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The Buffalo Sabres got off to a brilliant start on Tuesday night in Montreal against the Canadiens.
They got the benefit of an overturned goal that gave them a 2-0 lead midway through the first period, and it involved multiple reviews -- well, until a second review took it back away.
So after eight minutes, it was 1-0, but it certainly could've been 2-0.
First, the play wasn't called a goal on the ice. Jack Quinn tried to shove the puck in on a rebound but it went into Jakub Dobes' glove.
The replay center asked for a review, and it was eventually ruled that the puck crossed the line for a good goal.
The Canadiens then challenged the call for goaltender interference, so there was another review.
That decided that there was interference, taking the goal back away.
AND NOW MONTREAL IS CHALLENGING FOR GOALIE INTERFERENCE, THIS LEAGUE!!! 😳 pic.twitter.com/WtwL7g8HXB
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) May 12, 2026MORE: The Mitch Marner irony of Auston Matthews' future with the Maple Leafs
Why was this Sabres-Canadiens delay so long?
The first call depended on just a few inches to determine whether the puck in Dobes' glove had gone over the line.
Dobes' glove was the same color as the goal line, so you needed a view where the puck showed through the webbing of the glove.
Eventually, they figured out that the puck had been across the line, so the goal counted.
But then on the Montreal challenge, they found that Konsta Helenius had just pushed Dobes some on the initial shot, before the Quinn rebound. The refs found that that was enough to count as goalie interference.
So in the end, after nine minutes of reviews, there was no goal.
A wild sequence, to be sure.
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