In Boston, Tuukka Rask made 36 saves to help the Bruins defeat the vising Buffalo Sabres, 3-2, on Thursday night.
rad Marchand struck for two goals in the win.
“Yeah, opportunistic, but a win’s a win,” Marchand said. “You can sit there and complain about it, but at the end of the day, all that matters is you get the points. The regular season is long, and you’re not going to play your best every night. You’ve got to be able to win games when you’re not playing your A-game. It can be opportunistic, it can be luck, but we won.”
The Sabres are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games.
“It’s really painful right now,” Buffalo coach Ralph Krueger said, “to digest a game where, in Boston, against for me the best team in the League at the moment, we played as good a first period as we could play, and dominated in every, every area of the game except for the score. You know coming in out of that period 1-1, the guys deserved more from that, and I thought they stuck with it and never gave up and kept playing well.
“Boston raised their game a touch, but we still dominated.”
The Bruins were outshot 17-4 in the first period and 14-0 to start the game.
Rasmus Ristolainen gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead.
The Bruins responded with three straight goals for 3-1 lead before Brandon Montour scored late in the third period to make it 3-2.
“We played a little bit better, but in the end, it’s another loss. … We have to start winning some hockey games,” Montour said.
David Pastrnak scored his 20th of the season.
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Linus Ullmark made 24 saves in the loss.
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