BUFFALO, N.Y. — Few teams have been able to stop the Buffalo Sabres in the past few months, and the Kings fared no better.
Alex Tuch had his fourth career hat trick to push his season goals total to 22, leading the surging Buffalo Sabres to a 4-1 victory over the Kings on Thursday night.
Alex Lyon made a season-high 37 saves for his 10th consecutive victory to break the franchise record set by Gerry Desjardins in December 1976.
Tuch reached 20-goal mark for the fourth straight season and fifth overall. Mattias Samuelsson also scored to help the Sabres (31-17-5) win for the 20th time in 24 games since Dec. 9. Jack Quinn had three assists and Ryan McLeod added two.
Adrian Kempe scored for the Kings (22-17-13), and Darcy Kuemper made 28 saves. The Kings had won three straight and earned at least a point in six in a row (3-0-3).
Tuch opened the scoring with a power-play goal on a turnaround shot that went off Cody Ceci’s skate and past Kuemper at 7:14 of the first period.
Samuelsson’s goal came with 8:43 left in the opening period. His one-time slap shot from just inside the blue line, off a faceoff, trickled through Kuemper. Samuelsson extended his point streak to five games (a goal and seven assists for eight points).
The Kings’ Quinton Byfield hit the crossbar in the first minute of the second period.
Tuch’s second goal of the game came 6:29 into the second when he tipped in a shot by defenseman Bowen Byram, who fired the puck from the left point.
That came 1:19 after an apparent goal by the Kings’ Alex Laferriere was disallowed because of goaltender interference.
Kempe put the Kings on the scoreboard with a power-play goal 7:47 into the middle frame with a re-direction from the slot off a pass from Kevin Fiala.
Tuch completed his hat trick with an empty-net goal with a minute left. It was Buffalo’s second consecutive hat trick. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin scored three goals in Tuesday’s 7-4 road win against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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The Kings play at Philadelphia on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. PT.
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