Ryan Donato scored at 3:12 of overtime as the Chicago Blackhawks rallied to snap a six-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the visiting Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.
Donato carried the puck to the top of the slot and beat Alex Lyon blocker side with a wrist shot.
Frank Nazar scored twice, and Spencer Knight made 21 saves for the Blackhawks.
Owen Power and Tage Thompson scored for the Sabres, who have lost three straight (0-2-1). Lyon made 22 saves in his season debut after recovering from a left shoulder injury sustained late in the preseason.
Power gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 9:00 of the first period. Josh Norris delivered a backhand pass to Power at the top of the right circle, where Power fired a slap shot to the far side.
Nazar tied it for Chicago on the power play at 12:22. Roman Kantserov, positioned down low, dished a backhand feed to Connor Bedard along the left wall. Bedard carried the puck to the corner before sending it to Nazar on the doorstep, where he slipped it under Lyon’s left pad.
Kantserov’s assist extended his point streak to nine games (six goals, three assists), tying the second-longest streak by a rookie in Blackhawks history.
Thompson put the Sabres ahead 2-1 with a power-play goal at 15:46. Jack Quinn received a pass from Rasmus Dahlin along the left wall to enter the zone, then slipped the puck back to Thompson, who beat Knight with a quick wrist shot from the circle.
The goal was Thompson’s 225th with Buffalo, moving him past Miroslav Satan into sole possession of eighth place in Sabres history.
After getting outshot 10-6 in the second period, including a stretch of nearly nine minutes without a shot on goal, Chicago pushed in the third and was rewarded. Nazar pulled the Blackhawks even with his second goal of the game at 8:22.
–Field Level Media
