{"id":536947,"date":"2026-03-13T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:41:13","slug":"sabres-eight-game-win-streak-ends-with-loss-to-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536947\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; eight-game win streak ends with loss to Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Jakob Chychrun scored with 1:33 left to play, Charlie Lindgren made 29 saves, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/washington-capitals\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-capitals\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Capitals<\/a> beat Buffalo 2-1 on Thursday night to snap the Sabres&#8217; eight-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p>Chychrun\u2019s goal came when forward Aliaksei Protas passed to the defenseman in the circle and he fired it past Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen for his 23rd goal of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Leonard also scored for the Capitals, who won for the second time in the past three games.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Carrick scored for the Sabres and Luukkonen made 20 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Carrick\u2019s second goal in three games gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at 6:02 of the first period after a no-look backhand pass from Beck Malenstyn.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard tied the game at 2:14 of the second period when he fired a shot past Luukkonen while on a two-on-one.<\/p>\n<p>Chychrun won it for the Capitals at 18:27 of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres defenseman Luke Schenn and forward Tanner Pearson made their team debuts after they were acquired at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals forward Connor McMichael played in his 300th career game.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals: Begin a four-game homestand against Boston on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres: Conclude a five-game homestand Saturday against Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Jakob Chychrun scored with 1:33 left to play, Charlie Lindgren made 29 saves, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-536947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536947","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=536947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}