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vs. BUFFALO SABRES

POST GAME NOTES

PENALTY SHOT: • took his first career penalty shot at 16:31 of the first period and was unsuccessful vs. Buffalo’s Linus Ullmark, who was facing his first career penalty shot. • It was Boston’s first penalty shot taken since Tim Schaller was unsuccessful against Columbus’ Sergei Bobrovski on Dec. 18, 2017 ... It was Buffalo’s first penalty shot defended since Robin Lehner allowed a goal to Pittsburgh’s Tom Kuhnhackl on Dec. 1, 2017.

WHO’S HOT: • had a goal tonight, snapping a 17-game scoreless stretch since an assist Oct. 25 vs. Philadelphia. • had a goal tonight, giving him 3-3=6 totals in three of his last five games. • Joakim Nordstrom had an assist tonight, snapping a ten-game scoreless span since the game-winning goal Nov. 23 vs. Pitts- burgh. • had an assist tonight, giving him 3-3=6 totals in five of his last 11 contests. • David Krejci had an assist tonight, extending his point streak to six games with 3-6=9 totals in that span. • had an assist tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three of his last five games. • Buffalo’s had two goals and two assists tonight, extending his point streak to six games with 9-4=13 totals in that stretch and giving him 10-16=26 totals in 14 of his last 16 contests. • Buffalo’s had three assists tonight, extending his career-best point streak to ten games with 5-11=16 totals in that stretch (including a six-game assist streak with nine assists) and giving him 7-19=26 totals in 16 of his last 21 contests. • Buffalo’s had two goals tonight, extending his point streak to six games with 4-3=7 totals in that stretch and giving him 10-4=14 totals in 12 of his last 14 games. • Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin had two assists tonight, giving him 1-4=5 totals in his last two games following a seven-game score- less stretch. • Buffalo’s had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last four games.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 0 for 2 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 26 for 103 on the power play this season (25.2%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Sabres went 0 for 1 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 21 for 107 on the power play this season (19.6%) and they have allowed four shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 1 for 1 (100.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 74 for 96 overall on the penalty kill this season (77.1%) and they have scored one shorthanded goal. • The Sabres went 2 for 2 (100.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 83 for 100 on the penalty kill this season (83.0%) ... They have not yet scored a shorthanded goal.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 400 straight regular season and playoff games starting on Dec. 5, 2009 vs. Ottawa. • Their last non-sellout game at TD Garden was on Dec. 2, 2009 when a Wednesday game vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning drew 16,553.

BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: • The Bruins opened their seventh of 14 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They now have a 3-3-1 record in game ones and a 5-0-1 mark in game twos of those series. • The Sabres concluded their seventh of 16 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They now have a 5-2-1 record in game ones and a 3-1-2 mark in game twos of those series.

THREE GAMES IN FOUR NIGHTS: • The Bruins played game two of their eighth of 17 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They currently have a 2-5-1 record in game ones, 5-1-2 in game twos and 5-1-1 in game threes of those sets this season.

Sunday, December 16, 2018 ... TD Garden; Boston MA