Canadiens win a playoff game like none other in NHL history, and it's Game 7 to advance and meet Sabres

That's more than 100 years of NHL history that this had never been done.

Shoot, the Canadiens have won more Stanley Cups than anyone. They're right in the thick of lots of huge playoff moments. They had never done anything like this.

Even the goals were gritty. Nick Suzuki deflected a shot with a redirection into the net. And Alex Newhook banked one off the back of Andrei Vasilevsky from behind the goal.

These weren't pretty plays. But on this night, they were winning plays.

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A series of the young Canadiens against the upstart Sabres has the potential to be special.

And if not for an unprecedented victory, Montreal wouldn't be moving on at all.

Tampa Bay had 20 more shots on goal. The Lightning fired puck after puck toward the net.

The Canadiens got two across the line, though, and that was one more than the Bolts had, and that's the only number that matters.

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