Game

Sabres at Bruins

Sabres 6, Bruins 1 · first star Alex Lyon (0 GA, .958 SV%).

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

Buffalo Sabres 6 at Boston Bruins 1

Sabres BUF

6 FINAL 1

Bruins BOS

Playoffs Sunday, April 26, 2026 · 2:00 PM ET · TD Garden, Boston · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	4	0	2	6	35
Bruins	0	0	1	1	24

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. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 35, BOS 24.

BUF in red BOS in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 35 shots on goal (6 goals, 19 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Bruins 24 shots on goal (1 goal, 16 missed, 20 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	19	4	34	5	0	13
2nd	4	0	11	10	0	28
3rd	12	2	22	9	1	19
Total	35	6	67	24	1	60

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	30	6	18	0
Power play	5	0	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	4	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 52.8% of the shot attempts, and 53.9% of the 104 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	27.7	23.1
2nd	71.8	69.6
3rd	46.3	46.9
Game	47.2	42.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:17 Peyton Krebs (2) Alex Tuch (3) · wrist 1–0
07:10 Josh Doan (1) Ryan McLeod (1), Bowen Byram (2) · tip-in 2–0
09:15 Zach Benson (1) Josh Doan (1) · deflected 3–0
14:24 Bowen Byram (3) Owen Power (4), Jack Quinn (3) · wrist 4–0

3rd period

05:08 Beck Malenstyn (1) Jordan Greenway (1), Tyson Kozak (1) · tip-in 5–0
06:32 Alex Tuch (3) Tage Thompson (2), Peyton Krebs (3) · wrist 6–0
19:20 Sean Kuraly (1) SH Mark Kastelic (1), Andrew Peeke (1) · wrist 6–1

Three stars

Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .958 SV%
Bowen Byram BUF · D #4 · 1 G, 1 A
Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:08	BOS	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
2nd	00:46	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	holding	2	Beck Malenstyn
2nd	15:59	BUF	Jordan Greenway	hooking	2	Jonathan Aspirot
3rd	14:36	BUF	Zach Benson	slashing	2	Hampus Lindholm
3rd	14:36	BOS	Hampus Lindholm	slashing	2	Zach Benson
3rd	16:43	BOS	David Pastrnak	roughing	2	Peyton Krebs
3rd	16:43	BUF	Peyton Krebs	roughing	2	David Pastrnak
3rd	16:43	BUF	Peyton Krebs	roughing	2	David Pastrnak
3rd	16:43	BOS	David Pastrnak	roughing	2	Peyton Krebs
3rd	16:43	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	cross checking (major)	5	Rasmus Dahlin
3rd	16:43	BUF	Zach Benson	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	16:43	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	game misconduct	10	—

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	1	2	+2	3	2	1	4	80.0	14:32
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	1	2	+2	6	0	3	0	60.0	18:35
Josh Doan #91	R	1	1	2	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	12:51
Bowen Byram #4	D	1	1	2	+3	3	1	0	0	0.0	22:59
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	1	0	1	+1	1	4	4	0	0.0	13:24
Zach Benson #6	L	1	0	1	+2	3	2	0	12	0.0	13:25
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	25.0	16:56
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	+2	3	1	0	0	50.0	19:18
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	2	0	33.3	10:59
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	1	1	+1	0	3	1	2	0.0	13:26
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:10
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	20:14
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	11.1	17:19
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	13:26
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	15:58
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	3	0	0.0	16:21
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:55
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	21:12

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	24	23	1	.958	18/18	2/2	60:00

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sean Kuraly #52	C	1	0	1	-1	2	4	2	0	75.0	15:59
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	1	1	0	0	5	0	0	100.0	14:34
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	1	1	+1	3	2	2	0	0.0	22:32
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:37
Elias Lindholm #28	C	0	0	0	-3	2	3	0	0	69.2	15:41
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	63.6	14:53
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	-1	0	7	0	0	100.0	12:46
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	0.0	16:15
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	61.1	14:42
Lukas Reichel #75	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:51
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	16:21
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	03:13
David Pastrnak #88	R	0	0	0	-2	1	2	1	4	0.0	19:15
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	0	0	-4	3	3	0	0	0.0	23:23
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	2	0.0	21:38
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	-4	0	2	1	0	0.0	18:06
Jordan Harris #43	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	3	0	0.0	13:37
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	17	0.0	19:20

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	L	29	23	6	.793	21/27	2/2	46:41
Joonas Korpisalo #70	—	6	6	0	1.000	3/3	3/3	13:19

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.