⚔️ Away Sabres 0-0 in series
1–0
Final
BUF leads 3–0
🇨🇦 Home Canadiens 0-0 in series
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
⚔️ BUF 0011
🇨🇦 MTL 0000

Sabres at Canadiens — First Round Game 1

Sabres, First Round Game 1, beat Canadiens 1–0 at Bell Centre on April 6, 1983.

🗓 📍 Bell Centre, Montréal 🏒 1982-83 playoffs
🏒 The series ⚔️ Head-to-head

🏒 First Round — Best of 7

BUF vs MTL · BUF leads 3–0 Full series →
Game 1
1–0
Final · BUF
Game 2
3–0
Final · BUF
Game 3
2–4
Final · BUF

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
Brent Peterson
1 G
3 shots · +1
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Gilles Hamel
1 A
1 shots · +1

🚨 Scoring

1 goal · in order
3rd period
⚔️ Brent Peterson Go-ahead 3rd · 02:30
Assists: Gilles Hamel · beat Rick Wamsley
1–0

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
⚔️BUF MTL🇨🇦
26 Shots on goal 24
32 Penalty minutes 26
BUF shooting 3.8% (1/26) MTL shooting 0.0% (0/24)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
⚔️Sabres
Bob Sauve
0/0
.000 SV% · 0 GA · 60:00 TOI
🇨🇦Canadiens
Rick Wamsley
0/1
.000 SV% · 1 GA · 59:30 TOI

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–0
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 1st: 12-8 (60% win rate, 20 games)
Canadiens
Canadiens — tied after 1st: 15-7 (68% win rate, 22 games)
After 2nd — 0–0
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 2nd: 2-6 (25% win rate, 8 games)
Canadiens
Canadiens — tied after 2nd: 8-5 (62% win rate, 13 games)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Mar 201983 🇨🇦MTL @ ⚔️BUF 7–4 Mar 191983 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 6–4 Jan 261983 🇨🇦MTL @ ⚔️BUF 3–7 Jan 221983 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 1–4 Dec 111982 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 2–3
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Who won Sabres vs Canadiens on April 6, 1983?

Sabres won 1–0. The final score was Sabres 1, Canadiens 0.

Who scored for Sabres?

Brent Peterson.

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Bob Sauve made 0 saves on 0 shots (.000 save percentage).

How did the Canadiens goalie play?

Rick Wamsley made 0 saves on 1 shots (.000 save percentage).

Where is Sabres vs Canadiens played?

At Bell Centre in Montréal, the Canadiens home rink.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeApr 3 🍁TOR @ ⚔️BUF 4–3 AfterApr 7 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 3–0
🇨🇦 Canadiens
BeforeApr 3 🇨🇦MTL @ 🐻BOS 4–4 AfterApr 7 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 3–0
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