4/21/26 – 7:30 pm at KeyBank Center, in Buffalo, NY
Buffalo – 50-23-9 | – 109 factors – 1st place within the Atlantic Division
Boston – 45-27-10 | – 100 factors – 4th place within the Atlantic Division
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Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play(Reg) – 19.5% (twenty first)
Power Play(Playoffs) – 0 for 4 – 0% (eighth)
Penalty Kill(Reg) – 81.9% (4th)
Penalty Kill(Playoffs) – 2 for 3 – 66.7% (tenth)
Boston
Power Play(Reg) – 23.4% (ninth)
Power Play(Playoffs) – 1 for 3 – 33.3% (fifth)
Penalty Kill(Reg) – 77.0% (twenty fourth)
Penalty Kill(Playoffs) – 100% – 4 for 4 (1st)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Tage Thompson: 1 GP, 2 G, 1 A, 3 PTS
Alex Tuch: 1 GP, 1 G, 1 A, 2 PTS
Mattias Samuelsson: 1 GP, 1 G, 0 A, 1 PTS
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Boston
David Pastrnak: 1 GP, 1 G, 2 A, 3 PTS
Morgan Geekie: 1 GP, 1 G, 2 A, 3 PTS
Elias Lindholm: 1 GP, 1 G, 0 A, 1 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1-0, 3.01 GAA, .850 Sv %)
Boston – Jeremy Swayman (0-1, 3.06 GAA, .919 Sv %)
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Sabres Line Combinations and Pairings (projected)
Forwards
Peyton Krebs – Tage Thompson – Alex Tuch
Zach Benson – Josh Norris – Josh Doan
Jason Zucker – Ryan McLeod – Jack Quinn
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Jordan Greenway – Josh Dunne – Beck Malenstyn
Ex., Tanner Pearson, Tyson Kozak
Defense
Mattias Samuelsson – Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Power – Bowen Byram
Logan Stanley – Conor Timmins
Ex. Luke Schenn, Michael Kesselring, Zach Metsa
Goaltenders
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Alex Lyon
Colten Ellis
Injuries
Justin Danforth (decrease physique, Oct. 18; injured reserve)
Jiri Kulich (blood clot, Nov. 4; injured reserve – out for the season)
Sam Carrick (higher physique, Mar. 31; injured reserve)
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Noah Ostlund (higher physique, Mar. 25; day-to-day)
Notes
On April 4, Buffalo clinched a spot within the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the primary time since 2010-11. The Sabres have compiled 125 playoff wins all-time, 93 of which have are available regulation. Game 1 marked simply the second time the Sabres overcame a 3rd-interval deficit of two or extra objectives in a playoff recreation in franchise historical past.
The Sabres’ 4-objective third interval marked the third-quickest 4-objective
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stretch (6:46) in Sabres playoff historical past. The crew scored 4 objectives in 6:38 vs. Boston on April 29, 1992 and in 5:28 vs. Philadelphia on April 27, 1998. The Sabres registered 53 hits in Game 1, probably the most by Buffalo in a single playoff recreation for the reason that league started monitoring hits in 2005-06.
Alex Tuch’s 10 hits had been probably the most by a Sabres skater in a single playoff recreation. Entering Game 1. Tuch had by no means recorded greater than six hits in any recreation of his profession (common season and playoffs).
Tage Thompson’s three factors (2+1) in Game 1 had been probably the most by a Sabres ahead in a playoff recreation since Daniel Briere on May 6, 2007 at NY Rangers (0+3). A multi-level efficiency tonight would make Thompson the primary Sabres ahead to file again-to-again multipoint video games within the playoffs since Mike Grier from May 2 to five, 2006 (2+5).
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Peyton Krebs and Thompson every posted a plus-3 ranking in Game 1, the best plus/minus all-time by a Sabres skater of their first profession playoff contest.
Mattias Samuelsson’s Game 1 objective was the primary playoff level of his profession and it made him the primary Sabres defenseman since Jason Woolley on April 30, 2001 at Pittsburgh to attain a go-forward objective within the third interval of a playoff recreation.
Owen Power (0+1) and Jack Quinn (0+1) additionally registered their first profession playoff level of their first profession playoff recreation.
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