Montour scores quickest goal in NHL OT history at 4 seconds to lift Kraken past Canadiens

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 13, 2025 9:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Brandon Montour had the fastest extremity successful NHL overtime history, scoring his 2nd extremity of the crippled 4 seconds into overtime to springiness the Seattle Kraken a 5-4 comeback triumph implicit the Montreal Canadiens connected Wednesday night.

Chandler Stephenson won the faceoff, with the puck going to Montour. He streaked successful connected goalie Jakub Dobes and bushed him with a changeable to the upper-right corner.

The extremity matches the fastest to commencement immoderate play successful NHL history, with 3 players doing it successful regulation. Claude Provost scored astatine 4 seconds of the 2nd play for Montreal successful a 1957 crippled against Boston, Denis Savard did it for Chicago against Hartford successful the 3rd play of a 1986 game, and James van Riemsdyk did it astatine the commencement of the 2nd for Toronto against Philadelphia successful 2014.

Seattle overcame two-goal shortage to necktie it successful the 3rd period. Jani Nyman, making his NHL debut, scored connected a powerfulness play with 9:07 left, and Matty Beniers tipped successful a hard changeable by Vince Dunn connected a powerfulness play with 2:12 near to necktie it astatine 4.

Montour besides opened the scoring 4:14 into the crippled and had 2 assists. Eeli Tolvanan scored his career-high 19th for Seattle, and Joey Daccord made 21 saves.

Montreal scored 4 consecutive goals to instrumentality a 4-2 lead. Juraj Slafkovsky scored doubly and Patrik Laine and Alex Newhook besides connected. Dubes made 30 saves.

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