Boston Bruins vs. Buffalo SabresApr 19, 2026

FinalPlayoffsSunday, Apr 19, 2026· KeyBank Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BOS	1	0	2	3		BOS	9	4	7	20
BUF	0	0	4	4		BUF	14	13	11	38

: BOS 45BUF 70
: BOS 2.17BUF 4.15
PP goals: BOS 0BUF 0
Hits: BOS 38BUF 53
Blocks: BOS 14BUF 11
PIM: BOS 12BUF 10
: BOS 51%BUF 49%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Buffalo Sabres edge Boston Bruins 4–3

Buffalo Sabres beat Boston Bruins 4–3 at home. Tage Thompson (BUF) led the scoring with 2G 1A. Jeremy Swayman (BOS) faced 37 shots and stopped 34 (.919), +7 against a season average of 30.2; the loss.

Points
Tage Thompson had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 7 shots in 20:01.Thompson
Points
David Pastrnak had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 4 shots in 21:15.Pastrnak
Points
Morgan Geekie had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 19:16.Geekie
Points
Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 21:40.Tuch
Goalie
Jeremy Swayman (BOS) faced 37 shots and stopped 34 (.919), +7 against a season average of 30.2; the loss.Swayman
Usage
Owen Power (BUF) played 17:55, −3:51 down on his 21:46 season average over 12 games.Power
Usage
Conor Timmins (BUF) played 13:48, −3:15 down on his 17:03 season average over 12 games.Timmins
Usage
Tanner Jeannot (BOS) played 8:21, −3:40 down on his 12:01 season average over 5 games.Jeannot

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← BOS attacks left (bottom on phones)BUF attacks right (top on phones) →

BUF
BOS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 115 of 115 attempts · BUF 70 · BOS 45

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

BUF
BOS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

BUF pressure
BOS pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BOS 23% of the game, BUF 48%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

BUF

BOS

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

BUF skaters (rows) against BOS skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the BUF side.

Matchup matrix

BUF xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	BOS	BUF
	41	66
	1.70	2.49
	1.66	2.42
	10	12
	2	7
	16	20
	+0.002	−0.002
	23%	48%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Boston Bruins

L1Lindholm – Pastrnak – Geekie
12:4431% CF
L2Khusnutdinov – Minten – Hagens
9:2745% CF
L3Arvidsson – Zacha – Mittelstadt
9:0938% CF
L4Kuraly – Jeannot – Kastelic
6:3830% CF
D1Zadorov – Peeke
14:5247% CF
D2McAvoy – Aspirot
13:1142% CF
D3Lindholm – Lohrei
12:4219% CF

PP1Lindholm – Pastrnak – Zacha – McAvoy – Geekie
3:14100% CF
PP2Lindholm – Arvidsson – Mittelstadt – Lohrei – Minten
0:2350% CF
PK1FKuraly – Kastelic
3:07
PK2FKhusnutdinov – Minten
1:47
PK1DLindholm – McAvoy
3:51
PK2DZadorov – Peeke
1:45

Current BOS line combinations →

Buffalo Sabres

L1Tuch – Thompson – Krebs
13:2558% CF
L2Norris – Doan – Benson
10:2069% CF
L3Zucker – McLeod – Quinn
9:0552% CF
L4Greenway – Malenstyn – Dunne
6:5578% CF
D1Samuelsson – Dahlin
14:3562% CF
D2Byram – Power
11:4944% CF
D3Stanley – Timmins
8:4886% CF

PP1Zucker – Thompson – Norris – Dahlin – Quinn
4:0971% CF
PP2Tuch – McLeod – Byram – Doan – Benson
2:58100% CF
PK1FGreenway – Malenstyn
1:37
PK2FTuch – McLeod
1:33
PK1DTimmins – Samuelsson
1:52
PK2DStanley – Power
1:37

Current BUF line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

10:52
BOSMorgan Geekie (David Pastrnak, Nikita Zadorov)snap0.22 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Zadorov, Pastrnak, Peeke, GeekieBUF: Zucker, McLeod, Samuelsson, Dahlin, Quinn
BOS 1 – 0 BUF

3rd period

1:08
BOSElias Lindholm (Morgan Geekie, David Pastrnak)snap0.22 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Zadorov, Pastrnak, Peeke, GeekieBUF: Zucker, McLeod, Byram, Quinn, Power
BOS 2 – 0 BUF
12:02
BUFTage Thompson (Peyton Krebs)wrap-around0.16 xG
BOS: Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, Mittelstadt, AspirotBUF: Thompson, Dahlin, Krebs, Byram, Quinn
BOS 2 – 1 BUF
15:44
BUFTage Thompson (Alex Tuch)wrist0.13 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Zadorov, Pastrnak, Peeke, GeekieBUF: Tuch, Thompson, Samuelsson, Krebs, Power
BOS 2 – 2 BUF
16:36
BUFMattias Samuelsson (Jack Quinn)wrist0.12 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, MittelstadtBUF: Zucker, McLeod, Samuelsson, Dahlin, Quinn
BOS 2 – 3 BUF
18:48
BUFAlex TuchEN (Tage Thompson, Owen Power)wrist0.82 xG
BOS: Zadorov, Pastrnak, Arvidsson, Zacha, Mittelstadt, LohreiBUF: Tuch, Thompson, Krebs, Byram, Power
BOS 2 – 4 BUF
19:52
BOSDavid Pastrnak (Pavel Zacha, Morgan Geekie)backhand0.13 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Pastrnak, Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, GeekieBUF: Malenstyn, Timmins, McLeod, Samuelsson
BOS 3 – 4 BUF

