{"id":173743,"date":"2026-03-01T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:43:13","slug":"buffalo-sabres-beat-tampa-bay-lightning-for-third-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173743\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres beat Tampa Bay Lightning for third straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Josh Norris scored twice, Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> had a goal and two assists and the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> beat the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> 6-2 on Saturday night for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Zach Metsa<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Alex Tuch<\/a> and Tage Thompson<\/a> also scored and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> made 36 saves to help Buffalo move within four points of the Atlantic Division-leading Lightning.<\/p>\n

The Sabres improved to 16-2-1 in their past 19 on the road, ending Tampa Bay\u2019s 10-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

Dominic James<\/a> and Victor Hedman<\/a> scored for Tampa Bay. The Lightning have lost consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 15-18. <\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevksiy, who was 17-0-1 in his previous starts, was pulled after allowing five goals on 14 shots in his first regulation loss since Dec. 18. Jonas Johansson<\/a> came on in relief and stopped 20 shots.<\/p>\n

Buffalo scored twice in a span of 50 seconds in the first period, both off the rush with Dahlin picking up his 12th of the season at 5:25 and Norris his first of the night at 6:15. Norris scored again on a deflection at 8:18, and Thompson made it 4-0 with 4:54 left in the first period.<\/p>\n

Metsa scored 1:54 into the second period to end the night for Vasilevksiy, which marked the first time he has been pulled Oct. 21, 2024, at Toronto.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Sabres: Host Vegas on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Lightning: At Minnesota on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Erik Erlendsson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Josh Norris scored twice, Rasmus Dahlin had a goal and two assists and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-173743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173743","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=173743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}