BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Rasmus Dahlin scored 6:27 into the third period to tie the game at 2-2, and the Buffalo Sabres overcame a two-goal deficit to force overtime against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 7 of their second-round playoff series on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Jordan Greenway also scored for Buffalo and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 20 shots through three periods.<\/p>\n
Phillip Danault and Zachary Bolduc scored first-period goals for the Canadiens. Jakub Dobes made 32 saves, including foiling rookie Konsta Helenius set up alone in front with 8:03 remaining.<\/p>\n
The winner advances to the Eastern Conference finals, where they\u2019ll face the well-rested Hurricanes in a series set to open at Carolina on Thursday. The Hurricanes have swept each of their first two series, and been off since a 3-2 overtime win against Philadelphia on May 9.<\/p>\n
Owen Power set up Dahlin’s tying goal by driving toward the net before feeding a pass down low to Dahlin, who snapped a shot into the open side, with Dobes late getting across to his right.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens entered 12-0 when leading by two or more goals in a playoff Game 7. And they’re seeking to win a second seventh game this postseason after a 2-1 first-round series-clinching win at Tampa Bay on May 3.<\/p>\n
The Sabres forced the decisive game by rallying from a 3-1 deficit in an 8-3 win at Montreal on Saturday. With a win, Buffalo would join the 1950 Red Wings in becoming the second NHL team to overcome multigoal deficits in Games 6 and 7 of a series. Detroit did so against the Rangers in the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Rasmus Dahlin scored 6:27 into the third period to tie the game at 2-2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,64531,5,909,11074,4,2668,810,10617,3494,1467,1808,3492,47087,10616,52361,10019,4011,1108,7800,1484],"class_list":["post-578355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-canadiens-sabres-playoffs-score","tag-hockey","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-jordan-greenway","tag-nhl","tag-north-carolina","tag-owen-power","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillip-danault","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","tag-rasmus-dahlin","tag-sabres","tag-ukko-pekka-luukkonen","tag-zachary-bolduc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578355","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=578355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}