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Bruins Top Sabres in Penalty-Filled Game 2 to Tie Series

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Bruins Top Sabres in Penalty-Filled Game 2 to Tie Series
Bruins survive late Sabres push in game 2 

A chippy Game 2 saw four double-misconducts and 94 penalty minutes. The Bruins built a 4-0 lead and hung on to beat the Sabres 4-2, with Charlie McAvoy hitting 50 career playoff points.


Jeremy Swayman tied Byron Dafoe for 10th in Bruins playoff wins with a 32-save performance. Arvidsson’s two goals helped Boston hold off a late Sabres push in a physical Game 2...


Bruins survive Sabres in Game 2 with over 90 penalty minutes


The Boston Bruins evened the series with a 4-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres in Game 2 Tuesday night.


The teams combined for 94 penalty minutes, plus 62 hits and 60 shots on goal. The series shifts back to Boston for Game 3 on April 23 and Game 4 on April 26.


Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman notched his 10th playoff win with 32 saves, tying Byron Dafoe for 10th most in Bruins playoff history.


Game Flow & Key Moments

Boston had back-to-back power plays late in the first period, but Buffalo’s penalty kill shut both down to keep the game scoreless.


Buffalo owned the league’s fourth-best penalty kill in the regular season and was 4-for-5 in the series to that point.


With 30.6 seconds left in the first, David Pastrnak was called for a minor tripping penalty.


The Sabres were 0-for-30 on their last 30 power plays.


Like Game 1, Boston struck first when Viktor Arvidsson won a puck race and buried a backhander to make it 1-0 Bruins.



  
The Bruins’ second goal came in the most random, awkward way.


As Morgan Geekie cleared the puck from the red line while exiting the ice, it bounced over Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s glove for a 2-0 lead in the second period.

 


Geekie has seven goals in his last six games.


Buffalo’s Tage Thompson gave the Bruins another power play, and they cashed in.


After a career-high 30 goals in the regular season, Pavel Zacha buried his second career playoff goal off a slick Pastrnak feed to make it 3-0 Bruins.




The Bruins needed just 16 seconds in the third period to put the game out of reach.


Arvidsson netted his second of the game to make it 4-0 before the third period devolved into an onslaught of penalties.

  
Charlie McAvoy picked up an assist on the goal, becoming the sixth defenseman in Bruins history with 50 career playoff points.




After double-misconducts to Buffalo’s Tage Thompson and Zach Benson, and Boston’s Nikita Zadorov and Andrew Peeke, the Sabres started to make the Bruins sweat.




Bowen Byram scored his first career playoff goal to cut it to 4-1, then Peyton Krebs netted his first to make it 4-2.






It wasn’t enough for another comeback win, and the series is now tied 1-1 heading into Game 3.





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