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Friday, October 6, 2006 · HSBC Arena

Canadiens 4 at Sabres 5

Final/SO

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 83OVR Chris Higgins Canadiens First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 83OVR Saku Koivu Canadiens Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG L 98OVR Thomas Vanek Sabres Third Star 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:00 Michael Ryder (1) PPG Sheldon Souray (1), Andrei Markov (1) · Snap MTL 1 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 3:50 Chris Higgins (1) Saku Koivu (1) · Snap MTL 2 – 0 BUF
  2. 6:57 Jiri Novotny (1) Thomas Vanek (1), Jaroslav Spacek (1) · Snap MTL 2 – 1 BUF
  3. 18:04 Saku Koivu (1) Michael Ryder (1), Chris Higgins (1) · Tip-in MTL 3 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:51 Jason Pominville (1) Jochen Hecht (1), Toni Lydman (1) · Slap MTL 3 – 2 BUF
  2. 11:27 Saku Koivu (2) PPG Chris Higgins (2), Alex Kovalev (1) · Snap MTL 4 – 2 BUF
  3. 15:16 Daniel Brière (1) Dmitri Kalinin (1) · Snap MTL 4 – 3 BUF
  4. 19:45 Maxim Afinogenov (1) Thomas Vanek (2), Chris Drury (1) · Snap MTL 4 – 4 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Higgins L 1 2 3 0 0 +2 19:41 2.48
Saku Koivu C 2 1 4 0 1 +1 19:50 2.23
Michael Ryder R 1 1 1 3 0 +2 16:35 1.60
Andrei Markov D 0 1 2 0 2 -1 27:02 0.68
Sheldon Souray D 0 1 5 0 0 -1 22:57 0.65
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 2 0 0 -3 21:17 0.33
Mathieu Dandenault R 0 0 1 1 3 0 15:31 0.23
Janne Niinimaa D 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:21 0.10
Craig Rivet D 0 0 2 0 2 -1 22:57 0.10
Mike Komisarek D 0 0 2 2 1 -1 23:55 0.05
Alexander Perezhogin R 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:27 0.00
Mike Johnson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:45 -0.05
Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 3 0 1 -2 21:00 -0.08
Radek Bonk C 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:33 -0.10
Steve Begin L 0 0 2 2 0 -2 10:19 -0.15
Garth Murray C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 8:55 -0.15
Guillaume Latendresse L 0 0 0 0 2 -1 8:11 -0.15
Sergei Samsonov L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 16:48 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Cristobal Huet O 37 33 4 .892 64:52 0.30

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Thomas Vanek L 0 2 5 0 0 +2 16:08 1.88
Jason Pominville R 1 0 2 1 0 +3 18:40 1.30
Daniel Brière C 1 0 3 1 0 +2 23:05 1.28
Jiri Novotny C 1 0 3 3 1 +1 14:03 1.08
Maxim Afinogenov R 1 0 3 1 1 0 17:44 0.98
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 1 3 1 4 0 24:48 0.95
Jochen Hecht C 0 1 3 0 1 0 19:49 0.85
Chris Drury C 0 1 2 0 1 +1 19:55 0.83
Toni Lydman D 0 1 1 0 4 0 18:32 0.75
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 1 0 0 2 +1 14:31 0.73
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 5 1 0 0 16:50 0.33
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 20:32 0.15
Adam Mair C 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:30 0.08
Derek Roy C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 17:31 0.05
Paul Gaustad C 0 0 2 3 0 0 10:19 0.05
Andrew Peters L 0 0 1 2 0 0 6:25 -0.08
Brian Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 0 23:54 -0.08
Teppo Numminen D 0 0 0 1 0 +1 20:03 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller W 27 23 4 .852 64:12 -0.70