SAN JOSE, Calif \u2013 Alternating starts in net may be creating some friendly competition between Alex Lyon and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, and the results have been fantastic for the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Thursday at SAP Center, two days after Luukkonen\u2019s 28 save shutout in Vegas, Lyon stopped all 23 shots in a 5-0 Sabres shutout of the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have two unbelievable goalies,\u201d captain Rasmus Dahlin said postgame. \u201cHe can\u2019t be worse than Upie, it seems like, so he also had to shut it out. Unbelievable. They are a huge part of our success.\u201d<\/p>\n
That success has reached new heights on the road, with Buffalo extending its franchise-record points streak to 12 games (11-0-1) away from KeyBank Center. Further, the Sabres have gone 18-2-1 on the road since Dec. 9, and the goaltending has led the way with an unrivaled .935 save percentage during that run.<\/p>\n
Lyon, individually, has won 10 straight on the road. Assuming the goalie rotation continues, he\u2019ll have a chance to tie the all-time NHL record (11) on Sunday in Anaheim.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know that!,\u201d he reacted, then gave a typically thoughtful explanation:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as you get older, you get better on the road, just taking care of your body, doing the right things leading up to the game. It\u2019s a completely different process than preparing for a home game, so you get better at that with time. It\u2019s cool, and (I\u2019m) just gonna try to send it next game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif \u2013 Alternating starts in net may be creating some friendly competition between Alex Lyon and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-552721","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\/552721","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=552721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}