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streak is reaching historic proportions.Sam Reinhart scored the clinching goal in a shootout against the Red Wings at Detroit on Saturday night to give the Sabres their ninth win in a row.The Sabres (16-6-2) return home for a game Tuesday night against the San Jose Sharks (12-8-4). A win by the Sabres would give them 10 straight wins Tom Kuhnhackl Jersey Womens , which would match the club record set in 1983-84 and tied when Buffalo won its first 10 games of the 2006-07 season.Article continues below ...“I think during this streak you can look at it and see how many different heroes we’ve had,” Sabres captain Jack Eichel said. “There are guys stepping up in key situations.”Everything was not so good with the Sharks Saturday night when they lost an away game 6-0 to the Vegas Golden Knights.During the second period, San Jose’s Evander Kane received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, a 10-minute penalty for abuse of officials and a game misconduct after arguing a tripping call. Soon after, coach Pete DeBoer was ejected as well.“You’re going to kick a guy out for arguing a call because emotions are high?” DeBoer said. “Have a feel for the game. I didn’t even swear. I just asked them, did that feel good kicking Evander out under these circumstances? That was enough, I guess — I guess he wanted another victim.”After earning shutouts in two straight starts, backup Aaron Dell was given the start against the Golden Knights after stopping 19 shots in a 4-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. Dell allowed six goals in 36 shots Saturday. Martin Jones figures to get the start in Buffalo.“We weren’t good tonight,” DeBoer said. “Two of our last three games were shutouts. We were 4-1-1 on our last homestand. We had a bad night. It happens.”Dell had little protection against Vegas. “I don’t think he could have done much (Saturday),” Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson said. “I don’t think we helped him out a lot.”The game against Vegas started a segment of the schedule in which the Sharks will play 25 of 40 games on the road.The Sabres Anthony Beauvillier Jersey Womens , meanwhile, had a strong effort from their backup goaltender Linus Ullmark, who made 33 saves in his first start since Nov. 17. He made breakaway saves on Detroit’s Anthony Mantha and Dylan Larkin.“You’ve got Linus stepping in and playing out of his mind, making some huge saves, bailing me out and bailing us out a few times,” said Eichel, who extended his points streak to six games with an assist Saturday. “You can’t say enough about him. We find a way to get two points again.”Ullmark feels that playing so many close games recently have helped the Sabres keep things in perspective.“For us it’s been a battle all the way to the end,” Ullmark said. “That’s what keeps us down to earth, because we know it’s a very tight league and you can’t just go and glide on some pink clouds up there in the sky and think that you’re going to win every night just because you’ve done it before.”Carter Hutton likely will get the start in goal on Tuesday.Sabres coach Phil Housley praised his team for enduring a tough stretch in the schedule.“I have to give credit to our guys, that’s everybody who’s played in these six games in nine nights Dustin Tokarski Jersey Womens ,” Housley said. “It has been a grind. The guys continue to find energy and ways to win hockey games.”It probably helps that the Sabres, who have struggled for several seasons, are enjoying their resurgence.“Obviously it’s early, right? We want to keep this thing going and we want to win as many games as we can,” Eichel said. “It’s only November. But just from where we’ve come from and the struggles the last few years and last year, I just think everyone’s really stepped up this year. We’ve committed to putting our best foot forward every day, trying to get better. It’s a great feeling. Obviously, we have a lot to accomplish still.” BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — With star forward Jack Eichel missing his third straight game due to injury, the Buffalo Sabres got the secondary scoring they were searching for.Jeff Skinner provided his 29th goal of the season and the Sabres scored five times in the second period on their way to a 5-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.C.J. Smith Valtteri Filppula Jersey Womens , Casey Mittelstadt, Jake McCabe and Lawrence Pilut also scored for Buffalo, which improved to 23-14-6. Carter Hutton made 20 saves.Fourteen different Sabres got on the scoresheet with a goal or an assist, a welcome turn of events. Buffalo has struggled to find secondary scoring this season apart from Eichel and Skinner.“I really liked the way our group played,” coach Phil Housley said. “It was a total team effort.”Blake Coleman opened the scoring for New Jersey before the Devils fell apart in the second period. Keith Kinkaid made 28 saves.“We could talk about nine different ways where we weren’t good enough in any facet of the game,” coach John Hynes said. “We all know what it is and it’s not good enough and we’ve got to fix it.”The Sabres stormed ahead in the second, starting with two goals on their first two shots of the period.The first came at 1:39 by Skinner. Buffalo’s leading scorer raced down the left wing around defenseman Ben Lovejoy and fired a high shot to the far corner.Minutes later, Smith raced down the right side of the ice and scored his first career goal with a similar strike at 4:14. Kinkaid got a piece of Smith’s shot but it had just enough to trickle over the goal line before defenseman Sami Vatanen attempted to clear the puck away.“He attacked the game,” Housley said of Smith. “I just liked how he was poised, he was composed. He found a way to get that one by Kinkaid and it was a big goal.”Mittelstadt made it 3-1 with 9:18 remaining in the second Fredrik Claesson Jersey Womens , snapping a 10-game goal drought. After splitting the Devils defense, the 20-year-old’s backhand shot was stopped but his follow-up went in for his sixth goal of the season.McCabe made it 4-1 on a short-handed goal with four minutes left in the period. The defenseman finished a 2-on-1 rush after a patient pass from Evan Rodrigues.Pilut capped the second-period flurry with his first career goal with 2:15 to go on a long shot through traffic.“We had all four lines contributing,” Rodrigues said. “It could’ve been even more in the second. That’s what happens when you’re rolling shifts over in the offensive zone and tiring teams out. That’s when you start to get rewarded. I thought in past games we’ve been getting our chances, but we haven’t had the sustained pressure like we had today.”Coleman opened the scoring on a deflection 1:28 into the game for his 13th goal. But still, New Jersey came up well short after winning five of its previous eight games.“We’ve got to figure this out,” captain Andy Greene said. “It’s been way too long. It’s on us in here to stick together and play for each other and play hard for each other. That’s the best thing we can do and go from there. We get a little bit of traction here and there and then all of a sudden we have a game like today.”Buffalo outshot New Jersey 33-21 overall.NOTES: Eichel sat out again with an upper-body injury. He returned to practice Monday. … LW Scott Wilson was placed on waivers by the Sabres. Wilson has 14 points (six goals, eight assists) this season. … D Mirco Mueller, G Mackenzie Blackwood and D Egor Yakolev were scratched by the Devils. … D Nathan Beaulieu, LW Remi Elie and D Matt Hunwick were scratched by the Sabres.UP NEXTDevils: Home against Toronto on Thursday.Sabres: At Carolina on Friday.