Streak is over for Buffalo

Sabres record run ends at 10

The Tampa Bay Lightning ended the Buffalo Sabres’ franchise-recordtying winning streak at 10 games with a 5-4 victory Thursday night.

Cedric Paquette beat Carter Hutton with less than six minutes remaining in the third period to break a 4-4 tie.

Nikita Kucherov added a goal and an assist for the host Lightening. His eight-game point streak (three goals, 17 points) continued, too.

Sam Reinhart scored twice for the Sabres. Buffalo tied the game at 3 when Jack Eichel’s pass from the boards went off Reinhart’s skate and into the net in the second.

Eichel had two assists, making 25 this season.

Before Thursday, the Sabres had a league-leading 36 points. That made Buffalo the first team to finish the previous season with the worst record and then lead the NHL in points after 25 games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Hurricanes

Carolina put goalie Scott Darling on waivers Thursday. He has two years left on his contract at a salary-cap hit of $4.15 million. Darling became Carolina’s third goalie behind Petr Mrazek and waiver-wire pickup Curtis McIlhenney. Ron Francis, former Hurricanes general manager, traded a third-round pick to Chicago for Darling in 2017, signing him to a $16.6 million contract. Darling, 29, is 15-25-8 with a 3.17 goals-against average and .889 save percentage in 50 games with Carolina. He shed 50 pounds in the offseason and came to camp with confidence that showed on the ice, but Darling was injured in the final preseason game and struggled in regular-season play.

Penguins

Pittsburgh reclaimed forward Jean-Sebastien Dea off waivers from New Jersey, sending him to AHL affiliate WilkesBarre/Scranton. The reacquisiton comes two months after the Penguins initially dropped the 24-year-old center. Dea found offense initially in Newark, netting three goals in his first four games with the Devils, but did little in his next 20 games. He tallied just two assists (both against the Penguins) and has had no points since that game.