Jakob Silfverberg scores twice as Ducks beat Sabres to snap skid – Press Enterprise
ANAHEIM — Trying to avoid blowing a lead for the second straight game, the Ducks held on to beat the Buffalo Sabres, 4-2, on Tuesday night at Honda Center.
A pair of goals by Jakob Silfverberg and Adam Henrique’s fourth goal in the last three games held up against a late rally by the visitors as the Ducks ended their three-game losing streak.
At 5:51 of the opening period, the Ducks capitalized on a turnover in the neutral zone. Patiently moving the puck around the Buffalo zone, the Ducks pounced when the Sabres collapsed on their own net.
Cam Fowler slung a pass up top to Radko Gudas, who was free to shoot from the high slot. The Czech defenseman’s one-time slap shot found Silfverberg’s stick, and he redirected the puck past goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s glove hand.
The Sabres outshot the Ducks 9-5 for the remainder of the period, but John Gibson, making his 28th start this season, denied them until it was too late.
The Ducks put in one of their best periods of the season in the second. Peppering the Sabres with 19 shots over the 20-minute frame – the most for the Ducks this season – produced two more goals and a point for defenseman Olen Zellweger in his NHL debut.
The 20-year-old Canadian, a second-round selection in the 2021 NHL Draft, was recalled from the San Diego Gulls on Wednesday, and he immediately made a difference on a power play that had been dead in the water.
The Ducks had gone 0 for 19 with the man advantage over their last seven home games, and Zellweger was given the chance to quarterback from the point, leading to Sam Carrick’s seventh goal at 3:37.
Playing alongside Ilya Lyubushkin, Zellweger, an AHL All-Star this year, lodged nearly 14 minutes of ice time.
Silfverberg’s second goal came 53 seconds later, lifting the Ducks to a 3-0 lead and effectively sealing the deal against an opponent that is now 0-14 when trailing by three goals.
Another Buffalo turnover in the neutral zone – defenseman Conor Clifton stuck his toe into the ice and fell while handling the puck – preceded Mason McTavish’s 16th assist on a sharp centering pass to Silfverberg, whose wrist shot secured goal No. 4 in his 46th game this season.
The Ducks (16-30-1, 33 points) dictated the terms to Buffalo (20-23-4, 44 pts), denying the visitors a shot on goal for nearly 10 minutes while they swarmed Luukkonen with nine of their own – more than they produced in any single frame in their come-from-ahead loss to the New York Rangers on Sunday.
Gibson delivered a strong performance until the final five minutes, when he was denied his first shutout of the season on Jordan Greenway’s power-play tip-in for the winger’s fifth goal of the season at 14:41.
Buffalo cut the deficit to one, after pulling Luukkonen, on Kyle Okposo’s wrist shot at 17:04.
The Sabres’ unlikely comeback was put to rest when Henrique scored for the fourth time in three games, delivering the empty-net goal at 18:51.
The 4-2 victory was bittersweet for Ducks assistant coaches Brent Thompson and Craig Johnson, whose respective sons, center Tage Thompson and defenseman Ryan Johnson, attempted to beat their fathers for the first time in an NHL game.
Ryan Johnson, a participant in the Anaheim Jr. Ducks program from 2015-2018, was born in Newport Beach while his father was playing for the Kings. He attended Santa Margarita High, where Craig was the head coach for eight years. Tage Thompson is one of two sons Brent Thompson has in the NHL, with Tyce a member of the New Jersey Devils.
More to come on this story.
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