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04/09 21:25 CDT Colten Ellis stops 37 shots for first NHL career shutout in
Sabres 5-0 win over Blue Jackets
Colten Ellis stops 37 shots for first NHL career shutout in Sabres 5-0 win over
Blue Jackets
By JOHN WAWROW
AP Hockey Writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) --- Rookie Colten Ellis stopped 37 shots for his first NHL
career shutout, and the Buffalo Sabres beat Columbus 5-0 to dent the Blue
Jackets' playoff chances on Thursday night.
Josh Doan broke the game open with two third-period goals, while Peyton Krebs,
Jack Quinn and Rasmus Dahlin also scored.
Buffalo (49-23-8) reached the 49-win mark for just the fourth time in team
history, and maintained the Atlantic Division lead with a week left in the
regular season.
Ellis improved to 8-4-1 while making his first start in more than two months.
He got the start with Alex Lyon expected to miss at least a week with a
strained lower-body muscle sustained in practice a day earlier.
Jet Greaves stopped 19 shots in dropping to 2-5-1 in his past eight starts.
The Blue Jackets failed to build off a 4-3 overtime win at Detroit on Tuesday,
and dropped to 1-6-1 in their past eight. Columbus has just three games
remaining and began the day sitting ninth in tightly contested Eastern
Conference race in which three points separated eighth-place Ottawa and
12th-place Washington.
Krebs opened the scoring 13:41 in on a two-on-one set up by Josh Norris
blocking Zach Werenski's pass inside the blue line of Buffalo's zone. Norris
immediately fed Krebs, who drove up the right wing and snapped a shot that beat
Greaves inside the far post.
The Sabres scored four times in the third, with Doan beginning the surge at the
7:19 mark. Doan stripped Charlie Coyle of the puck at the Columbus blue line,
drove in alone and beat Greaves on the glove side.
Up next
Blue Jackets: At Montreal on Saturday night.
Sabres: At Chicago on Monday night.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Columbus has three games
remaining.
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