{"id":384330,"date":"2026-01-01T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:12:07","slug":"tage-thompson-scores-twice-as-sabres-beat-stars-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tage Thompson scores twice as Sabres beat Stars 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 31, 2025, 11:40 PM ET<\/p>\n

DALLAS — Tage Thompson<\/a> scored twice within 2\u00bd minutes midway through the third period and had an assist as the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> beat the Dallas Stars<\/a> 4-1<\/a> on Wednesday night to extend their winning streak to 10 games.<\/p>\n

That matches both the franchise record and the longest for an NHL team this season, also done by Colorado<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Josh Doan<\/a> and defenseman Bowen Byram<\/a> each had a goal and an assist for the Sabres. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> made 28 saves in his third start during the streak, allowing one goal in each game.<\/p>\n

Mavrik Bourque<\/a> scored for the Stars. They are second in the overall NHL standings and had a six-game point streak snapped (4-0-2).<\/p>\n

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Casey DeSmith<\/a> stopped 27 shots and lost in regulation for the first time since his first start of the season on Oct. 16. DeSmith went on a franchise-record 13-game point streak (9-0-4).<\/p>\n

Byram’s goal with 2:55 left in the second period snapped a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n

Bourque put in a rebound 15 seconds in on the game’s opening shift. Two of Bourque’s six goals this season have come in the past four games.<\/p>\n

The Sabres also extended their road winning streak to seven games, the longest in the league this season.<\/p>\n

Buffalo hasn’t trailed after two periods during the streak, leading eight times and tied twice. Thompson gave the Sabres a two-goal lead at 9:21 of the third period and scored again with 8:25 left, his team-high 20th.<\/p>\n

Sabres goalie Alex Lyon<\/a>, who has earned seven wins during the streak, returned to Buffalo for further evaluation after suffering a lower-body injury late in Monday’s win at St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Doan’s score ended his eight-game goalless streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 31, 2025, 11:40 PM ET DALLAS — Tage Thompson scored twice within 2\u00bd minutes midway through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384330","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\/384330","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=384330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}