Canadiens vs. Sabres | NHL Playoff Highlights | Game 5 | May 14, 2026

four of their six wins respectively have come on the road.History tells us how important tonight's game is since postseason expansion in 1980 with the series tied at two.I want to ricochets wide and off to the corner boards.Krebs is on it there.Buffalo has been a fast starting team in this series and in this postseason.Three times in the first four games of this series.

They have scored in the opening seven minutes as Timmons pinches in.Hellenus, Rister off the outside of the goal.Picked up by Quinn.Jack Quinn gets away from Carrier.Zucker took a tumble.Timmons across.

Settled down.Rister.Score!Another Earl Buffalo Savers.Jack Quinn put it up.Jason Zucker may have gotten a piece on the way through.

Anything can happen when you put it towards the feet.Quinn is the one that starts it.plays it to the point, D to D, and watch where it ends up going there.Dahlin ends up going to the left of the goaltender, and the shot was a smart one here from Quinn, who's had a rough bit of luck.Oh my goodness, one skate, two skates, and into the net.

Dobson, fencing on him.This one got ahead for Dock.Timmons closing on Dock, who drags and shoots.A high riser fought off by the collarbone of Uko Pekalukanen.Slapkowski all over him and Slapkowski comes up with it.Suzuki touched it out high.

Hudson moves laterally across the zone, then snaps it to the net.Rebound, Luke, and it made the Savon Caulfield in tight.

What a smart play by Hudson to walk the line like he did right there.

So quick, his ability to open up that shooting lane.

Suzuki and Byram, they grab one another.Turned over, here's Suzuki, takes a minute, they score!Suzuki found Caulfield and ties it up.

Goals for and goals against.Suzuki wasn't in a hurry to get there on Byram and it looked like Timmons and the Buffalo Sabres were in good shape there, Shane.But one missed cue.

Caulfield had gone 14 consecutive games.without an even strength goal as Dock got it knocked down at the side of the net.Pop free in the crease.Another opportunity played out to the line.Matheson, Rister, Lukanen makes the save and hangs on.Second only Nathan McKinnon.

Shot by Thompson.Swallowed up by Ukopeka.Lukanen has already seen eight shots fired his way.Norris checks it out for power.Opens up a shot.Lay loose in the slot.

Doan has it.Power had to reload.Then Doan SCORES!Josh Dome got the one -timer through along the ice, and Buffalo reclaims the lead just more than a minute after Montreal had tied it.

And you can see that Benson keeps it alive, Norris plays it behind the net, it actually goes off the heel of a stick of Suzuki, and then right to power, and then keep your eye on the right side, shot, It's a battle in front.

Caulfield made a weak play that led to the turnover.These teams have the ability.If you're not going to manage the puck, they'll make you pay.That's exactly what the Sabres just did as they're back up 2 -1.

Ashton, his third of the playoffs, and Montreal responds immediately!Nine seconds later, and we're tied again!

Strange way to start this one.And into the net, and then here, you can see the battle in the corner.Dinot just plays it to the front.This is play, this is about 9 -0.wide, as you can see by Carrier.And it goes off the left skate of Texier.

Texier didn't even know it went in.Watch, he's just in the battle in front.There's a good shot.And yeah, that one off the skate.

This is in the slot for Hellenews.Re -gathers, he scores!Everything going in.Great shots have gone for the Sabres.

change on the Canadian side we'll see about that the entry into the zone was a good one and then just in the slot I mean it's just an innocent looking wrist shot right here on net after the pass for Samuelson and the goaltender obviously wasn't alert wasn't prepared for it and his stick position was a little off and it goes underneath him.

It's Mallenstein and Gooley still battling he got it to the front for McLeod couldn't handle the pass.McLeod got that one through Rister.Oh, that one hit greenways.He was knocked to the ice by Jack guy for Hellenus.Now it's Rasmus Darlene opens up, takes his time, takes a look, pass across, kicked out by Dolbus.Oh, he's been, oh my, the way he drifted over for that last Sabre's chance.

