MILLAR MAKES 31 SAVES TO SHUTOUT THE HABS IN A 2-0 WIN

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

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FINAL

GOAL SCORERS

BUF:   N. Gerbe (08:56 - 2nd) , N. Gerbe (EN, 19:38 - 3rd)

GOALIES

BUF: R. Miller (W)

 MTL: C. Price (L)

                 Last night in Montreal, the Sabres rolled into town trying to continue to stay in a playoff spot. Just 7 minutes into the game (with the Habs on a powerplay), Wisineaski's point shot was stopped by Miller and he cleared it to the corner. On the same play, Subban played the puck back to Wisinewski and his shot was stopped again by Miller. Now with ten minutes to go in the first, Weber of Buffalo took the puck around the Habs defense and he was stopped by Carey Price. Five minutes later, Cammalleri came in and took a shot but it was stopped by the glove of Miller. No score after one. In the second, with the Sabres on a powerplay, Pominville took a shot and it was stopped and the rebound went right to Vanek and he was stopped three time by Price.

             The Sabres were starting to put on the pressure. With eleven minutes to go in the second Myers shot was tipped in by Gerbe to make it 1-0 Buffalo. But the Habs never gave up, the next play, Kostitsyn came in and his slap shot was stopped by Miller again. Gerbe would add an empty net goal in the third as the Sabres win 2-0 and Miller got his 4th shutout of the season by making 31 saves."We started the game well enough but we didn't go to the net enough to create chances," Canadiens coach Jacques Martin said. "We gave (Miller) an easy night."

                "We gave up a goal and we took too many penalties because we weren't getting pucks in deep and spent too much time in our zone."  That was the only problem with Montreal's performance. As all the shots they took, Miller was able to see them all because there was no traffic in front of him."This was a game we needed to win," said Miller. "We needed to respond after our last outing and we did a good job of cleaning up the areas we needed to.We all did a good job of moving our feet and we drew some penalties. With (Montreal's) small forwards, sometimes you start reaching for them and you end up in the box."

               Both the Maple Leafs and the Hurricanes won last night, so there is no change in the standings when it comes to the race for 8th. But when it comes to the race for 1st in the north east division, there's been a change. The Bruins won last night which means Montreal now sits 3 points back of the Bruins. But they will face off on Thursday night at 7:38pm E.t is the time of the puck drop on NESN-HD and on RDS-HD.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo