Owen Power scored 4:22 into overtime and the Buffalo Sabres rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Tuesday night.
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Sabres → score → night
Tage Thompson and Noah Ostlund tied the NHL contest by scoring six minutes apart in the third period.
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Thompson → tie → period
Colten Ellis stopped 18 shots, including three in overtime, and Buffalo (2-1) won its second straight game when trailing entering the third.
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Buffalo → stop → third
The Sabres overcame a 3-2 deficit in a 4-3 home-opening win over Chicago on Saturday night.
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Sabres → overcome → night
Danila Yurov and Maxim Shabanov scored 1:45 apart to stake Minnesota to a 2-0 lead with 4:22 left in the second period.
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4:22 → score → period
Jesper Wallstedt stopped 25 shots, including his glove save off Thompson’s shot from the slot with 3:28 left in regulation.
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3:28 → stop → regulation
Power’s goal came after Thompson shot wide on a drive to the net.
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Thompson → come → net
Jiri Kulich, who scored the decisive goal against Chicago, collected the puck and fed Power, who snapped in the puck inside the left post.
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who → score → post
Minnesota blew an opportunity to open a season 3-0 for the first time since 2021-22 and sixth time in franchise history.
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Minnesota → blow → history
He became one of nine Sabres and the first since Thomas Vanek to reach the 400-point plateau in 491 or fewer games.
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He → become → games
Ellis, Buffalo’s third-string goalie, made his season debut, with co-starter Alex Lyon still recovering from a shoulder injury.
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Lyon → make → injury
Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:
RED WINGS 5 SENATORS 3
DETROIT (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored in his first game since asking for a trade, helping Detroit to a 5-3 win over Ottawa.
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Larkin → score → Ottawa
Larkin was initially booed by the home crowd when he touched the puck on his first shift.
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he → boo → shift
The boos turned to cheers when he scored in the 13th minute, giving Detroit a lead it never relinquished.
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it → turn → lead
Alex DeBrincat scored twice and Justin Faulk and Viktor Arvidsson added goals for Detroit.
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Faulk → score → Detroit
John Gibson made 22 saves.
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Gibson → make → saves
Drake Batherson, Tim Stutzle and William Eklund scored for the Senators, who had won their first two games.
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who → score → games
Samuel Ersson had 31 saves.
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Ersson → have → saves
DeBrincat opened his scoring in the first with a wrist shot 3:16 into the period, assisted by Nate Danielson and Carter Mazur.
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DeBrincat → open → Danielson
He added a power-play empty-netter with 50 seconds remaining in the third.
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He → add → third
DeBrincat also had an assist.
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DeBrincat → have → assist
Larkin remains in limbo several months after his trade request became public.
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request → remain → limbo
He was stripped of the captaincy, reported to training camp despite being injured, missed the start of the season because of injury and received a frosty reaction from home fans during introductions prior to their first game last week.
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He → strip → game
MAMMOTH 5 DEVILS 3
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nick Schmaltz scored his NHL-best fifth goal of the season, and Utah relied on its proficient power play to beat New Jersey 5-3.
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Utah → score → Jersey
Clayton Keller, MacKenzie Weegar, Lawson Crouse and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Mammoth, and Mikhail Sergachev had three assists to surpass 300 for his career before leaving the game when he took a puck to the back of the helmet late in the second period.
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he → score → period
Utah went 2-for-4 on the power play and has scored on eight of 13 opportunities this season with the man advantage, including Keller’s goal in the first period and Schmaltz’s go-ahead tally midway through the second that made it 3-2.
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it → go → second
Luke Evangelista scored twice for New Jersey and Jesper Boqvist had the other goal.
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Boqvist → score → goal
The Mammoth beat the Devils for the first time, having gone 0-4 in the franchise’s previous two seasons.
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Mammoth → beat → seasons
Karel Vejmelka stopped 30 shots for Utah, and New Jersey’s Jake Allen made 26 saves.
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Allen → stop → saves
Auston Matthews scored with 14 seconds left in overtime and had three assists in regulation and Toronto erased a three-goal deficit in a 5-4 win over Nashville.
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Toronto → score → Nashville
William Nylander, No. 1 overall pick Gavin McKenna — with his first as a professional — John Tavares and Jack Roslovic had the other goals for Toronto, which got 21 saves from Anthony Stolarz.
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which → have → Stolarz
McKenna also picked up an assist on Tavares’ goal for his first NHL point.
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McKenna → pick → point
Nylander chipped in two assists and Roslovic added one.
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Roslovic → chip → one
Steven Stamkos scored twice for Nashville to move into 17th place on the NHL’s career goals list, while Nils Hoglander also scored twice.
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Hoglander → score → list
Filip Forsberg had two assists and Juuse Saros made 33 stops.
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Saros → have → stops
Stamkos opened the scoring at 7:13 of the first period on a power play.
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Stamkos → open → play
Nashville doubled its lead at 9:08 when Hoglander collected a rebound off the end boards and slotted it home before making it 3-0 at 3:03 of the second on another tap-in.
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it → double → in
Tavares got Toronto going off the rush at 4:56 of the middle period and Nylander connected on a man advantage at 6:58 to make it 3-2.
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it → get → 6:58
Stamkos scored his second to restore a two-goal lead at 13:30, but McKenna scored his first NHL goal 61 seconds later.
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McKenna → score → goal
Roslovic tied things at 8:54 of the third.
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Roslovic → tie → third
…and 20 more, not listed.
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