he puck bounded in front and Nelson backhanded it in for his 21st at 5:22.NOTES: Smith played in his 600th regular-season game,

BUFFALO Womens Tyler Toffoli Jersey , N.Y. (AP) — Tired as he felt, Hurricanes forward Teuvo Teravainen wasn’t going to pass up a chance to score on a breakaway in overtime.Gathering a loose puck at the right boards in his own end after Buffalo’s Jack Eichel shot high and wide of the Carolina net, Teravainen scored 3:25 into the extra period to seal a 6-5 victory over the Sabres on Thursday night.“I saw Faulker there, but then I saw he wasn’t there anymore,” Teravainen said, referring to trailing teammate Justin Faulk. “So I figured I’d go myself and try something.”Driving in from the right wing, Teravainen faked right before going across the crease and wrapping the puck around Linus Ullmark into the open left side.It was Teravainen’s second goal and sealed a game that finished at a frantic pace. Both teams combined for six goals in the third period, capped by Buffalo’s Jeff Skinner scoring with 56 seconds left to force overtime.Eichel blamed himself for how the game ended in a showdown of the Eastern Conference’s ninth-place teams.“Got to hit the net,” Eichel said. “Can’t miss the net there. That one’s on me.”The Hurricanes improved to 12-4-1 in their past 17 games in a turnaround that has had them jump from a tie for 15th in the East to gaining sole possession of ninth. Carolina (27-21-6) upped its total to 60 points and moving one ahead of Buffalo.Both teams began the day three points behind Columbus, which holds the conference’s second and final wild-card spot.Faulk, Brock McGinn, Greg McKegg and Nino Niederreiter also scored in a game during which the Hurricanes squandered 2-0 and 5-3 leads, but never trailed.“I thought we started really well, the first 10 minutes, and for whatever reason we took a breath,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We thought we could kind of just cruise through it.”What impressed Brind’Amour was how the Hurricanes refused to back down.“I love this group. I’ve been saying it all year. They’ve been kicked down a lot. We’ve had a lot of bad things happen. And they just keep bouncing back,” he said. “We let them back in and that could’ve easily been a time to look the other way. But they found a way.”Curtis McElhinney stopped 34 shots in his second consecutive start, and after a 23-save outing in a 4-0 win at Pittsburgh.The Sabres continue a spiral in dropping to 9-14-5 since they had a franchise-record-matching 10-game winning streak end in November. Buffalo was coming off a 5-4 shootout win over Minnesota on Tuesday and failed to win consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 11-13.Jason Pominville, Evan Rodrigues and Marco Scandella also scored for Buffalo. Linus Ullmark finished with 33 saves, while allowing four goals on 14 shots in the third period and overtime.Buffalo’s defense has unraveled in having surrendered 17 goals in its past three games http://www.officialwild.com/authentic-adidas-devan-dubnyk-jersey , including a 7-3 loss to Chicago on Friday.“That’s Jason’s job,” coach Phil Housley said referring to general manager Jason Botterill, when asked to evaluate whether the Sabres need help on defense.What bothered Housley is how Carolina scored all six goals from within 10 feet of the net.“It’s a choice you’ve got to make, protecting your own net, having respect for it,” Housley said. “We’ve got to be tougher to play against.”The Hurricanes blew a pair of two-goal leads, including a 5-3 edge by allowing the Sabres to score twice in the final 4:19.Scandella converted Sam Reinhart’s cross-ice pass into the right circle, by snapping a shot over McElhinney’s outstretched glove as the goalie made a lunging attempt to get across his crease.Then, with Buffalo’s net empty for an extra attacker, Skinner scored his second goal to tie the game with 56 seconds left. Reinhart set that one up, too, by driving up the right wing and threading a pass through the middle to a wide-open Skinner, who sneaked a shot in off the bottom of McElhinney’s blocker.Skinner, who was traded by Carolina to Buffalo in August, also tied the game at 3 earlier in the period by outmuscling Faulk and scoring on a partial breakaway.NOTES: The Hurricanes’ 60 points through 54 games is their most since their Stanley Cup-winning season in 2005-06, when they had 80 over the same span. … Sabres LW Johan Larsson returned after missing two games with an upper-body injury. … The game featured teams with the NHL’s longest active playoff droughts. The Sabres haven’t made the postseason since 2011. The Hurricanes’ drought dates to 2009. … Sabres D Zach Bogosian played his 600th career game. … Pominville’s goal was his 512th point with the Sabres, moving him into eighth on the franchise list, one ahead of Mike Foligno.UP NEXTHurricanes: Continue five-game road trip at New York Rangers on Friday night.Sabres: Continue seven-game homestand against Detroit Red Wings on Saturday afternoon. UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — After giving up a two-goal lead in the third period, the New York Islanders were relieved to get the win in the shootout.Jordan Eberle and Mathew Barzal scored in the tiebreaker and the Islanders beat the Ottawa Senators 5-4 Tuesday night Eric Staal Jersey , giving coach Barry Trotz his 800th win.Brock Nelson, Anders Lee, Devon Toews and Ross Johnston scored in regulation to help the Islanders snap a two-game skid.