The Buffalo native 2 records goals and 2 assists for Chicago.
By Heather Engel / NHL.com Correspondent
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Patrick Kane had two goals and two assists to extend his point streak to 10 games and reach 900 NHL points in 7-3 win for the Chicago Blackhawks against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Friday.
It’s the fifth point streak of at least 10 games for the Buffalo native, joining Denis Savard (11 times) and Bobby Hull (five times) as the only Blackhawks players to achieve the feat. Kane’s 900th point also tied Tony Amonte for 12th place among U.S.-born players.
Drake Caggiula had one goal and two assists, Brandon Saad had two goals, and Duncan Keith and Connor Murphy scored for Chicago (19-24-9), which won its third straight. Cam Ward made 40 saves.
Jack Eichel, Jason Pominville and Kyle Okposo scored for the Sabres (25-20-6), who have lost two in a row and are 4-9-1 in their past 14 games. It’s the sixth time in their past eight games they’ve allowed at least four goals.
Carter Hutton allowed four goals on 22 shots in two periods before being pulled. Linus Ullmark made five saves in relief.
Caggiula scored his first goal in a Blackhawks uniform when he spun a backhand shot behind Hutton with 1:22 left in the first period to make it 1-0.
Kane made it 2-0 50 seconds into the second on a breakaway for his 30th goal of the season and 900th career point.
Keith extended the lead to 3-0 when he scored on his own rebound off Hutton’s pad at 5:06.
Eichel hustled to negate an icing and tipped in a Rasmus Ristolainen point shot to cut it to 3-1 at 18:05. But the Blackhawks quickly restored their three-goal lead when Saad connected on a 2-on-1 with 21 seconds left to make it 4-1.
Pominville brought it to 4-2 with a backhand shot from his knees in front at 3:39 of the third period, and Okposo narrowed it to 4-3 with a power-play goal at 7:16.
Murphy put the Blackhawks ahead 5-3 at 11:24 with a shot from the high slot. Kane scored into an empty net at 17:13 to make it 6-3, and Saad made it 7-3 with 38 seconds left.