Skinner scores shootout winner as Canes top Sabres in pre-season play
SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. — Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters saw Wednesday’s game as an opportunity to give the organizations’ prospects a bit of action.
Some of those young players came up big in a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
Jeff Skinner had the winner in the shootout after Roland McKeown and Elias Lindhold gave Carolina a 2-0 lead early in the game.
“Lots of kids got valuable ice time,” Peters said. “They’ll be playing elsewhere but that’s what you want to do in the pre-season.”