“A little bit of an ugly third period for us, but we found a way at the end,” Lee said. “Right now, the two points is the biggest thing.”Robin Lehner stopped 21 shots before leaving with an injury late in the third period. Thomas Greiss came on, stopped both shots he faced through overtime and denied Thomas Chabot and Bobby Ryan in the shootout.The Islanders pulled into a tie with Washington atop the Metropolitan Division with identical 38-21-7 records and 34 regulation/overtime wins.Trotz became the fourth coach in NHL history to reach the 800-win mark, joining Scotty Bowman (1,244), Joel Quenneville (890) and Ken Hitchcock (842).With the Islanders coming in with three losses in four games on their season-high five-game homestand, and several players dealing with injuries and illness, Trotz said the milestone “was least on my mind today.”Lee, however, was glad to get his coach the win.“It’s really nice,” he said. “He’s had a heck of a career. Happy to close this one out and move on.”Oscar Lindberg, Ryan, Zack Smith and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for the Senators, who went to their first shootout this season and lost for the ninth time in 11 games. Craig Anderson finished with 34 saves.“They’re not at the top of the standings by accident,” Ottawa interim coach Marc Crawford said. “(We) faltered a bit in the second. … (In the third) we got rewarded by going hard to the net.”The teams meet again Thursday night at Ottawa to finish the home-and-home set.“We got to clean up some stuff in our game, there’s no question Womens Jared Spurgeon Jersey ,” Trotz said. “We’ll go over it tomorrow and we’ll see if we’re healthier and see what we’ll do in terms of lineups.”The Senators had the only shot on goal in the 3-on-3 overtime.Ryan pulled the Senators to 4-3 as he deflected Christian Wolanin’s shot past Lehner for his 14th at 7:38 of the third.The Senators tied the score with 4:40 left as Brady Tkachuk plowed into Lehner and knocked the puck into the net. The goal was initially waved off, but the call was overturned after a video review determined Nelson pushed Tkachuk into the goalie.Lehner was injured on the play and replaced by Greiss.Trotz didn’t have an update on Lehner’s status after the game, saying, “We’ll see where he is in the morning.”After a fast-paced first period that saw the Islanders take a 1-0 lead, the teams combined for five goals in the second — all in the first 10:02 of the period.Gibbons tied the score 26 seconds into the middle period as he deflected Chabot’s slap shot past Lehner’s glove side for his fourth.Toews put the Islanders back ahead at 2:34, beating Anderson on the blocker side for his fifth.Lee pushed New York’s lead to 3-1 as he deflected Nick Leddy’s slap shot from the left point past Anderson’s glove side for his 23rd at 5:45. It was also Lee’s fifth goal in nine games.Lindberg, acquired from Vegas in the deal that sent Mark Stone to the Golden Knights at the trade deadline, pulled Ottawa within one again 47 seconds later with his sixth of the season, and second in five games with the Senators.Johnston restored New York’s two-goal lead just past the midpoint of the period on the rebound of a shot by Leo Komarov. Johnston lifted the puck over the diving goalie, and it hit Johnston in the air and went in for his first of the season.“It’s awesome to see Ross score that goal,” Lee said. “In a tough situation, (he) comes in and scores a big goal for us.”The Islanders outshot the Senators 26-8 in the second.New York took a lead in the first period after the Senators turned the puck over in their defensive zone. Josh Bailey’s one-timer off a pass from Nelson was stopped by Anderson. However, the puck bounded in front and Nelson backhanded it in for his 21st at 5:22.NOTES: Smith played in his 600th regular-season game, becoming the ninth player in franchise history to accomplish the feat. … The Islanders won the teams’ first meeting this season, 6-3 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Dec. 28. … With an illness going around the Islanders, F Michael Dal Colle and F Josh Ho-Sang were emergency recalled from Bridgeport of the AHL. Dal Colle played while Ho-Sang was scratched. … Bailey’s assist on Nelson’s goal gave him 12 points (nine assists) in his last 13 games. …New York went 0 for 3 on the power play and is 0 for 13 over its last six games.UP NEXTSenators: Host the Islanders on Thursday night.Islanders: At Ottawa on Thursday night before returning for a three-game homestand.