Predators defeated 4-1 by Buffalo Sabres

Sam Reinhart scored twice to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-1 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. “It was an opportunity for us to keep the momentum with a big kill, but they scored two goals on that five-minute major”. They have netted just six goals in their recent skid, going more than 227 minutes at one point without a goal before center Mike Fisher scored in the first period of a 3-2 win Wednesday night in Buffalo.

“We were playing a pretty solid game, and then we took the five-minute major; that kind of deflated us”, forward Eric Nystrom said.

On the five-minute power play, McGinn struck first at 13:09, when he corralled the rebound from his own shot and put it past Juuse Saros, who made his National Hockey League debut.

Buffalo’s Chad Johnson stopped 28 shots. Saros denied his initial shot, but the rebound got stuck on the goaltender’s skate and the puck trickled across the goal line. Center Ryan O’Reilly finished the scoring with an empty-net tally at 17:47.

It was the first multi-goal game of Reinhart’s career.

Drafted out of the SM-liiga, Saros spent the last two seasons playing for HPK Hameenlinna in his hometown; over each of the two years, the 5 foot 11 goaltender recorded a. 928 and.

A bright spot on the evening was the play of Saros, who was just recalled earlier in the day from Milwaukee of the AHL. Nashville has been strong at home (7-1-2) and will try to continue that against the young, talented Sabres, who defeated Carolina 4-1 on Friday to end their six-game losing streak.

Fisher appears to be heating up lately, as he’s on a nice little scoring run right now following an eight-game pointless drought.