Here's Byram, lost control of it just as he got to the dangerous area of the ice.Krebs and Slapkowski tie up and go down.Thompson takes the puck.Tate Thompson, middle of the ice.Here's Krebs!Saved by Dobish.

Tuck off the bench to try and keep the pressure on.The puck was held in by Samuelson.And Norris gets a shot away that leaks off the arm of Dobish.Then Byram comes in with a change of direction.His wrister punched away by Dobish.Another chance to clear not out for Montreal as Matheson had it and lost it.

Now Caulfield across the ice.Hudson will go with the high, flipper to safety.Good sustained pressure by Buffalo.Look out.Here's Thompson behind the disc.

Save as he hung with them all.the crease like the Montreal Canadiens after a long long shift a minute 28 seconds look like they were on their way to safety instead the puck goes the other way and tage Thompson with a little shake and bake but he doesn't hoist it over the pad he doesn't lift it up nearly high enough right here although it looks like he's got the goalie beat to the glove side to more sustained ozone time for Buffalo this one sent through the crease they score Josh Anderson got himself free at the side of the net And Montreal has tied it.Ozone faceoff.Great play by Hudson.He's going to be on the left side.Sees Anderson on the weak side of the ice.

The faceoff win by Deneau.Here's the play on the strong side there by, oh, Hudson.He makes it look easy.Boy, the Buffalo Sabres guilty of all looking at the puck, every one of them, and no one sees Anderson.Oh, great job by Deneau.Look at him in front.

Oh, yeah.Helenus, he just kind of drives him back.That opens up one of the crazier goals I've seen.

Evans, Carrier, back, save, and keep it tied.And it takes one off the board.Carrier to Demidov, and it wouldn't go.From each side, Buffalo fed the side of the net in the crease, it wouldn't go.McLeod danced his way in.Bounced off of Dobich.

For me, they've been their best line.Best and most consistent.Yep.Here's Demidov, who's been sniffing it.Skolkinen jammed across the line by Demidov.and Montreal has taken the lead.

All the way from the defensive zone for the Montreal Canadiens a curl up move right there by Demidov who has had some tough luck in scoring this one here although it wasn't or didn't have enough to get across the goal and it needed to be pushed in there right into his face but there was no need to even go there for Thompson.Well away from the play.

Montreal to the power play.They went one for seven in game four.Suzuki scores!It took 10 seconds off the draw and the Canadians have scored three in a row and taken a 5 -3 lead.

whether it's a even strength or on the power play.Suzuki just plays it back.Hudson has no time, so he just dumps it down to Slapkowski.And this battle here looked like Power might have won it, and with one hand on his stick, I don't know how Slapkowski got it over to him so perfectly.And it goes underneath the pad of the goaltender.

Dahlin wants more.His pass broken up.Suzuki just wants it out of the zone.Look out, though.Here's Slapkowski and Hudson.Slapkowski off the ball!

He doesn't take it.And then it's coughed up by Demidov.Hudson just reacts to try and keep it alive.Here's Slavkovsky off a missed clear.Demidov, score!The first playoff goal for Ivan Demidov.

And the lead has grown here for the Hat.

the forward right there, and I'm sure Lyon, oh, he can't see this, it's a flash screen from his own guy, Timmons, who just goes to the right, and that screen's the goal.

Flip back in, Montreal content to just keep chucking this puck deep in the Buffalo zone.

Well, rolling four lines right now with the lead, and we talked to Marty St. Louis, talked about, they weren't on the ice yesterday or today.

Quinn with the toe drag at the outside of the post.Adol in the corner, and it came to tuck.Shot was headed wide, Dobich made sure.Going for Tate Thompson.He'll slide it down low.Doan wanted the front.

It was Matheson.Then they got it in chance for Norris.Dobish kept it out, and the rebound forced out of the zone.The goalie found his game.

They took over this game halfway through the second.

Montreal moves one win away from a trip to the Eastern Conference Final, and they are headed home with a chance to close it out on Saturday night.