Tage Thompson also had a goal and a helper for the Sabres (13-14-4), and Zach Benson scored his first of the season to round out the scoring.<\/p>\n
Alex Lyon stopped 29 of the 31 shots he faced as Buffalo won its second straight game.<\/p>\n
The Canucks (11-17-3) got goals from Kiefer Sherwood and Max Sasson, but couldn’t hold on to a 2-1 lead in the second period.<\/p>\n
Thatcher Demko made 12 saves for Vancouver in his return from a lower-body injury he suffered on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
The Canucks were without star centre Elias Pettersson, who missed a second straight game with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
Canucks: Sasson gave the home side a 2-1 lead 6:15 into the second, but Buffalo levelled the score, then pulled ahead. Third-period comebacks have been hard to come by for Vancouver this season, with the team going 1-13-0 when they trail heading into the final frame.<\/p>\n
Sabres: Were missing offensive powerhouse Alex Tuch due to illness. The right-winger was tied with Thompson for the team lead in points (26) heading into the game. Trevor Kuntar slotted into the lineup, making his NHL debut one day after signing a one-year, two-way contract with Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Stationed above the hash marks, Benson blasted a shot in past Demko to give the Sabres a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal 14:46 into the second.<\/p>\n
Sherwood scored 19:49 into the opening frame to snap a 10-game goal drought. The bruising winger leads the Canucks in scoring with 13 goals on the season.<\/p>\n
Canucks: Kick off a five-game road swing Sunday against the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n
Sabres: Visit the Kraken in Seattle on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tage Thompson also had a goal and a helper for the Sabres (13-14-4), and Zach Benson scored his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}