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BUFFALO Authentic Daniel Sedin Jersey , N.Y. (AP) — didn’t prevent Buffalo’s top line from carrying the load again.Jeff Skinner scored twice, including his team-leading 28th goal, and Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist for the Sabres in a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.“It’s great to see that Skinner scores. At this point in the season, that’s the way it’s going to go to win a one-goal game,” Buffalo coach Phil Housley said. “We’ve lost some one-goal games in the past and it’s going to be tight. It’s going to be a great test for us.”Buffalo snapped an 0-2-1 skid while overcoming the loss of Eichel, who missed his first game since sustaining an upper-body injury in a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday. Without disclosing the nature of the injury, Housley listed Eichel as day to day while also saying the captain will not play in Buffalo’s next game at Boston on Saturday.Eichel’s absence placed even more pressure on a team that’s spent much of this season relying on its top line, which entered the night having accounted for 49 of Buffalo’s 115 goals.Skinner and Reinhart delivered in a game the Sabres never trailed. They beat Florida for the first time since March 27, 2017 Womens Derek Dorsett Jersey , to snap an 0-6-1 skid against the Panthers.Buffalo also improved to 5-7-4 since its 10-game winning streak, which equaled a franchise record.“I don’t think we’re sort of a fragile group,” Skinner said, referring to the Sabres’ slump. “I think we did a good job of responding like that as a team.”Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo, and Linus Ullmark stopped 35 shots to win his fourth consecutive start.Alexander Barkov had a goal and an assist for the Panthers, who lost for just the third time in nine games. Mike Hoffman and Frank Vatrano also scored.Roberto Luongo gave up two goals on the first four shots he faced and finished with 29 saves.A slow start cost the Panthers three days after they overcame a 3-0 first-period deficit in a 4-3 shootout win at Detroit.“The difference was they came out stronger than us in the first period,” Hoffman said. “It’s not easy to point a finger at exactly what it is. Obviously, we’ve got to take a little more responsibility in this room.”Skinner opened the scoring 4:42 into the game. And he sealed the win by putting Buffalo up 4-2 with 3:46 left, just less than three minutes after Hoffman scored a power-play goal.Skinner scored by collecting a loose puck in his own zone http://www.officialcanucks.com/authentic-adidas-henrik-sedin-jersey , driving up the left wing and snapping a shot that sneaked in under Luongo’s right arm.With Buffalo up 2-1, Reinhart also provided a lift for the Sabres by deflecting in Lawrence Pilut’s shot 1:20 into the third period.The game featured several shifts in momentum, with each team scoring disputed goals.Vatrano cut Buffalo’s lead to 2-1 by scoring on a 2-on-1 break in which he was allowed to break free out of his own zone only after Florida’s Keith Yandle knocked over Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin, who was two steps away from playing the puck.Housley said officials informed him they considered Yandle’s hit to be incidental contact.The Panthers were unhappy with Reinhart’s goal, arguing he deflected it in with a high stick.“I didn’t really know. You can’t see a lot on the monitors on the bench,” Florida coach Bob Boughner said. “We were relying on the league to review it, so I guess they obviously must have.”Buffalo had a goal disallowed 42 seconds later, when officials ruled Sabres forward Kyle Okposo interfered with Luongo before Marco Scandella snapped in a shot from inside the blue line.NOTES: Reinhart set a career best with his 31st assist of the season on Skinner’s first goal. … Evan Rodrigues took Eichel’s spot in centering Buffalo’s first line. … Florida D Chris Wideman was scratched after practicing with the team Wednesday for the first time since being acquired by the Panthers in a trade with Edmonton on Sunday.UP NEXTPanthers: Host Columbus on Saturday.Sabres: At Boston on Saturday. LOS ANGELES (AP) Trevor Lewis is not the glamor player on the Los Angeles Kings. Not a star like teammates Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown.He is highly valued, though Jacob Markstrom Jersey , and his worth was clear Thursday night when he returned to lead the Kings to a 3-1 victory over the Washington Capitals.In his first game in two months, Lewis came down the far wall, took a shot, got the rebound and took another, and finally as the puck popped up as he skated by, he batted it into the net.It was the go-ahead goal and enough to hold off the Capitals.”Lewie is one of those glue guys,” said Kings coach John Stevens. ”He’s the conscious of the coach. It just seems like he understands and reads everything going on out there. He’s always on top of pucks and does the little things well.”Lewis had missed 12 games with an upper-body injury. Jeff Carter, also recently back from injury, opened the scoring Markus Granlund Jersey , and Kyle Clifford scored into an empty net. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves as the Kings moved one point ahead of Colorado for the second wild card in the Western Conference.”A very desperate team with where they are in the standings,” Capitals coach Barry Trotz said. ”We have to match that desperation.”It was a pretty even game. We just needed a little more finish, get a dirty goal, get something on the power play. It’s not coming easy for us. We just have to battle through it.”The Kings fought off two Washington power plays in the third period.Rookie Jakub Vrana scored for the Capitals, his 12th on the season. Braden Holtby stopped 24 shots.The Kings were smarting after blowing a three-goal lead at home to struggling Chicago on Saturday and then had four days off before playing the Capitals.The time off, though, may have proved beneficial to Lewis’ return.”I think the last four days with getting some practice time in there really helped,” Lewis said. ”And obviously I was able to skate most of the time, too Michael Del Zotto Jersey , so I was able to keep my legs as best I could.”His return gave the Kings their full roster healthy for the first time this season.”It’s been a long time coming,” Stevens said. ”We’re going to need depth coming down the stretch.”Washington was first in its division when it started its three-game California trip but has lost consecutive games to Anaheim and Los Angeles.”We’re just in a rut,” Washington’s Brett Connolly said. ”It’s not coming easy for us right now and we all know that. We just have to find a way to push through and get our mojo back. We know we can put it together.”NOTES: Caps forward Tom Wilson had a puck deflected off a teammate’s stick strike him between his visor and helmet in the second period. He fell to the ice, but quickly skated off with a cut on his forehead. He returned in the third period. Said Trotz: ”He’s as tough as they come. He just bounced back. You wouldn’t even know he was injured. I thought he was outstanding.” … The Kings have defeated the Capitals eight consecutive times at home. … Washington’s Alex Ovechkin remains two shy of 600 career goals. He has only one goal in nine career games at Staples Center.UP NEXTCapitals: Finish their three-game California swing Saturday in San Jose.Kings: Complete a five-game homestand with a Saturday game against St. Louis.—