{"id":870537,"date":"2026-04-20T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870537\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:58:04","slug":"sabres-beat-bruins-4-3-in-playoff-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870537\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres beat Bruins 4-3 in playoff opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night in the Sabres\u2019 first playoff game in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tage Thompson scored goals 3:42 apart to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the victory by scoring into an empty net with 1:12 left in nearly blowing the roof off the arena.<\/p>\n<p>Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 17 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo hosts Game 2 of the first-round series Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff win was Buffalo\u2019s first at home \u2014 and first overall \u2014 since a 1-0 victory over Philadelphia in Game 4 of a first-round series April 20, 2011. The Sabres proceeded to lose the series in seven games. The Sabres won their first Atlantic Division this season and snapped an NHL-record 14-season playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p>David Pastrnak scored with seven seconds remaining, and had two assists for Boston. Morgan Geekie and Elias Lindholm also scored for the Bruins. who finished the regular season 33-2-4 when leading after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[1615,2910,215,214,53,20614,2086,7,88,6,1612,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-870537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-bills","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-buffalo-sabres","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rochester","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116436448417072319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}