Brian Elliott makes 28 saves, Lightning beat Sabres

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Brian Elliott made 28 saves, Corey Perry and Ondrej Palat had goals 17 seconds apart in the first period and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-0 on Sunday night.

Brandon Hagel, Nikita Kucherov and Ross Colton also scored to help the two-time defending champion Lightning move past Boston into third place in the Atlantic Division. Tampa Bay had lost four straight (0-2-2) and avoided its first five-game losing streak since Mar. 2-10, 2014.

"To be honest, if we want to make some noise in the spring, it all comes back to how we play in our own end," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "Aside from probably that last five minutes of the second period when we got a little sloppy with where we were putting pucks, I liked what we did tonight."

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Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Brian Elliott (1) keeps an eye on the puck as Buffalo Sabres center Rasmus Asplund (74) and Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) battle for control during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Buffalo's Craig Anderson stopped 23 shots. The Sabres are 0-3 on a four-game trip that also includes losses to Carolina (5-3) and Florida (4-3)

"We struggled," Sabres coach Don Granato said. "We complicated the simple. We did not look like ourselves. We had some extremely golden opportunities to score, we just couldn't convert. Their goaltender played well but I think we made him look ever better."

Elliott stopped Dylan Cozens’ in-close backhander and made a lunging glove save on Rasmus Asplund eight minutes into the game. The backup goalie improved to 18-4-2