Penguins keep Sabres reeling
Buffalo skid hits 15 with dismal outing
Sidney Crosby picked up his 13th goal of the season, Tristan Jarry stopped 26 shots and the Pittsburgh Penguins push Buffalo’s winless streak to 15 games and counting with a 5-2 victory on Wednesday night.
Evan Rodrigues, Kris Letang, John Marino and Zach Aston-reese scored also for the Penguins, who recovered from a sluggish three-game set against New Jersey in which they managed just one victory by pouncing on the undermanned and overmatched
Sabres.
Buffalo goalie Dustin Tokarski, making his first NHL start in more than five years with Carter Hutton out due to a lowerbody injury, finished with 37 saves and kept the Sabres in it until late in the second period, when Marino and Aston-reese scored just more than two minutes apart to give the Penguins all the cushion required.
Wild 3, Ducks 2: Jared Spurgeon had two goals, Nico Sturm broke a tie and the Minnesota beat Anaheim to sweep the two-game set. Cam Talbot made 28 saves to help the Wild extended a franchise record with their 10th straight home win.
Senators 3, Flames 1: Rookie Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves, Chris Tierney broke a third-period tie and Ottawa beat Calgary.
Note: Former St. Louis defenseman Bob Plager was killed Wednesday in a car crash in St. Louis. He was 78 . ... The NHL announced that Tim Peel’s career as a league referee is over after he was picked up by a TV microphone saying he wanted to give the Nashville Predators a penalty, an incident that put the notion of “make-up” calls squarely in the spotlight. Peel will “no longer will be working NHL games now or in the future,“the league said.