Jason Zucker had a goal and two assists in his return to the lineup, and six other players each had two points for the Sabres (8-9-4), who have won three of their past four games. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 20 saves.<\/p>\n
Tyler Bertuzzi scored two goals, Connor Bedard and Sam Rinzel each had two assists, and Arvid Soderblom made 21 saves for the Blackhawks (10-7-4), who have lost two in a row after a six-game point streak (5-0-1). They lost 3-2 to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Doan gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 13:57 of the first period when he put his own rebound past Soderblom\u2019s left pad.<\/p>\n
Zucker, who missed eight games because of an illness, made it 2-0 at 15:19. Jack Quinn dropped a no-look backhand pass to Zucker, who snapped it over Soderblom\u2019s arm from the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n
Bowen Byram redirected Tuch\u2019s diagonal cross-ice pass under Soderblom\u2019s right arm to push the lead to 3-0 on the power play at 17:33.<\/p>\n
Bertuzzi cut it to 3-1 at 18:12 when he backhanded a loose puck in front to the glove side.<\/p>\n
Ryan McLeod extended the lead to 4-1 at 5:42 of the second period, putting a wrist shot under Soderblom\u2019s right arm from the right hash marks. Eight seconds later, Mattias Samuelsson\u2019s shot from the point went off Chicago defenseman Louis Crevier to make it 5-1 at 5:50.<\/p>\n
Alex Vlasic beat a screened Luukkonen from above to right circle to cut it to 5-2 at 14:45.<\/p>\n
Doan responded by scoring short side from the right circle to increase the lead to 6-2 at 17:31.<\/p>\n
Bertuzzi tipped Bedard\u2019s shot on the power play while screening Luukkonen to pull the Blackhawks within 6-3 at 24 seconds of the third period.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson then made it 7-3 at 1:56 when he drove to the net and slipped the puck under Soderblom\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n
Quinn roofed a wrist shot under the bar for an 8-3 lead at 7:07, and Jacob Bryson made it a 9-3 final at 16:22, getting to a loose puck in the slot and tucking it around Soderblom at the left post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Zucker had a goal and two assists in his return to the lineup, and six other players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-298846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}