{"id":183775,"date":"2026-03-09T04:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:08:30","slug":"sabres-break-tie-late-edge-lightning-in-wild-back-and-forth-game-for-7th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183775\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres break tie late, edge Lightning in wild back-and-forth game for 7th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikita Kucherov<\/a> had two goals and an assist, J.J. Moser<\/a> had a goal and two assists, and Darren Raddysh<\/a> had three assists for the Lightning (39-19-4), who were coming off a 5-2 win at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, but have lost five of their past six games. Jonas Johansson<\/a>\u00a0made 34 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is, we gave up five special-team goals,\u201d Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cWe gave up four power-play goals and a shorty. That was the game. I could have handled the rest of it, no problem. \u2026 But just the fact that we gave up those special team goals, that’s the part I’m a little irked about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kucherov cut it to 4-2 on the power play at 12:26 of the second period with a wrist shot from the right circle that deflected off Tuch\u2019s skate and into the far side.<\/p>\n

Zemgus Girgensons<\/a> narrowed it to 4-3 at 14:46 when he beat Luukkonen glove side, and Moser scored from the slot to tie it 4-4 at 17:37.<\/p>\n

Kucherov then scored 59 seconds into the third period to give the Lightning their first lead of the game, 5-4, on a one-timer from the right circle.<\/p>\n

Brayden Point<\/a>\u2019s centering pass was knocked into the net by Buffalo\u00a0defenseman Bowen Byram<\/a> to make it 6-4 at 5:46 before Sam Carrick<\/a>\u00a0cut it to 6-5 at 6:12 after scoring far side from the right circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been kind of a team that’s done that all year and kind of a team that’s finished it,\u201d Tampa Bay forward Brandon Hagel<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cBut, I mean, those are things we can clean up. We obviously got to be better. Eight goals, it\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagel extended it to 7-5 at 9:48, one-timing a rebound from the left circle.<\/p>\n

Dahlin made it 7-6 at 11:03 when he cut to the net and put in a wrist shot blocker side, and Zucker scored on a breakaway to tie it 7-7 at 14:29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, J.J. Moser had a goal and two assists, and Darren…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-183775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183775","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=183775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}