At The Final Horn | Thompson scores twice in loss to Columbus

The Buffalo Sabres fell short against the Columbus Blue Jackets in yet another event-filled game for the club.
Tage Thompson recorded the first multi-goal game of his career with a pair of goals, but the Sabres fell to the Blue Jackets 7-4 at KeyBank Center on Monday.
Zemgus Girgensons and Dylan Cozens also scored for Buffalo.
Dustin Tokarski made eight saves on 12 shots before being replaced in net by Aaron Dell 55 seconds into the second period. Dell stopped 14 of 15 shots.
Jack Roslovic (2+1) and Max Domi (1+2) had three-point nights for the Blue Jackets. Vladislav Gavrikov also scored twice while Oliver Bjorkstrand and Sean Kuraly tallied as well. Joonas Korpisalo made 29 saves in the win.
Buffalo's power play was 2-for-4 on the evening while the penalty kill was 3-for-3.

How it happened

The Sabres struck first at the 3:38 mark of the opening period.
After a failed clearing attempt by Korpisalo, the puck made its way back on net and Victor Olofsson slipped it to Thompson, who tapped it in for his team-leading seventh of the year.
The Blue Jackets tied it up 8:23 into the first period when Roslovic's wrist shot in tight deflected off Tokarski's glove and over the goal line.
Roslovic scored again with 5:56 left in the period to put Columbus up 2-1.

With 0.4 seconds left on the clock, the Sabres scored a power-play goal to even things up. Girgensons deflected in a shot by Colin Miller that made its way in just before time expired.
Columbus opened the second period with a pair of goals in 55 seconds.
Bjorkstrand scored 24 seconds in and then Domi tallied right after.
Dell took over for Tokarski at that point.
The Blue Jackets struck again to make it 5-2 at the 3:41 mark when Gavrikov's point shot made it through.

Cozens got one back 4:44 into the second when he skated over the line and wristed a shot from the top of the left faceoff circle that beat Korpisalo glove side.
The Sabres made it a one-goal game when Thompson blasted a 100-mile-per-hour one-time slap shot in on the power play for his second of the night at the 9:55 mark.
With 7:51 remaining in the third period, Rasmus Asplund drew a tripping penalty while on the power play to give the Sabres a two-man advantage for 32 seconds. Buffalo did not capitalize on the 5-on-3 and then did not register a shot during the remainder of the power play.
Columbus added two empty-net goals in the final minute - one by Gavrikov and one by Kuraly - to give the Blue Jackets a 7-4 victory.

Roll the highlight film

Here's Thompson's blistering shot:

Coming up

The Sabres' homestand continues Wednesday night with the Boston Bruins in town.
Faceoff from KeyBank Center is set for 7 p.m. on MSG and WGR 550. Pregame coverage on MSG begins at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now. The first 8,000 fans in attendance will receive a Sabres Thanksgiving placemat courtesy of Wegmans.