Peyton Krebs Set Up All Three Tage Thompson Goals as Buffalo Held Off Anaheim 7-6

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Tage Thompson's hat trick will get the highlights. Peyton Krebs made all three goals happen: the Buffalo Sabres center assisted on each of them Thursday night, including two in a 15-second span late in the second period, as Buffalo beat the Anaheim Ducks 7-6 at Honda Center.

Buffalo (6-4-3) trailed 3-1 at 10:38 of the first period, then scored six straight goals. Anaheim (5-7-1) answered with three in the third, two of them in the final 68 seconds, and came up one short.

Krebs, Thompson and Zach Benson

Krebs finished with three assists, a plus-3 rating and 8 of 15 faceoffs in 15:55, per the ESPN box score. Thompson's goals came at 15:32 of the first and at 18:36 and 18:51 of the second, turning a 3-3 game into 5-3. He added two assists for five points. Zach Benson had a goal and two assists, Rasmus Dahlin two assists in 26 minutes, and Noah Ostlund, Tyson Kozak and Jack Quinn scored the others. Buffalo went 2 for 3 on the power play.

The Goalie Lines Explain the Score

Neither goaltender had his night. Colten Ellis made 29 saves on 35 shots for Buffalo. Ville Husso stopped 24 of 31 for Anaheim. Cutter Gauthier scored twice for the Ducks and Leo Carlsson had three assists, and Anaheim went 3 for 4 on the power play and won 60 percent of the faceoffs. Beckett Sennecke's unassisted goal with 31 seconds left made it a one-goal game.