TAMPA, FLA. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Rasmus Dahlin scored a power-play goal in overtime and the Buffalo Sabres rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Thursday night.
With Nikita Kucherov off for hooking, Dahlin scored from in-close 1:42 into overtime.
Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 21 shots.
Thompson made it 2-2 on the power play at 11:33 of the third.
Brayden Point and Mitchell Chaffee scored for the Lightning, who are currently in the Eastern Conference's second wild-card spot. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves, and NHL points leader Kucherov had an assist to give him 104 this season.
Tampa Bay left wing Brandon Hagel had his 14-game point streak end. Only Steven Stamkos, who put together an 18-game run in 2009-10, had a longer one in Lightning history.
Luukkonen kept it close through 40 minutes with several strong stops, including a pad save on Point’s first-period backhander and a one-timer from the slot by Stamkos in the second.
Vasilevskiy made a big save on a short-handed breakaway by Jordan Greenway in the third.
Chaffee put the Lightning up 2-1 with a deflection with 2:42 left in the second.
Point extended his point streak to eight games when he made a nifty move on Luukkonen and scored a power-play goal 8:12 into the game.
Tuch tied it at 1 just 2:47 later after stealing a pass by Point.
Sabres defenseman Erik Johnson didn’t play due to illness.
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