, 2007 at HSBC Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 32–30.
Michael Ryan scored twice, Tomas Plekanec scored twice and Thomas Vanek scored twice. Dmitri Kalinin, Teppo Numminen, Michael Ryder, Radek Bonk, Mark Streit, Derek Roy and Drew Stafford also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Dmitri Kalinin (5)Jason Pominville (25), Jochen Hecht (25)0–101:20 BUF
Michael Ryan (1)Adam Mair (5), Brian Campbell (31)0–201:40 BUF
2nd period
Teppo Numminen (2)Derek Roy (33), Jochen Hecht (26)0–302:30 BUF
Michael Ryder (22)Tomas Plekanec (21), Sheldon Souray (32)1–307:06 MTL · - Michael Ryan (2)Jochen Hecht (27), Teppo Numminen (22)1–407:34 BUF ·
Radek Bonk (11)Mike Johnson (18), Andrei Kostitsyn (2)2–409:03 MTL · 
Mark Streit (8)Mike Komisarek (10), Steve Begin (4)3–409:26 MTL
Derek Roy (13)Teppo Numminen (23), Jason Pominville (26)3–517:07 BUF · 
Tomas Plekanec (15)Andrei Kostitsyn (3), Alex Kovalev (27)4–517:28 MTL
3rd period
Thomas Vanek (33)Derek Roy (34), Toni Lydman (16)4–606:26 BUF- Tomas Plekanec (16)Francis Bouillon (7), Mark Streit (21)5–608:56 MTL ·
Drew Stafford (5)Brian Campbell (32), Derek Roy (35)5–709:35 BUF- Thomas Vanek (34)Drew Stafford (8), Toni Lydman (17)5–819:36 BUF ·
Team stats
MTLBUF
3230
45%55%
3/51/6
1412
2814
1415
1913
37
Penalties
- 3:30 into the first period
Alex Kovalev · slashing2 min - 11:17 into the first periodMathieu Dandenault · hooking2 min
- 14:27 into the first period
Toni Lydman · hooking2 min - 0:29 into the second periodAndrei Markov · tripping2 min
- 6:18 into the second periodPatrick Kaleta · roughing2 min
- 7:06 into the second periodToni Lydman · high sticking2 min
- 14:03 into the second periodPatrick Kaleta · roughing2 min
- 14:03 into the second periodMaxim Lapierre · roughing2 min
- 15:13 into the second periodMathieu Dandenault · hooking2 min
- 18:32 into the second periodMaxim Lapierre · hooking2 min
- 1:19 into the third periodToni Lydman · tripping2 min
- 3:57 into the third periodMike Johnson · tripping2 min
- 7:38 into the third periodBrian Campbell · interference2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.