Trailing Again: Breaking Apart Bruins Game 3 Loss

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images BOSTON – The Boston Bruins got the start they wanted, but couldn’t capitalize late and are now behind in the series again. The Bruins (1-2) dropped Game 3, losing 3-1 to the Buffalo Sabres (2-1) on Thursday night at the TD Garden. Tanner Jeannot (1) scored his first career playoff goal , and Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves, but three unanswered goals, along with the Bruins going 0-for-4 on the power play, lifted the Sabres ahead in the series.

“Yeah, [Alex Lyon] played good. But it was not, I think, it was not the issue. First of all, they were just a little bit better than us,” said head coach Marco Sturm.

“I got to say, you know, I thought we were a little tight, right from the start. I could see it a little bit on the power play, too. But we were still in the game, and we were fine.

” “Just those little mistakes cost us the second goal there. But other than that, yeah, it was just unfortunate because we were excited to be at home, and for some reason, like I said, we didn’t play the way we did Game 1 and 2. ” According to Natural Stat Trick , the Bruins were held to 25 shot attempts at 5-on-5 and 45 overall, both their lowest totals of the series.