Slumping Montreal Canadiens Visit Red-Hot Buffalo Sabres

However, they will quickly realise they need more. So much for that. Veterans Day, celebrated annually by Americans across the USA, is a national holiday on Nov. 11 that allows our southern neighbours to take full advantage of some daytime hockey featuring our Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres teams. Unfortunately for Montreal however, Saturday saw them lose yet again to Toronto Maple Leafs while Buffalo managed a comeback win against Calgary Flames via shootout; Martin St-Louis made changes by moving Juraj Slafkovsky back up front while moving Cole Caufield down. He returned Kaiden Guhle to the left side of defense with David Savard as part of the second pairing and put rookie Lane Hutson alongside Mike Matheson for their initial pairings. Though most may consider him not worthy of top six center status, his play has outshone other available alternatives. Recent changes by this coach have made Newhook much more visible; who knows if that same process wouldn’t also apply to Dach? Furthermore, Samuel Montembeault has started four consecutive games but was defeated each time. Cayden Primeau hasn’t played since Halloween when he led Montreal Canadiens to a 6-3 loss against Washington Capitals. St-Louis confirmed at yesterday’s practice that today would be Primeau’s day between the pipes. So far in his career, 25-year-old Rinne has only faced off against the Sabres once and won, posting an 1.86 goals-against average and an impressive save percentage of 958%. Today is the time when backup goaltenders need to step up big time! Reported by Mike Augello Saturday night: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has had an outstanding season thus far for the Sabres and has recently found himself on an impressive streak, as reported by Mike. Devon Levi of Dollard-des-Ormeaux has found things much harder. After four games played he only has a 3.91 GAA and an impressive save percentage (0.878) against Montreal despite two stellar goaltender performances for their hosts against them both have impressive records against Montreal goaltenders. Luukkonen faced Montreal once and won, posting a 2.00 GAA and.936, while Levi is unbeaten against them with 1.44 GAA and a.953 SP rating. Up front, Tage Thompson, J.J. Peterka and Rasmus Dahlin all currently enjoying three game point streaks. Thompson leads his team with 17 points across 15 games, and two Sabres players – Thompson with 14 in 12 matches against Canadiens, and Alex Tuch with 15 – are point-per-game players against them; Sabres quarterback Rasmus Dahlin enjoyed taking on Montreal, picking up 14 points over 17 games. Meanwhile in Montreal there is just one individual streak going right now (since losing streak doesn’t count); Gallagher scoring three goals within as many games. He leads his divisional rivals with 22 points over 39 games for Buffalo Sabres and sits second overall with 12 points from 28 contests while former first-round draftee Joel Armia stands third overall with 11 points scored in 17 outings. Suzuki only managed seven points over 13 games while Caufield only four. Montreal and Buffalo have faced each other 296 times to date and each match up has always been intense; Montreal currently owns an unassailable record 129-117-31-19 against each of these opponents. Buffalo and Montreal have split the past ten meetings evenly with five victories for each squad; however, Buffalo’s victory in two out of three duels over Canadiens totaling 9-3 outscoring Montreal is especially notable. Given today is a bank holiday in the USA, kickoff for this game has been scheduled for 12:30 PM ET and can be watched live on TSN 2 and RDS. You can follow Karine Hains via social media platforms including: X:@KarineHainsBluesky @karinehains.bsky.socialThreads karineHainsBookmark the Hockey News Canadiens page to keep informed with everything happening with Canadiens Hockey and Karine’s performance throughout her journey with them