and first since Dec. 8.“Teams go through speed bumps,” Dermott said. “It’s just trying to figure it out and working back to that best game.”Kempe tied it at 2:16 of the second when he moved in alone on Andersen and deked to the forehand before depositing his third stickside. Toronto head coach Mike Ba

BUFFALO Matt Read Jersey Womens , N.Y. (AP) — Jack Eichel’s absence didn’t prevent Buffalo’s top line from carrying the load again.Jeff Skinner scored twice, including his team-leading 28th goal, and Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist for the Sabres in a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.“It’s great to see that Skinner scores. At this point in the season, that’s the way it’s going to go to win a one-goal game,” Buffalo coach Phil Housley said. “We’ve lost some one-goal games in the past and it’s going to be tight. It’s going to be a great test for us.”Buffalo snapped an 0-2-1 skid while overcoming the loss of Eichel, who missed his first game since sustaining an upper-body injury in a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday. Without disclosing the nature of the injury, Housley listed Eichel as day to day while also saying the captain will not play in Buffalo’s next game at Boston on Saturday.Eichel’s absence placed even more pressure on a team that’s spent much of this season relying on its top line, which entered the night having accounted for 49 of Buffalo’s 115 goals.Skinner and Reinhart delivered in a game the Sabres never trailed. They beat Florida for the first time since March 27, 2017, to snap an 0-6-1 skid against the Panthers.Buffalo also improved to 5-7-4 since its 10-game winning streak, which equaled a franchise record.“I don’t think we’re sort of a fragile group,” Skinner said, referring to the Sabres’ slump. “I think we did a good job of responding like that as a team.”Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo, and Linus Ullmark stopped 35 shots to win his fourth consecutive start.Alexander Barkov had a goal and an assist for the Panthers Matt Hendricks Jersey Womens , who lost for just the third time in nine games. Mike Hoffman and Frank Vatrano also scored.Roberto Luongo gave up two goals on the first four shots he faced and finished with 29 saves.A slow start cost the Panthers three days after they overcame a 3-0 first-period deficit in a 4-3 shootout win at Detroit.“The difference was they came out stronger than us in the first period,” Hoffman said. “It’s not easy to point a finger at exactly what it is. Obviously, we’ve got to take a little more responsibility in this room.”Skinner opened the scoring 4:42 into the game. And he sealed the win by putting Buffalo up 4-2 with 3:46 left, just less than three minutes after Hoffman scored a power-play goal.Skinner scored by collecting a loose puck in his own zone, driving up the left wing and snapping a shot that sneaked in under Luongo’s right arm.With Buffalo up 2-1, Reinhart also provided a lift for the Sabres by deflecting in Lawrence Pilut’s shot 1:20 into the third period.The game featured several shifts in momentum, with each team scoring disputed goals.Vatrano cut Buffalo’s lead to 2-1 by scoring on a 2-on-1 break in which he was allowed to break free out of his own zone only after Florida’s Keith Yandle knocked over Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin, who was two steps away from playing the puck.Housley said officials informed him they considered Yandle’s hit to be incidental contact.The Panthers were unhappy with Reinhart’s goal, arguing he deflected it in with a high stick.“I didn’t really know. You can’t see a lot on the monitors on the bench,” Florida coach Bob Boughner said. “We were relying on the league to review it, so I guess they obviously must have.”Buffalo had a goal disallowed 42 seconds later, when officials ruled Sabres forward Kyle Okposo interfered with Luongo before Marco Scandella snapped in a shot from inside the blue line.NOTES: Reinhart set a career best with his 31st assist of the season on Skinner’s first goal. … Evan Rodrigues took Eichel’s spot in centering Buffalo’s first line. … Florida D Chris Wideman was scratched after practicing with the team Wednesday for the first time since being acquired by the Panthers in a trade with Edmonton on Sunday.UP NEXTPanthers: Host Columbus on Saturday.Sabres: At Boston on Saturday. TORONTO (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes are on a nice roll and just keep on winning in Toronto.Vinnie Hinostroza scored in the third period and the Coyotes beat the slumping Maple Leafs 4-2 on Sunday night for their fifth win in the last seven games.Clayton Keller, Mario Kempe and Lawson Crouse also scored and Darcy Kuemper stopped 25 shots as Arizona improved to 8-0-1 in its last nine trips to Toronto.