Benny on the break<\/p>\n
During a second-period penalty kill, Benson pursued a loose puck into the neutral zone but couldn\u2019t outskate two Stars.<\/p>\n
Well, later in the same penalty, he had enough gas left in the tank for a clean breakaway and his 13th goal of the season \u2013 and the first of his career shorthanded. The Sabres finish the season with 11 shorthanded goals, second most in the\u00a0NHL behind Carolina (12).<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do that (move) when I realized I was in alone,\u201d Benson said. \u201cI\u2019ve tried it a few times on [Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen], and it\u2019s clicking at 100 percent on Upie, so I thought I\u2019d give it a try in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Buffalo resting several regulars and dressing only 11 forwards, Benson double-shifted for much of the night and skated a career-high 24:22. Like Norris, he\u2019ll enter the playoffs on a hot streak, with 15 points (6+9) in his last 16 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Benson had a real good game tonight. He was all over the place,\u201d Ruff said. \u201c\u2026 That secondary scoring is gonna be real important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benny on the break During a second-period penalty kill, Benson pursued a loose puck into the neutral zone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-553608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116412261692647446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553608","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=553608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}