🐻 Away Bruins 36-20-2
1–2
Final / SO
⚔️ Home Sabres 26-27-7
Goals 1st2nd3rdSOF
🐻 BOS 00101
⚔️ BUF 01012

Bruins at Sabres

Sabres beat Bruins 2–1 in a shootout at KeyBank Center on February 24, 2012.

🗓 📍 KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🏒 2011-12 🔁 Season series tied 2–2
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
Andrej Sekera
1 G
3 shots · 18:00 TOI
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Tyler Ennis
1 A
2 shots · 16:02 TOI
3rd star ⚔️ BUF
Ryan Miller
35 saves
0.972 SV% · 1 GA

🚨 Scoring

3 goals · in order
2nd period
⚔️ Andrej Sekera Go-ahead 2nd · 14:45
Assists: Tyler Ennis, Drew Stafford · beat Tuukka Rask
0–1
3rd period
🐻 Zdeno Chara PP Tying 3rd · 03:36
Unassisted · beat Ryan Miller
1–1
Shootout
⚔️ Derek Roy Go-ahead SO · 00:00
Unassisted · beat Tuukka Rask
1–2

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🐻Bruins
L1 Lucic · Krejci · Bergeron 21:12
L2 Marchand · Seguin · Kelly 19:24
L3 Thornton · Paille · Campbell 13:20
L4 Pouliot · Camper · Caron 7:48
D1 Chara · Seidenberg 25:08
D2 Corvo · Boychuk 22:15
D3 Ference · McQuaid 17:38
⚔️Sabres
L1 Roy · Gaustad · Pominville 20:25
L2 Vanek · Leino · Ennis 17:42
L3 Gerbe · Stafford · Kaleta 15:02
L4 Ellis · Tropp · Kassian 8:05
D1 Leopold · Weber 23:56
D2 Ehrhoff · Myers 21:56
D3 Regehr · Sekera 19:08

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🐻BOS BUF⚔️
36 Shots on goal 27
1/4 Power play (goals / chances) 0/0
20 Hits 20
12 Blocked shots 22
1 Takeaways 5
5 Giveaways 12
0 Penalty minutes 8
BOS shooting 2.8% (1/36) BUF shooting 7.4% (2/27)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🐻Bruins
Tuukka Rask
26/27
.963 SV% · 1 GA · 65:00 TOI
⚔️Sabres
Ryan Miller
35/36
.972 SV% · 1 GA · 65:00 TOI

🗺 Where the goals came from

2 of 3 goals located
Andrej Sekera · 2nd 14:45 · 0–1 Zdeno Chara · 3rd 03:36 · 1–1
BOS BUF
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–0
Bruins
Bruins — tied after 1st: 12-7-1 (60% win rate, 20 games)
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 1st: 8-9-3 (40% win rate, 20 games)
After 2nd — 0–1
Bruins
Bruins — trailing by 1 goal after 2nd: 6-6-1 (46% win rate, 13 games)
Sabres
Sabres — leading by 1 goal after 2nd: 6-0-2 (75% win rate, 8 games)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Season series tied 2–2
Feb 82012 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 0–6 Nov 232011 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 4–3 SO Nov 122011 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 2–6 Mar 102011 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 4–3 OT Jan 202011 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 4–2
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❓ BOS vs BUF, answered

Who won Bruins vs Sabres on February 24, 2012?

Sabres won 2–1 in a shootout. The final score was Bruins 1, Sabres 2.

Who scored for Bruins?

Zdeno Chara.

Who scored for Sabres?

Andrej Sekera.

How did the Bruins goalie play?

Tuukka Rask made 26 saves on 27 shots (.963 save percentage).

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Ryan Miller made 35 saves on 36 shots (.972 save percentage).

Where is Bruins vs Sabres played?

At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, the Sabres home rink.

What is the Bruins vs Sabres season series?

Season series tied 2–2 after 4 games.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🐻 Bruins
BeforeFeb 22 🐻BOS @ 🎵STL 4–2 AfterFeb 25 🐻BOS @ 🏛️OTT 5–3
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeFeb 21 🏝️NYI @ ⚔️BUF 1–2 AfterFeb 25 ⚔️BUF @ 🗽NYR 2–3
Also on February 24
🐋VAN 2–1 😈NJD 🗽NYR 3–4 🏝️NYI 🇨🇦MTL 1–4 🦅WSH 🏔️COL 5–0 🧥CBJ 🌲MIN 1–4 ⭐DAL
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