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Sabres-Habs Turns Into Goal-Challenge Theater in Montreal

By JR·2 min read
Sabres-Habs Turns Into Goal-Challenge Theater in Montreal

TLDR: Buffalo and Montreal turned a playoff night at the Bell Centre into the weirdest officiating circus of the spring, complete with a goal that lived for a commercial break, a Tage Thompson laser, and a Zach Benson cult moment.

  1. And then there's Zach Benson, who is quietly turning into exactly the kind of player Buffalo fans build statues for in their group chats. He's not the biggest guy on the ice, but he plays like a wasp in a soda can — pesky, relentless, always around the puck, always getting under someone's skin. The cult-hero label fits, and it's only going to get louder if the Sabres keep stealing goals on broken plays and bounces.

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    Zachy The Rat Benson is becoming a Sabres cult hero!

    Between Thompson's finish, Benson's grinding, and a goal-review sequence weird enough to make even the most jaded hockey fan rewind the DVR, this was the kind of night that justifies sitting through 82 regular-season games. You don't get this stuff in October. You get it now, in May, in Montreal, where the building loses its mind twice in one shift and nobody is sure what the score is for a full 30 seconds.

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