Troy Terry's Overtime Goal Lifts Ducks Past Sabres

Troy Terry scored connected a breakaway 1:29 into overtime for his 2nd extremity of nan crippled aft Mikael Granlund tied it precocious successful regularisation and the Ducks rallied to conclusion nan Buffalo Sabres 6-5 connected Sunday night.

Anaheim ended Buffalo’s seven-game roadworthy winning streak erstwhile Tage Thompson couldn’t support successful nan puck successful nan Ducks’ area and Terry held connected a 2-on-0 break to people connected a backhander.

Granlund tied nan people astatine 5 pinch 1:44 remaining successful nan 3rd play connected a powerfulness play pinch Ville Husso pulled for an other attacker.

Chris Kreider and Jackson LaCombe had power-play goals successful nan first period, Beckett Sennecke besides scored, Husso made 24 saves and nan Ducks person won consecutive games arsenic portion of a four-game points streak.

Alex Lyon had his 10-game roadworthy winning streak — tied for nan third-longest by a goaltender successful NHL history — snapped aft giving up six goals connected 33 shots. That included giving up goals to Sennecke and Terry connected 2 of nan Ducks’ 4 shots successful nan 2nd period.

Alex Tuch, Josh Doan, Jack Quinn, Owen Power and Zach Benson scored for nan Sabres, who extended their franchise-record roadworthy points streak to 14 games. It was their 2nd nonaccomplishment successful nan past 14 games overall.

Lyon hadn’t mislaid a roadworthy commencement since Dec. 8, erstwhile Buffalo was past successful nan Eastern Conference pinch a 2-9-2 grounds extracurricular of upstate New York. The Sabres had since won 20 of 24 roadworthy games arsenic portion of an astonishing turnaround that has them group to extremity nan longest playoff drought successful nan NHL and connected way to declare a first section title since 2009-10.

A triumph for Lyon would person tied San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov successful 2009-10 and Minnesota’s Devan Dubnyk successful 2014-15 for nan longest undefeated roadworthy tally successful convention history.