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Thursday 15 February 2018
Sabres get rare home win over East-leading Lightning

Associated Press Blues. After trailing by three league’s longest home Jacob Slavin and Sebastian er’s goals, and Sergei Bo-
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ryan goals entering the third point streak of the season. Aho also scored for the Hur- brovsky stopped 27 shots.
O’Reilly scored a goal and period, Nashville rallied for They’ve outscored oppo- ricanes, who won their third John Tavares scored for the
added two assists in the three goals in the span of nents 49-25 during the run. straight and finished their Islanders, who have lost six
Buffalo Sabres’ 5-3 win over 6:42 to tie it and force over- Devils 5, Flyers 4, SO eight-game homestand of their last eight (2-5-1).
the Eastern Conference- time. PHILADELPHIA – Travis Hall 5-2-1. Cam Ward made 27 Jaroslav Halak finished with
leading Tampa Bay Light- In overtime, Kyle Turris sent scored twice in regulation, saves. a season-high 47 saves, in-
ning on Tuesday night. Forsberg in on a break- Drew Stafford had the only Slavin opened the scoring cluding all 26 in another
Backup Chad Johnson away, and he was tripped tally in the shootout and 6:40 into the game and Columbus onslaught in the
stopped 26 shots to pick up from behind by Jaden New Jersey snapped a Faulk scored just over two first period.
just his fourth win and first in Schwartz in front of the four-game losing streak. minutes later. He scored Red Wings 2, Ducks 1
nine home appearances St. Louis goal and he was John Moore and Nico His- again on a slap shot in the DETROIT – Dylan Larkin
this season. Sam Reinhart awarded a penalty shot. chier also tallied goals in waning minutes of the first and Frans Nielsen scored
scored twice, including an in the first two periods and
empty-netter with 8 sec- the Red Wings held off the
onds left. Ducks.
Scott Wilson, with the go- Adam Henrique pulled
ahead goal, and Nicholas Anaheim within a goal with
Baptiste also scored for the 3:54 left in the game. The
Sabres, who won for just the Ducks pulled John Gibson
second time in their past with a minute remaining in
eight home games (2-5-1). regulation to have an extra
Lightning rookie Yanni skater, but couldn’t score
Gourde scored his 22nd to extend the game.
goal of the season and ex- The Red Wings skated off
tended his point streak to the ice with a sense of relief
seven games. Ryan Calla- after blowing third-period
han and Vladislav Namest- goals in recent games.
nikov also scored. The Ducks were dominant
The Lightning had won six in the first, outshooting De-
straight at Buffalo. The Sa- troit 16-5, and still trailed af-
bres, who sit last in the East, ter Larkin scored off Kevin
have now beaten the con- Bieksa’s giveaway in front
ference’s two top teams in of net with 6:28 left in the
a span of four days. period.
Penguins 6, Senators 3 Nielsen scored late in the
PITTSBURGH – Jake Guent- second to put the Red
zel scored twice, Zach Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan O’Reilly (90) is taken down as Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Vic- Wings up 2-0 even though
Aston-Reese scored his first tor Hedman (77) and another player defend during the second period of an NHL hockey game they were held to single
two NHL goals and Pitts- Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. digits in shots.
burgh beat Ottawa. Associated Press Jets 4, Capitals 3
Evgeni Malkin scored his On his attempt, Forsberg regulation for the Devils. period, and completed his WINNIPEG, Manitoba –
31st and Kris Letang his snapped a wrist shot past Claude Giroux had a goal hat trick with another slap Defenseman Tyler Myers
fourth for the Penguins, Blues goaltender Carter and an assist and Radko shot 1:17 into the second scored 3:35 into overtime
who have won seven of Hutton to win it. Gudas, Travis Konecny and period. as the Jets came back
nine and 12 of their last 16. Hutton, a former Predator, Scott Laughton also scored Anze Kopitar, Tyler Toffoli, from a two-goal deficit to
Sidney Crosby, who scored made 29 saves. for the Flyers, who learned and Torrey Mitchell scored beat the Capitals.
his 400th career goal on Austin Watson scored twice earlier Tuesday that starting for Los Angeles, which was Mark Scheifele sent a pass
Sunday, finished with three and Calle Jarnkrok also goalie Brian Elliott will be without key forwards Dustin back to Myers, who quickly
assists. scored for Nashville. out for at least five weeks. Brown (suspension) and fired the puck past Braden
Pittsburgh is riding a nine- Wild 3, Rangers 2 Philadelphia remained in Trevor Lewis (injury). Jona- Holtby for his sixth goal of
game home winning ST. PAUL, Minn. – Devan sixth place in the Eastern than Quick saved 16 of 20 the season.
streak, the longest since a Dubnyk made 32 saves, Conference while the Dev- shots before being pulled Scheifele had scored his
franchise-record 13-game and Minnesota’s early ils stayed in seventh but following Faulk’s third goal. second goal of the game
run during the 2013-14 sea- three-goal lead held up in pulled within two points of Blue Jackets 4, Islanders 1 to tie it 3-3 with 15 seconds
son. The Penguins haven’t 3-2 win over New York. Philadelphia. NEW YORK – Oliver Bjork- left in the third period when
lost in Pittsburgh since a 4-0 Eric Staal, Zach Parise and Keith Kinkaid made 31 strand and Pierre-Luc Du- his low shot went through
defeat by Carolina on Jan. Marcus Foligno all scored in saves and stopped all bois scored power-play traffic and between Holt-
4. the first 6:17 for Minnesota, three Flyers attempts in the goals in the second period by’s pads. The goal was
Matt Murray stopped 30 which ran its home point shootout. to give Columbus the lead, short-handed as Jets de-
shots for Pittsburgh. streak to a franchise-record Hurricanes 7, Kings 3 and the Blue Jackets went fenseman Dustin Byfuglien
Derick Brassard, Colin 13 games (10-0-3). RALEIGH, N.C. – Justin Faulk on to a win over the Island- had been called for slash-
White and Mike Hoffman John Gilmour scored his first had his first career hat trick, ers. Brandon Dubinsky and ing Jay Beagle with 1:17 left.
all scored for the Senators, NHL goal in his third game Jeff Skinner scored twice, Cam Atkinson scored in Niklas Backstrom, Andre
who lost for the third time in for New York, and Kevin and the Hurricanes routed the third period, defense- Burakovsky and John Carl-
five games. Hayes added his 13th goal the short-handed Kings. man Zach Werenski had son scored for the Capitals
Predators 4, Blues 3, OT of the season. Henrik Lun- Faulk’s three goals came three assists as the Blue (32-17-7). Holtby made 40
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Filip Fors- dqvist stopped 26 shots for in a span of 12:21 as Caro- Jackets had a season-high saves for the Capitals and
berg scored on a penalty the Rangers. lina raced out to a 5-0 lead 51 shots and won their sec- became the second goalie
shot at 1:19 of overtime to The Wild haven’t lost at and he became the 10th ond straight since an 0-4-1 in franchise history to play
give the Predators a wild home since Dec. 16 against defenseman in NHL history skid. Bjorkstrand and Dubois 20,000 minutes. Olaf Kolzig
comeback victory over the Edmonton and own the to score a natural hat trick. had assists on each oth- played 41,260 minutes.q