{"id":390656,"date":"2026-01-04T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390656\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:24:12","slug":"blue-jackets-snap-sabres-10-game-win-streak-in-5-1-rout-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390656\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets snap Sabres\u2019 10-game win streak in 5-1 rout"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0The Columbus Blue Jackets scored three times in the first period, including once short-handed, and beat Buffalo 5-1 on Saturday, snapping the Sabres\u2019 league-leading 10-game win streak.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know
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\nDenton Mateychuk, Brendan Gaunce and Dmitri Voronkov scored in the first, while Mathieu Olivier added a second-period goal, and Cole Sillinger contributed a third-period empty-netter
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\nThe Blue Jackets have won four of the last five games in the series.
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\nJosh Doan scored, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 30 shots for Buffalo, which lost for the first time since Dec. 8
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Denton Mateychuk, Brendan Gaunce and Dmitri Voronkov scored in the first, while Mathieu Olivier added a second-period goal, and Cole Sillinger contributed a third-period empty-netter. Damon Severson and Zach Werenski each had two assists, Mateychuk also added a helper, and Jet Greaves stopped 32 shots.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets have won four of the last five games in the series.<\/p>\n

Josh Doan scored, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 30 shots for Buffalo, which lost for the first time since Dec. 8. It was the third time in the team\u2019s 56-year history that it had a win streak snapped at 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mateychuk extended his point streak to six games and put Columbus ahead at 3 minutes, burying the second Blue Jackets shot of the game from outside the right circle. Werenski returned after missing four games with\u00a0a lower-body injury<\/a>\u00a0and provided the secondary assist, giving him a point in his last 13 home games.<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets defensemen have scored an NHL-leading 32 goals this season.<\/p>\n

Doan tied the score on a tap-in from the far post at 11:26 for his second goal in as many games before Gaunce\u2019s short-handed goal with 5:56 left in the period \u2014 the second of his career and the season \u2014 put Columbus back in front.<\/p>\n

Voronkov made it 3-1 three minutes later, dribbling the puck past Luukkonen. Olivier used a backhander to give Columbus its three-goal lead at 8:04 of the second period.<\/p>\n

The Sabres pulled Luukkonen with 9:08 remaining, and Sillinger made them pay with an empty-netter less than a minute later.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Sabres: Host Vancouver on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets: Host Pittsburgh on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0The Columbus Blue Jackets scored three times in the first period, including once short-handed, and beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1249,2100,1251,897,5,40,4,5188,5639,4093,43,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-390656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-columbus-blue-jackets","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115838469090409093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}