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With family and friends in attendance, Brian Gionta scored a second period power play goal to become the third Buffalo Sabres player to score in his 1,000th NHL game.
It was Gionta's 15th goal of the season.
Gionta's goal was the game winner. His seventh as a Sabre and the fifty second of his brilliant NHL career.
According to Sabres PR, the other two players were Gilbert Perreault vs. Pittsburgh (1/29/1984) and Phil Russell at Chicago (3/12/1986).
Stick taps to the Buffalo Sabres video production team for creating this emotional tribute to Gionta. There were a lot of leaky eyes in the building after this video ran before the national anthems.
Thanks, Sabres TV
Gionta's Sabres teammates presented Gionta with an artist rendering. Tim Murray presented his captain with a sterling silver collectors hockey stick commemorating Gionta's 1,000 NHL games.
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With his assist in the first period on Ryan O'Reilly's power play goal , and an assist on Marcus Foligno's second period goal, Jack Eichel now has points in 22 of the last 26 Buffalo Sabres games. Eichel's assists on ROR's 19th goal and Foligno's 13th goal of the season now gives the super sophomore a total of 34 points In the last 26 games.
Eichel now has 55 points in his 55 games played this season.
Eichel has not gone two games without a point since January 31 and February 2. In the 26 games since, Eichel has totaled 34 points (11G, 23A).
NHL scoring leaders since February 1:
Jack Eichel 26 games played 11 goals, 24 assists, 35 points.
Nikita Kucherov 23 games played 19 goals, 16 assists, 35 points.
Pat Kane 23 games played 19 goals, 14 assists, 33 points.
In the time since his November 29 return from the high ankle sprain injury that sidelined him for 21 games, Eichel is tied for sixth among all NHL skaters with 54 points (23G, 31A) and leads the league with 222 shots on goal.
Eichel has logged 39 points (15G, 24A) in his last 34 games, including 11 multi-point games during that stretch. The Sabres are 13-2-0 this season (and 22-5-0 in his career) when he has at least two points.
Eichel’s one point per game rank him eighth among all players with at least 20 games played this season.
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