MONTREAL (AP) — Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 32 saves, Jason Zucker, Beck Malenstyn and Zach Benson gave Buffalo an early lead and the Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 on Thursday night for their 17th victory in 21 games.

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Each Monday throughout the 2025-26 NHL season, ESPN and NHL Network analyst Kevin Weekes will provide fans with a guide of games that will be nationally televised. Today, a look at games for the 16th week of the regular season.

The NHL had an unusually large 10-game slate on Monday for the holiday, and they’re right back at it with eight games on the docket on Tuesday night. There are

Fortunately for the Canadiens, the NHL’s worst team made a stop at the Bell Centre Monday night. And the timing couldn’t have been better for Montreal — shut out at home Saturday by Detroit and about to embark on a three-game road trip, beginning Tuesday night at Washington.

Montreal had tied it with two goals in 1:05. Juraj Slafkovsky cut it to 5-4 at 15:36 of the third with his second of the game, deflecting a Lane Hutson point shot with Canadiens goalie Sam Montembeault pulled for the extra attacker, before Alexandre Carrier ’s one-timer from the top of the right circle tied it 5-5 at 16:41.

Mike Matheson and Juraj Slafkovsky scored goals 37 seconds apart to start the third period, propelling the Montreal Canadiens to a 6-3 win over the last-place Vancouver Canucks on Monday night.

Two teams at the top of the Eastern Conference standings square off when the fourth-place Montreal Canadiens (28-15-7) host the fifth-place Buffalo Sabres (27-17-5) at Bell Centre on Thursday at 7 p.m.