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NHL Playoffs: Sabres vs Bruins Game 4 – Buffalo Wins 6-1, Leads 3-1

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NHL Playoffs: Sabres vs Bruins Game 4 – Buffalo Wins 6-1, Leads 3-1
Bruins on Brink after loss to Sabres in game 4

Buffalo explodes for four first-period goals in 6-1 Game 4 win over Boston. Krebs, Doan, Benson, Byram score as Sabres push Bruins to brink.


Boston faces elimination in Game 5, risks first-round exit for third time in five years...


The Buffalo Sabres routed the Boston Bruins 6-1 in Game 4 on Sunday to grab a 3-1 series lead.


Goaltender Alex Lyon was 40 seconds from his first career playoff shutout before Boston’s Sean Kuraly scored the Bruins’ lone goal late in the third period.


Lyon has allowed just two goals on 55 shots this postseason since replacing Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen in Game 2.

 
Boston will try to avoid a first-round exit for the third time in five years.


The series shifts back to Buffalo for Game 5 on April 28.


Game Breakdown

The Sabres overwhelmed the Bruins early, scoring four goals on 15 shots before ending the period with 19 total. Boston managed just six shots in the first.


Buffalo struck first when Peyton Krebs netted his second goal of the playoffs at 4:15 of the first, assisted by Alex Tuch for his third point of the postseason to make it 1-0.


Playoff Debut Milestone

Krebs and Owen Power each recorded a point in their first career playoff games, joining Danny Gare in 1975 as the only players in Sabres history to do so.




Boston took the game’s first penalty for too many men less than a minute after Krebs’ goal, but Buffalo came up empty on the ensuing power play.


 
The Sabres struck again shortly after the penalty expired when Josh Doan tipped in his first playoff goal to make it 2-0.

  
It took Buffalo just two more minutes to score again.




After his first playoff goal, Doan added his first assist on Zach Benson’s first postseason goal, giving the Sabres a 3-0 lead before the midway point of the first.

 
It was Buffalo’s first three-goal opening period in a playoff game since Game 6 against the Flyers in 2011.


Bowen Byram scored Buffalo’s fourth goal, his third of the playoffs, to make it 4-0 after Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman got tangled up with his own defenseman in front of the net.



 
Byram became just the third defenseman in franchise history to score in three straight playoff games, joining Mike Ramsey in 1983 and Ken Sutton in 1993.

  
It was the first time Boston gave up four goals in the opening period of a playoff game since 1991 against the Hartford Whalers.



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Both teams finished the first with 12 hits, but Boston’s 10 giveaways - several in its own zone - compared to Buffalo’s five were the difference.
 

Boston played better in the second, but neither team generated much offense. Both clubs failed to convert on their only power-play chances of the period.


Five minutes into the third, Buffalo extended the lead with two quick goals in just over a minute.

 
Beck Malenstyn scored his first career playoff goal in his eighth postseason game to make it 5-0.


Just 1:24 later, Alex Tuch added his third goal of the series and sixth point of the playoffs to push the lead to 6-0.

  
Tuch’s goal was Buffalo’s ninth straight in the series, prompting Boston to finally pull Swayman.


Buffalo closed the game on a five-minute power play, but Boston’s Sean Kuraly broke the shutout with 40 seconds left, ending the Sabres’ streak of nine consecutive goals.



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