After a game with a bit of everything \u2013 lead changes, timely special teams, injuries and more \u2013 the Buffalo Sabres emerged with a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday at KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has built its first four-game winning streak of the season to climb above .500 (15-14-4) for the first time since early November.<\/p>\n
Back in action after flying back from Seattle and installing Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen as general manager, the Sabres looked a step behind in the first period. The Flyers led 12-4 in shots, controlled play and tied the game 1-1 less than a minute after Jack Quinn\u2019s early goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur puck decisions in that first period were poor, to say the least, put us in a lot of trouble,\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cI\u2019ll give them some credit: they stayed on top of us, didn\u2019t give us a lot of ice.\u201d<\/p>\n
But late in the second period, after two unproductive Buffalo power plays and a go-ahead goal for Philadelphia, the Sabres\u2019 offense finally flipped a switch.<\/p>\n
First, Rasmus Dahlin intercepted a pass in the offensive zone and passed between his legs to Tage Thompson, who delayed before burying his 17th goal of the season \u2013 and extending his goal-scoring streak to five games. Dahlin\u2019s efforts yielded his 300th career assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a game with a bit of everything \u2013 lead changes, timely special teams, injuries and more \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358443","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\/358443","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=358443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}