Game

Bruins at Sabres

Sabres 4, Bruins 3 · first star Tage Thompson (2 G, 1 A).

2025-26 Stanley Cup Playoffs · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Boston Bruins 3 at Buffalo Sabres 4

Bruins BOS

3 FINAL 4

Sabres BUF

Playoffs Sunday, April 19, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV ESPN · SN1 · SN360

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Bruins	1	0	2	3	20
Sabres	0	0	4	4	38

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Bruins attack left, Sabres attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BOS 20, BUF 38.

BOS in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Bruins 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 38 shots on goal (4 goals, 18 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	9	1	24	14	0	23
2nd	4	0	9	13	0	23
3rd	7	2	12	11	4	24
Total	20	3	45	38	4	70

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BOS SOG	BOS G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	13	2	28	4
Power play	5	1	8	0
Short-handed	2	0	2	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 60.9% of the shot attempts, and 61.8% of the 89 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Sabres and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Bruins hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Bruins at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	48.9	55.3
2nd	71.9	76.2
3rd	66.7	65.5
Game	60.9	63.6

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

10:52 Morgan Geekie (1) David Pastrnak (1), Nikita Zadorov (1) · snap 1–0

3rd period

01:08 Elias Lindholm (1) Morgan Geekie (1), David Pastrnak (2) · snap 2–0
12:02 Tage Thompson (1) Peyton Krebs (1) · wrap-around 2–1
15:44 Tage Thompson (2) Alex Tuch (1) · wrist 2–2
16:36 Mattias Samuelsson (1) Jack Quinn (1) · wrist 2–3
18:48 Alex Tuch (1) EN Tage Thompson (1), Owen Power (1) · wrist 2–4
19:52 David Pastrnak (1) PP Pavel Zacha (1), Morgan Geekie (2) · backhand 3–4

Three stars

Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 2 G, 1 A
Mattias Samuelsson BUF · D #23 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	12:03	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	hooking	2	Morgan Geekie
1st	14:45	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	cross checking	2	Peyton Krebs
1st	18:50	BUF	Jason Zucker	hooking	2	Andrew Peeke
2nd	00:27	BOS	Pavel Zacha	holding	2	Alex Tuch
2nd	12:42	BOS	Andrew Peeke	holding	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	02:41	BOS	David Pastrnak	slashing	2	Josh Dunne
3rd	16:12	BUF	Zach Benson	roughing	2	Mark Kastelic
3rd	16:12	BUF	Conor Timmins	roughing	2	Sean Kuraly
3rd	16:12	BOS	Mark Kastelic	roughing	2	Zach Benson
3rd	16:12	BOS	Sean Kuraly	roughing	2	Conor Timmins
3rd	19:41	BUF	Tage Thompson	tripping	2	Hampus Lindholm

Boxscore

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Morgan Geekie #39	C	1	2	3	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	19:16
David Pastrnak #88	R	1	2	3	0	4	4	1	2	0.0	21:15
Elias Lindholm #28	C	1	0	1	+1	2	4	0	0	50.0	19:18
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	1	1	-3	1	1	1	2	50.0	17:02
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	1	1	0	0	6	1	2	0.0	20:42
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	-3	1	0	0	0	100.0	12:19
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	50.0	16:07
James Hagens #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:02
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	50.0	14:13
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	2	50.0	10:51
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	57.1	13:16
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	08:21
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	0	0	-3	2	0	2	0	0.0	12:45
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	1	2	0.0	19:03
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	24:18
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:06
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	3	0	0.0	16:09
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	16:08

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	L	37	34	3	.919	24/27	8/8	58:49

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	2	1	3	+3	7	3	0	2	25.0	20:01
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	1	2	+2	4	10	1	0	100.0	21:40
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	1	0	1	+1	2	9	2	0	0.0	22:20
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+3	0	2	0	0	57.1	16:10
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	14:37
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:55
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	50.0	08:20
Josh Norris #9	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	50.0	16:32
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	55.0	17:38
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0.0	11:39
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	3	3	0	2	0.0	15:10
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	100.0	09:38
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	2	0.0	15:28
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	16:14
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	22:50
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	2	0.0	13:48
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:51
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	2	2	1	2	0.0	24:05

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	20	17	3	.850	11/13	4/5	59:53

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.