Six Goals Lift Sabres Over Bruins in Game 4
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BOSTON – The Boston Bruins (1-3) fell flat to the Buffalo Sabres (3-1) in Game 4 on Sunday, losing 6-1 on TD Garden ice.
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Six different players scored for the Sabres, with four goals coming in the first period and two more in the third.
Sean Kuraly (1) scored the lone Bruins’ tally.
Jeremy Swayman made 23 saves on 29 shots before being pulled for Joonas Korpisalo in the third period.
Jordan Harris and Lukas Reichel entered the lineup in place of Mason Lohrei and James Hagens. Nikita Zadorov was speculated to be a game-time decision; he played on Sunday.
The legendary Jack Edwards welcomed the Bruins to the ice as the Fan Banner Captain.
The Sabres struck first and continued to strike while the iron was hot.
Alex Tuch intercepted a pass from Fraser Minten and set up Peyton Krebs at 4:17 of the first period.
Josh Doan added to the Sabres not even three minutes later, redirecting home a feed from Ryan McLeod and taking a 2-0 lead.
Doan picked the puck off Jordan Harris and set Zach Benson up for a breakaway. Benson pushed the puck through Swayman’s pads to give the Sabres a 3-0 lead at the 9:15 mark of the first period.
After the Sabres scored three goals in 4:58, Marco Sturm called his timeout.
Bowen Byram made it 4-0 at the 14:24 mark. Jonathan Aspirot bumped Jason Zucker into Swayman, knocking the Bruins goaltender off balance and leaving Byram with an open net.
The first period came to an end with boos raining from the TD Garden crowd; the Sabres led by four and outshot the Bruins 19-5 after 20 minutes.
The Bruins stuck with Swayman in the second period.
Viktor Arvidsson left the game in the first period, and during the second period, the Bruins announced he would not return.
The fourth line started the second period, set to bring the physicality while down by four. They did, as did Nikita Zadorov, who laid out Josh Doan.
The Bruins did not capitalize on their first power play opportunity of the afternoon, only directing two shots on Alex Lyon during the man-advantage.
The power play went 0-for-1; the penalty kill went 3-for-3.
The score held at 4-0 Sabres through two periods, but the Bruins outshot them 9-4 in the second period.
Beck Malenstyn redirected a puck past Jeremy Swayman to make it 5-0 Sabres at 5:08 of the third period. Only 84 seconds later, Alex Tuch made it 6-0.
At the next TV timeout, Joonas Korpisalo entered the game for the last 13:19.
Tempers flared in the final four minutes of the game after Nikita Zadorov went after Rasmus Dahlin. The Sabres captain took a whack at David Pastrnak after the referees separated him from Zadorov, and pandemonium broke out.
Some beef. Now we wait 15 min for the refs to figure it out. pic.twitter.com/4GR9zRnpOC
— Mr. Tenkrat (@PeterTenkrat) April 26, 2026
To break Alex Lyon’s shutout, Sean Kuraly scored a shorthanded goal with 39.9 seconds on the clock.
Game 5 will be in Buffalo on Tuesday night. The Bruins’ backs are against the wall.
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