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stopped 35 shots to help the Hurricanes win their third in four games and keep themselves in playoff position entering the final three weeks of the season. Carolina bounced back from a 3-0 loss a night earlier at Columbus — one of the teams also in the East's playoff race — by scoring four straight goals and winning its ninth straight in the series with Buffalo.added a late goal to prevent the Sabres from being shut out in four straight games. Buffalo has lost seven in a row and is 0-6-1 in that span.Jordan Martinook's pads.
They entered having taken shutout losses in three straight games, matching an unwanted club record — but they took care of that quickly, scoring at 2:18 of the first. And nobody on the roster has more experience scoring goals in Raleigh than Skinner, who had 115 of them during eight seasons with the Hurricanes before his off-season trade to Buffalo. He put the Sabres up 1-0 with a goal that came on an attempted pass that bounced in off McElhinney for his first goal in 13 games — and his fourth goal in three games against his old team.
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