Buffalo Sabres @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on October 21, 2017.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 13:16, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 5th goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead. At 15:05, Bruins Brad Marchand scored his 5th goal of the season, a power-play goal, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead.
In the second period, at 0:37, Bruins Brad Marchand scored his 6th goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 3-0 lead. At 8:01, Sabres Jason Pominville scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 3-1. At 11:22, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 6th goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 4-1 lead. At 16:07, Sabres Jack Eichel scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 4-2.
In the third period, at 6:55, Sabres Benoit Pouliot scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 4-3. At 17:52, Sabres Evander Kane scored, tying the game 4-4.
In overtime, Sabres Ryan O'Reilly scored, winning the game 5-4 for the Sabres.
Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 37 saves on 42 shots. Khudobin is now 2-0-1 with a 2.97 GAA and a .910 save percentage this season.
The Bruins led the game with a 55% faceoff percentage, hits 34-31 and blocked shots 18-15. The Sabres led the game in shots 42-31. The Bruins went 1-for-3 on the power-play while the Sabres went 0-for-2.
Brad Marchand led the Bruins with 5 shots. David Backes led the Bruins with 7 hits. Zdeno Chara and Rob O'Gara led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots each.
David Krejci, Kevan Miller and Tuukka Rask were scratched for the Bruins. Ryan Spooner and Noel Acciari are on the IR.
Three stars of the game
1) Sabres forward Ryan O'Reilly
2) Bruins forward Brad Marchand
3) Bruins forward David Pastrnak
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 3-3-1 with 7 points this season and are in 5th place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins home record is now 2-1-1 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Thursday, when they host the San Jose Sharks, at 7pm ET.
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