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Habs : Canadiens grab Game 1 from Lightning on Weise's OT goal

Source : Cbssports.com

Down one goal, Montreal battled back -- twice. Up one, it faltered -- twice. Dale Weise then put the Tampa Bay Lightning away for the night.

Weise scored 18:08 into overtime and Carey Price stopped nine shots in the extra period, giving the Canadiens a 5-4 victory in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal playoff series on Wednesday.

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"We kept our composure. We didn't want to get out of our game plan," Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. "The players stuck to our game plan, and we got rewarded in the end."

Daniel Briere passed from behind the net to Weise in the right circle, and he beat Anders Lindback for the winning score. Lindback stopped 39 of 44 shots while filling in for injured goaltender Ben Bishop.

"I can't remember the last time I had an overtime goal, so that one feels real good," Weise said. "I was surprised I was so wide open. ... That was a real breakdown on their side."

"I kind of just turned my head and saw a pass come out," Lindback said. "I was a little late on the play, so he buried it on me."

Price stopped 21 shots for the Canadiens, who blew a pair of third-period leads. Brian Gionta had a short-handed goal and Tomas Plekanec, Lars Eller and Thomas Vanek also scored for Montreal.
Steven Stamkos scored twice for Tampa Bay, including the goal that forced overtime.

Game 2 of the best-of-7 series will be Friday night.

"Bad news is, we lost the game. Good news is, one game doesn't win the series," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "We get to come back and regroup."

Three of the four regular-season meetings between the teams were decided in overtime or a shootout, while the fourth was clinched by an empty-net goal.

This one was just as tight, with the Lightning making the most of a limited number of opportunities against Price and the Canadiens overcoming a pair of one-goal deficits before squandering a pair of their own while outshooting Tampa Bay 35-16 in regulation.

"I thought we played a solid game. Nothing was bothering the team," Therrien said. "They capitalized on our breakdowns, but their attitude was good."

Vanek and Eller scored in the third period for Montreal, each giving the Canadiens a lead that Price couldn't protect. Alex Killorn countered for Tampa Bay to make it 3-all, and then fed a perfect pass to
Stamkos for the goal that forced overtime.

Nikita Kucherov scored off a pass from J.T. Brown to give the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 10:09 of the first period. The celebration for the sellout crowd of 19,204 had barely begun when Plekanec angled a well-placed shot past Lindback from the left circle to tie it only 19 seconds later.

Stamkos' seventh career playoff goal gave the Lightning another lead that wouldn't hold up. Plekanec nearly knotted it for the second time when he hit the post less than 30 seconds after Tampa Bay went up 2-1, but Lindback wasn't as fortunate when Gionta gathered a loose puck and skated in on a breakaway for his short-handed goal.

The 6-foot-6 Lindback stopped the first shot, but Gionta scored on the rebound to make it 2-2 at 16:39 of the second.

Bishop missed fourth consecutive game because of a left elbow injury, and his status for the remainder of the series remains uncertain. Cooper said it would be wrong to pin the blame for the Game 1 loss on Lindback, who had only 13 minutes of playoff experience before Wednesday.

"He gives up five, so people are probably going to look and say: 'Oh wow, he gave up five,' " Cooper said.

"Look at the overtime goal, we put him in a tough situation when you leave a guy in front of the net all by himself. Couple of those other goals they scored, we hung him out to dry a little bit. So, it's tough. It's tough for any goalie."
 
Notes

Montreal was 0 for 14 on the power play against Tampa Bay during the regular season. Those problems continued Wednesday night, when the Canadiens were 0 for 2. The Lightning also were 0 for 2 on power-play opportunities. ... Tampa Bay rookie Ondrej Palat left the game with an undisclosed injury. ... Chicago Blackhawks senior adviser Scotty Bowman, a five-time Stanley Cup winner in the 1970s as the Canadiens coach, was at the game. Montreal has won only two Stanley Cups (1986, 1993) since Bowman departed following the 1979 playoffs.

Habs vs Sabres : Sabres upend Canadiens in OT 3-2

Source : Yahoo.com

Jonas Enroth did what was needed to get the Buffalo Sabres a win.

