BUFFALO – The Bruins knew going in that it was going to be a tough one against the Buffalo Sabres at the end of a long five game road trip, and that’s exactly what they played like on the ice.
The Bruins never held a lead and were never really in a 4-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at the KeyBank Center that saw them lose their third game to the lowly Sabres in four tries this season. Instead it was the Sabres that jumped out with a pair of goals scored in the first period and never looked back in a game where the Black and Gold clearly didn’t have their “A” game.
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Old friend Benoit Pouliot scored on a scramble in front right after a Sabres power play had expired, and two minutes later Kyle Okposo fired a power play goal through a Sam Reinhart screen right in front of Anton Khudobin.
The Bruins responded a bit in the second period with Charlie McAvoy’s sixth of the season after crashing backdoor to finish off a David Pastrnak feed, but they couldn’t score again despite a 16 shot barrage in the middle 20 minutes. Instead Evan Rodrigues stepped into a shot that fired past Khudobin to extend the Sabres lead. Marco Scandella clinched it when he threw a long distance shot off the side boards that seemed to surprise Khudobin at the net.
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The good news for the Bruins was that newcomer Rick Nash looked pretty good wearing a No. 61 Bruins uniform and had a number of scoring chances throughout the game teamed up with David Krejci on Boston’s second line. But otherwise the only positive development was that Patrice Bergeron was able to play despite sustaining a right foot injury in Saturday night’s loss to the Leafs, and getting the double whammy of a high stick to the face in the first period of Sunday’s loss as well.
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