Buffalo was playing its first Stanley Cup Playoff game since April 26, 2011.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson had two goals and an assist, Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 saves for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed from the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak had a goal and two assists, and Morgan Geekie had a goal and an assist for the Bruins, who are the first wild card from the East. Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.<\/p>\n
Thompson started the Sabres’ comeback by cutting it to 2-1 at 12:02 of the third period. He got control of a loose puck behind the net and wrapped it inside the right post past the left skate of \u00a0Swayman, who was looking the other way.<\/p>\n
Thompson then tied it 2-2 at 15:44, scoring five-hole from below the left circle after Tuch forced a turnover behind the net by Andrew Peeke.<\/p>\n
Mattias Samuelsson gave Buffalo a 3-2 lead just 52 seconds later at 16:36. He beat a screened Swayman high to the blocker side with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.<\/p>\n
Tuch added an empty-net goal at 18:48 to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n
Pastrnak scored a power-play goal to make it 4-3 with eight seconds remaining, but the Bruins weren’t able to win the ensuing face-off and get one final attempt on net.<\/p>\n
Geekie gave Boston a 1-0 lead at 10:52 of the first period. Rasmus Dahlin blocked Pastrnak\u2019s initial shot, but Geekie skated into the puck at the right hash marks, where he beat Luukkonen glove side with a slap shot.<\/p>\n
Elias Lindholm made it 2-0 at 1:08 of the third period. Luukkonen stopped Geekie’s one-timer from point-blank range, but Lindholm buried the rebound in the bottom of the right circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo was playing its first Stanley Cup Playoff game since April 26, 2011. Tage Thompson had two goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-594917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}