{"id":631162,"date":"2026-04-27T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:27:07","slug":"sabres-score-4-in-1st-win-game-4-of-eastern-1st-round-to-push-bruins-to-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631162\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres score 4 in 1st, win Game 4 of Eastern 1st Round to push Bruins to brink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Kuraly<\/a> scored, and Jeremy Swayman<\/a> allowed six goals on 29 shots before he was replaced in the third period by Joonas Korpisalo<\/a>, who stopped all six shots he faced in relief for the Bruins, the first wild card from the East. Viktor Arvidsson<\/a>\u00a0exited the game late in the first period with an upper-body injury and did not return.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be embarrassed because it was embarrassing,\u201d Boston coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cGuys know me and we\u2019re going to talk about it. We\u2019re going to analyze this, but at the end of the day, we have to move on, too. I am embarrassed and we all should be. You have to win four games to move on. They\u2019ve got three, so that means we still have a chance. I can cry about it, but I have to push my guys for the next game and make sure our intensity is going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buffalo scored three goals in a 4:58 span in the first period to take the early advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had good legs. We had good energy, and when you have good energy, you get to places,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cOur feet were moving, we weren\u2019t standing around. Our anticipation where pucks were going was really good. We were back on top of them, so most of the passes they had to make had to go through us, and we created the turnovers that led to scoring opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krebs gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at 4:17. Boston failed to clear the puck on a breakout, allowing Buffalo to quickly create a 3-on-1. Tuch controlled the puck in the right circle and fed Krebs, who beat a sprawling Swayman high to the blocker with a wrist shot from the slot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw (Tage Thompson<\/a>) break the play up, and Tuch right in the middle made a great pass and I just put it in the net. It was a good play,\u201d Krebs said.<\/p>\n

Doan extended it to 2-0 at 7:10, positioning himself in front of Swayman and redirecting a centering pass from Ryan McLeod<\/a>\u00a0just after time expired on a too-many-men penalty against the Bruins.<\/p>\n

Zach Benson<\/a> pushed it to 3-0 at 9:15, scoring five-hole after Doan helped force a turnover on another Boston breakout attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a big part of (Doan\u2019s) game,\u201d Benson said. \u201cBoth of us, it\u2019s a big part of both of our games. When one guy\u2019s being a dog on a bone, the other guy knows how to read it. Obviously, he\u2019s so good at that, and when I saw he had pressure on the guy, I knew he was going to take it away. So, just tried to read it, and obviously it worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Kuraly scored, and Jeremy Swayman allowed six goals on 29 shots before he was replaced in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-631162","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\/631162","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=631162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}