BUFFALO, NY. (The Associated Press) \u2014 Jack Quinn scored the tying goal and also connected in a shootout, Alex Tuch ended the tiebreaker and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday night to rebound from their first loss since the Olympic break.<\/p>\n
Buffalo was coming off a 2-1 home loss to Washington on Thursday night that ended an eight-game winning streak. The Atlantic Division-leading Sabres stretched their advantage over second-place Tampa Bay to four points and remained two points behind Carolina in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Toronto played its first game since captain Auston Matthews\u2019 season-ending knee injury<\/a>. Matthews tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee Thursday night at home in a 6-4 victory over Anaheim on a knee-on-knee hit from Radko Gudas. Gudas was given a major penalty and ejected, then suspended five games<\/a> for kneeing.<\/p>\n Defenseman Owen Power also scored for Buffalo, and Alex Lyon stopped 16 shots.<\/p>\n Max Domi scored for Toronto in his 800th NHL game. Dakota Joshua also scored, and Joseph Woll made 30 saves.<\/p>\n The Maple Leafs lost their first eight after the Olympic break before beating the Ducks.<\/p>\n Quinn tied it at 2 on a power play with 8:39 left in the second. He beat Woll with a wrist shot from the left side off a nifty pass from Noah Ostlund.<\/p>\n Power opened the scoring at 2:01 of the first with a wrist shot from the high slot off Zach Benson’s feed from behind the goal. Joshua tied it at 7:09 of the period with a snap shot from the middle, and Domi put Toronto ahead at 53 seconds of second on a break with William Nylander.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Maple Leafs: At Minnesota on Sunday night.<\/p>\n Sabres: At Vegas on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, NY. (The Associated Press) \u2014 Jack Quinn scored the tying goal and also connected in a shootout,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[229,5,6,1041,20,5172,6423,4,1108,66,31,5171],"class_list":["post-504015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-jack-eichel","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-matt-bove","tag-nhl","tag-sabres","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116230981214819264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504015","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=504015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}