At The Final Horn | Sabres win 4th in a row with victory over Islanders

The Buffalo Sabres used a balanced scoring attack to extend their winning streak to four games.
Five different Sabres found the back of the net in Buffalo's 5-3 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday at KeyBank Center.
Casey Mittelstadt, Rasmus Dahlin, Tage Thompson, Vinnie Hinostroza and Jeff Skinner all scored for Buffalo.
Dahlin, Thompson, Skinner and Victor Olofsson all kept their respective point streaks alive.
Thompson has nine points (5+4) over six games, Olofsson (2+6) has eight points over his last four games, and Dahlin (3+4) and Skinner (2+5) both have seven points over the last four games.
Dustin Tokarski stopped 19 shots to earn ninth win of the season.

Mathew Barzal, Noah Bobson and Ryan Pulock were New York's goal scorers. Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves.
Buffalo's power play finished 1-for-6 while the penalty kill wen 2-for-2.
The Sabres have also won five of their last six games.

How it happened

On a 2-on-1 with Rasmus Asplund, Mittelstadt elected to shoot and beat Sorokin to open the scoring with 7:49 remaining in the first period.
Barzal tied the game with 2:51 left in the opening frame when he connected on a one-timer that beat Tokarski.

Dahlin gave Buffalo the lead back at the 1:17 mark of the second period when he slapped home a shot from the point on the power play.
Thompson then unloaded a shot 2:48 later from the top of the left faceoff circle to make it 3-1.

Hinostroza put the moves on in front and roofed the puck top shelf to put the Sabres up three with 7:15 left in the period.
Dobson cut in to beat Tokarski at the 8:45 mark of the third period to make it 4-2. The Islanders got within one when Pulock's point shot found its way across the goal line with 9:38 to play.

With 7:20 remaining in regulation, Skinner kicked a Thompson rebound to his stick and scored to put Buffalo ahead by two once again.

Roll the highlight film

Here's Thompson's rocket, as called by Rick Jeanneret:

Worthy of a mention

• Thompson became the first Sabre to score 37 goals in a season since Skinner hit 40 in 2018-19. Only three other Sabres have potted at least 37 goals since 2006-07 (Skinner, Chris Drury and Thomas Vanek, who did it twice).
• Before the game, the Sabres recalled Aaron Dell from the Rochester Americans to serve as Tokarski's backup. Craig Anderson is day-to-day with an injury.

Coming up

The Sabres don't play again until Thursday night in Boston. The 81st game of the season will take place against the Bruins at 7 p.m. from TD Garden. Pregame coverage on MSG starts at 6:30.
Buffalo's final game - which will also be RJ's Last Call - is on Friday against the Chicago Blackhawks. Tickets are on sale now.