BOSTON (AP) — Alex Tuch scored a power-play aim with 10.7 seconds left in additional time, and the Buffalo Sabres snapped an eight-game highway shedding streak with a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Monday evening.
Peyton Krebs scored a power-play aim and Owen Energy additionally had a aim for Buffalo. The Sabres’ last road win got here on Jan. 21, at Vancouver.
Morgan Geekie scored a aim and arrange Pavel Zacha’s rating for Boston. The Bruins have misplaced three straight since successful the primary two after buying and selling away three key gamers, including captain Brad Marchand.
Energy, who had two assists, took a shot from the excessive slot that Tuch tipped by Joonas Korpisalo.
Krebs took a puck to the face whereas sitting on the bench when it went straight to the bench off a face-off.
With Boston trailing 1-0, Geekie shifted round defenseman Bowen Byram and fed Zacha within the slot, the place he slipped a shot previous Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 13 minutes into the opening interval.
Simply over two minutes later, Geekie got here in on a partial breakaway, shifted round Luukkonen and tucked the puck in for his twenty third aim.
Takeaways
Sabres: Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka every had a hat trick during a Sabres’ 7-2 win within the groups’ final assembly.
Bruins: They prevented a disastrous interval like Saturday after they didn’t get a shot on aim within the second throughout a loss to Tampa Bay.
Key second
Boston’s Marat Khusnutdinov was whistled for tripping 2:51 into OT.
Key stat
Buffalo outshot Boston 6-2 in OT.
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