Isles fall to lowly Sabres

BUFFALO — Anders Bjork scored Buffalo’s last two goals in regulation and then notched the deciding shootout goal, lifting the Sabres to a 4-3 victory over the Islanders on Tuesday.

Cody Eakin also scored for the last-place Sabres, who rallied past the playoff-bound Islanders for the second straight night. Victor Olofsson collected two assists.

Sabres goaltender Michael Houser stopped 45 shots and all three he faced in the shootout in his second NHL game.

Cal Clutterbuck picked up a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who lost ground in trying to secure home-ice advantage for the playoffs. Anthony

Beauvillier and

Ryan

Pulock also scored, and Ilya Sorokin made 28 saves.

Bjork brought Buffalo back from a two-goal deficit. He scored the tying goal on a wrist shot from the right circle with just over nine minutes left in the third period. Bjork tipped Colin Miller’s slap shot past Sorokin to make it 3-2 late in the second.

In his first career shootout attempt, Bjork sent a wrist shot over Sorokin’s glove.

DEVILS 4, BRUINS 3

Pavel Zacha scored his second goal of the game at 2:42 of overtime and the Devils snapped the Bruins’ four-game winning streak.

Jesper Boqvist and Yegor Sharangovich scored for the Devils, who finished their home season with a 7-18-3 record. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 33 shots in winning his fourth straight game.

Patrice Bergeron, Taylor Hall and Sean Kuraly scored for the Bruins, who blew two one-goal third-period leads. Jaroslov Halak made 17 saves in his first start in more than a month as Boston fell to 10-2-1 in its past 13.

Zacha’s winner came with the officials waiting to call a delayed penalty against Boston. The Devils got the extra skater on the ice and controlled the puck for 30 seconds before Zacha beat Halak.