Sabres stun Sharks, win in overtime

BUFFALO -- Evander Kane scored his second goal of the game with 3:55 left in overtime to give the Buffalo Sabres a comeback 5-4 win against the San Jose Sharks at KeyBank Center on Tuesday.
Kane received a pass from Jack Eichel on a 2-on-1 and beat Sharks goalie Martin Jones for his 16th of the season.
"I saw [Eichel] come around the net and I knew just to get to the middle of the ice," Kane said. "He was going to beat his man and I was going to beat mine and he's able to feather one through and I was able to put it away."

The Sabres (22-21-10) trailed 4-1 in the third period before scoring three goals in 3:28 to tie the game.
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"That's probably the worst we've played and gotten a win, but in saying that, we never gave up and it's a huge win for us," Sabres right wing Kyle Okposo said. "We've got to get two points. We've been saying it for a couple months, we've got to find ways to win games and I guess that's one of the ways. We stuck with it and our power play came up with a couple big goals for us tonight and we were able to find a way."
Buffalo is 6-0-1 in its past seven home games and 17-1-1 against the Sharks all-time at home. The Sharks (33-17-4) ended a four-game road win streak.
Ryan O'Reilly made it 4-2 with a power-play goal 9:03 into the third. Kane followed that 2:33 later with his 15th of the season on a wraparound goal past Jones.

Sharks coach Peter DeBoer challenged the goal saying Sabres forward Tyler Ennis was offside, but video review was inconclusive and the goal stood.
"Usually when you score a goal, the longer it takes the worse it is," Kane said. "So I've had a third period disallowed offside goal before; I think the first game last year so those aren't ever fun, especially in the situation of the game, too. But I saw the replay and I was pretty confident it was going to be a goal."
Okposo's 17th goal came 55 seconds after Kane's goal to tie the game.
The Sabres took a 1-0 lead in the first period after Matt Moulson scored his 11th goal and ninth on the power play, but the Sharks scored four straight goals to take a 4-1 lead.
Joel Ward scored his sixth and Logan Couture scored his 19th in the first period followed by Melker Karlsson's seventh goal in the second. Joe Pavelski scored a power-play goal 6:07 into the third, his 18th of the season, to make it 4-1.

Goal of the game

Pavelski scored on a shot from a bad angle on a pass from Burns.

Save of the game

Sabres goalie Anders Nilsson made a sprawling glove save against Pavelski 2:47 into the third period.

Highlight of the game

Okposo scored to force overtime after receiving a cross-ice pass from Sam Reinhart on a 3-on-2 rush.&

Unsung performance of the game

Sabres defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen played a game-high 28:56, including 4:12 on the penalty kill, and had an assist with three blocks.

They said it

"I felt like [Atlanta Falcons coach] Dan Quinn in the Super Bowl [on] Sunday. It was one of those games. Thank God it wasn't the Finals; it was a game in the middle of February. We found a way to get a point, but we couldn't have played a better road game for 45-50 minutes. We've got to learn a lesson there. We didn't manage the puck, we took some penalties, we gave up some odd-man attacks, all the things you don't want to do with the lead and it burned us." -- Sharks coach Peter DeBoer
"Yeah it's a 60-minute game. We've been on the other end of that one a couple of times this year. It's nice to be able to respond. We get a couple of goals after they score a power-play goal, we were able to get one on the power play and then we hem them in. Kane scores at the end of the power-play and we get the building going, get some energy in here after they were booing us off the ice and we win a game in overtime and everyone loves us again. It's interesting how that works." -- Sabres center Jack Eichel

Need to know

Buffalo is 12-1-3 in its past 16 home games against Western Conference opponents and 10-4-2 against the Western Conference this season. … Kane had his right hand wrapped in a towel after he crashed into the boards after scoring the game-winning goal. He said he was fine afterwards. … Forward Marcus Sorensen made his NHL debut for the Sharks and had an assist on Karlsson's goal for his first NHL point.

What's next

Sharks: At the Boston Bruins on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; SN360, SNW, TVA Sports, NESN, CSN-CA, NHL.TV)
Sabres: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; MSG-B, PRIME, NHL.TV)