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2023-24 regular season

Sabres at Bruins

🗓 📍 TD Garden, Boston 🔁 Season series tied 1–1

Sabres beat Bruins 3–1 at TD Garden on December 7, 2023.

BUF – BOS
35–32
Shots on goal
33–34
Hits
20–11
Blocked shots
12–7
Takeaways
⚔️ Head-to-head

The game

The stars, every goal, the box score and the recap
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Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
JJ Peterka
1 G
6 shots · 15:42 TOI
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Victor Olofsson
1 G
3 shots · 12:26 TOI
3rd star ⚔️ BUF
Devon Levi
31 saves
0.969 SV% · 1 GA

Scoring

4 goals · in order
2nd period
⚔️ JJ Peterka Go-ahead 2nd · 01:18
Assists: Dylan Cozens · beat Linus Ullmark
1–0
⚔️ Tage Thompson 2nd · 16:57
Assists: Connor Clifton · beat Linus Ullmark
2–0
🐻 Brad Marchand 2nd · 17:35
Assists: Hampus Lindholm · beat Devon Levi
2–1
3rd period
⚔️ Victor Olofsson 3rd · 11:16
Unassisted · beat Linus Ullmark
3–1

Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
⚔️Sabres
L1 Mittelstadt · Thompson · Skinner 19:51
L2 Benson · Cozens · Peterka 15:42
L3 Robinson · Krebs · Okposo 13:57
L4 Olofsson · Jost · Rosen 11:30
D1 Power · Samuelsson 27:12
D2 Jokiharju · Clifton 16:38
D3 Johnson · Johnson 13:38
🐻Bruins
L1 Marchand · Coyle · Pastrnak 20:03
L2 DeBrusk · Zacha · Geekie 14:28
L3 Heinen · van Riemsdyk · Frederic 12:56
L4 Beecher · Lauko · Steen 10:55
D1 Lindholm · Shattenkirk 24:02
D2 Grzelcyk · Carlo 19:14
D3 Lohrei · McAvoy 16:23

Team stats

Away left · home right
⚔️BUF BOS🐻
35 Shots on goal 32
33 Hits 34
20 Blocked shots 11
12 Takeaways 7
7 Giveaways 6
2 Penalty minutes 6
BUF shooting 8.6% (3/35) BOS shooting 3.1% (1/32)

Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
⚔️Sabres
Devon Levi
31/32
.969 SV% · 1 GA · 60:00 TOI
🐻Bruins
Linus Ullmark
32/35
.914 SV% · 3 GA · 56:34 TOI

Where the goals came from

4 of 4 goals located
JJ Peterka · 2nd 01:18 · 1–0 Tage Thompson · 2nd 16:57 · 2–0 Brad Marchand · 2nd 17:35 · 2–1 Victor Olofsson · 3rd 11:16 · 3–1
BUF BOS
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–0
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 1st: 4-4 (50% win rate, 8 games)
Bruins
Bruins — tied after 1st: 7-0-1 (88% win rate, 8 games)
After 2nd — 2–1
Sabres
Sabres — leading by 1 goal after 2nd: 3-0-1 (75% win rate, 4 games)
Bruins
Bruins — trailing by 1 goal after 2nd: 2-0-1 (67% win rate, 3 games)

Last meetings

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Season series tied 1–1
Nov 142023 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 5–2 Mar 192023 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 7–0 Mar 22023 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 1–7 Dec 312022 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 4–3 OT Nov 122022 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 3–1
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Who won Sabres vs Bruins on December 7, 2023?

Sabres won 3–1. The final score was Sabres 3, Bruins 1.

Who scored for Sabres?

JJ Peterka, Tage Thompson, Victor Olofsson.

Who scored for Bruins?

Brad Marchand.

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Devon Levi made 31 saves on 32 shots (.969 save percentage).

How did the Bruins goalie play?

Linus Ullmark made 32 saves on 35 shots (.914 save percentage).

Where is Sabres vs Bruins played?

At TD Garden in Boston, the Bruins home rink.

What is the Sabres vs Bruins season series?

Season series tied 1–1 after 2 games.

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Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeDec 5 🐙DET @ ⚔️BUF 5–3 AfterDec 9 🇨🇦MTL @ ⚔️BUF 3–2
🐻 Bruins
BeforeDec 3 🧥CBJ @ 🐻BOS 1–3 AfterDec 9 🌵ARI @ 🐻BOS 3–5
Also on December 7
🍁TOR 4–3 🏛️OTT 🦈SJS 6–5 🐙DET 👑LAK 4–0 🇨🇦MTL 🧥CBJ 3–7 🏝️NYI ⭐DAL 4–4 🦅WSH ⚡TBL 1–5 🐯NSH 🦆ANA 0–1 🪶CHI 🔔PHI 4–1 🌵ARI
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