{"id":556670,"date":"2026-04-20T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:48:14","slug":"at-the-horn-sabres-4-bruins-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556670\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Horn | Sabres 4 &#8211; Bruins 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tage Thompson\u2019s first and second career playoff goals ignited a furious comeback by the Buffalo Sabres, who stormed to a 4-3 win in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Boston Bruins at KeyBank Center on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres trailed 2-0 when Thompson broke Jeremy\u00a0Swayman\u2019s shutout with 7:59 remaining. Thompson scored a second goal to tie the game, then Mattias Samuelsson netted the go-ahead goal with 3:24 left to play.<\/p>\n<p>Alex\u00a0Tuch added an empty-net goal for the Sabres. David Pastrnak scored the Bruins\u2019 third goal with 6.2 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 saves in his playoff debut, including a pair of breakaway stops on Pastrnak.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres established themselves physically early and often, finishing with a season-high 52 hits.\u00a0Tuch led with 10, followed by Samuelsson with nine.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres lead the series 1-0 with Game 2 set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tage Thompson\u2019s first and second career playoff goals ignited a furious comeback by the Buffalo Sabres, who stormed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-556670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116437116796183559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556670","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=556670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}