Josh Norris continued his offensive tear and the Buffalo Sabres extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The winning streak is the Sabres\u2019 longest since they won six straight from Dec. 13 to 31, 2022. They improved their record to a season-best three games above .500 at 17-14-4 and moved within three points of Tampa Bay for third place in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
Norris scored his fourth goal in nine games this season to erase a 1-0 deficit during the second period. He\u2019s tallied at least one point in seven of eight games since returning from injury on Dec. 1. His lone game without a point was Saturday\u2019s win over the Islanders, when he had a goal waved off during regulation and later netted the shootout winner.<\/p>\n
Zach Benson squeezed a no-look shot inside the near post on an odd-man rush to put the Sabres ahead late in the second period. Peyton Krebs made a hustle play to score into an empty net for his first goal late in the third.<\/p>\n
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen started for the first time since Dec. 8 and made 26 saves, including a sprawling glove stop to rob Arseny Gritsyk on a 2-on-1 rush while the Sabres were trailing 1-0 during the first period.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has one game remaining ahead of the holiday break, at Ottawa on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Norris continued his offensive tear and the Buffalo Sabres extended their winning streak to six games with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-363194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}