Alex Tuch opened the scoring early for Buffalo, but the Ducks responded with a pair of goals on the power play. Five minutes later, Noah Ostlund raced into the zone and passed across to Josh Doan for the tying tally.<\/p>\n
That open ice continued into the second period, but only Anaheim managed to capitalize, with Beckett Sennecke (early) and Terry (late) driving toward the net and beating Alex Lyon. The Sabres, meanwhile, hit two posts and just missed on some other great scoring chances, so they trailed 4-2 after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we don\u2019t want to be trading chances,\u201d said Tage Thompson. \u201cWe\u2019ve done a really good job limiting [the opponent\u2019s] Grade-A\u2019s, and tonight was a bit of a track meet.\u201d<\/p>\n
It’s not their preference, but the Sabres can hold their own in a track meet,\u00a0as evidenced by their third-period push. Jack Quinn and Owen Power scored to tie it, and between their goals, Lyon denied Anaheim\u2019s Chris Kreider and Jansen Harkins on breakaways to hold the deficit at 4-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told the team, \u2018We\u2019re going with all-out pressure, and I know we\u2019re going to give them some opportunities,\u2019\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cI just said to [Lyon] in between periods, \u2018You\u2019re going to have to make some saves for us.\u2019 And he did. He stood tall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Tuch opened the scoring early for Buffalo, but the Ducks responded with a pair of goals on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-232199","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\/232199","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=232199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}