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BUFFALO, N. Balenciaga Speed Trainer Cheap .Y. - Steven Stamkos doesnt have to carry Tampa Bays offensive load given how the Lightnings second line is producing.With Stamkos held off the scoresheet, Ondrej Palat and his linemates combined to score three of the Lightnings four goals in the final 21 minutes to key a 5-1 victory over the banged-up and flu-riddled Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night.Palat scored the go-ahead goal and added three assists. Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, and centre Tyler Johnson set up three goals in helping the Lightning reclaim the Eastern Conference lead.Since that lines been put together, theyve done some pretty magical things, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. When you start getting that chemistry going, hopefully the wins start to mount a little bit.The Lightning (24-11-4) won their fourth straight and moved a point ahead of both Pittsburgh and the New York Islanders. Tampa Bay rode the momentum of winning three straight at home and improved to 2-3-2 in its past eight road games.The Lightnings power play is starting to click again with Palats goal coming during a man-advantage with 58 seconds left in the second period. With Johnson drawing the attention of all four Sabres defenders along the right boards, he slipped a pass across to a wide open Palat, who snapped a shot inside the near post.They finished 1 for 3 with the man advantage, and have scored power-play goals in consecutive games after going 0 for 21 during a five-game drought.The win came at the expense of the depleted Sabres (14-21-3), who dropped to 1-5-1 in their past seven. Captain Brian Gionta (upper body) and defencemen Tyler Myers (lower body) and Rasmus Ristolainen (illness) were among the regulars not in the lineup.Tyler Ennis scored the lone goal in a game Buffalo was outshot 25-11 overall and 14-1 in the final period. A sarcastic cheer went up when Matt Moulson recorded Buffalos only shot of the third with 4:41 left in the period.Banged up, Flu. Head colds. Everything, Sabres coach Ted Nolan said. You walk in that locker room and thats all theyre doing is coughing and sniffing. Thats not an excuse. Thats just fact.Nolan couldnt excuse his team for the numerous defensive breakdowns that led to Lightning goals.Guys not scoring arent even checking, so thats a bad combination, Nolan said.The Lightning made up for a slow start in a game that wasnt decided until the third period.Brett Connolly and Kucherov scored 3:20 apart in the third, and Kucherov finished the rout with 1:55 left.It was just a weird game, Cooper said. It was like nobody wanted to take control of the game, and then that line did, and we came out on top.Connollys goal 5:20 into the third came as a result of a couple of fortunate bounces, and 9 seconds after the Sabres had killed a penalty.Stralmans slap shot from the right point hit Connolly in front, and the puck ricocheted off Sabres defenceman Nikita Zadorov, who was facing the net. The puck bounced back into the crease, where Connolly stuffed it inside the left post.Matthew Carle also scored for Tampa Bay.Rookie goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 10 shots in his fourth NHL game, a day after being called up from AHL Syracuse. He was filling in for starter Ben Bishop, who is day to day after aggravating a lower-body injury.NOTES: With Lightning D Radko Gudas day to day with a lower-body injury, Nikita Nesterov made his NHL debut after being called up earlier Wednesday from Syracuse. He was leading Syracuse defencemen with 14 points (three goals, 11 assists) in 32 games. ... Sabres D Tyson Strachan returned after missing five games with a lower-body injury. ... The Lighting kicked off a four-game road trip. Air Force 1 Wholesale China . Markieff Morris and Marcus Morris, city natives, handled the catering for teammates that begged them for the tasty postgame feast. Vapormax Cheap Sale . Nathan Beaulieu, Tomas Jurco, Danick Gauthier and Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist each as the Sea Dogs extended the longest streak in the Canadian Hockey League this season. http://www.brandshoescheaponline.com/wholesale-air-max-china/max-97-clearance-sale.html . This is Lowry’s third time winning the award in his career. He won the award last season and as a member of the Houston Rockets in 2011.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- American Sam Querrey edged Finlands Jarkko Nieminen 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (12) on Wednesday to advance to the Winston-Salem Open quarterfinals. Querrey had 19 aces, but lost the first set to the left-handed Nieminen after leading 4-1. Querrey then had to overcome five match points in the third-set tiebreaker to advance to his fourth tournament quarterfinals this season. "I just played some sloppy points (in the first set)," Querrey said. "I missed a few when I was up 4-2, and I missed some easy forehands later on. That kind of got me down, and it took a while for me to get back into it. "That was just a lack of confidence right out of the gate ... but I knew that if I could get into a tiebreaker, I could win my serve and grind out a few points on his serve." The 29th-ranked Querrey will face unseeded Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania, a 6-3, 6-3 winner over Spains Roberto Bautista Agut. "Its allways painful to lose a tight match," Nieminen said. Air Max 270 Clearance. . "When it got to 6-6 (in the third-set tiebreaker), I saw that he looked tired. Thats when I stopped playing the way I did before, and missed some shots. I wanted to make him run, but I should have gone for my shots like I did before." Querrey is the lone American player remaining in the final hard-court tournament before the U.S. Open next week. Qualifier Steve Johnson, who upset second-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy on Tuesday, lost to Taiwans Lu Yen-Hsun Lu 6-3, 6-2. In other third-round results Wednesday, Jurgen Melzer of Austria beat Frenchman Benoit Paire 6-4, 6-3; Dmitry Tursunov topped fellow Russian Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-3, 7-5; and Spains Fernando Verdasco downed Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-7 (10), 6-3. Tommy Robredo, at No. 22 the highest-ranked player remaining in the tournament, faced Frances Gael Monfils in the night match. ' ' '
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