{"id":618685,"date":"2026-05-02T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618685\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:39:09","slug":"sabres-eliminate-bruins-in-game-6-of-eastern-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618685\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres eliminate Bruins in Game 6 of Eastern 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuch, Mattias Samuelsson<\/a>, Zach Benson<\/a> and Josh Norris<\/a>\u00a0scored for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Division. Dahlin and Tage Thompson<\/a> each had two assists, and Alex Lyon<\/a>\u00a0made 25 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyon went 3-1-0 in the series with a 1.14 goals-against average and .955 save percentage in five games. He started the final four games after relieving Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>\u00a0early in the third period of Game 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t get much better than that,\u201d Tuch said of Lyon\u2019s performance in this series. \u201cHe was lights out. The only way they beat him tonight was just a great 2-on-1 backdoor by (David) Pastrnak, who is a really good player. (Lyon) was lights out. He was just in the zone and attacked every opportunity they threw at him. He was Steady Eddie. He was awesome. It gives the bench a lot of confidence when you have a guy like that, playing the way he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sabres will face either the Montreal Canadiens or the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second round. Tampa Bay extended that series with a 1-0 overtime victory in Montreal on Friday; the teams will play the deciding Game 7 in Tampa on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was unreal,\u201d said Dahlin, the Sabres captain, who is in his eighth season with Buffalo. \u201cI like how we attacked this series as a team. A lot of unexperienced guys, and just playing the way we did all series is pretty cool. We have good things ahead. We can learn a lot from this, but I love what we did in this series. It was special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buffalo, making its first postseason appearance since 2011, hadn\u2019t won a playoff series since it eliminated the New York Rangers in Game 6 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Semifinals when current Sabres coach Lindy Ruff was in his first stint with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a group that hasn\u2019t been here,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cI told them, \u2018We\u2019re going to win the game.\u2019 I said, \u2018We\u2019re going to win the series. We\u2019ve got to do some things better, but we\u2019re going to win the game.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way you get experience is by winning. I\u2019ve had disappointing games against Boston going way back, so to come in here and win this series in this building, it\u2019s not an easy town to come in and play and win hockey games. We\u2019ve got to give our guys a lot of credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Pastrnak<\/a> scored, and Jeremy Swayman<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves for the Bruins, who were the first wild card from the East.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never really got into the flow and Buffalo played solid,\u201d Boston coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cThey played like we played (Game 5) in Buffalo. It\u2019s sometimes how it goes, but it\u2019s not for lack of effort. It\u2019s not for lack of attitude. These guys care, I can tell you that. We\u2019re here for a reason. We played a hell of a season because of the character we have in that room, and unfortunately, we came up short.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After finishing tied with the Carolina Hurricanes for the most home wins in the regular season (29), the Bruins lost all three games at TD Garden in this series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d Boston defenseman Charlie McAvoy<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what it is. We can talk a big game in here about how excited we are, but for whatever reason we were awesome at home this year and we didn\u2019t do it when it mattered the most. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a maturity thing. We just weren\u2019t ready to go with details. I\u2019m not exactly sure, but they got the jump on us all three times (at TD Garden).<\/p>\n

Tuch gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at 3:25 of the first period. He scored on a tap-in near the right post off of Dahlin\u2019s pass from the bottom of the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined the rush, and (Thompson) made a good play,\u201d Dahlin said. \u201cIt was in my feet, but I knew I had someone back door, so I looked up and it was (Tuch) in the right spot at the right time, so it was just easy to give it to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuch, Mattias Samuelsson, Zach Benson and Josh Norris\u00a0scored for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-618685","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\/618685","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=618685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}