Alex Tuch had two goals and an assist, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 for their first four-game winning streak in more than two years.

Mattias Samuelsson remained absent from the ... a situation the Sabres narrowly avoided against the Senators, when Jason Zucker left the game early but returned before the end of the first period.

McLeod began the night centering JJ Peterka and Alex Tuch but later joined Jason Zucker and Tage Thompson ... Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson returned to the lineup and had a plus-one rating ...

9 p.m. ET; KTVD, MSG-B, ALT Sabres projected lineup Jason Zucker — Tage Thompson ... Sam Lafferty Rasmus Dahlin — Bowen Byram Mattias Samuelsson — Owen Power Jacob Bryson — Connor ...

An illness that kept Mattias Samuelsson out of the lineup the past two games may not prevent him from playing for the Sabres on Wednesday night when they host the Carolina Hurricanes. The ...