Canucks Extend Winning Streak with 1-0 Victory Over Sabres

Thatcher Demko's Fourth Shutout of the Season Secures Win, Sam Lafferty Scores Lone Goal

Thatcher Demko made 26 saves leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 1-0 win over the Buffalo Sabres, marking Demko’s fourth shutout this season and the seventh of his career.
Sam Lafferty scored the only goal of the game, his 10th of the season, helping the Canucks secure their fifth consecutive win, all on the road.
Buffalo Sabres were shutout for the first time since Dec. 16, despite their best opportunity to score coming 4:14 into the third period when Dylan Cozens fired a hard slap shot off the crossbar on the power play.
Two lengthy reviews occurred in the second period, one overturning a goal by the Canucks due to an offside and the other resulting in a two-minute minor penalty for Canucks' J.T. Miller for elbowing Sabres' Rasmus Dahlin.
Sabres' defenseman Mattias Samuelsson left the game with an upper-body injury in the second period and did not return after a hit to the head from Canucks' Filip Hronek.