Fans can't believe what Martin St-Louis did in the locker room after cameras caught it all
Alex Newhook gave Martin St-Louis another Game 7 dagger as Montreal beat Buffalo 3-2 in overtime and moved on.
That finish fit this spring perfectly. The Canadiens dragged a second straight series to the limit, then found one more goal when the ice got tightest.
Newhook scored at 71:22, slipping a floating shot under Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen's glove after pulling the puck in and using the defender as a screen. He did not even pretend it was drawn up that way.
That is why Phillip Danault's nickname suddenly looks perfect. In the visitors' room at KeyBank Center, he had already started calling Newhook «Mr. Game 7.»
Newhook earned it again. He had already scored the winner in Game 7 against Tampa Bay, and now he did it one round later against Buffalo.
He joins Russ Courtnall, Claude Lemieux, and Yvon Lambert as the 4th player in Canadiens history to score an overtime goal in a Game 7. He also became the 2nd player in NHL history to score 2 game-winning goals in Game 7s in the same year, after Nathan Horton in 2011.
Danault, of course, had his own explanation. He has become Newhook's playoff barista, grabbing him a Venti iced coffee without ice on road game mornings and stashing it in the fridge before puck drop.
The hockey world is reacting after cameras captured Martin St-Louis in the locker room
For Newhook to get that moment, Jakub Dobeš had to hold the line first. He made 37 saves and kept Montreal alive even when St-Louis admitted it was «far» from his club's best game.
That rebound mattered. Dobeš had been pulled in Game 6 at home, then came back and shut the door long enough for the Canadiens to steal the series on the road.
He even said he liked being the villain, feeding off the crowd while telling himself the puck was not going in. That edge showed up all night.
Then came St-Louis' moment after the winner. As the white jerseys flooded the ice, he looked upward, and later admitted he had been talking to his mother through overtime and thanking her.
The cameras kept rolling after the game and Martin St-Louis' full locker room speech was completely captured.
What he told the players after the final whistle is now getting a ton of attention from Canadiens fans everywhere.
Here's the clip everyone is talking about.
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That gave the win another layer. This was not just a young team sneaking through. It was a bench, a goalie, and a coach all finding something personal in the hardest moment of the season.
Now Montreal gets Carolina in the Eastern Conference Final starting Thursday. The Canadiens are still one of the youngest teams left, still running on nerve and belief, and now they have a new spring hero carrying a coffee-fueled nickname into the next round.
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YESTERDAY
MAY 18, 2026
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Zachary Bolduc | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Rasmus Dahlin | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Phillip Danault | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jordan Greenway | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alex Newhook | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alexandre Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Kaiden Guhle | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Lane Hutson | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Beck Malenstyn | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ryan McLeod | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Owen Power | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Mattias Samuelsson | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Nick Suzuki | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Alexandre Texier | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Josh Anderson | - | - | - | |
| Zach Benson | - | - | - | |
| Bowen Byram | - | - | - | |
| Cole Caufield | - | - | - | |
| Kirby Dach | - | - | - | |
| Ivan Demidov | - | - | - | |
| COMPLETE STATS | ||||