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POST-GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • Tonight’s 4-0 Boston win was coach Claude Julien’s 400th victory behind the Bruins bench. • Austin Czarnik recorded his first NHL assist tonight. • Buffalo’s played his 100th NHL game tonight.

SHUTOUT FACTS: • Tuukka Rask made 32 saves tonight for the 4-0 win ... It is his 32nd career NHL shutout, his second of the (also 1-0 in Detroit on Oct. 29) and is his first career blanking of the Sabres ... That moves him into sole possession of third place on the club’s all-time shutouts list (had been tied with at 31) and he is now three shy of Frank Brimsek in second place. • It is the 16th Boston shutout over the Sabres in the lifetime series between these teams and is their ninth in Boston ... It is their first shutout vs. the Sabres in Boston since Byron Dafoe earned a 1-0 win on Jan. 29, 2000.

WHO’S HOT: • David Pastrnak had a and an assist tonight, giving him 4-1=5 totals in his last four games played with 8-4=12 totals in eight of his ten games this season. • had a goal tonight, giving him 2-2=4 totals in four straight games with 5-9=14 totals in nine of his 12 games played. • David Krejci had a goal tonight, giving him 1-3=4 totals in four of his last eight games. • Riley Nash had his first goal as a Bruin tonight, giving him points in consecutive games with 1-1=2 totals • Torey Krug had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in two of his last three games. • Ryan Spooner had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last three games. • Matt Beleskey had an assist tonight for his first of the season. • John-Michael Lilies had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last 11 games. • Austin Czarnik had his first NHL assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last six contests.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins scored three times on the power play tonight for their most power play goals in a game since they went three for six in a 7-3 win in Dallas on Feb. 20 of last season. • The Bruins scored all four goals in tonight’s game ... It is the sixth time this season that they have held a two-or-more-goal lead in a game and they now have a 5-1-0 record in those games ... They are 194-14-9 since the start of the 2011-12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game and that extends to 120-1-2 when they have led by three-or-more goals in a game.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 3 for 8 (37.5%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 6 for 46 on the power play this season (13.0%) and they have allowed three shorthanded goals. • The Sabres went 0 for 3 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 8 for 39 on the power play this season (20.5%) and they have not yet allowed a shorthanded goal. • The Bruins went 3 for 3 (100.0%) on the kill following the first period tonight ... They are now 43 for 51 overall on the penalty kill this season (84.3%) and they have scored one shorthanded goal. • The Sabres went 5 for 8 (62.5%) on the penalty kill following the first period tonight ... They are now 34 for 43 on the penalty kill this season (79.1%) and 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 299 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 drew 16, 553.

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TWO-GOAL LEADS: • The Bruins have held a 0-0 lead in tonight’s game ... It is the sixth time this season that they have held a two-or-more-goal lead in a game and they entered tonight’s game with a 4-1-0 record in those games ... They are 193-14-9 since the start of the 2011-12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game and that extends to 119-1-2 when they have led by three-or-more goals in a game.

THIRD UNIFORM SYSTEM: • The Bruins are wearing their third uniform system tonight for the second of 15 games this season ... They entered tonight’s game with a 0-1-0 mark while wearing that system thus far.

BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: • The Bruins are opening tonight their second of 14 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They entered tonight’s game with a 0-1-0 record in game ones and a 0-1-0 mark in game twos of those series. • The Canadiens are opening tonight their seventh of 14 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They entered tonight’s game with a 4-2-0 record in both the first and second games of those series so far.

3-IN-4 NIGHT GAMES: • The Bruins are playing game two tonight their first of 16 series this season of three games in four nights ... They entered to- night’s game with an 0-1-0 record in game ones, a 0-0-0 record in the second games and a 0-0-0 mark in game threes of those sets.

MATINEES: • The Bruins are playing tonight their first of 13 afternoon games on this season’s schedule and they entered today’s game with a 0-0-0 record in matinees this season.

ATTENDANCE: ** NOT UPDATED ** • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 298 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.

• Brandon Carlo has tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three straight games. • has tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three of his last five games. • has tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three straight games. • Buffalo’s has tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in four of his last six games. • Buffalo’s has tonight, giving him four goals in four of his last six games. • Buffalo’s Johan Larsson has tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in four straight games with 2-2=4 totals in five of his last six con- tests. • Buffalo’s Sam Reinhart has tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three straight games with 2-2=4 totals in four of his last six contests. • Buffalo’s has tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last five games. • Buffalo’s has tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last six games. • Buffalo’s has tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three of his last six games. • Buffalo’s Ryan O’Reilly has tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three of his last five games.