The 23-year-old forward, who was an undrafted free agent, was recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Ben Kindel also scored twice, and Arturs Silovs made 26 saves for the Penguins (29-15-12), who had lost two in a row but are 7-1-1 in their past nine games.<\/p>\n
Jason Zucker and Tage Thompson scored for the Sabres (32-19-6), who have lost three of four following a five-game winning streak. Alex Lyon made 27 saves.<\/p>\n
Zucker gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 1:46 of the first period. He took a pass from Ryan McLeod at the blue line to the top of the left circle and beat Silovs with a wrist shot to the far side.<\/p>\n
Hayes tied it 1-1 at 9:18 when he beat Jacob Bryson to a loose puck for a short breakaway and snapped it past Lyon.<\/p>\n
Hayes then gave the Penguins a 2-1 lead at 18:47. Anthony Mantha sent a no-look pass through his own legs from behind the net for Hayes low in the left circle, where he put a rising snap shot by Lyon glove side.<\/p>\n
Kindel extended it to 3-1 at 7:44 of the second period, scoring bar down from the left circle on a 2-on-1.<\/p>\n
Thompson scored on the power play to cut it to 3-2 at 1:55 of the third period when he lifted a wrist shot short side from the goal line over Silovs\u2019 right shoulder.<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak was in front to make it 4-2 at 15:33, putting the rebound of Egor Chinakhov\u2019s point shot past Lyon\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
Kindel scored an empty-net, short-handed goal at 19:46 for the 5-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old forward, who was an undrafted free agent, was recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-456806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456806","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=456806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}