In Montreal, the Canadiens, won their fourth straight game, 4-0, over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night.
“There’s a lot of buy-in by the players,” Habs coach Martin St. Louis said. “When you watch on TV you don’t know their personalities, you’re not around them every day. There are a lot of winners on this team. Guys who take the team’s success to heart. You win a lot of games with guys like that. It’s 4-0 and we’re blocking shots with a minute to go. It’s fun to see how much the culture has progressed.”
Sam Montembeault made 32 saves in the shutout win.
“It’s so much fun to get my first shutout at Bell Centre,” Montembeault said. “I think I’m going to have to speak to the timekeeper. I was watching the clock in the third period and I felt time was not going down as fast as it did in the other periods. I’m really happy. The guys did extraordinary work.”
The Canadiens moved to 12-33-7.
Nick Suzuki‘s double gave the Habs a 2-0 lead through 40 minutes of play.
“It’s definitely a treat to watch,” Suzuki said. “He’s such an electric player and gets the crowd going. All the guys love seeing his success and he’s just having a ton of fun right now. His smile is back and he’s been playing great hockey lately.”
Cole Coalfield also scored for the Canadiens.
Buffalo dropped to 16-28-8 with its fourth straight set back.
“We helped [Montreal] tonight,” Sabres head coach Don Granato said. “We were sloppy early, our forwards did not support our [defensemen]. We gave them four chances early before we got our first chance and they had a goal. And it was all our forwards not supporting our [defensemen] quick enough or giving them outlet support, and it allowed them in the game. And we could not get a break to get a goal.”
Jake Evans added an empty net goal late in the third for the 4-0 final.
Craig Anderson made 25 saves in the Sabres loss.
“We’ve got to start better than that,” Buffalo’s Dylan Cozens said. “We knew they were going to come out with that push. They’ve got fans in the building, they’re on a winning streak, so we’ve got to be ready for that. We just weren’t, and that’s on us.”
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