Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 31 saves and the Buffalo Sabres beat the visiting Washington Capitals 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday night.

Luukkonen made five saves in overtime and was perfect in the five-round shootout as the Sabres ended a three-game losing streak in which each loss was by a 4-3 score in overtime.

Buffalo's Bowen Byram scored the only goal in the shootout.

Tage Thompson, Alex Tuch and Isak Rosen scored in regulation for the Sabres.

Dylan Strome, Aliaksei Protas and Sonny Milano scored for the Capitals, who have lost four straight. Charlie Lindgren made 21 saves. Alex Ovechkin remains at 899 career goals.

Buffalo went 0-for-3 on the power play. Washington went 0-for-4 and is 0-for-13 during its losing streak.

The Capitals, who had scored two goals in their past three game

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