The offensively minded Ducks made for a fast-paced game in both directions, and a 2-on-1 rush resulted in a Jack Quinn goal just 2:03 in. The winger snapped a nine-game drought with his first of two goals on the night.<\/p>\n
Quinn\u2019s line was buzzing all night, especially in the first period. Ryan McLeod set up the opening goal and was a constant threat on the rush. Zach Benson had two early breakaway chances, the second resulting in a penalty shot, but Anaheim goalie Lukas Dostal stopped all three backhand attempts. Benson still picked up two assists in the win, and Buffalo led 8-1 in scoring chances with that trio on the ice, per Natural Stat Trick.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like our line was really good tonight,\u201d said Quinn, who\u2019s up to nine goals this season. \u201cWe were all over it. We\u2019re having a lot of fun, and I feel like the high-paced game kind of suits our line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruff has raved about his team\u2019s depth contributions recently, calling it something of a competition between lines, and the first line one-upped Quinn\u2019s midway through the second period.<\/p>\n
Doan, whom Ruff called \u201ca hound around the puck\u201d on Thursday, stole it from an unaware Tim Washe at the Sabres\u2019 offensive blue line and handed off to Peyton Krebs. Krebs found an open Tage Thompson for a backdoor tap-in, his 22nd goal of the season and a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offensively minded Ducks made for a fast-paced game in both directions, and a 2-on-1 rush resulted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-128976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}