Sabres score embarrassing own goal to lose in miserable fashion to Utah Hockey Club

The Buffalo Sabres added a lowlight to their unsmooth play during their 5-2 nonaccomplishment to the Utah Hockey Club connected Thursday successful the Delta Center. 

The Sabres, who are past successful the Eastern Conference, were down 3-2 with conscionable implicit 1 infinitesimal remaining successful crippled time. 

Sabres caput manager Lindy Ruff pulled goaltender James Reimer from the nett successful speech for an other skater, giving the Sabres a six-on-five vantage to effort and necktie the game. 

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Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin (26) tries to prevention a changeable by the Utah Hockey Club connected an unfastened nett during the 3rd play astatine Delta Center connected March 20, 2025. (Rob Gray-Imagn Images)

However, Sabres guardant Tage Thompson tried to nonstop a walk backmost to defenseman Rasmsus Dahlin. The walk went awry arsenic Thompson missed Dahlin and the puck banked disconnected the boards and went into the backmost of the Sabres' ain net, with nary goalie to halt it. 

The ain extremity enactment the Sabres down 4-2. The Sabres past gave up different empty-net extremity to Utah guardant Mikhail Sergachev to enactment the last people astatine 5-2. 

The Sabres were down 2-1 entering the 3rd period, but Ryan McLeod took vantage of a Utah turnover and buried a short-handed extremity with a nifty backhand to necktie it up astatine 2-2 astatine the opening of the 3rd period.

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Buffalo Sabres halfway Ryan McLeod (71) celebrates a extremity with close helping Alex Tuch (89) during the 3rd play astatine Delta Center connected March 20, 2025. (Rob Gray-Imagn Images)

However, Utah guardant Dylan Guenther scored his team-leading 25th extremity of the twelvemonth erstwhile helium buried a rebound with 5:47 near to play to interruption the necktie and springiness Utah a pb they would not relinquish. 

While the Sabres are playing much for draught presumption astatine this constituent than for playoff position, the Utah Hockey Club is connected the fringe of the Wild Card contention successful the Western Conference with 73 points.

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The Utah Hockey Club celebrates an open-net extremity against the Buffalo Sabres during the 3rd play astatine Delta Center connected March 20, 2025.  (Rob Gray-Imagn Images)

They are 4 points down the St. Louis Blues (77 points) for the 2nd spot, but are besides vying for that last spot with the Vancouver Canucks (76 points) and Calgary Flames (75 points).

Utah volition look to physique connected their triumph implicit the Sabres erstwhile they play the Detroit Red Wings connected Monday astatine 9 p.m. ET. The Sabres volition look to bounce backmost from the nonaccomplishment erstwhile they play the Minnesota Wild astatine 2:00 p.m. ET connected Saturday. 

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