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BUFFALO http://www.officialknightsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-oscar-dansk-jersey , N.Y. (AP) For the first time in nearly a decade, the Buffalo Sabres had the bounces to go their way against the Chicago Blackhawks.Nicholas Baptiste scored two goals in the third period to lead the Sabres to a 5-3 win over the Blackhawks on Saturday. It was Buffalo’s first win over the Blackhawks since December 2009, snapping a 12-game losing streak against Chicago.The game featured deflections and redirections for both teams, with three of Buffalo’s five goals a result of fortuitous bounces.”Definitely some lucky bounces, that’s for sure,” said Sabres center Ryan O’Reilly, who had a goal and an assist. ”A little luck of the Irish tonight.”Benoit Pouliot and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Sabres – who wore green St. Patrick’s Day jerseys during warmups – and Chad Johnson made 34 saves.Baptiste was an unlikely star, picking up the sixth and seventh goals of his career.The 22-year-old tied the game at 3-3 early in the third on a long shot through traffic. With 1:56 remaining, he picked up the game-winner on a deflection. Following a faceoff win in the Chicago end, Marco Scandella’s shot from the point was deflected by Baptiste in the slot to put the Sabres on top for good.”That’s been the focus of our team for the last little while – getting shots to the net and getting bodies to the net and scoring some ugly ones and we got a couple tonight,” Baptiste said. ”That’s what it takes to score goals in this league and to win in this league.”The Sabres got a significant lift from the returning Jack Eichel Authentic Oscar Lindberg Jersey , who was back in the lineup after missing 15 games because of an ankle injury. Eichel had one assist and five shots in 18:14.”It’s so nice to have him back,” O’Reilly said. ”The little things he does when he gets the puck, you feel like the whole building is like, `OK, what’s he going to do?’ The other team has to be so sharp when he’s out there and it makes us a more dangerous team.”Eichel briefly tweaked his ankle early in the third period, but said he was fine after the game.Jonathan Toews, Jordan Oesterle and Tomas Jurco scored for the Blackhawks, and Jean-Francois Berube made 27 saves.”A couple tips and just didn’t get the job done,” Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane said. ”It’s been a common theme here for a while. A lot of the games, it even seems we’re scoring the first goal and we can’t come up with anything. It’s kind of been that way all year.”Pouliot opened the scoring with 1:50 remaining in the first period. After Rasmus Ristolainen’s pass was deflected into the crease, Pouliot had an easy tap-in for his 13th goal of the season.Oesterle evened the score 8:15 into the second following a pretty passing sequence in the Sabres zone. After Toews led Patrick Kane with a drop pass Reilly Smith Jersey , Kane swung to his right before firing a pass to a wide-open Oesterle in front of the Buffalo net. Oesterle had an easy finish for his fifth goal of the season.O’Reilly made it 2-1 on the power play with 8:53 left in the second, poking in a rebound that fell behind Berube after Eichel’s shot hit the goalie’s shoulder and went high into the air.Chicago evened the score again with 5:45 left in the second when a rebound from Toews’ shot hit Ristolainen and went into the net. Jurco was given credit for the goal.Toews made it 3-2 on a terrific one-man effort 20 seconds into the third period. After his initial shot on a 2-on-1 was stopped, the Blackhawks captain sped to the crease and stole the rebound off Johnson’s stick. The puck flipped into the air, and Toews batted it in for his 20th goal of the season.Reinhart added an empty-net goal with 38.4 seconds left.NOTES: Buffalo native Emily Pfalzer was honored in a ceremonial opening faceoff before the game. Pfalzer was a member of the United States women’s hockey team at the 2018 Olympics, winning the gold medal in a shootout victory against Canada. Pfalzer was also captain of the Buffalo Beauts in the National Women’s Hockey League in 2015-16 and 2016-17. … Sabres center Zemgus Girgensons was injured midway through the first period and did not return. … Sabres starting goalie Robin Lehner was a healthy scratch.UP NEXTBlackhawks: Home against St. Louis on Sunday.Sabres: Host the Nashville Predators on Monday.— LOS ANGELES (AP) — The San Jose Sharks are looking like the Western Conference contenders that many are expecting this season.The Sharks used Kevin Labanc’s goal 2:53 into overtime to beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 Friday night.“The guys played like we needed to win this game and we found a way to do it,” San Jose coach Pete DeBoer said. “We lost our home opener and found a way to come into a tough building and I thought we played well.”San Jose was defeated by Anaheim 5-2 in its opener on Wednesday, but looked better in its second game. Meanwhile, the Kings struggled to put the puck into the net, which has been a theme of the past couple seasons. They were outshot 33-21 and came up empty in five power-play opportunities.“We were trying to rush plays in the first period. Once we got the first goal we kind of settled down and started making plays,” said Kings forward Anze Kopitar, who had a first-period goal.The Sharks took a 2-0 first-period lead before Los Angeles rallied and forced the overtime.Martin Jones made 19 saves as San Jose beat the Kings for the fourth time in its last five meetings.Jonathan Quick made 30 saves for Los Angeles Michael Ferland Jersey Womens , which dropped to 0-5 when the Sharks are the opening opponent.San Jose scored two goals on its first six shots in the first period. Timo Meier put the Sharks on the board at 9:42 of the first when he directed a Marc-Edward Vlasic shot near the blue line past Quick. Evander King followed four minutes later with a wrist shot after a turnover deep in the Kings’ end. It was his second goal of the season.Los Angeles rallied as Kopitar scored off a deflected shot late in the first period that cut the deficit in half. Tyler Toffoli grabbed a deflection off the end boards and fired it past Jones 37 seconds into the second, tying the score at 2-all.The game appeared to be headed to a shootout, but Logan Couture found Labanc rushing to the net and hit him with a perfect pass to beat Quick. Erik Karlsson, who San Jose acquired in a trade during the offseason, also got an assist, his first point with the Sharks.“It’s a pretty good feeling to start out a road trip with a win,” Labanc said. “The refs were not giving us the calls we wanted but we played our battle.”KOVALCHUK’S DEBUTIlya Kovalchuk made his Kings’ debut and saw 20 minutes of ice time.The 35-year old Russian, who was playing in his first NHL game since 2013 after five seasons in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League, was the right winger on Los Angeles’ top line with Kopitar centering and Alex Iafallo at left wing. Kovalchuk took two shots on goal.“We got to score on our chances. We had a few on our line and we didn’t score,” Kovalchuk said. “It was our first game and you know everybody is real nervous and the Sharks played their second game and you can tell they feel a little better. I think against Detroit it will be much better.”UP NEXTSharks: Continue their five-game road trip on Monday at the New York Islanders.Kings: Host Detroit on Sunday before going on the road for four straight.