{"id":534601,"date":"2026-03-20T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:55:07","slug":"lyon-makes-23-saves-sabres-shut-out-sharks-for-3rd-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534601\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon makes 23 saves, Sabres shut out Sharks for 3rd straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Carrick<\/a> scored twice, and Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Sabres (43-20-6), who have won three straight and 11 of 12. Lyon earned his third shutout of the season and his seventh in the NHL.<\/p>\n

“I thought their compete early on, they had a higher level than ours. Our goaltender gave us some great saves,” Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. “I thought we passed up a couple of opportunities, then we got rolling offensively.”<\/p>\n

Buffalo has a four-point lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning for first place in the Atlantic Division and is tied with the Carolina Hurricanes for first place in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> made 11 saves for the Sharks (32-29-6), who have lost three in a row. San Jose is two points behind the Los Angeles Kings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

“Just some details in our game,” San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “Some line-change stuff, playing the defensive side of pucks, really, in all three zones. … Those would be the main areas [of improvement].”<\/p>\n

The Sabres scored three times in a 1:43 span in the second period to take a three-goal lead.<\/p>\n

Noah Ostlund<\/a> made it 1-0 at 9:05. The rebound from Josh Doan<\/a>‘s shot bounced off the end boards in front to Ostlund, who put the puck in off Nedeljkovic from a sharp angle.<\/p>\n

“We had a good first period. I thought [we] came out pretty well, and then, yeah, it was kind of a snowball effect after their first goal,” Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Carrick pushed the lead to 2-0 at 9:41 when he buried a wrist shot from above the right face-off circle into the top left corner off a drop pass from Dahlin.<\/p>\n

Dahlin extended it to 3-0 at 10:48. Jason Zucker<\/a>\u00a0shielded a defender as he broke into the zone and sent a cross-crease pass for Dahlin to tap in past Nedeljkovic’s right pad.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t know I was coming. [Zucker] made a great play on the backhand, and it was just for me to put it in the net,” Dahlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Carrick scored twice, and Rasmus Dahlin had a goal and an assist for the Sabres (43-20-6), who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-534601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534601","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=534601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}