Sabres hold off Ducks 7-6 as Thompson scores three

Player of the game

Tage Thompson 3 G, 2 A, 4 SOG

9.9

Tage Thompson scored three goals and added two assists as the Sabres beat the Ducks 7-6 at Honda Center. Buffalo (6-4-3) built a 7-3 lead, then hung on while Anaheim (5-7-1) scored three times late.

The scoring was uneven early. Roger McQueen put the Ducks up 1-0 at 10:38 of the first, but the box score shows the Sabres at 3-3 by 15:32 after Noah Ostlund and Thompson scored. Thompson struck twice in 15 seconds late in the second, at 18:36 and 18:51, for a 5-3 lead. Jack Quinn made it 6-3 early in the third, and Zach Benson made it 7-3 at 6:37.

Cutter Gauthier answered at 7:26 to make it 7-4. Tristan Luneau cut it to 7-5 at 18:52, and Beckett Sennecke scored at 19:29 to make it 7-6. Thompson finished with 4 shots on goal and a Chirp Rating of 9.9.

Chirp's Sim had the Sabres at 51%, a near coin flip that the game matched.

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