Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, March 4, 2009 · HSBC Arena
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Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–1 on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at HSBC Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 39–27.
Derek Roy scored twice and Paul Gaustad scored twice. Jaroslav Spacek and Tomas Plekanec also scored.
Patrick Lalime made 38 saves on 39 shots for the win; Carey Price stopped 22 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Derek Roy (23)Jaroslav Spacek (24), Tim Connolly (16)0–117:53 BUF ·
2nd period
- Derek Roy (24)Daniel Paille (12)0–202:59 BUF
Jaroslav Spacek (7)Unassisted0–309:07 BUF
3rd period
Paul Gaustad (8)Craig Rivet (17), Maxim Afinogenov (11)0–406:10 BUF · - Paul Gaustad (9)Unassisted0–511:03 BUF ·
Tomas Plekanec (18)Roman Hamrlik (22)1–518:54 MTL
Team stats
MTLBUF
3927
56%44%
0/52/3
812
1619
1014
811
36
Penalties
- 0:35 into the first period
Paul Gaustad · interference2 min - 7:50 into the first periodDerek Roy · tripping2 min
- 12:44 into the first periodAndrej Sekera · tripping2 min
- 17:35 into the first period
Mathieu Schneider · delaying game puck over glass2 min - 19:43 into the first periodThomas Vanek · cross checking2 min
- 11:45 into the second periodPatrick Kaleta · roughing2 min
- 11:45 into the second periodMike Komisarek · roughing2 min
- 5:58 into the third periodMike Komisarek · tripping2 min
- 7:32 into the third periodTom Kostopoulos · hooking2 min
- 10:49 into the third periodTim Connolly · interference2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:42 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:45 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:00 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:46 |
| 15Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:22 |
| 17Georges LaraqueR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:17 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 18:09 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:38 |
| 36Matt D'AgostiniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:21 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18:08 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 14:17 |
| 70Gregory StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:48 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:04 |
| 24Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 24:00 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:25 |
| 71Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:22 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 25:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | L | 27 | 5 | .815 |
| 38Marc DenisG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 9Derek RoyC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 20:55 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 16:42 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 17:19 |
| 19Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 16:19 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:13 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:49 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:50 |
| 21Drew StaffordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:34 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:50 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:42 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:23 |
| 36Patrick KaletaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:06 |
| 41Clarke MacArthurL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 07:44 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:44 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 21:41 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:40 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:28 |
| 44Andrej SekeraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:01 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Mikael TellqvistG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | W | 39 | 1 | .974 |