SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — JJ Peterka scored two targets for the second straight sport and the Buffalo Sabres netted 5 unanswered targets to rally previous the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Saturday.
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Peterka handed Jeff Skinner for the crew lead with 18 targets this season.
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“I think (it’s) just a stretch right now where everything goes in,” Peterka stated. “I think I’m not playing a different game. I’m shooting as much as I shot before and right now things are just going in.”
Dylan Cozens added a objective and two assists, Alex Tuch had a objective and an help, and Jordan Greenway scored a objective for the Sabres.
Casey Mittelstadt had two assists to provide him a team-high 30 for the season. He additionally leads Buffalo with 42 factors.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Jan Rutta scored for the Sharks, who had their season-best three-game successful streak snapped.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 23 saves to enhance to 4-1 in his profession towards San Jose.
Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 31 photographs however fell to 0-4 towards Buffalo.
The Sharks jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on targets from Vlasic and Rutta.
“It looked like we thought it was going to be easy,” San Jose coach David Quinn stated. “I thought we came out with a lot of energy, a lot of pace. And then all of a sudden we get up 2-0 and it was funny how it just changed. We got away from skating and competing and playing responsibly, and we weren’t able to get it back.”
Peterka and Greenway answered for the Sabres to tie the sport at 2 after the primary interval.
Tuch scored early within the second to place Buffalo forward. Peterka scored an insurance coverage objective early within the third and Cozens added an empty-netter because the Sabres improved to 16-0-1 when main after two intervals.
“I don’t think we ever wavered in our confidence and our energy,” Tuch stated. “Our style of play, I don’t think, really changed. We just tightened up a few areas, made a couple better plays with the puck and we were just a little stronger in puck battles.”
Buffalo ahead Jack Quinn left the sport within the third interval after getting his left leg bent awkwardly on a verify into the boards. He was helped off the ice and didn’t return.
Quinn missed the primary 32 video games of the season recovering from an Achilles harm.
“It was devastating to see him go down the way he did,” Sabres coach Don Granato stated. “Obviously the hockey side is a negative tremendous impact when you lose a guy like that, but the emotions go to the personal side. He’s endured a lot already in a very young career. So it’s a struggle. We don’t have the extent that he’s going to be out, but it’s certainly not day-to-day.”
Before the sport, San Jose positioned defenseman Henry Thrun on injured reserve with an upper-body harm and activated defenseman Ty Emberson from IR. Emberson recorded an help.
UP NEXT
Sabres: Host Dallas on Feb. 6 after the All-Star break.
Sharks: Host Seattle on Tuesday night time.
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Source: www.hindustantimes.com
