The Sabres lead the series 2-1. Game 4 will be here Sunday (2 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, NESN, MSG-B, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n
Bowen Byram<\/a>\u00a0and Noah Ostlund<\/a> each had a goal and assist, and Alex Lyon<\/a> made 24 saves in his first start of the series for Buffalo, the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n Lyon replaced Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> at 16 seconds of the third period in Game 2, a 4-2 Boston victory, and stopped all seven shots he faced.\u00a0Luukkonen allowed seven goals on 40 shots in the first two games.<\/p>\n \u201cGetting in for a few minutes (in Game 2) was really helpful,\u201d Lyon said after his first start since April 4. \u201cBefore that it was probably two weeks since I\u2019ve played, so to get the feel of the game set me up nicely for today. We came in with a great mindset and you could feel it in the room that we were going to send it for 60 minutes, and that\u2019s all you can do. We did a really good job of that and we were engaged right from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI felt confident. That\u2019s what you\u2019re searching for, and the team gave me confidence. We played desperately, so it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n Ostlund, a rookie forward making his Stanley Cup Playoff debut, had been sidelined since March 25 with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n \u201cHe hasn\u2019t played a game in a couple of weeks, and it\u2019s his first-ever playoff hockey game in his rookie year and the guy gets one (goal) and one (assist). That\u2019s special,\u201d\u00a0Tuch said. \u201cHis hockey IQ is off the charts. The skill is off the charts, but honestly his compete, he went in there and competed every single shift and made a difference every single shift. He was phenomenal tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Tanner Jeannot<\/a> scored, and Jeremy Swayman<\/a>\u00a0made 25 saves for Boston, the first wild card from the East.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a playoff game and we\u2019ve got to capitalize on mistakes and stuff\u2019s going to be magnified,\u201d\u00a0Swayman said. \u201cOur job now is to take it one moment at a time and understand we have to recover and we have home ice again in (three) days.\u201d<\/p>\n Tuch gave the Sabres a 2-1 lead at 4:03. After Buffalo kept the puck in the offensive zone on the forecheck, Tuch gathered it at the top of the left face-off circle and beat a screened Swayman with a wrist shot that went over the glove and into the top right corner.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had good motion inside the zone,\u201d Buffalo coach\u00a0Lindy Ruff said. \u201cWe won a couple of battles, and we did a lot better job of moving our feet on the walls, and not getting trapped on the walls. (Tuch) came off the wall and Tage (Thompson) did a great job in front of their goaltender, and those are the type of goals we need to score.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sabres lead the series 2-1. Game 4 will be here Sunday (2 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-625045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}