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
David Pastrnak R	L1	1	2	3	0	4	0.39	4	1	2	21:15	—	—	36	51
Elias Lindholm C	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.43	4	0	0	19:18	—	—	32	46
Morgan Geekie C	L1	1	2	3	+1	2	0.35	1	0	0	19:16	—	—	36	48
Fraser Minten C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	1	0	0	16:07	—	—	46	34
Marat Khusnutdinov C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	3	1	0	14:13	—	—	48	35
James Hagens C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	0	0	11:02	—	—	48	37
Pavel Zacha C	L3	0	1	1	-3	1	0.27	1	1	2	17:02	—	—	37	41
Viktor Arvidsson L	L3	0	0	0	-3	2	0.37	0	2	0	12:45	—	—	33	34
Casey Mittelstadt C	L3	0	0	0	-3	1	0.01	0	0	0	12:19	—	—	42	42
Sean Kuraly C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	0	2	13:16	—	—	33	23
Mark Kastelic C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5	1	2	10:51	—	—	30	11
Tanner Jeannot L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	8:21	—	—	30	11
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	1	1	0	0	0.02	6	1	2	20:42	—	—	50	62
Andrew Peeke D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	3	1	2	19:03	—	—	44	56
Charlie McAvoy D	D2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.06	1	0	0	24:18	—	—	42	5
Jonathan Aspirot D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	3	0	16:09	—	—	37	5
Hampus Lindholm D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	0	1	0	21:06	—	—	22	27
Mason Lohrei D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	2	0	16:08	—	—	22	35

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	L	37	34	3	.919	2.71	58:49

Buffalo Sabres

BUF skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Alex Tuch R	L1	1	1	2	+2	4	0.91	10	1	0	21:40	—	—	59	63
Tage Thompson C	L1	2	1	3	+3	7	0.79	3	0	2	20:01	—	—	61	67
Peyton Krebs C	L1	0	1	1	+3	0	0.00	2	0	0	16:10	—	—	60	71
Josh Norris C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	4	0	0	16:32	—	—	71	62
Josh Doan R	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.83	3	0	0	16:14	—	—	71	62
Zach Benson L	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.20	3	0	2	15:28	—	—	68	58
Ryan McLeod C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.17	0	0	0	17:38	—	—	54	39
Jason Zucker L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.21	3	0	2	15:10	—	—	54	45
Jack Quinn R	L3	0	1	1	0	2	0.17	3	0	0	14:37	—	—	56	51
Beck Malenstyn L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	4	1	0	11:39	—	—	73	89
Jordan Greenway L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	2	0	0	9:38	—	—	78	87
Josh Dunne C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	2	2	0	8:20	—	—	69	94
Rasmus Dahlin D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.12	2	1	2	24:05	—	—	70	69
Mattias Samuelsson D	D1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.14	9	2	0	22:20	—	—	59	56
Bowen Byram D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	1	1	0	22:50	—	—	56	54
Owen Power D	D2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.10	0	1	0	17:55	—	—	53	49
Conor Timmins D	D3	0	0	0	0	4	0.08	1	2	2	13:48	—	—	72	96
Logan Stanley D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	1	0	0	11:51	—	—	75	88

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen(start)	W	20	17	3	.850	2.17	59:53

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Morgan Geekie (BOS) 1st 10:52 · assists David Pastrnak, Nikita Zadorov · Odd-man rush · carried in · 4-on-3 at the blue line · 53.0 mph shot · 3.3 s from entry to goal.

Morgan Geekie · 1st 10:52 · BOS

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 4-on-3
Passes: 0
Shot: 53.0 mph
Distance: 29 ft
Entry to goal: 3.3 s

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Elias Lindholm · 3rd 1:08 · BOS

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 44.3 mph
Distance: 17 ft
Type: rebound

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Tage Thompson · 3rd 12:02 · BUF

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 5.5 mph
Distance: 5 ft

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Tage Thompson · 3rd 15:44 · BUF

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 45.4 mph
Distance: 10 ft

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Mattias Samuelsson · 3rd 16:36 · BUF

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 60.9 mph
Distance: 34 ft
Entry to goal: 8.6 s

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Alex Tuch · 3rd 18:48 · BUF EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 63.6 mph
Distance: 16 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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David Pastrnak · 3rd 19:52 · BOS

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 33.8 mph
Distance: 35 ft

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.