The Buffalo Sabres eked out a victory over the Montreal Canadiens, 5 to 4, in a shootout on October 6, 2006.

Final

Canadiens

0-0-1

4

Sabres

2-0-0

5

Team

MTL

BUF

1

0

2

1

3

1

3

SO

0

1

Total

4

5

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

MTL

BUF

Michael Ryder (PP) assisted by Sheldon Souray and Andrei Markov

1

0

2nd period

MTL

BUF

Chris Higgins (EV) assisted by Saku Koivu

2

0

Jiri Novotny (EV) assisted by Thomas Vanek and Jaroslav Spacek

2

1

Saku Koivu (EV) assisted by Michael Ryder and Chris Higgins

3

1

3rd period

MTL

BUF

Jason Pominville (EV) assisted by Jochen Hecht and Toni Lydman

3

2

Saku Koivu (PP) assisted by Chris Higgins and Alex Kovalev

4

2

Daniel Briere (EV) assisted by Dmitri Kalinin

4

3

Maxim Afinogenov (EV) assisted by Thomas Vanek and Chris Drury

4

Canadiens

Sabres

Goals

4

Shots

27

37

Penalty Minutes

10

Power-Play Goals

2

0

Power-Play Opportunities

5

Faceoff Wins

37

29

Hits

10

14

Giveaways

16

22

Takeaways

1

7

Canadiens

Sabres

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Cristobal Huet (O)	1	37	4	33	.892	64:52

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Steve Begin	0	0	-2	0	2	10:19	2	0	0	0
Radek Bonk	0	0	0	0	0	14:33	0	1	3	0
Mathieu Dandenault	0	0	0	0	1	15:31	1	3	0	0
Chris Higgins	1	2	+2	0	3	19:41	0	0	1	0
Mike Johnson	0	0	0	0	0	12:45	0	0	1	0
Saku Koivu	2	1	+1	4	4	19:50	0	1	2	0
Mike Komisarek	0	0	-1	0	2	23:55	2	1	0	0
Alex Kovalev	0	1	-3	0	2	21:17	0	0	0	0
Guillaume Latendresse	0	0	-1	0	0	8:11	0	2	2	0
Andrei Markov	0	1	-1	0	2	27:02	0	2	2	1
Garth Murray	0	0	-1	0	0	8:55	1	0	0	0
Janne Niinimaa	0	0	0	0	0	17:21	0	3	1	0
Alexander Perezhogin	0	0	0	0	0	9:27	1	0	0	0
Tomas Plekanec	0	0	-2	0	3	21:00	0	1	1	0
Craig Rivet	0	0	-1	0	2	22:57	0	2	0	0
Michael Ryder	1	1	+2	2	1	16:35	3	0	0	0
Sergei Samsonov	0	0	-2	0	0	16:48	0	0	0	0
Sheldon Souray	0	1	-1	2	5	22:57	0	0	1	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Ryan Miller (W)	1	27	4	23	.852	64:12

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Maxim Afinogenov	1	0	0	0	3	17:44	1	1	2	1
Daniel Briere	1	0	+2	0	3	23:05	1	0	0	0
Brian Campbell	0	0	0	2	1	23:54	0	0	0	0
Chris Drury	0	1	+1	2	2	19:55	0	1	0	0
Paul Gaustad	0	0	0	0	2	10:19	3	0	2	0
Jochen Hecht	0	1	0	0	3	19:49	0	1	1	0
Dmitri Kalinin	0	1	+1	0	0	14:31	0	2	3	0
Ales Kotalik	0	0	0	0	5	16:50	1	0	2	1
Toni Lydman	0	1	0	0	1	18:32	0	4	4	1
Adam Mair	0	0	0	0	1	8:30	0	0	0	0
Jiri Novotny	1	0	+1	2	3	14:03	3	1	0	1
Teppo Numminen	0	0	+1	2	0	20:03	1	0	2	0
Andrew Peters	0	0	0	2	1	6:25	2	0	0	0
Jason Pominville	1	0	+3	0	2	18:40	1	0	1	0
Derek Roy	0	0	-1	0	2	17:31	0	0	1	2
Jaroslav Spacek	0	1	0	0	3	24:48	1	4	2	0
Henrik Tallinder	0	0	+1	0	0	20:32	0	0	0	0
Thomas Vanek	0	2	+2	0	5	16:08	0	0	2	1