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Wednesday, Nov. 24 7:00pm ET
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The Buffalo Sabres looked like the team that went to the Stanley Cup finals, after playing like one that would never make it back to the playoffs.
Miroslav Satan and Curtis Brown scored two goals each and Stu Barnes added three assists for Buffalo in a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night. "That was nice," said Barnes, whose team didn't win until its eighth game of the season and lost three straight earlier this month. "We won't score a lot of pretty goals, except when (Satan) scores them, but as long as we put the puck on net something's bound to happen." Ulf Dahlen scored his first two goals of the season and Adam Oates had a pair of assists for Washington, which lost for the first time in five games. "I'm not really excited about it," Dahlen said. "It's always fun to score goals, but we lost and they really didn't mean much." Buffalo (10-10-2) outshot Washington (7-9-4) to win its third in a row and a league-high seventh straight at home. Capitals goaltender Olaf Kolzig made 28 saves, while Sabres rookie Martin Biron had 27 stops. Kolzig kicked at his locker stall and stormed off after allowing five goals on 33 shots. The five goals matched the second-most allowed by Washington all season. "It's usually tough to score on him," Satan said. "This time we found a way to beat him. I'm not really sure how." The Sabres scored two unanswered goals in the third, including a short-handed goal by Brian Holzinger with an assist from Satan with 4:41 to play, despite being outshot 16-7 in the period. The Sabres also stopped Washington's streaks of 53 straight penalty kills and 12 games without allowing a power-play goal when Brown scored on a power play in the second period. "They were flying," Oates said. "They came out in the first period and owned us. It was embarrassing." Satan scored the first goal of the game and his 10th of the season with 4:16 left in the first when he deflected a shot by defenseman Jason Woolley. Woolley was back after missing four games with a rib injury. "You never know what's going to happen on those deflections," Satan said. Buffalo kept pressure on Kolzig with the first seven shots of the second, but the Sabres' Cory Sarich went out for elbowing after knocking down Chris Simon. Dahlen tied the game at 1 on a power-play goal at 3:53 with a shot that zipped past Jay McKee and rattled in off both posts. "Jay was trying to block it, and I didn't see it," Biron said. "I guessed and planted myself where I thought the shot would be, but it was perfect." The Sabres regained the lead with Satan's second goal, at 7:03 of the second. Richard Zednik went off for high sticking and Brown scored the Sabres' lone power-play goal on a deflection from Woolley and Barnes at 8:16 for a 3-1 lead. The Capitals cut the lead with Dahlen's second goal, on a quick shot over Biron's shoulder on a pass from Oates, at 12:50. Brown's second came with a pass from Michal Grosek at 3:17 of the third, as Brown let a slap shot go from the top of the left circle and the puck slithered through Kolzig. | ALSO SEE NHL Scoreboard Washington Clubhouse Buffalo Clubhouse RECAPS Buffalo 5 Washington 2
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