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Carter Hutton ought to be feeling pressure to perform well when the Buffalo Sabres visit the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday evening at Staples Center.Hutton is set to make his seventh start in goal for the Sabres and he has been subpar in his past three outings.Meanwhile John Carlson Jersey , backup goalie Linus Ullmark made 20 saves in a 5-1 victory at the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday afternoon. Ullmark had 36 saves in his other start this season, a 3-0 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Oct. 13.Article continues below ...Hutton is 0-3-0 in his past three appearances, allowing 13 goals on 96 shots for an .865 save percentage.Buffalo (4-4-0) hasn’t provided much cushion for Hutton either, scoring one goal in each of his past three starts.The Sabres adjusted their lines and that seemed to make a difference against the Kings.Jeff Skinner and Jason Pominville moved onto the top line with center Jack Eichel and Skinner had his fifth career hat trick in the win.Pominville added a goal and two assists to become the third player from the 2001 NHL Draft class with 700 points. He had just one assist in the first seven games. “I thought the line played pretty well,” Skinner told MSG Network after the game. “I thought (Pominville and Eichel) did a great job working down low. I think a majority of our offense was created off the cycle.”Skinner had one of his hat tricks in Anaheim while a member of the Carolina Hurricanes. He scored three goals in a 5-1 victory on Dec. 11, 2015.Sutton has made four career appearances against Anaheim, owning a 1-2-1 record, 3.00 goals-against average and .888 save percentage.The Ducks (5-2-1) are expected to start goalie Ryan Miller after John Gibson played Saturday night in a 3-1 loss at the Vegas Golden Knights.Miller played for Buffalo from 2002 to 2014 and remains the franchise leader in several career categories, including games played by a goalie (540) Lars Eller Jersey , minutes (33,661) and wins (284).Miller made his only other start this season on Sunday at the St. Louis Blues, saving 29 of 31 shots in the 3-2 victory.The Ducks have been known as a physically intimidating team in the past. They’ve had to take a step back as they infuse younger players into the lineup, but Skinner said the Sabres will be ready if Anaheim wants to play that style.Kyle Okposo and Zach Bogosian stood up to the Kings on Saturday.“We have sort of that mentality that we’re all going to stick up for one another, which is a nice feeling,” Skinner said.The first goal has been huge in games involving the Sabres this season. The team that has taken a 1-0 lead has led the rest of the way in all eight games.The Ducks plan to retire the jersey of Paul Kariya before the game. The Montreal Canadiens will be looking to build a streak and the San Jose Sharks will be trying to end one when they meet Sunday at Bell Centre.The Canadiens (12-9-5) ended a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 home win over the New York Rangers on Saturday.The Sharks (12-10-5), meanwhile, lost 6-2 to the Senators in defensemen Erik Karlsson’s emotional return to Ottawa, where he was captain for the past four seasons. San Jose Madison Bowey Jersey , which suffered its fourth loss in a row (0-3-1), will be attempting to avoid going winless on its five-game road trip.Article continues below ...“We’re struggling right now,” Karlsson told NHL.com. “You’re going to go through periods of this throughout the year. We’re going through it right now and we’re going to have to sort a lot of things out.”After acquiring Karlsson, a two-time Norris Trophy winner as the NHL’s top defenseman on the eve of training camp, the Sharks were viewed as a Stanley Cup contender, but they are off to a mediocre start and sat outside the playoff picture after their loss Saturday.“It’s been tough to stop it right now. We’re finding ways to lose,” Sharks captain Joe Pavelski told NHL.com. “It’s just a breakdown here or there, and then something happens. We’ve been trailing in a lot of these games, so we’ll get back to finding ways to start the game off with a goal and get the lead and try to build on that.”Improving their penalty killing would help. The Sharks have given up five power-play goals on 13 chances during their losing streak.The Canadiens moved into the second wild-card position in the Eastern Conference with their win Saturday. They got goals from unexpected sources: two from captain Shea Weber Nicklas Backstrom Jersey , who was playing just his second game of the season after offseason knee and ankle surgery, and forward Artturi Lehkonen, who doubled his season output.“The biggest thing is winning,” Weber, who has his 18th multi-goal game of his career (but his first in almost a year) told montrealcanadiens.com. “You help out by scoring goals or stopping goals, whichever way it is. Coming in here after this and getting two points is the part I definitely missed the most.”The presence of Weber, one of the most imposing defensemen in the game, is having an immediate impact for the Canadiens.“It’s fairly obvious what he does for our group,” Canadiens coach Claude Julien told Sportsnet. “When you look at what happened tonight James Neal Jersey Womens , you got your captain that sets the tone. He’s got two big goals. From there, we kind of took it over. … At the end of the day, you need those guys (the team’s best players) to come up big and they did.”Both of Weber’s goals came in the first period against the Rangers. The second came with six seconds left in the first period and gave the Canadiens a 2-0 lead.The Canadiens got top-six forward Paul Byron back against the Rangers. He had missed 14 games with a lower-body injury. They placed forward Nikita Scherbak on waivers Saturday afternoon and will find out at noon Sunday if he has been claimed.Scherbak was the No. 26 pick in the 2014 NHL draft, but he has played just 29 games with the Canadiens with five goals and two assists.