{"id":422801,"date":"2026-01-23T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/422801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:53:05","slug":"liveblog-habs-outshooting-sabres-25-11-after-two-periods-down-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/422801\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblog: Habs outshooting Sabres 25-11 after two periods, down 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadiens (28-15-7) will get a second chance to stop the streaking Buffalo Sabres (27-17-5) on Thursday night at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Puck drop at 7 p.m. (TSN2, RDS, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Samuel Montembeault gets the nod in goal. He remains undefeated in regulation (4-0-1) since coming back from his AHL conditioning stint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jayden Struble will get a second consecutive start with Arber Xhekaj a healthy scratch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alexandre Texier remains out with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay tuned to this page for updates and game highlights throughout the evening. You can also keep the conversation going over on our livestream on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Buffalo\u2019s first shot, Jason Zucker beat Montembeault on a 2-on-1 to give his club a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sabres took a 2-0 lead with a shorthanded goal by Beck Malenstyn. He blew by Noah Dobson to score with four seconds left in the Montreal power play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the second period, Zach Benson scored Buffalo\u2019s third goal on nine shots on Montembeault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just 1:31 later, the Habs got on the board. Cole Caufield scored his 26th of the season. 3-1 Sabres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coach Martin St. Louis gave Zachary Bolduc a shift on the top line and it paid off: he made the initial shot and Nick Suzuki potted the rebound to make it a one-goal game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens (28-15-7) will get a second chance to stop the streaking Buffalo Sabres (27-17-5) on Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[37568,2002,407,11080,1107,229,5133,265,971,5,638,11079,410,264,4,975,778,1108,906,1712,4023,1484],"class_list":{"0":"post-422801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-buffalo-sabres","7":"tag-98-5-fm","8":"tag-alexandre-texier","9":"tag-arber-xhekaj","10":"tag-beck-malenstyn","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-buffalo-sabres","13":"tag-buffalosabres","14":"tag-canadiens","15":"tag-cole-caufield","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-ivan-demidov","18":"tag-jason-zucker","19":"tag-jayden-struble","20":"tag-montreal","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-nick-suzuki","23":"tag-noah-dobson","24":"tag-sabres","25":"tag-samuel-montembeault","26":"tag-tage-thompson","27":"tag-zach-benson","28":"tag-zachary-bolduc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115942156204703414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}