The Buffalo Sabres beat the New York Islanders 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday at KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n
Josh Norris scored the shootout winner after some late-game drama; New York tied it on a power play with 29 seconds remaining in regulation, then neither team capitalized on their chances in an action-packed overtime period.<\/p>\n
Buffalo is now two games above .500 (16-14-4) for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
Rasmus Dahlin scored his fourth goal of the season and Tage Thompson his 18th.<\/p>\n
Thompson extended his goal-scoring streak to six games. There have been only four goal-scoring streaks of six or more games leaguewide this season, and two belong to him.<\/p>\n
Alex Lyon made his fourth straight start in net and stopped 32 of 34 shots, including five in overtime. He stopped four of five shootout attempts.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Conor Timmins missed his first game with a broken leg \u2013 he\u2019s expected to be out 6-8 weeks \u2013 so Zach Metsa entered the lineup for the first time since Oct. 25. Metsa skated 14:05 with one shot on goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres beat the New York Islanders 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday at KeyBank Center. Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-361688","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\/361688","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=361688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}