In Buffalo Sunday evening, the Vancouver Canucks were boosted by two goals from Michael Chaput in a 4-2 win over the Sabres.
“He works so hard and I think he’s got some pretty good offensive talent and he hasn’t got rewarded,” Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins said. “So it was good for him to get rewarded with something. It’s nice for us to get some goals from other guys. They were timely goals, on the road in a tough situation in a game we needed. It was important for us to get it.”
Chaput now has three goals on the season.
“It was a great feeling,” Chaput said. “It’s hard enough to score in this league, let alone get two. It was great, but I’ve got to give credit to my teammates. Danny did a great job on the first one and then [Burrows] and Edler made a great play on the second one. I was just fortunate to be in a good spot.”
Robin Lehner took the loss for the Sabres on 27 saves.
Tyler Ennis and Kyle Okposo scored for the Sabres who dropped to 23-23-10.
Alexandre Burrows and Bo Horvat also scored for the Canucks.
“It’s always nice to be able to contribute offensively,” Burrows said. “Good play by my linemates, Bo on the breakout and then our [defense] activating into the rush and throwing pucks on the net and lucky enough ended up on my stick and I just shot it eyes closed and it trickled in, so we’ll take it. And it turned out to be a big goal. We’re really happy with the win.”
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Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves for the win as the Canucks improved to 25-25-6/
Things are getting testy in Buffalo with the losing despite the young and veteran talent on the roster.
“We didn’t play good today at all. At all. I don’t think so. We make two plays; we score two goals, that’s about it. It’s not even disappointing anymore; it’s starting to get angry. This is all talk,” Lehner said “We’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror here. I think it’s disrespectful when we have a game plan; we’re going through things, the last few days we’ve just been going through on how to play our second period. Coach brought it up there, coming up with a good game plan.
“We do the exact opposite. We don’t do what he said and that gets me angry, I think it gets a lot of guys angry. Disrespectful is the word.”
Sabres head coach Dan Bylsma had a few words after the loss as well.
“It’s not disrespectful to me; it’s disrespectful to the game and the process. We’re not a team that’s a championship team. We’re not a team that’s won anything yet. That’s where we’re trying to get. Those words are, the way we played, was disrespect to that process, disrespectful to the game,” Bylsma said in response to Lehner’s comments.
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