In Buffalo, Carter Hutton made 25 saves to guide the Sabres to a 4-0 win over the visiting Dallas Stars.
The win pushed the Sabres to a 5-0-1 record.
“It’s nice, especially the last two games, we had two-goal leads and … gave up the lead,” Hutton said after the Sabres’ third straight win. “But to come out and get an early one, and then I think we just played. They had some chances, but at that point, we were kind of just flushing them out. It was a rock-solid game.
“I thought early on, it was a tight game and then again, they have a couple power plays and then our power play clicks. I think that’s the difference in the game. We get a power-play goal and we take it from there.”
Victor Olofsson, Sam Reinhart, Jeff Skinner, and Marcus Johansson were the Sabres’ strikers.
“We didn’t let up after we had the lead,” Johansson said. “We kept going and we kept playing the right way, didn’t really force things as we’ve done a little bit in previous games. We made it hard for them, and it was 60 good minutes.”
The Stars dropped to 1-5-1 with the loss.
“That’s a much better team performance even though the result no one likes and everyone is unhappy with where we are at right now, but things will turn,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “We’re just not making those finishing plays once we cross the offensive zone.”
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Ben Bishop made 18 saves in the loss.
“Overall we played better today than against Washington at home (a 4-1 loss on Saturday). But that’s not enough.” Alexander Radulov said. “When you get to that situation, everything feels like it’s falling apart, but I think there’s lots of experienced guys on the team who have been in this situation and battled through it. There is going to be a time when we are talking about different stuff.”
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