Tage Thompson and Jack Quinn scored goals in the shootout and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped both of the attempts he faced to complete a come-from-behind, 3-2 victory for the Buffalo Sabres over the Seattle Kraken at KeyBank Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Sabres snapped a three-game winless streak, during which they were 0-1-2. They still have not lost consecutive games in regulation since dropping three in a row from Dec. 3 to 8.<\/p>\n
Buffalo maintained its tie with Carolina atop the Eastern Conference standings at 98 points and regained a two-point lead over Tampa Bay for first place in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
The Sabres trailed 2-0 midway through the second period. Rasmus Dahlin scored a power-play goal to cut the deficit in half, then Peyton Krebs netted the tying goal with 8:21 remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n
Luukkonen finished the night with 32 saves and backstopped a 4-for-4 night for the penalty kill, a bounce-back performance for the unit after it had allowed two early power-play goals to Detroit on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Sabres improved to 5-0 in shootouts this season. Quinn \u2013 who dove over the outstretched body of\u00a0goaltender Philipp Grubauer to bury his attempt \u2013 has scored on four of five attempts this season. Luukkonen has not allowed a goal on seven shots faced.<\/p>\n
Dahlin scored his 100th career goal in the win, joining Phil Housley as the second Sabres defenseman to hit the mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tage Thompson and Jack Quinn scored goals in the shootout and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped both of the attempts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-529092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116311885723361059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529092","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=529092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}