Buffalo Sabres Come To The Door Of Playoff

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Buffalo Sabres can play on the ice in playoff, this is the best gift for the team, and it is the best news for players who spend all the time and all the heart playing then game. Buffalo moved into seventh place in the Eastern Conference, a point ahead of the idle New York Rangers, and five up on ninth-place Carolina with five days left in the season.
Thomas Vanek have very goog performance in the game, Vanek scored his third goal of the game by firing a shot from just inside the blue-line to seal a 4-2 victory on Tuesday night.
Sabres forward Thomas Vanek wasn't going to miss with an open net standing between him and a chance to nudge Buffalo closer to securing a playoff berth. Vanek's goal relieved the tension from a game which became tight 17 seconds into the third period, when Vincent Lecavalier put a scare into the Sabres by cutting their lead to 3-2.
Althought there is the mistake during the game, but the mistake was found and redress right away. The head coach tell the players that not be scared but just go out and play. Then they played a very good game for them, especially Van, he was big again tonight. ...
... The big players are making a difference, and that's important."
As for Lightning, The players said they've done that so far in the last four or five games. Tonight's second period got away a little and it cost us and they want to get monentum going in to the playoffs. But it can no longer catch Southeast Division-leading Washington, and they also fell three points back of fourth-place Pittsburgh, which defeated New Jersey later in the evening. In the game, Ryan Malone also scored for the Lightning, who had a five-game winning streak snapped and lost for the first time in four road games. The loss leaves fifth-place Tampa Bay all but mathematically out of the hunt to open the playoffs at home next week.
Vanek tied it three minutes later by tipping in Jason Pominville's shot during a two-man advantage. So the game end with Buffalo Sabres win over Lightning and enter in to the playoff.
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