Score: Sabres 4 | Penguins 8
Shots: BUF 23 | PIT 34
Sabres Goals: Drake Caggiula (2, 3), Tage Thompson (8), Jeff Skinner (7)
Penguins Goals: Jeff Carter (13, 14-PP, 15, 16), Brian Dumoulin (4), Jared McCann (14), Sidney Crosby (24), Kasperi Kapanen (11)
Plus 1 | A Few Firsts
The Sabres opened up scoring - a task that they need to repeat more often next season - in the first half of tonight’s first period. Drake Caggiula, a trade deadline pickup from Arizona’s waivers, scored his first goal as a Sabre and the visiting team kept good pressure on the Pens until a series of goals were shot by way of Jeff Carter (more on him later) and the momentum completely changed for the remainder of the game.