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Eichel extended his points streak to 14 games.
He has 12 goals and 13 assists during that span.
Sam Reinhart, Johan Larsson and Zemgus Girgensons also scored,
and Linus Ullmark made 28 saves for the Sabres, who improved to
9-3-3 at home this season.
Troy Brouwer and Alex Pietrangelo scored for the Blues, who have
absorbed three consecutive regulation losses for the first time
this season.
The Sabres took a 1-0 lead just 18 seconds into the game with a
fortuitous bounce. Victor Olofsson threw the puck toward the
goal from the left wing with Reinhart and Eichel crashing the
net. Reinhart barely deflected the puck, which then caromed off
the skate of Blues forward David Perron and past goaltender Jake
Allen, who stopped 28 of 31 shots in a hard-luck loss.
Brouwer tied the game less than 3 1/2 minutes later by punching
in a pass from Ivan Barbashev, who won the race to Robert
Thomas' dump-in to the end boards.
The Blues controlled much of the second period but failed to
score. Barbashev and Brayden Schenn both hit the right post with
shots, and Perron fired the puck off the crossbar on a power
play.
Then the Sabres took a 2-1 lead with 8.6 seconds left in the
period. Zach Bogosian fired a point shot well left of the net --
but the opportunistic Larsson converted the hard carom off the
end boards, putting the puck into the open side.
Pietrangelo tied the game 2-2 less than four minutes into the
third period with his 100th career goal. He stepped in as the
trailer to hammer home a pass from Perron, who created space
with a nifty move on the right wing.
Eichel countered that by stepping out from behind net unchecked
to beat Allen one-on-one 5:46 into the third. Empty-net goals by
Girgensons and Eichel in the final minute iced the game.
--Field Level Media
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