{"id":870241,"date":"2026-10-04T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:28:08","slug":"kulich-scores-first-goal-in-11-months-sabres-edge-blackhawks-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870241\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulich scores first goal in 11 months, Sabres edge Blackhawks in home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Donato<\/a>, Tyler Bertuzzi<\/a> and Oliver Moore<\/a> scored for the\u00a0Blackhawks (0-3-0), who were outscored 11-2 in losses to the Vegas Golden Knights (5-2) and Utah Mammoth (6-0). Knight made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought our compete and our kind of swagger was way better,\u201d Chicago coach Jeff Blashill. \u201cThat’s more the standard that we want to play with. Obviously, you’re going to make mistakes, and you want to learn and grow, and that’s what we’ll focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dahlin tied it 3-3 at 6:10 of the third period for the Sabres, taking a pass from Peyton Krebs<\/a> at the right hashmark off the rush and beating Knight with a snap shot stick side.<\/p>\n

Donato gave Chicago a 1-0 lead at 7:59 of the first period. Alex Vlasic<\/a> carried the puck down the left side to the net before sending a centering pass to Donato in the slot.<\/p>\n

Bertuzzi finished off a tic-tac-toe passing play to make it 2-0 at 11:24. Anton Frondell<\/a> drew Luukkonen to him as he took a feed from Teuvo Teravainen<\/a> in front and quickly passed it to Bertuzzi, who put it into the open net from the left side.<\/p>\n

Jack Quinn<\/a>\u2019s wrist shot from above the slot went top right corner to cut it to 2-1 at 16:24.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he could have had three tonight easy,\u201d Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said of the forward, who has scored in each of Buffalo\u2019s first two games. \u201cHe\u2019s really skating well. Talked a lot about last year, he had that segment where he really was snakebit. Just couldn’t buy one, but for him to have him start going in right now, I think it\u2019s a great sign for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Donato, Tyler Bertuzzi and Oliver Moore scored for the\u00a0Blackhawks (0-3-0), who were outscored 11-2 in losses to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-870241","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\/870241","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=870241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}