BUFFALO, N.Y. — Canada’s team is headed to the Eastern Conference finals.Alex Newhook scored 11:22 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens edged the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 Monday night to capture Game 7 of a thrilling back-and-forth series.Game 1 in Carolina against the Hurricanes goes Thursday in Raleigh, N.C.Phillip Danault and Zachary Bolduc also scored for Montreal, playing its 14th playoff game in 30 days after finding a way to survive two grueling, seven-game series. Newhook, who also scored the Game 7 winner in the first round against the Tampa Bay Lightning, became the second player in NHL history to score multiple Game 7 series-clinching goals in a single postseason, joining Boston’s Nathan Horton in 2011, when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.“I wasn’t sure if Jake (Evans) touched it, so I kind of looked at him to see if he was going to celebrate or not,” Newhook said after the game. “It’s a crazy feeling. A lot of emotion, obviously. It was a war all series long, and for it to end up being Game 7 in overtime, sometimes it just takes one shot. Coming across the (blue) line, I thought there was a shot opportunity. Great to see it find the back of the net, and there’s no better feeling than celebrating with your teammates after a win like that.”Jakub Dobeš, who was pulled in Game 6 after being beaten for six goals, steadied himself for Game 7. It wasn’t highway robbery like his performance in Game 7 against the Tampa Bay Lightning two weeks ago, but it was pretty darn impressive nonetheless. His save late in the second period on Sabres center Tage Thompson was sensational and kept the score 2-1 entering the second intermission.“I felt good last game,” Dobeš said. “But for sure, I wanted to be better. I think me getting pulled at home was kind of a wake-up call, and I took it personal. And we won today, so I’m really happy.”The Canadiens have yet to lose back-to-back games in the entire postseason; they’re now 6-0 following a loss in these playoffs.Rasmus Dahlin and Jordan Greenway scored for Buffalo, which rallied back from an early 2-0 deficit and tied it on Dahlin’s goal 6:27 into the third, but the Sabres couldn’t produce the go-ahead goal despite massive pressure in the Canadiens’ zone in the third period.“You know, it hurts,” Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff said. “I told the team that it hurts. That pain will go away. But I won’t let this one game define the season we had. I told the players how proud I was of them. The battle that we took into Game 6 in Montreal and then came back here and gave ourselves every chance to win. This one game doesn’t define our season for us.”The Sabres fell to 2-5 at home in the playoffs, a puzzling reality that will haunt them into their offseason.In all, the road team went 5-2 in this series, and the Canadiens (6-2) and Sabres (5-1) are a combined 11-3 now on the road this postseason.“You know, it was strange in the East, the disparity with the home and road,” Ruff said. “Besides the start of the game, I thought this was probably one of our better games. We really tilted the ice and had the game in our favor, but again didn’t find a way to win it. Our fans have been so great. You go back to the end of the year, the momentum they helped us with, the energy in this building, it would have been nice to close this one out here, just for how good they’ve been. But we didn’t quite get that done.”