You won't believe what the Canadiens did last night!

Okay, *tabarnac*, if you went to bed early and missed the Montreal Canadiens beating the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 on the road, well, *c'est dommage* for you. Alex Newhook got us going early in the first, just over a minute in, from Kaiden Guhle and Lane Hutson. Then Mike Matheson, *un vrai Québécois*, made it two less than three minutes later, from Phillip Danault. Two goals in the first period! We haven't seen that kind of start in, what, twenty years? Newhook wasn't done, adding another in the second. Okay, yeah, Buffalo’s Zach Benson got one back, but then Anthony Carrier and Nick Suzuki put the nail in the coffin in the third. It was a proper beatdown, even if the shots were almost even. Sometimes, you just need the puck to go in.

### What it Means for the City

This win is huge for the Montreal Canadiens. We’re sitting pretty at 48-24-10, 106 points, third in the Atlantic, and our last ten games are 7-3-0. This momentum is exactly what we need as the playoffs loom large. Every point matters, and taking down the Buffalo Sabres like that, especially on their ice? It sends a message. The team looks focused, they look hungry. You can feel the buzz already, even up to the Bell Centre's Bell Tower, where hockey comes to be serious again. People are talking about this, already lining up at St-Viateur for their morning bagel with a smile.

This kind of performance keeps the dream alive. It’s what we live for, it’s what we’ve been waiting for since '93. We need to keep this energy, this grit, this *volonté* going. This team, when they play like this, they make us believe. And in Montreal, that belief is a powerful, powerful thing.

Allez Les Canadiens — Go Habs Go. This is Amélie Boisvert.

My buddy Marc-Antoine and the gang are breaking this down all morning — catch it live on mornings.live!