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Buffalo Sabres vs Boston Bruins

Regular season · Monday, March 17, 2025 · TD Garden

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3–2

Final/OT

SOG 30–20

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Game summary

The Buffalo Sabres beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 in overtime on Monday, March 17, 2025 at TD Garden. The Sabres outshot the Bruins 30-20.

Goals came from Peyton Krebs, Pavel Zacha, Morgan Geekie, Owen Power and Alex Tuch.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 18 saves on 20 shots for the win; Joonas Korpisalo stopped 27 of 30.

Goals1st2nd3rdOTTSOG
Buffalo SabresBUF1101330
Boston BruinsBOS2000220

Three stars

  1. ★1st starAlex TuchBUF · 1G 0A
  2. ★2nd starMorgan GeekieBOS · 1G 1A
  3. ★3rd starOwen PowerBUF · 1G 2A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

OT period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
1:58

1–1 · 1st 13:00 · Zacha. BUF stayed on through an icing. Byram was 1:58 into his shift when it went in.

GoalBUF on iceBOS on ice

1–0 BUF

1st 4:19 · PP · Krebs

Jokiharju 0:54

1–1 BOS

1st 13:00 · Zacha

Stuck out there: Byram 1:58

1–2 BOS

1st 15:13 · Geekie

McLeod 0:12

2–2 BUF

2nd 12:48 · Power

Lauko 0:37

3–2 BUF

OT 4:49 · PP · Tuch

Lindholm 0:40

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2024–25).
4.2%
5.7%
5.9%
6.9%
6.6%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.6×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.6 times as often as against fresh legs (6.6% vs 4.2%).

29%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

BUFBOS
30Shots on goal20
38%Faceoff %62%
2/4Power play0/2
9Penalty minutes13
27Hits31
10Blocked shots23
7Giveaways17
8Takeaways4

Penalties

  • 1st 02:35Mark Kastelic · tripping2 min
  • 1st 07:31Sam Lafferty · roughing removing opponents helmet2 min
  • 1st 08:41Connor Clifton · boarding2 min
  • 1st 11:37Jordan Greenway · fighting5 min
  • 1st 11:37Nikita Zadorov · fighting5 min
  • 2nd 01:08David Pastrnak · high sticking2 min
  • 2nd 19:52Ian Mitchell · tripping2 min
  • OT 02:51Marat Khusnutdinov · tripping2 min

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