Game

Sabres at Bruins

Sabres 3, Bruins 1 · first star Alex Tuch (1 G, 0 A).

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

Buffalo Sabres 3 at Boston Bruins 1

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL 1

Bruins BOS

Playoffs Thursday, April 23, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · TD Garden, Boston · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	1	2	3	30
Bruins	0	1	0	1	25

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Bruins attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 30, BOS 25.

BUF in red BOS in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Bruins 25 shots on goal (1 goal, 11 missed, 9 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT
1st	15	0	24	9	0	16
2nd	8	1	19	6	1	9
3rd	7	2	16	10	0	20
Total	30	3	59	25	1	45

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	BOS SOG	BOS G
Even strength	19	3	16	1
Power play	9	0	8	0
Short-handed	2	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 56.7% of the shot attempts, and 59.7% of the 62 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 Bruins and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Sabres hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Sabres at Bruins
Period	BOS CF%	BOS FF%
1st	40.0	38.2
2nd	32.1	41.2
3rd	55.6	55.2
Game	43.3	45.0

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

03:26 Tanner Jeannot (1) Charlie McAvoy (2) · snap 0–1
10:58 Bowen Byram (2) Noah Ostlund (1), Owen Power (3) · wrist 1–1

3rd period

04:03 Alex Tuch (2) Peyton Krebs (2), Bowen Byram (1) · snap 2–1
18:36 Noah Ostlund (1) EN Jack Quinn (2) · wrist 3–1

Three stars

Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .960 SV%
Jeremy Swayman BOS · G #1 · 0 GA, .931 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	07:33	BOS	Hampus Lindholm	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	11:24	BUF	Conor Timmins	holding	2	David Pastrnak
1st	13:47	BUF	Peyton Krebs	roughing	2	Mark Kastelic
1st	16:29	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	tripping	2	Tyson Kozak
2nd	06:29	BOS	Morgan Geekie	cross checking	2	Mattias Samuelsson
2nd	09:50	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	ps slash on breakaway	0	Viktor Arvidsson
2nd	11:12	BOS	Tanner Jeannot	high sticking	2	Jordan Greenway
3rd	11:27	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	interference	2	Charlie McAvoy
3rd	14:13	BUF	Tage Thompson	tripping	2	Andrew Peeke
3rd	19:51	BOS	Mark Kastelic	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
3rd	20:00	BUF	Jordan Greenway	roughing	2	Tanner Jeannot
3rd	20:00	BOS	Tanner Jeannot	cross checking	2	Jordan Greenway

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Noah Ostlund #86	C	1	1	2	+2	2	0	1	0	33.3	14:18
Bowen Byram #4	D	1	1	2	+3	2	1	2	0	0.0	21:59
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+1	2	3	0	0	40.0	21:26
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	2	4	0	2	71.4	12:47
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	+1	5	1	0	0	0.0	16:52
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	1	+2	0	1	2	0	0.0	19:59
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	54.5	18:49
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	+1	3	2	0	2	0.0	19:16
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	66.7	08:35
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	1	5	0	0	0.0	09:27
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	+1	4	3	0	0	100.0	17:21
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	09:13
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	16:31
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	+1	2	3	0	0	0.0	14:49
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.0	15:16
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	0.0	13:25
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	18:33
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	0.0	23:29

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	25	24	1	.960	15/16	8/8	59:55

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	1	0	1	+1	2	5	0	4	0.0	09:10
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	1	1	0	3	2	7	0	0.0	27:07
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:44
Elias Lindholm #28	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	33.3	18:34
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	40.0	16:23
James Hagens #44	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	09:53
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	14:15
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	+1	3	8	0	2	83.3	11:15
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	2	57.1	19:32
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	0	0	-2	5	3	1	0	55.6	19:54
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	50.0	10:41
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	15:33
David Pastrnak #88	R	0	0	0	-3	5	3	0	0	0.0	21:21
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	18:21
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	2	0.0	21:37
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	1	0	0.0	13:27
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	15:18
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	16:32

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	L	29	27	2	.931	16/18	9/9	58:14

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.