In Boston, Tuukka Rask made 24 saves for the Bruins and helped them defeat the visiting Buffalo Sabres, 3-2, on Sunday.#NHL, @NHL, #Prohockeynews, @prohockeynews, #PHNPODCAST, @PHN_Podcast, #TEAMPHN, #BostonBruins,
Jake DeBrusk, who was sent to the end of the bench in the first period of the game, struck for two power play goals in the third period. The goals came in 18 seconds.
“I mean, I’ve done it since I’ve been here,” DeBrusk said. “Anytime that things like that have happened, I think it was my second shift of the game, so anytime you don’t really get your feet wet at all, you obviously want to respond, you want to help the team. I think the shots were [6-2 for Buffalo], I think it was 1-0 for us after [that], so I just wanted to help maybe get some more offense going, maybe win some more puck battles. But like I said, just trying to figure out my game.”
The Sabres are 1-5-1 in their past seven games.
“Yeah, it’s definitely painful at this moment because the effort was there right through and we were building an excellent game,” Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger said. “It took a different course in the third. I think everybody can make judgment of where that happened, and I was pleased with the reaction of that, guys came back at it and they never gave up on it.”
Curtis Lazar and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for the Sabres.
“Yeah, I mean … you’ve got to always battle and play hard,” Ristolainen said. “But the only thing I care about is the result. It doesn’t matter which way it comes, playing good or bad, but we need points.”
David Pastrnak also scored for the Bruins.
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Linus Ullmark made 19 saves in the loss.
“I’ve always tried to take the positive approach, where the sun’s going to come up tomorrow and you take those positives,” Lazar said. “But we’re in a league where it is about winning. That’s the bottom line and you know we’ve got to figure it out just to get that extra five or 10 percent, but we’ve got the group of guys to do it, I know it.”