The Buffalo goaltender had stopped 32 shots - including 26 while protecting a lead in the second and third periods - to help the Sabres post a 3-2 overtime victory over the Montreal Canadiens on

Tuesday.

Steve Ott's second goal of the game at 2:16 overtime clinched the victory after Montreal tied the score with a pair of third-period goals.

''I was just trying to focus on the next shot, stay sharp,'' Enroth said. ''It's huge for us and it's good we could finally win a game with a power-play goal.''

The shots didn't tell all of the story of Enroth's workload, as the Canadiens had 24 more attempts that missed the net.

The 24-year-old doesn't get to play a lot behind No. 1 goalie Ryan Miller, but got the start in Montreal largely because he has never lost to the Canadiens. His record is 3-0-0 against the Habs.

''It's actually 4-0 - I won an exhibition game up here too,'' Enroth said with a laugh. ''It's always a lot of fun to play here.

''They've got a really good team this year, so this was probably the toughest win for me.''

Enroth may see more action in coming days. The Sabres have won only twice in their past eight games and Enroth was in net for both. He subbed for a sick Miller in a 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on March 12.

Ott and Tyler Ennis scored in the opening period for Buffalo, which is 5-5-3 under interim coach Ron Rolston since Lindy Ruff was fired Feb. 20.

The Canadiens entered the third period down 2-0, but got goals from Max Pacioretty and Colby Armstrong to tie the game.

But only 17 seconds into overtime, Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban took an open-ice run at Mark

Pysyk and missed, with his stick catching the Sabres defenseman for a high-sticking penalty.

Only two seconds remained on the man advantage when Ott shoveled the puck past Carey Price for the game-winner. The Sabres went into the game with the NHL's worst power play.

Montreal coach Michel Therrien used Subban liberally during the team's comeback, but wasn't impressed with his penalty.

''It's a bad penalty, especially with the effort the guys put in in the second and third,'' Therrien said.

''We're going to take care of that internally and make sure it doesn't happen again.''

The Canadiens ended a five-game winning streak, but still have only one regulation loss in their past 18 games (13-1-4) since a 6-0 loss to Toronto on Feb. 9.

''We went through the motions in the first period,'' Therrien said. ''We weren't at our best, that's for sure.

''But we never quit. I thought the guys worked really hard to make a comeback. Enroth played really well for them. As long as the effort is there, I'm going to be satisfied.''

Sabres scoring leader Thomas Vanek limped to the bench after taking a Christian Ehrhoff point shot off the hip area during a power play eight minutes into the second and did not return. The team said first that he had an upper-body injury, then changed it to lower-body after the game.

''We'll have to go day-to-day,'' Rolston said. ''He's limping around a bit.

''It will probably be a day-to-day, pain-tolerance thing.''

The Canadiens' failure to clear the puck from their zone led to two Buffalo goals in the opening period.

Ott jumped on a loose puck and sent a shot in off the post from the slot at 7:47 and Tyler Myers had a point shot go in off Ennis' stick in front of Price at 18:59.

The Canadiens had an 11-2 shot advantage in the second period but failed to score, with Enroth's best stop coming off Michael Ryder.

Pacioretty finally scored on Montreal's 28th shot 7:04 into the third as he slid a shot in from the edge of the crease after some clever work by Brendan Gallagher behind the net.

Armstrong, with his second goal of the season and second in as many games, then deked to the backhand to beat Enroth at 16:09.

''What you saw in the latter part of the game is where we're at right now,'' Rolston said. ''We had a two-goal lead, we played well, and then the confidence of our team faltered a bit, especially after they got the first one.

''I'm happy we caught ourselves, but that's where we're at right now. We have to build the confidence in those games to be able to finish them off. That's another step.''

Notes: The Canadiens moved Gabriel Dumont to center on the fourth line and promoted Armstrong to the third a game after he scored his first goal of the season. ... Michael Blunden was returned to AHL Hamilton with Michael Ryder back from an injury. ... Tomas Kaberle sat out for Montreal, while Nathan Gerbe and John Scott were Buffalo's scratches. Andrej Sekera missed with an upper-body injury. ... The ceremonial faceoff saw former world boxing champions Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute approach center ice from opposite directions. They fight each other May 25 at the Bell Centre.