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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Rasmus Ristolainen has just two goals this season. Both have been game-winners for the Buffalo Sabres.The defenseman scored 42 seconds into overtime to give the Sabres a 3-2 comeback victory over the New York Islanders on Friday night.I love to play overtime, said Ristolainen, who also scored in the extra period in Buffalos 4-3 victory over Edmonton on Dec. 6.Johan Larsson and Matt Moulson scored in regulation, and Ristolainen had his team-leading 19th assist to help the Sabres win their second straight game. Robin Lehner made 33 saves.We battled at the end and we found a way to win, Ristolainen said. We never give up and were having fun and we trust each other.Ryan Strome and Alan Quine scored for New York, and Jean-Francois Berube made 34 saves in his first start of the season.The Islanders have lost four in a row. They have had a lead or been tied entering the third period of each game.We play a good 40 minutes and the third period we kind of seem flat, Strome said. Its kind of been the downfall of our team this year, our third periods and finding ways to win.Ristolainen scored the winner on an odd-man rush, receiving a pass from Kyle Okposo in the slot and sending a wrist shot over Berubes glove.Ristolainen is the fourth Sabres defenseman to score two overtime winners in his career.Its good to get points from guys back there, and hes got a lot of poise, Okposo said. He makes plays and he creates offense, and you need that. Hes our No. 1 D-man for a reason.Okposo, the Buffalo points leader, was playing against his former team for the first time.It was strange, to be honest with you, Okposo said. So many times you play with those guys. I know exactly what theyre going to do. It was an odd game, an odd feeling.Moulson tied it at 2 for Buffalo on a power play 3:19 into the third period. Berube could not control the rebound from Evander Kanes long shot, and Moulsons backhand bounced in off the skate of Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey.Thats kind of how things have been going for us lately, Price said. Its frustrating. Were playing well, cant seem to get the bounces in the third and overtime.Islanders coach Jack Capuano was pleased with his teams effort on the second night of a back-to-back, but said taking two penalties in the third period killed New Yorks momentum.Its frustrating to me that the guys worked this hard and they cant get the win, Capuano said. I was just hoping we could stay disciplined in the third period, and we didnt.The Islanders showed little fatigue from playing in Chicago on Thursday night, generating several early scoring chances against a Sabres team that was off for two days.New York had a 16-7 advantage in shots on goal in the first period and took a 1-0 on Stromes straightaway wrist shot with 6:52 remaining.The Sabres showed more urgency in the second and tied it 2:32 into the period when Larsson re-directed Rasmus Ristolainens shot from the point past Berube.Quine scored on a power play to put the Islanders back in front 2-1 at 6:39 of the second period. Shane Prince slid a pass across the crease to Quine for the one-timer.Both teams stars were shaken up during the game.Concussion spotters pulled Jack Eichel from the game after he was shoved head-first into the boars by New Yorks Johnny Boychuck late in the third period. Eichel took part in the ensuing power play before going to the dressing room. He returned before the end of the third period.Islanders captain John Tavares also left briefly in the second period after getting hit in the leg but was able to return.Game notes Sabres D Zach Bogosian (knee) sat out his 20th straight game. Bogosian and D Tyler Fedun (upper body) both skated Friday morning and one of them will enter the lineup on Buffalos upcoming two-game road trip, coach Dan Bylsma said. Fedun has missed five games. . Islanders F Casey Cizikas (upper body) did not play after getting injured Thursday night. ... Ristolainen has a point in five straight games, the longest streak of his career.UP NEXT:Islanders: Host Ottawa on Sunday night.Sabres: At Carolina on Saturday night. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! .J. -- Marshawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his final mandatory media session of Super Bowl week. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! .S. Open champion Justin Rose birdied the first hole with a blind shot he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . The next step is a better finish. Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . Darren Helm scored on Detroits sixth attempt in the shootout and then Jonas Gustavsson stopped Andrew Shaws shot, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . -- Jonathan Drouin gave Halifax the boost it needed to edge host Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-2 in a shootout in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. LOS ANGELES -- The Minnesota Lynx were frustrated with getting behind early and playing catch-up throughout Fridays Game 3 loss to Los Angeles in the WNBA Finals. That forces them into a must-win situation Sunday, when theyll have to beat the Sparks here at Staples Center in order to send the series back to Minnesota for a decisive Game 5.But being a sports fan, as well as a coach, Minnesotas Cheryl Reeve actually does understand why this series has had such momentum shifts. That tends to happen when two really, really good teams face off.Sometimes youll say, Oh, we didnt play hard enough, Reeve said. I told these guys, Im not killing us about our effort, but it just wasnt good enough to win a WNBA Finals game on the road.When we decided in Game 2 what was going to happen, its not like L.A. didnt try. And its not like we didnt try last night.However, the Lynx just didnt play throughout the entirety of Fridays game with the kind of urgency that they needed to.If we dont bring it [Sunday], we know whats going to happen, Minnesota guard Lindsay Whalen said. When you put yourself in a hornets nest like we did [Friday], its tough. If defense has been your calling card and your backbone for all these years, and it isnt at a high level, it hurts.Its now do-or-die for us. We have another chance to come out and do what we need to do. We built this thing on a lot of hard work; the Lynx werent always at this level. So I think that mentality is in us, but we have to come out here and do it.Whalen had 11 points in Fridays loss, in which post players Sylvia Fowles and Rebekkah Brunson led the way with 14 points each. The glaring stat offensively was star forward Maya Moores nine points.She averaged 19.3 points per game during the regular season, and her scoring has trended upward in the past month-plus. In her last seven games of the regular season, she averaged 21.6 PPG, and in the Lynxs five playoff games before Friday, her scoring average was 23.2.Moore got just seven shots in Game 3, making four, and went to the free throw line just once. But like the rest of the Lynx, Moore thought that the teams slow start and its lethargy, at times, onn defense were the two biggest problems.ddddddddddddThe start of Game 4 will be so intense, just as it should be in the Finals, Moore said. We have to continue to find a way to lock in defensively, despite some offensive struggles. The heart of who we are is being a great defensive team.In the WNBA Finals, the smallest details separate winning from losing. In a series like this, some of those details can have explosive results for both teams.There were moments Friday when then Lynx just didnt look like themselves. The Sparks flat-out grabbed the ball away from them a few times, and Minnesota was slow to get back defensively on a few of Los Angeles transition scores.Last year, when the Lynx won a five-game WNBA Finals series against Indiana, they took Game 3 on Moores buzzer-beater but then were not as aggressive as they wanted to be in Game 4. That sent the series to a Game 5 which the Lynx dominated at home at Target Center.Minnesota has been on an incredible run since winning its first WNBA title in 2011. During that stretch though, they havent been in a must-win situation on the road during the playoffs very often. This is just the third time, in fact, and they lost the other two: Game 4 of the 2012 WNBA Finals vs. Indiana and Game 3 of the 2014 Western Conference finals against Phoenix.The Lynx had the best regular-season record (28-6) and the No. 1 seed. They are trying to tie the Houston Comets with four titles and become the first WNBA team to win back-to-back championships since Los Angeles did it in 2001 and 2002. But to keep hope alive for all of that, they may have to play their best game of this series on Sunday.We just werent as ready as we needed to be [Friday], and that shouldnt happen in the playoffs, Fowles said. We watched some film, and you can see things so much clearer than what you thought it was when you were on court.We cant look at it with a negative attitude, though. Just be positive from here on out. We looked at the things we didnt do well, and we know theyre correctable. ' ' '