In Buffalo, Mike Hoffman scored with 11 seconds left in regulation to help rally the visiting Florida Panthers from an 0-2 deficit to the Sabres to force extra time.
The overtime session settled nothing, and the Sabres sent their fans fans home happy with a victory after the skills competition.
Linus Ullmark made 41 saves for the Sabres to help get the win.
“We never hesitated,” Ullmark said. “We stayed calm on the bench. No one got upset, or anything like that. We just thought about what happened, let it go, go in there and try to get those two points.”
Johan Larsson and Marco Scandella scored for the Sabres in regulation; Buffalo improved to 4-0-1.
The Florida loss dropped them to 1-2-1.
“I thought we had a good third period, we had a good first as well,” Panthers head coach Joel Quenneville said. “Second, they had the puck more than us, but I thought it was a good battling-back effort. An interesting end to that overtime, but Bob made some huge saves for us, we had some good looks ourselves.”
Evgenii Dadonov also scored for the Panthers in the third period to start the rally.
“We started to play a little more desperate, we started to play a way that we intended to all game, getting pucks on net, starting to hold on to pucks, making plays,” Hoffman said. “We’ve just got to do that for a full 60 minutes, just not the last five, six minutes when we need a goal.”
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Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves in the loss.
“It’s a huge point for us. Obviously, we could clean up some things, but I thought the boys stepped up and showed character and got back to the point,” Bobrovsky said.
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