Game

Bruins at Sabres

Bruins 2, Sabres 1 in overtime · first star David Pastrnak (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.

Boston Bruins 2 at Buffalo Sabres 1

Bruins BOS

2 FINAL/OT 1

Sabres BUF

Playoffs Tuesday, April 28, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Bruins	0	1	0	1	2	29
Sabres	1	0	0	0	1	26

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 a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game). Boxscore shots on goal: BOS 29, BUF 26.

BOS in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Bruins 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 17 missed, 21 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 26 shots on goal (1 goal, 27 missed, 25 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	0	28	5	1	12
2nd	7	1	16	8	0	27
3rd	9	0	17	9	0	22
OT	4	1	6	4	0	17
Total	29	2	67	26	1	78

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	22	2	20	0
Power play	7	0	6	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 53.8% of the shot attempts, and 55.6% of the 117 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	30.0	34.8
2nd	62.8	54.5
3rd	56.4	62.1
OT	73.9	64.3
Game	53.8	53.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:35 Rasmus Dahlin (1) PP Jason Zucker (1), Tage Thompson (3) · snap 0–1

2nd period

09:24 Elias Lindholm (2) Unassisted · wrist 1–1

Overtime

09:14 David Pastrnak (2) Hampus Lindholm (1) · wrist 2–1

Three stars

David Pastrnak BOS · R #88 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .931 SV%
Rasmus Dahlin BUF · D #26 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:11	BOS	Mark Kastelic	roughing	2	Zach Benson
1st	06:53	BUF	Noah Ostlund	tripping	2	Mark Kastelic
2nd	05:25	BOS	Hampus Lindholm	tripping	2	Josh Doan
2nd	13:35	BUF	Ryan McLeod	tripping	2	Michael Eyssimont
2nd	15:36	BOS	Marat Khusnutdinov	high sticking	2	Logan Stanley
3rd	04:59	BUF	Alex Tuch	high sticking	2	Jonathan Aspirot

Boxscore

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Elias Lindholm #28	C	1	0	1	+1	3	4	2	0	80.0	21:01
David Pastrnak #88	R	1	0	1	+1	7	2	1	0	0.0	25:15
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	2	0.0	21:54
Alex Steeves #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	13:23
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	+1	2	4	0	0	0.0	17:25
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	60.0	16:50
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	+1	1	5	1	2	100.0	21:30
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	2	80.0	11:50
Michael Eyssimont #81	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	12:53
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	0	0	+1	2	4	1	0	0.0	18:46
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	52.2	24:19
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	100.0	13:30
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	11:25
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	3	0	0.0	22:52
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	26:24
Henri Jokiharju #20	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:27
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	+1	2	2	2	0	0.0	20:51
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0.0	23:11

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	W	26	25	1	.962	20/20	5/6	69:14

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	0.0	29:01
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	57.1	24:30
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:40
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	02:55
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	12.5	24:28
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	2	50.0	21:18
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	50.0	16:55
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	12:25
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	100.0	11:29
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:30
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	3	3	3	2	0.0	23:54
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-2	1	4	0	0	0.0	17:29
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:40
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	0.0	23:23
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	17:08
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:51
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	-1	2	4	2	0	0.0	26:13
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:21

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	L	29	27	2	.931	20/22	7/7	69:14

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.