The Sabres went 2-for-3 on the power play for the second straight game. They had been in a 1-for-19 drought over their previous six games.<\/p>\n
Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff credited the improvement to having his first unit available after Dahlin missed three games Oct. 13-17 because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, we\u2019ve tried to run it out,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cWe missed \u2018Dahls\u2019 for a couple games and got him back. You look at the power plays, the zone time, our entries \u2026 You put the work in, and we\u2019re starting to see results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thompson made it 2-0 at 15:38 of the second period, scoring on a snap shot from the right circle on a pass from Benson off the rush.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll goal-scorers a lot of times can run a little hotter,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cThey can get a cold stretch, but usually when they come out of it, they\u2019re scoring like seven or eight goals in four or five games. And the chances are there. That line these last couple games has had great chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry cut it to 2-1 at 17:24 on the power play when Trevor Moore<\/a>\u2019s one-timer from the right circle deflected in off Perry for his first goal of the season. The goal was initially waved off for\u00a0goaltender interference, but the play was overturned after the Kings successfully challenged.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, that\u2019s a good goal,\u201d Luukkonen said. \u201cThat\u2019s not goalie interference. I would have been (upset) myself if they called it goalie interference.\u201d<\/p>\n Lee tied it 2-2 just 1:29 into the third period. He was alone in the crease to put in Scott Laughton<\/a>\u2019s centering pass from the trapezoid shortly after a power play expired.<\/p>\n \u201cExactly where he was when he scored the goal, right in front of the net, he seems to get a lot of chances in that area,\u201d Laviolette said.<\/p>\n NOTES: Thompson has 223 goals in 502 games for the Sabres, passing Rene Robert<\/a> (222) for ninth in franchise history. \u2026 Kings forward Martin Chromiak<\/a>\u00a0made his NHL debut and had one shot on goal in 17:31 of ice time, including 4:27 on the power play. He played on the first line with Alex Laferriere<\/a> and Artemi Panarin<\/a> because Adrian Kempe<\/a>\u00a0was out with an undisclosed injury. He is day to day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sabres went 2-for-3 on the power play for the second straight game. They had been in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-901759","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\/901759","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=901759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}