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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

1st Round, Game 4 · Apr 26, 2026 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 6 35
Boston Bruins 1 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:17 BUF Peyton Krebs (2) Alex Tuch (3) 1 - 0
07:10 BUF Josh Doan (1) Ryan McLeod (1), Bowen Byram (2) 2 - 0
09:15 BUF Zach Benson (1) Josh Doan (1) 3 - 0
14:24 BUF Bowen Byram (3) Owen Power (4), Jack Quinn (3) 4 - 0
3rd Period
05:08 BUF Beck Malenstyn (1) Jordan Greenway (1), Tyson Kozak (1) 5 - 0
06:32 BUF Alex Tuch (3) Tage Thompson (2), Peyton Krebs (3) 6 - 0
19:20 BOS Sean Kuraly (1) SH Mark Kastelic (1), Andrew Peeke (1) 6 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:08 BOS Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
00:46 BOS Nikita Zadorov Holding 2
15:59 BUF Jordan Greenway Hooking 2
3rd Period
14:36 BUF Zach Benson Slashing 2
14:36 BOS Hampus Lindholm Slashing 2
16:43 BOS David Pastrnak Roughing 2
16:43 BUF Peyton Krebs Roughing 2
16:43 BUF Peyton Krebs Roughing 2
16:43 BOS David Pastrnak Roughing 2
16:43 BOS Nikita Zadorov Cross checking 5
16:43 BUF Zach Benson Misconduct 10
16:43 BOS Nikita Zadorov Game misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 69 54 35 6 4.4 55.8
Boston Bruins 58 40 24 1 2.4 44.2

How the game went

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The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 4.4 expected, 6 scored · Boston Bruins: 2.4 expected, 1 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 4:17 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 7:10 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 9:15 of 1st, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 14:24 of 1st, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 5:08 of 3rd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 6:32 of 3rd, a 19% chanceBOS goal, 19:20 of 3rd, a 32% chanceBUF 4.4BOS 2.4

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Boston Bruins

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs10:0875.095.22-0
Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak9:0730.857.21-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn8:3580.088.71-0
Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund · Zach Benson8:2278.975.11-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power14:1765.673.53-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin12:4652.974.21-0
Logan Stanley · Conor Timmins11:3851.445.61-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 1 2 2 4 3 2 14:32 0.52 17-10 1.48-0.34
24 Bowen Byram D 1 1 2 3 0 3 1 22:59 0.11 27-16 2.38-0.87
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 2 0 6 0 18:35 0.87 15-9 1.37-0.55
91 Josh Doan R 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 12:51 0.31 17-4 0.93-0.18
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 2 12 3 2 13:25 0.31 17-9 0.93-0.71
29 Beck Malenstyn L 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 13:24 0.10 8-23 0.43-0.57
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 1 1 1 2 0 3 13:26 8-21 0.43-0.48
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:10 0.05 18-12 0.94-0.37
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 20:14 0.07 23-13 2.19-0.77
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 10:59 0.54 9-20 0.65-0.37
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:56 0.36 18-11 0.94-0.41
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 19:18 0.39 16-8 1.41-0.24
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 16:21 0.08 21-19 0.70-0.56
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 13:26 0.44 16-5 0.72-0.13
21 Conor Timmins D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 15:58 0.14 20-20 0.56-0.63
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17:55 9-13 0.35-0.25
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 21:12 0.14 15-11 0.76-0.21
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:19 16-6 0.59-0.56
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Alex Lyon W 24 23 1 60:00 2.21 +1.21

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sean Kuraly · Tanner Jeannot · Mark Kastelic9:0135.317.40-1
David Pastrnak · Pavel Zacha · Morgan Geekie5:5483.389.50-1
Elias Lindholm · Casey Mittelstadt · Lukas Reichel5:0863.643.90-1
Elias Lindholm · David Pastrnak · Morgan Geekie4:1611.81.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Zadorov · Andrew Peeke14:5852.540.30-0
Charlie McAvoy · Jonathan Aspirot8:5436.49.00-3
Hampus Lindholm · Charlie McAvoy8:3272.765.10-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
52 Sean Kuraly C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 4 15:59 0.32 6-17 0.14-1.29
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 22:32 0.14 21-25 0.54-0.96
47 Mark Kastelic C 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 14:34 8-13 0.18-0.89
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:37 0.32 16-10 0.53-0.47
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 14:42 0.14 16-6 0.78-0.14
27 Hampus Lindholm D 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 21:38 0.33 21-16 1.05-1.53
28 Elias Lindholm C 0 0 0 -3 0 2 3 15:41 0.12 11-23 0.41-1.88
33 Viktor Arvidsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 03:13 0.01 2-5 0.02-0.33
39 Morgan Geekie C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 16:15 0.38 16-22 0.70-1.66
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 13:37 4-19 0.24-1.72
45 Jonathan Aspirot D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 2 18:06 4-15 0.05-0.99
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 0 0 -4 0 3 3 23:23 0.23 20-19 0.76-1.03
75 Lukas Reichel L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 13:51 14-12 0.47-0.61
84 Tanner Jeannot L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 16:21 9-18 0.26-0.96
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 -2 4 1 2 19:15 0.16 19-23 0.82-1.62
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 17 3 4 19:20 0.12 21-22 0.54-0.87
92 Marat Khusnutdinov C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 7 12:46 9-12 0.41-0.39
93 Fraser Minten C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:53 0.14 13-13 0.31-0.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Jeremy Swayman L 29 23 6 46:41 3.43 -2.57
70 Joonas Korpisalo 6 6 0 13:19 0.62 +0.62