Boston Bruins (45-27-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (50-23-9, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Sabres -175, Bruins +146; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n
NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Sabres lead series 3-1<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres host the Boston Bruins in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 3-1 lead in the series. The teams meet Sunday for the ninth time this season. The Sabres won the previous matchup 6-1.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 50-23-9 overall with a 19-7-4 record in Atlantic Division games. The Sabres have given up 240 goals while scoring 283 for a +43 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Boston has gone 45-27-10 overall with a 12-15-3 record in Atlantic Division games. The Bruins serve 11.9 penalty minutes per game to rank second in the league.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Doan has scored 26 goals with 26 assists for the Sabres. Alex Tuch has seven goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak has 29 goals and 70 assists for the Bruins. Morgan Geekie has scored seven goals and added two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.5 assists, 5.3 penalties and 13.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Bruins: 3-5-2, averaging 2.4 goals, 4.5 assists, five penalties and 13 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Sam Carrick: out (arm), Josh Norris: day to day (undisclosed), Justin Danforth: out for season (kneecap).<\/p>\n
Bruins: Viktor Arvidsson: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins (45-27-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (50-23-9, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[15731,12086,15730,1251,154,95,5132,530,5,12399,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-560784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-bruins","14":"tag-bostonbruins","15":"tag-bruins","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-maine","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116476410819828791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560784","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=560784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}