{"id":143061,"date":"2026-02-04T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143061\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:23:07","slug":"kucherov-has-4-points-lightning-rally-late-for-ot-win-against-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143061\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov has 4 points, Lightning rally late for OT win against Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kucherov gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 10:24 of the first period, scoring on a shot from the low slot off a pass from Guentzel after he intercepted a clearing attempt from Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Samuelsson tied it 1-1 at 16:53 with a sharp-angled wrist shot from the bottom of the left circle that beat Vasilevskiy to the far post.<\/p>\n

“Heck of an effort. You could see that back-to-back … we didn’t quite have the energy, but we found sound energy late,” Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. “Big push in the third period and a great power-play goal. We had a couple of great opportunities. … We had [Dahlin] and [Tage Thompson<\/a>] walking it in overtime to win it for us, but you know, it didn’t hit the mark.”<\/p>\n

Samuelsson scored again to give Buffalo a 2-1 lead at 4:08 of the third period. He beat Vasilevskiy glove side with a snap shot from above the hash marks.<\/p>\n

“We’ll take the three points, but we let that fourth one slip away tonight,” Samuelsson said. “We’ve got to find a way to kill the rest of that clock. We had a lot of chances too in overtime that we didn’t capitalize on, but yeah, we’ll take the three points.”<\/p>\n

Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a> tied it 2-2 at 8:53 when he followed up an initial shot from Raddysh for a power-play goal.<\/p>\n

“He’s been great,\u201d Raddysh said of Bjorkstrand\u2019s efforts on the power play. \u201cHe’s been feeling it when (Brayden) Point wasn’t there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doan put the Sabres back ahead 3-2 at 14:53, scoring a power-play goal on a deflection at the crease after Thompson sent the puck toward the net.<\/p>\n

“That was probably an entertaining hockey game for most,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “You know the coaches will pick it apart, but that was two, what I consider, really good teams that went at it, and it’s probably fitting that it went to overtime.”<\/p>\n

NOTES: Kucherov has 16 points (four goals, 12 assists) during a five-game multipoint streak. He has 31 multipoint games this season. \u2026 Samuelsson has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his past 10 games. … Raddysh became the sixth defenseman in the past 25 years to record a five-game goal streak, joining Mike Green<\/a> (eight games in 2008-09), Jakob Chychrun<\/a> (five games in 2025-26), Dahlin (five games in 2022-23), Cale Makar<\/a> (five games in 2021-22) and Roman Josi<\/a> (five games in 2019-20). \u2026 Sabres defenseman Jacob Bryson<\/a> returned to the lineup after missing the previous five games. He had a shot on goal in 11:01 of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 10:24 of the first period, scoring on a shot from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-143061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}