The Buffalo Sabres knew they had a prime opportunity to bust out of their goal-scoring slump and did just that in a 4-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday.
With the Flames playing their second game in two days, the Sabres reached three goals for the first time in 11 games since a 3-1 win in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Oct. 30.
Kyle Okposo, Johan Larsson, Matt Moulson and Marcus Foligno scored for Buffalo, who won consecutive games for just the second time this season.
Photo: AP
“I just think it’s huge getting four goals,” Okposo said. “That’s a team that’s coming off a back-to-back, and if we played well we thought that we could get those two points and we did that. We executed our game plan and were able to get two big points.”
The Flames took a 1-0 lead into the second period, but the Sabres answered with three goals in a span of 101 seconds in the second.
Penalties to Dougie Hamilton and Troy Brouwer at 10 minutes, 2 seconds gave the Sabres a five-on-three advantage, which they converted into a pair of goals.
First, Okposo took a pass from Sam Reinhart and fired a wrist-shot into the back of the net. On the Sabres’ next shot, Larsson redirected Evander Kane’s wrist-shot between the legs of Flames goalie Brian Elliott.
Buffalo were not finished. Brouwer took another penalty with 7:04 remaining in the second and Moulson cashed in with his sixth power-play goal of the season, giving him a share of the league lead in power-play goals.
“It’s a lot of goals in a short amount of time for our team,” Sabres coach Dan Bylsma said.
Flames rookie Matthew Tkachuk scored 22 seconds into the third to cut the Sabres’ lead, but Buffalo answered two minutes later when Foligno slid a backhand-shot behind a sprawling Elliott.
Tkachuk had a goal and an assist and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary, who were coming off a 3-2 win in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday.
Buffalo got two assists each from Reinhart and Taylor Fedun, who now has four assists in three games since being called up from the AHL.
Robin Lehner had 29 saves for the Sabres, while Elliott turned away 28 shots. Elliott has allowed 22 goals and is 0-6 in his past six starts for the Flames.
Calgary’s six penalties were their most in a game since they had eight penalties in a 4-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Oct. 20.
“It was everything,” Tkachuk said. “We did everything wrong tonight. We put ourselves in a bad position to kill too much tonight.”
“I don’t remember the moment, but ever since I was a kid, that’s the first thing I loved,” two-time NBA All-Star Isaiah Thomas said of his lifelong romance with basketball. However, that journey unfolded against the limitations of his size in a game where height often dictates opportunity — a reality he confronted throughout his career. At 175cm, Thomas is less than 2cm taller than the average Taiwanese adult male, while NBA players during his career stood at about 200cm on average. Compared with the NBA’s average career length of less than five years, Thomas’ 13-season career stands out as
Hans Niemann declares he would become a “stone cold killer” in a Netflix documentary released on Tuesday about his feud with five-time classical world champion Magnus Carlsen, a pledge that injects new edge into the lingering fallout from the cheating scandal that shook elite chess. “I’m gonna be a stone cold killer the rest of my life,” the US’ Niemann says in the film. “I’m going to become the best player in the world, and no one is going to believe that now, but this clip will play over and over again in 10 years — just wait.” “I just
Dakar and Rabat have longstanding ties, but relations have been strained since the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final, which Senegal won in mid-January before being stripped of the title, which was transferred to Morocco. Now, the AFCON trophy is something of a thorn in the two countries’ sides. On Rue Mohamed V, the street where Moroccan vendors are based in the Senegalese capital, a police van is parked. “The police have been on high alert since the Confederation of African Football [CAF] decided to award the title to Morocco, but there have been no incidents,” a local resident said.
Top seeded Jessica Pegula on Friday once again fought back from a set down to reach the WTA Charleston Open semi-finals with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win against Russia’s Diana Shnaider. Defending champion Pegula has lost the first set in all three of her matches at the tournament so far, but again dug deep to maintain her hopes of retaining the title. The world No. 5 from the US took 2 hours, 10 minutes to defeat 19th-ranked Shnaider, relying on a formidable service game that included eight aces. Shnaider battled well in the first two sets and broke early for a 2-0 lead
RSS