November 30th, 2003
Montreal is at home to the (9-12-3) Buffalo Sabres. Montreal has won both meeting this season with Buffalo, 5-4 at the Bell Center and 2-1 in Buffalo.
Montreal RW
Joey Mariani beats the Sabres goalie with a quick shot at 16:10 of the 1st period with his 7th of the year to make it 1-0. Montreal out shoots Buffalo 12-7 and lead 1-0 after the 1st.
Montreal capitalizes on a rebound as C
Dean Casey pots his 4th of the year at 15:45 of the 2nd to take 2-0 lead. Buffalo gets on the board at 18:13 of the 2nd as LW
Greg Meeks beats G
Bill Wolfenbarger from in close to make it 2-1. It was Meeks 11th of the season. That's how the 2nd period ends with the shots now 24-18 for Montreal and the Habs will have a 1:28 of PP time to start the 3rd.
Montreal extends the lead while on the PP, C
Dean Casey sends LW
Randolph Lott in on a breakaway, he goes fore-hand deke and scores for the 4th time this season at 12:23 and Montreal is up 3-1. Montreal goes up 4-1 as C
Jeff Pilbeam tips LW
Randolph Lott's shot at 14:30. For
Pilbeam it was his 4th of the year. Montreal clearly has all the momentum now as they have out shot Buffalo 12-5 in 18 minutes of play in the 3rd. Montreal holds on for the win out shooting Buffalo 40-23.
Montreal 4 Buffalo 1
Montreal LD
Anthony Reynolds has 2 assists and is named the 1st star. Reynolds was a +3 in 17:10 of ice time. The 35 year old has 1 goal and 7 points with 4 PIMs and a +10 rating in 30 games.
Montreal Canadiens C
James Courcy will be out day to day with Migraine headaches. The 20 year old has 1 goal and 3 points with 18 PIMs and a +2 rating in 25 games. Courcy had a career high 16 points with Montreal in 47 games during the 2001-02 season.
New Jersey Devils RW
Magnus Sundstrom was named the NHL Player of the Month. The 31 year old has 13 goals and 24 points with 12 PIMs and a +15 rating in 27 games. Sundstrom had a career high 64 points for the Devils in 72 games during the 2001-02 season.
New Jersey Devils G
Brett Pennington was named the NHL Goalie of the Month. The 27 year old has 8 wins in 16 games with a 2.03 GAA and a .932 SV%. Pennington set a career high with 20 wins last year with the Devils.