Rasmus Dahlin was forced to break the match with Buffalo Sabers

Rasmus covered a shot from Ottawa's Nick Paul after a little over seven minutes of mid-season play.

A minute later, he was absent from the match.

At the beginning of the third period, commentators on the MSG Network Card announced only that Buffalo management had said that Dahlin would not "come back in the game".

The 18-year-old Swede shot a shot earlier in the second period, which took Dahlin's skate and may be why he rested to continue playing later in the period.

"Given the team's compelling leadership in the match, it's not necessary to play Dahlin's when he does not feel completely comfortable," said the team's president. former Buffalo player, Rob Ray, in the show.

Dahlin played ten bytes and 8.58 minutes and contributed to Jason Pominville's 6-1 goal and produced 5 points, 1 goal and 4 assists in his first 14 games in the NHL.

Ullmark took 27 shots

But there were other Swedes in Sabers who figured in the morning of Saturday.

Linus Ullmark looked at the box and won his third win on four starts in the box this fall.

Linus stopped 27 of the 29 shots.

"Ullmark had a tough game when he stayed a long time with nothing to do, but he did well," said Martin Biron, also a former NHL player turned television expert.

Patrik Berglund scored his first goal at home in the Warrior Buffalot when he hit it 8-1 after 5.41 in the last period.

Berglund also had a fulfilling crisis.

The big star of the game was Jason Pominville, who was now playing his 1001st game in the NHL and was celebrated by scoring two goals and helping one more.

The young center star and new captain, Jack Eichel, had three assists.

Pääjärvi +/- 0

For Ottawa, astonished this fall without Erik Karlsson in the team, it was mostly dark at night.

Goalkeeper Craig Anderson was traded after 2:25 pm in the first period after scoring three goals in ten shots.

Alternate Mike McKenna also did not have a fun night with four games of 24 shots.

Many key players in the team ended up with red numbers in the plus and minus statistics.

Magnus Pääjärvi finished with +/- 0.

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