“We’re really finding our identity here and how we want to play as a team,” Hinostroza said.After Toronto tied the score early in the third Womens Torey Krug Jersey , the Coyotes came right back when Hinostroza tucked his fifth of the season shortside at 6:44 off a scramble with Maple Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen down and out.Toronto defenseman Morgan Rielly hit the post at the other end soon after on a shot that stayed out. Playing for the third time in four nights, Toronto pushed for the equalizer again, but Crouse iced it into an empty net with his eighth with under 40 seconds to play.“We played the right way,” Keller said. “We came out a little bit slow, but I think when we settled down a little bit and stuck to our game plan.”John Tavares and Travis Dermott had the goals for Toronto, which has lost seven of its last 10 overall. The Maple Leafs dropped to 13-11-1 at home, including 1-6-0 in the last seven. Andersen finished with 27 saves.“We’re going through some adversity,” Toronto’s Auston Matthews said. “Hopefully in the long run this is something good for us and we learn from it.”Toronto currently sits just a point up on Boston and Montreal for second in the Atlantic Division, although the Maple Leafs do have games in hand.“We’ve had some really good looks,” Tavares said. “This is a great challenge of character and just a great opportunity to find a way to figure it out, solve that puzzle of getting to where we need to get to.”With his team in need of a spark down one through two periods, Tavares scored his 30th at 3:12 of the third when he fired a quick shot off Zach Hyman’s faceoff win that was helped along by Mitch Marner.Toronto controlled the play for long stretches with 76 shot attempts compared to the Coyotes’ 51, but saw 30 of its efforts blocked.“We had the puck a lot,” Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. “I liked a lot of the things we did.”The Maple Leafs went up 1-0 at 11:45 of the first when Dermott took a pass from William Nylander and whipped a shot from the point through traffic for his third Tuukka Rask Jersey , and first since Dec. 8.“Teams go through speed bumps,” Dermott said. “It’s just trying to figure it out and working back to that best game.”Kempe tied it at 2:16 of the second when he moved in alone on Andersen and deked to the forehand before depositing his third stickside. Toronto head coach Mike Babcock challenged for offside, but the play stood after video review.Josh Archibald nearly put the Coyotes ahead later in the period when Andersen’s clearing attempt hit the forward in the face and nearly ricocheted in, but the Andersen recovered to kick out his right pad.Keller eventually gave his team its first lead with 4:41 left in the period when he moved down the left side and ripped a shot shortside on Andersen from below the face-off dot for his 11th.“Hell of a shot,” Andersen said.Marner had three early chances, including a partial breakaway and another sequence where he deked around Coyotes defenseman Jakob Chychrun only to shovel the puck over Kuemper’s net.Andersen had to be sharp as well, stopping Hinostroza with a nice toe save inside the game’s first 10 seconds before stoning Alex Galchenyuk late in the period with a save that elicited chants of “Freddie! Freddie!”NOTES: Toronto lost F Andreas Johnsson to a concussion after he took a hit along the boards from Arizona D Niklas Hjalmarsson and tumbled to the ice. … Maple Leafs D Jake Gardiner sat out with back spasms. That opened the door for Dermott to move into Toronto’s top-4 on the blue line alongside Nikita Zaitsev, who like Gardiner has struggled in recent weeks. … Nylander, who came in with just one goal in 19 games since ending his contract impasse Dec. 1, was bumped to the fourth line. The assist on Dermott’s opener was Nylander’s first point since Jan. 3, snapping a stretch of seven games. Connor Brown was promoted to Nylander’s spot in the top-six forward group to start the evening alongside Johnsson and Matthews.UP NEXTCoyotes: At Ottawa on Tuesday night.Maple Leafs: Host Washington on Wednesday night.