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Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit within the remaining eight minutes.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit within the remaining eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night time within the Sabres’ first playoff sport in 15 years.
Tage Thompson scored targets 3:42 aside to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the victory by scoring into an empty web with 1:12 left in almost blowing the roof off the sector.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 17 photographs.
Buffalo hosts Sport 2 of the first-round sequence Tuesday night time.
The playoff win was Buffalo’s first at house — and first total — since a 1-0 victory over Philadelphia in Sport 4 of a first-round sequence April 20, 2011. The Sabres proceeded to lose the sequence in seven video games. The Sabres received their first Atlantic Division this season and snapped an NHL-record 14-season playoff drought.
David Pastrnak scored with seven seconds remaining, and had two assists for Boston. Morgan Geekie and Elias Lindholm additionally scored for the Bruins. who completed the common season 33-2-4 when main after two intervals.
Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.
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