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Cole Caufield scored twice, including the overtime winner, to lift the Montreal Canadiens past the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 on Saturday night.
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Caufield → score → night
Caufield went on a breakaway after Josh Norris missed his shot on a three-on-one rush before ripping a shot into the top-left corner 54 seconds into the extra period.
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Norris → go → period
Zachary Bolduc and Alexandre Texier also scored as Montreal (4-3-1) built a two-goal lead before Buffalo stormed back.
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Buffalo → score → lead
Juraj Slafkovsky and Alexandre Carrier added two assists each.
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Slafkovsky → add → assists
Jacob Fowler stopped 23 shots in his fourth start in five games.
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Fowler → stop → games
Jack Quinn, Tage Thompson and Norris replied for Buffalo (4-3-2), which fell 4-3 in a shootout to the Canadiens on Tuesday.
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which → reply → Tuesday
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 30 saves.
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Luukkonen → make → saves
Thompson tied the game 3-3 with 9:48 remaining in the third period after Josh Doan found him alone at the side of the net to eventually force overtime.
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Doan → tie → overtime
Norris opened the scoring for the Sabres at 8:21 in a sluggish first period for the Canadiens, tallying his second goal this season on a rebound after Montreal defenceman David Reinbacher turned the puck over in the neutral zone.
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Reinbacher → open → zone
The Canadiens broke out of a sluggish start with a tying goal on their first shot.
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Canadiens → break → shot
Bolduc was promoted to Montreal’s top power-play unit and tipped in Nick Suzuki’s wrist shot at 11:45 of the opening period for his fourth of the campaign.
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Bolduc → promote → campaign
Caufield made it 2-1 for Montreal at 14:01 when he hammered a shot past an unsuspecting Luukkonen after Slafkovsky beat Olen Zellweger to a loose puck behind Buffalo’s net.
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Slafkovsky → make → net
Texier buried a rebound at 7:39 in the second period.
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Texier → bury → period
Quinn responded two minutes later with a short-handed goal assisted by Zach Benson after a heads-up dump-in from Mattias Samuelsson, cutting Montreal’s lead to 3-2 after 40 minutes.
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Quinn → respond → minutes
Reinbacher and forward Oliver Kapanen made their season debuts for Montreal.
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Reinbacher → make → Montreal
A fifth overall draft pick in 2023, Reinbacher played his third NHL game after beginning this season in the American Hockey League.
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Reinbacher → play → League
Kapanen, meanwhile, missed the Canadiens’ first seven games due to a lower-body injury.
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Kapanen → miss → injury
He scored 22 goals in 82 games as a rookie in 2025-26.
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He → score → 2025
Quinn stayed hot, scoring his fifth of the season after a four-point outburst in Thursday’s 5-4 comeback win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime.
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Quinn → stay → overtime
The 25-year-old winger from Ottawa scored a career-high 20 goals last season.
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winger → score → goals
KEY MOMENT
The Sabres went on the power play with 2:17 remaining in regulation after Slafkovsky tripped Jiri Kulich but couldn’t capitalize despite spending the majority of the time in Montreal’s zone.
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Slafkovsky → go → zone
KEY STAT
Suzuki has registered a point in 10 consecutive regular-season games against the Sabres.
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Suzuki → register → Sabres
Sabres: Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday.
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Sabres → host → Wednesday
Canadiens: Host the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
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Canadiens → host → Tuesday
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2026.
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report → publish → Press
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