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TAMPA Justin Williams Jersey , Fla. (AP)  fell out of playoff contention. They still might be a factor in the postseason.Jason Pominville scored on a power play at 1:26 of overtime to give the Sabres a 2-1 victory over the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night.Pominville beat Andrei Vasilevskiy with a one-timer from the left circle off a feed from Rasmus Ristolainen.Evan Rodrigues tied it for Buffalo in the third, and Chad Johnson stopped 21 shots.The victory was the second in a row against Tampa Bay in the past two weeks. The Sabres, last in the Eastern Conference, also knocked off second-place Boston Bruins twice in February.”Everybody really played good defensively,” Buffalo coach Phil Housley said. ”I’ve got to hand it to our guys, they really played hard and took away time and space against a really good hockey team.”Cory Conacher scored for Tampa Bay, which saw a four-game winning streak come to an end, and Vasilevskiy made 32 saves.With a point in the standings for the overtime loss, the Lightning became the first team to reach 90 points this season.”We’ll take the points where we can get them, but we didn’t really deserve the two points tonight,” Tampa Bay defenseman Dan Girardi said. ”We had good spots in the game but against a team that’s not in the playoffs and (if) we want to stay atop our division and the league we need the same effort we had against Toronto (on Monday) with the emotion and desperation and it just wasn’t there tonight.”With NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov out with an undisclosed upper-body injury Custom Florida Panthers Jerseys , the Lightning struggled to generate offensive chances and finished with 18 even-strength shots on goal.”There’s one team that looked like they’re getting close to the playoffs and preparing to go to the postseason, and one team looked like they weren’t,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. ”So take that from there, which team was which.”Tampa Bay opened the scoring with 1:57 left in the first period. The puck deflected off the stick of Conacher in front right in to Johnson, but Conacher quickly recovered the rebound and pulled the puck back to his forehand to find the vacated side of the net.Rodrigues tied it with 8:13 left in regulation. After Andrej Sustr fumbled the puck along the boards and lost the puck, Jason Pominville passed off to fed Rodrigues, who lifted the puck to the far post past Vasilevskiy.”I think we had all 20 guys pulling in the right direction,” Rodrigues said. ”We didn’t have anyone cheating on the wrong side of the puck. We stuck with our game plan. As the game wore we didn’t try cheating for offense. We all stuck to the defensive side of the puck and when you do that you wear the other team down and you get rewarded.”NOTES: The U.S. women’s Olympic champion hockey team was honored before the game. The team held residency camp in nearby Wesley Chapel. … Buffalo RW Kyle Okposo missed the game to be with his wife while she gave birth to a daughter Tuesday. Okposo is expected to join the team in time for Friday’s game at Florida. … The Sabres called up C Seth Griffin from Rochester of the American Hockey League. … Tampa Bay recalled RW Michael Bournival from Syracuse of the AHL. … Tampa Bay’s streak of scoring at least three goals in a game was snapped at 10.UP NEXTLightning: At Dallas on Thursday night.Sabres: At Florida on Friday night. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The longest point streak in the NHL this season will extend through the holiday break.Nikita Kucherov had a goal and four assists, Steven Stamkos and Tyler Johnson each scored twice and the Tampa Bay Lightning stretched their run to 12 games with a 6-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night.“I’m just playing hockey and trying to enjoy the game, trying to make the right play every time and sometimes it doesn’t happen http://www.officialhurricanes.com/authentic-adidas-rod-brind_amour-jersey , sometimes it happens and today it happened,” Kucherov said.J.T. Miller also scored for the NHL-leading Lightning (28-7-2), who are 11-0-1 in their last 12 games.“I think we played great,” defenseman Victor Hedman said. “Overall, it was a great performance by the guys and you can tell we really wanted to win this game and go into the break on a high note, and we’re feeling good about ourselves.”Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Alex Chiasson and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers (18-15-3), who have dropped three straight. Connor McDavid had three assists.“Rather than relying on the same people every night to do everything, I’m trying to get people connected,” Edmonton coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We’re going to have to figure out who’s helping and who’s hurting, for us to get to another level.“We can’t keep doing it the same way over and over. It’s not going to work.”Edmonton goalie Mikko Koskinen lost for the first time on home ice this season Scott Darling Jersey , falling to 7-1-0.The Oilers got on the board first midway through the opening period on a give-and-go play from McDavid to Nugent-Hopkins, who sent his 12th goal past Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy.McDavid picked up his 200th career assist on the play, becoming the sixth player in NHL history to reach the milestone before his 22nd birthday — joining a club that includes Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux, Dale Hawerchuk and Ron Francis.Tampa Bay tied it on a power play with three minutes left in the first when Stamkos fired a one-timer past Koskinen for his 19th of the season.Koskinen made a huge save on Kucherov’s breakaway early in the second.The Oilers pulled back in front on the power play three minutes into the middle period when Chiasson tipped a point shot by Darnell Nurse.Kucherov got another clear breakaway with seven minutes left in the second and this time made no mistake in scoring his 16th goal.The Lightning went up 3-2 a minute and a half later as Miller redirected a shot from in front of the net.Tampa Bay added to its lead four minutes into the second when Johnson pounced on a big rebound for his 15th.Edmonton got that one back quickly on a power play as McDavid fed the puck to Draisaitl for his 17th of the season, but the Lightning put it away on Stamkos’ second of the game with five minutes left and an empty-netter from Johnson.“We’re going to need a little better out of everyone,” Chiasson said.UP NEXTLightning: Return home to face the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday after the Christmas break.Oilers: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.