{"id":557701,"date":"2026-04-22T05:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557701\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:07:49","slug":"arvidsson-scores-twice-bruins-hold-off-another-late-sabres-rally-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557701\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvidsson scores twice, Bruins hold off another late Sabres rally in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowen Byram<\/a> and Peyton Krebs<\/a> scored for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed from the Atlantic Division and rallied for a 4-3 win in Game 1 on Sunday. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> allowed four goals on 19 shots before he was replaced by Alex Lyon<\/a> 16 seconds into the third period. Lyon saved all seven shots he faced in relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came out hard. They were forechecking a lot harder than they were last game,\u201d Byram said, \u201cand that’s not an excuse. We knew they were going to come out hard, but I think it just kind of took us a while to get going again. We\u2019ve got to find a way to start games and take it to them in the first 10 (minutes).\u201d<\/p>\n

The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1. Game 3 will be at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, NESN, MSG-B, TVAS2, SN360).<\/p>\n

After a scoreless first period, Arvidsson gave Boston a 1-0 lead at 4:54 of the second. Jonathan Aspirot<\/a> lobbed the puck out of the Bruins’ zone, and Arvidsson, out of the box after serving an extra penalty for Nikita Zadorov<\/a>, beat Buffalo defenseman Mattias Samuelsson<\/a> to the puck and slid a backhand five-hole on Luukkonen.<\/p>\n

Morgan Geekie<\/a> made it 2-0 when he flipped the puck on his backhand from center ice and it bounced over Luukkonen\u2019s glove and into the net at 16:29.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly just tried to dump it in and got a lucky bounce, and it’s nice to see it go in,\u201d Geekie said.<\/p>\n

Zacha redirected a feed from Pastrnak in the slot past Luukkonen stick side to push the Bruins’ lead to 3-0 at 18:10 on the power play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know their game, and we\u2019ve got to start off better, and we know that,\u201d Sabres forward Zach Benson<\/a> said. \u201cBut there\u2019s positives. We\u2019re playing good in the third, we\u2019re making pushes. But we’ve got to be better. We know that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowen Byram and Peyton Krebs scored for the Sabres, who are the No. 1 seed from the Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-557701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116446637444908319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557701","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=557701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}