Montreal 4, Buffalo 3, OT

Preview - Box Score - Recap

	1 2 3 OT Total Montreal 0 1 2 1 4 Final  Buffalo 0 1 2 0 3 OT

Scoring Summary
1st Period
None
2nd Period
Buffalo	2:25, Drew Stafford 16 (Derek Roy, Andrej Sekera)
Montreal	19:23, Alexei Kovalev 34 (Mikhail Grabovski, Francis Bouillon)
3rd Period
Buffalo	5:30, Nathan Paetsch 2 (Derek Roy, Thomas Vanek)
Buffalo	7:15, Daniel Paille 19 (Jason Pominville)
Montreal	17:29, Tomas Plekanec 28 (power play) (Mark Streit, Alexei Kovalev)
Montreal	19:45, Tomas Plekanec 29 (Mark Streit, Andrei Kostitsyn)
OT Period
Montreal	3:38, Christopher Higgins 24 (Mark Streit, Saku Koivu)

Team		Shots on Goal							Faceoffs				Power Plays
		1st	2nd	3rd	OT	Total			Won	Lost			Converted	Total
Montreal		5	8	14	2	29			36	35			1	2
Buffalo		11	16	11	0	38			35	36			0	6

Montreal  Goalies       Shots   Saves    C. Price  38   35   Skaters TOI G A +/- SOG PIM    S. Begin  14:06 0 0 0 1 0    F. Bouillon  20:52 0 1 +1 0 0    J. Gorges  23:33 0 0 0 2 0    M. Grabovski  13:49 0 1 -1 0 0    R. Hamrlik  25:44 0 0 -2 2 0    C. Higgins  15:52 1 0 0 7 0    S. Koivu  15:14 0 1 +1 0 0    S. Kostitsyn  13:54 0 0 -1 0 2    A. Kostitsyn  16:02 0 1 +2 0 0    T. Kostopoulos  12:17 0 0 0 2 0    A. Kovalev  21:03 1 1 +1 3 2    M. Lapierre  11:24 0 0 -2 1 0    A. Markov  24:01 0 0 +2 0 2    R. O'Byrne  14:16 0 0 -1 0 0    T. Plekanec  21:37 2 0 +1 6 0    M. Ryder  12:21 0 0 -1 1 2    B. Smolinski  11:10 0 0 0 2 0    M. Streit  18:11 0 3 0 2 0

Buffalo  Goalies       Shots   Saves    R. Miller  29   25   Skaters TOI G A +/- SOG PIM    M. Afinogenov  13:56 0 0 +1 0 0    S. Bernier  15:21 0 0 0 3 0    P. Gaustad  16:12 0 0 0 3 0    J. Hecht  21:32 0 0 -1 3 0    P. Kaleta  09:38 0 0 +1 1 0    A. Kotalik  18:35 0 0 0 3 2    T. Lydman  25:33 0 0 -1 6 0    A. Mair  09:05 0 0 0 2 0    N. Paetsch  09:45 1 0 0 1 0    D. Paille  13:39 1 0 -1 2 0    J. Pominville  24:31 0 1 -1 1 0    N. Pratt  10:41 0 0 +1 1 0    D. Roy  21:15 0 2 0 4 0    A. Sekera  27:13 0 1 +1 1 2    D. Stafford  11:08 1 0 +1 2 0    H. Tallinder  21:38 0 0 -2 1 0    T. Vanek  15:24 0 1 +1 1 2    M. Weber  24:13 0 0 +1 3 0

Penalty Summary
1st Period
Montreal	slashing - 2 min	8:57, S. Kostitsyn
Montreal	roughing - 2 min	11:51, A. Markov
2nd Period
Montreal	interference - 2 min	3:35, M. Ryder
Montreal	too many men on the ice - 2 min	7:01, Bench served by M. Grabovski
Buffalo	closing hand on puck - 2 min	7:08, A. Sekera
Montreal	holding the stick - 2 min	8:42, A. Kovalev
Buffalo	interference - 2 min	12:51, T. Vanek
3rd Period
Buffalo	tripping - 2 min	16:16, A. Kotalik
OT Period
None

Updated on Saturday, Mar 29, 2008 4:18 am ET