{"id":575156,"date":"2026-04-10T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:25:07","slug":"sabres-5-0-blue-jackets-apr-9-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575156\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres 5-0 Blue Jackets (Apr 9, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO, N.Y. — \u2014 Rookie Colten Ellis<\/a> stopped 37 shots for his first NHL career shutout, and the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> beat Columbus 5-0 to dent the Blue Jackets\u2019 playoff chances on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Josh Doan<\/a> broke the game open with two third-period goals, while Peyton Krebs<\/a>, Jack Quinn<\/a> and Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> also scored. <\/p>\n

Buffalo (49-23-8) reached the 49-win mark for just the fourth time in team history, and maintained the Atlantic Division lead with a week left in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Ellis improved to 8-4-1 while making his first start in more than two months. He got the start with Alex Lyon<\/a> expected to miss at least a week with a strained lower-body muscle sustained in practice a day earlier.<\/p>\n

Jet Greaves<\/a> stopped 19 shots in dropping to 2-5-1 in his past eight starts.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets failed to build off a 4-3 overtime win at Detroit on Tuesday, and dropped to 1-6-1 in their past eight. Columbus has just three games remaining and began the day sitting ninth in tightly contested Eastern Conference race in which three points separated eighth-place Ottawa and 12th-place Washington.<\/p>\n

Krebs opened the scoring 13:41 in on a two-on-one set up by Josh Norris<\/a> blocking Zach Werenski\u2019s pass inside the blue line of Buffalo\u2019s zone. Norris immediately fed Krebs, who drove up the right wing and snapped a shot that beat Greaves inside the far post.<\/p>\n

The Sabres scored four times in the third, with Doan beginning the surge at the 7:19 mark. Doan stripped Charlie Coyle<\/a> of the puck at the Columbus blue line, drove in alone and beat Greaves on the glove side.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Blue Jackets: At Montreal on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Sabres: At Chicago on Monday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

This story has been corrected to reflect that Columbus has three games remaining.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. — \u2014 Rookie Colten Ellis stopped 37 shots for his first NHL career shutout, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-575156","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\/575156","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=575156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}