Sabres win streak ends in Carolina

The Buffalo Sabres (24-28-5) fell behind early and couldn’t recover in a 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes (34-21-4) at Lenovo Center on Thursday night. The loss snapped Buffalo’s two-game win streak, and before this, the Sabres had been victorious in six of their last seven contests. Full Story by Kyle Evans at fingerlakes1.com

Sabres blow out Rangers in return to action

The Buffalo Sabres scored early and often in their return to action on Saturday, as they dominated the visiting New York Rangers, 8-2, at KeyBank Center. Rasmus Dahlin, Tage Thompson and Ryan McLeod all scored twice, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots in the victory. Full Story by Jonathan Koziol at msn.com

Sabres show they haven’t given up on season after dominating Rangers: 6 takeaways

Before the Sabres returned from a two-week break between games, Lindy Ruff wasn’t speaking like the coach of the last-place team in the Eastern Conference. He talked about breaking the season into five-game segments and getting 7 out of every 10 possible points the rest of the way to climb back into the race. The Sabres began Saturday 12 points out of the second wild-card spot with only 28 games to play, a near-impossible climb. Full Story by Matthew Fairburn at nytimes.com

Sabres win 4 straight for first time in 2 seasons

Alex Tuch had two goals and an assist, Bowen Byram added a goal and assist, James Reimer made 27 saves, and the Sabres closed out a victorious four-game homestand with a 3-2 win against the Columbus BlueJackets on Tuesday night at KeyBank Center. Full Story by: Jonah Bronstein at MSN.com

‘Good, all-around effort’ extends Sabres’ win streak to 4

“We’ve got a bunch of guys that are real good at tipping pucks – [Tuch’s] definitely one of them,” said Gilbert, who’s raised his season point total to three with an assist in back-to-back games. “Had some time; just waiting for the big fella to swing through the middle and got lucky.” Full Story by: Justin Alpert at nhl.com