In Dallas, the visiting Buffalo Sabres got a big game from Linus Ullmark who made 28 saves and the Sabres supported that effort with four goals in a 4-1 win over the Stars.
Buffalo is not a team that generally provides offense to their goalies.
“Yeah, I think it was pretty outstanding from us in the third period,” Sabres forward Michael Frolik said. “We were pretty good in the neutral zone and created some turnovers there.
Zemgus Girgensons had an empty net foal for the Sabres file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“It was a great effort tonight. It was a big two points for us.”
Jamie Benn scored the lone Stars goal.
“I think we would have changed it by now,” Tyler Seguin said. “It’s been the message, but we haven’t rose to the occasion yet. We need to figure out our starts. It’s nice to have the resilience that we do and being able to come back, but we were flirting with fire and got burned tonight.”
Jimmy Vesey, Frolik, and Rasmus Dahlin scored for the Sabres.
“I thought the second period actually, scoring chance wise, was pretty even,” Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger said. “They had more shots than we did (16-5), but if you look at the game’s storyline, you had to expect some pushback after being up on them after the first, and they gave a strong push.”
Zemgus Girgensons added an empty net goal for the sealer.
“We lose one of our best players (Miro Heiskanen), but that’s going to happen during a game and some guys are going to have to step up,” Stars defenseman John Klingberg said. “I still think we had some good efforts today and I think we bring it all the time here in the room.
“When Miro went out, I don’t know what actually happened, but it’s tough for sure.”
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Ben Bishop made 18 saves in the loss.
“It’s disappointing because we had some opportunities and just couldn’t capitalize, get to their net, and bang one home,” Bishop said. “It was kind of a perimeter game by us. If you let teams stick around for too long, they end up getting another one and then you’re trying to fight and claw your way back in the third.”
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