Sabres double-up Jets, 4-2

In Winnipeg, Rasmus Dahlin hit for a pair of goals on Tuesday night, to help the Buffalo Sabres end a seven-game skid in a 4-2 win over the Jets.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 34 saves in the Sabres win.

“He’s unbelievable,” Dahlin said of Luukkonen. “When we need him, he does those crazy saves. He’s so calm in the net. He makes us confident in our D-zone. … He’s for sure a huge part of the success.”

Buffalo improved to 9-15-4.

“[Dahlin] is a great player and he’s going to make more plays than he’s going to give the other team,” Sabres head coach Don Granato said. “Tonight was a really good vision into his future. That was a vision into his future and capabilities and nice to see.”

Pierre-Luc Dubois and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets.

“We were slow to start with,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said. “We skated for 15, 20 minutes. And then slowed and could never get back up to speed.”

Dahlin scored off the power play to give the Sabres a 1-0 lead in the first period.

“The goals are always nice, but I think you can see [Dahlin] was playing really well today and breaking up the puck,” Luukkonen said. “Defensively, too, it’s nice to see that and I think everybody feels good when the guys play well. I think we did real well today.”

“It’s on the players,” the Jets’ Nate Schmidt said. “That’s us having the giddy-up and get-going to play and understand this team. … They have young players, they’re good, they’re skilled, they can make great plays and playing with that kind of go out there and just kind of go-play attitude, you can go and have a lot of confidence to make those types of plays.

“For some of these young guys, they’re breaking into the league. They’re good players. It’s 100 percent on us, being ready for the game, being prepared and have the giddy-up, the jump to go the whole game.”

Winnipeg dropped to 13-10-5.

“They are young team with a lot of skill, they have a lot of speed and they were able to use that tonight,” Ehlers said. “I don’t think we were good enough at shutting that down, because that starts when we have the puck and it’s all five (players) on the ice. That’s something we that we got to clean up.”

Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves in the Jets loss.