Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres

Regular season · Friday, March 28, 2008 · HSBC Arena

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4–3

29–38

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Game summary

The Montréal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–3 in overtime on Friday, March 28, 2008 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Canadiens 38–29.

Tomas Plekanec scored twice. Drew Stafford, Alex Kovalev, Nathan Paetsch, Daniel Paille and Chris Higgins also scored.

Goals
MTL	0	1	2	1	4	29
BUF	0	1	2	0	3	38

Scoring

2nd period

Drew Stafford (16)Derek Roy (44), Andrej Sekera (4)0–102:25 BUF
Alex Kovalev (34)Mikhail Grabovski (6), Francis Bouillon (6)1–119:23 MTL

3rd period

Nathan Paetsch (2)Derek Roy (45), Thomas Vanek (27)1–205:30 BUF
Daniel Paille (19)Jason Pominville (51)1–307:15 BUF
Tomas Plekanec (28)Mark Streit (44), Alex Kovalev (47)2–317:29 MTL ·
Tomas Plekanec (29)Mark Streit (45), Andrei Kostitsyn (27)3–319:45 MTL

Overtime

Chris Higgins (24)Mark Streit (46), Saku Koivu (40)4–303:38 MTL

Team stats

MTLBUF

2938

51%49%

1/20/5

106

2428

165

1411

37

Penalties

8:57 into the first periodSergei Kostitsyn · slashing2 min
11:51 into the first periodAndrei Markov · roughing2 min
3:35 into the second periodMichael Ryder · interference2 min
7:01 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
7:08 into the second periodAndrej Sekera · closing hand on puck2 min
8:42 into the second periodAlex Kovalev · holding the stick2 min
12:51 into the second periodThomas Vanek · interference2 min
16:16 into the third periodAles Kotalik · tripping2 min

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