{"id":556484,"date":"2026-04-20T02:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:48:50","slug":"buffalo-sabres-score-four-third-period-goals-to-stun-boston-bruins-in-playoff-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556484\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres score four third-period goals to stun Boston Bruins in playoff opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 17 shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Buffalo hosts Game 2 of the best-of-seven, first-round series on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 title this season and snapped an NHL-record 14-season playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Wawrow, The Associated Press<\/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":556485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-556484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116434758494065401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}