Top Cheddar 2026-27

Thursday, January 15, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Canadiens 3 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

C 96OVR Tage Thompson Sabres First Star 3G · 2A · 3 SOG R 83OVR Josh Doan Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG R 93OVR Alex Tuch Sabres Third Star 1G · 1 SOG · 4 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:11 Cole Caufield (22) Noah Dobson (21) · Wrist MTL 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 4:05 Tage Thompson (23) PPG Noah Ostlund (7), Jason Zucker (11) · Snap MTL 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 10:30 Josh Doan (15) PPG Tage Thompson (23), Noah Ostlund (8) · Wrist MTL 1 – 2 BUF
  4. 14:20 Ivan Demidov (11) PPG Lane Hutson (38), Nick Suzuki (37) · Slap MTL 2 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 3:05 Nick Suzuki (15) PPG Lane Hutson (39), Cole Caufield (23) · Snap MTL 3 – 2 BUF
  2. 8:55 Alex Tuch (16) Tage Thompson (24), Rasmus Dahlin (27) · Snap MTL 3 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 5:12 Tage Thompson (24) Josh Doan (19) · Snap MTL 3 – 4 BUF
  2. 18:20 Tage Thompson (25) EN Zach Benson (17) · Wrist MTL 3 – 5 BUF

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cole Caufield R 1 1 5 0 0 -1 19:17 1.55
Nick Suzuki C 1 1 2 0 0 -1 22:17 1.33
Lane Hutson D 0 2 1 0 2 -1 25:55 0.98
Ivan Demidov R 1 0 3 0 0 -1 16:10 0.78
Noah Dobson D 0 1 0 0 4 -1 21:39 0.68
Sammy Blais L 0 0 2 4 1 0 7:29 0.25
Alexandre Texier L 0 0 3 1 0 0 13:45 0.22
Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 3 0 1 0 16:02 0.17
Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 3 0 0 0 10:58 0.07
Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 3 1 0 11:12 0.05
Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 0 4 -1 21:00 0.05
Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 6 0 0 10:29 0.00
Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 1 1 2 -1 18:14 -0.02
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 1 1 0 14:56 -0.10
Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 13:27 -0.15
Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 5 0 -1 12:04 -0.15
Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 22:32 -0.20
Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 3 2 -2 14:58 -0.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacob Fowler L 26 22 4 .846 58:08 -0.80

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tage Thompson C 3 2 3 0 1 +2 20:43 3.98
Josh Doan R 1 1 1 1 0 +1 16:55 1.65
Noah Ostlund C 0 2 3 0 0 0 17:21 1.48
Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 4 0 +1 18:44 0.93
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 2 0 2 0 27:39 0.83
Zach Benson L 0 1 2 1 0 +1 16:06 0.78
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 4 0 1 +2 25:24 0.55
Jason Zucker L 0 1 0 1 1 0 14:27 0.53
Owen Power D 0 0 3 1 0 0 23:04 0.32
Zach Metsa D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 7:38 0.22
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 10:55 0.15
Tyson Kozak C 0 0 2 3 0 0 9:22 0.15
Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 2 5 0 0 8:45 0.10
Ryan McLeod C 0 0 1 1 0 0 18:29 0.08
Jack Quinn R 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:21 0.02
Bowen Byram D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 25:05 -0.08
Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 3 1 0 11:10 -0.10
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:02 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Colten Ellis W 23 20 3 .870 59:47 -0.25