Buffalo Sabres vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, March 27, 2021 · TD Garden
SN1 · MSG-B · NESN
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Buffalo Sabres 3–2 on Saturday, March 27, 2021 at TD Garden. The Bruins outshot the Sabres 36–27.
Goals came from Sam Reinhart, Matt Grzelcyk, Kyle Okposo, Nick Ritchie and Craig Smith.
Dan Vladar made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Linus Ullmark stopped 33 of 36.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Sam Reinhart (12)Unassisted1–002:01 BUF ·
2nd period
Matt Grzelcyk (2)David Pastrnak (13), Patrice Bergeron (16)1–111:41 BOS
Kyle Okposo (2)Steven Fogarty (1), Henri Jokiharju (2)2–114:12 BUF
3rd period
Nick Ritchie (9)Charlie McAvoy (17), Jakub Zboril (6)2–205:22 BOS
Craig Smith (6)David Krejci (17), Nick Ritchie (8)2–316:10 BOS
Team stats
BUFBOS
2736
43%57%
1/30/5
106
1523
119
88
75
Penalties
- 1:16 into the first period
Connor Clifton · elbowing2 min - 4:06 into the first period
Brandon Montour · tripping2 min - 14:59 into the first periodCasey Mittelstadt · hooking2 min
- 18:54 into the first periodDavid Pastrnak · tripping2 min
- 7:15 into the second periodCharlie Coyle · high sticking2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodJean-Sebastien Dea · high sticking2 min
- 9:38 into the third periodBrandon Montour · hooking2 min
- 19:35 into the third periodRasmus Ristolainen · interference goalkeeper2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 17Steven FogartyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 09:21 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:02 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 19:16 |
| 10Henri JokiharjuD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:17 |
| 4Taylor HallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:27 |
| 15Riley SheahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:55 |
| 20Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:24 |
| 24Dylan CozensC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:48 |
| 27Curtis LazarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:54 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:40 |
| 38Jean-Sebastien DeaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 05:33 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:09 |
| 68Victor OlofssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:00 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:29 |
| 33Colin MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 22:17 |
| 62Brandon MontourD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:47 |
| 78Jacob BrysonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:22 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Dustin TokarskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Linus UllmarkG | L | 36 | 3 | .917 |
Boston Bruins
| 21Nick RitchieL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 19:00 |
| 12Craig SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 17:42 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:24 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 21:18 |
| 88David PastrnakR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:18 |
| 48Matt GrzelcykD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 21:28 |
| 67Jakub ZborilD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 14:57 |
| 73Charlie McAvoyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 26:32 |
| 10Anders BjorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:20 |
| 11Trent FredericC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:30 |
| 13Charlie CoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:45 |
| 14Chris WagnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:04 |
| 18Greg McKeggC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 04:04 |
| 19Zach SenyshynR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:50 |
| 23Jack StudnickaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:08 |
| 44Steven KampferD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:33 |
| 55Jeremy LauzonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:32 |
| 75Connor CliftonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 80Dan VladarG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |