NHL - San Jose Sharks @ Buffalo Sabres 2-1 OT - Saturday, November 14, 2015

It took the San Jose Sharks nearly 10 years, but they got their second win in franchise history in Buffalo. Patrick Marleau scored with 2:01 remaining in overtime to give the Sharks a 2-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center. The win ended the Sabres' eight-game win streak against the Sharks and was their first victory in Buffalo since Dec. 2, 2005. It was the second win in 18 games in franchise history in Buffalo.
The Sharks have won consecutive games for the first time since opening the season with four straight wins and have won the first two games of a six-game road trip. The Sharks were 0-for-14 on the power play in the previous six games before Vlasic's goal. Pavelski's assist was his 500th career point.
The Sabres had an opportunity to tie the game later in the first period when they had 1:25 of a 5-on-3 power play after a bench minor for too many men on the ice at 8:26 followed by a tripping penalty to Vlasic at 9:01. The Sharks killed off the penalties and held the Sabres to three shots on goal.
Ristolainen's assist on Buffalo's goal, extended his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists). Johnson and Jones each made 30 saves. Marleau's goal was the 90th game-winning goal of his career.
Prior to the game, there was a moment of silence to honor the victims of the attacks in Paris on Friday.

Goals
* The Sharks got out to a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Vlasic 1:48 into the first period. Vlasic took a pass from Joe Pavelski and took a slap shot from the faceoff circle that went over the glove of Sabres goalie Chad Johnson for his second goal of the season. Johnson couldn't see the shot because of a screen by Marleau.
* Ryan O'Reilly tied the game 1-1 for Buffalo 6:27 into the third period. O'Reilly's fifth goal came after a pass from Rasmus Ristolainen bounced off Sharks defenseman Paul Martin deflected to O'Reilly, who skated to the faceoff circle to the left of Sharks goalie Martin Jones and took a slap shot that beat Jones over his shoulder on his blocker side.
* Marleau's fifth goal of the season came when he put a rebound of defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic's shot off the post past Sabres goalie Chad Johnson. The goal was Marleau's 998th career point.

Sharks Bites

Patrick Marleau: "It feels good. I knew it had been a long time, but I didn't know it had been that long so it's definitely nice to switch things going a little bit the other way now. Hopefully we can get 10 in a row now. It's probably a good thing we're not in the same division over the last 10 years, but it having been 10 years to finally get one here it's nice, very nice."
Marc-Edouard Vlasic: "I thought I scored that. I thought I did. [Would've been] my first multi-goal game, but no. We scored, so that's fine. It's nice to get two wins, but you've got to keep it going because if you lose your next two games, you're back to where you started. In this league you've got to get wins together in order to create separation with the teams behind you. We started out on this road trip and we've got to keep it going, but it's nice to start it off with back-to-back wins in back-to-back games."
"I had the opportunity to shoot it and these days if you don't have a screen in front of the goalie it's hard to beat them. With [Marleau], the goalie didn't see anything. I made a nice shot, but [Marleau] it's because of him, but he's not on the point sheet because of that, but he did a lot of the work there."
Peter DeBoer: "We got a power play goal, which we needed. Our specialty teams came up big. Guys dug deep for back to back. We were running on fumes a little bit, but our goalie was great and gave us a chance to get to overtime."
Joe Pavelski: "Power play or shorthanded it doesn't really matter. Obviously it's nice. It's a good milestone, but you understand that 500 points, you don't get those by yourself. I've played with a lot of good players over the years and a good power play. I've been on some good lines, you just try to make the plays, try to get a little better each year, and you obviously don't want to stop there. You just want to keep playing."