Lightning Strikes Sabres

January 19, 1999 / 10:41 PM EST / AP

Rob Zamuner scored the game-winning goal in the second period and Corey Schwab stopped 14 shots Tuesday night as Tampa Bay beat Buffalo 2-1, giving Lightning coach Jacques Demers his 400th win.

Demers becomes the 12th coach in NHL history to reach the milestone and second in as many days. Philadelphia's Roger Neilson won his 400th game Monday night.

Zamuner scored just his second goal since the 1998 Olympics, putting the Lightning up 2-1 after 40 minutes. The left wing beat Dominik Hasek through a screen from the left circle at 12:43.

The Lightning outshot Buffalo 32-15, including 14-5 during the middle session.

David Wilkie also scored for the Lightning, who snapped an eight-game (0-7-1) winless streak and beat the Sabres for the first time at home since Jan. 24, 1994 a span of nine games.

It was also Tampa Bay's first January win since Jan. 21, 1997, ending a 23-game winless run (0-21-2)

Buffalo, which saw its modest three-game (2-0-1) undefeated streak end, got a shorthanded goal from Miroslav Satan.

Schwab preserved the one-goal cushion midway through the third period by stopping Satan twice from point-blank range.

Wilkie snapped Hasek's shutout streak at 99:27 with a first-period goal. The Lightning defenseman scored his first goal since Feb. 28, 1998 breaking a 29-game drought on a wrist shot from the top of the left circle at 2:50.

Buffalo got the equalizer at 12:16 of the first period when Satan scored the Sabres' fifth shorthanded goal this season on a backhander during a 2-on-1.

Sabres left wing Geoff Sanderson missed the game with back spasms and is listed as day to day.