Bruins beat Sabres, 4-3, in OT

The Bruins may not be a great hockey band We still don t know if they re even very good at all But they can be a fun if unconventional watch right now The B s outshot - and held in the competition by Joonas Korpisalo coughed up a two-goal third period lead but pulled it out in overtime beating the Buffalo Sabres - on Marat Khusnutdinov s OT goal his first tally of the season After Josh Doan cut a - Bruin lead in half with a goal earlier in the period the Sabres tied it with a controversial goal with left in the third Off a faceoff Alex Tuch beat Joonas Korpisalo with a wrist shot from the slot The B s challenged for goalie interference after Doan had pushed Henri Jokiharju into Korpisalo but it was ruled there was enough to take the goal off the board The failed challenge put the Sabres on the power play but the B s were able to kill it off But when the teams went to three aside the B s broke out on a -on- thanks to a great defensive play by Fraser Minten and Khusnutdinov kept it for himself whistling a wrist shot past Alex Lyon from the right circle at of OT With left in regulation Jordan Greenway tripped Viktor Arvidsson but the B s could not cash in After his stellar -save performance against the Islanders Joonas Korpisalo got the start again the first time he s gotten back-to-back starts since coming to Boston last season And it s a good thing he was on his meeting early The Bruins continued their trend of making every band look like Montreal Canadiens in the first minutes of the encounter Korpisalo came up with several good saves and none better than the one Josh Doan who unveiled himself all alone in the slot with the puck courtesy of a fortuitous bounce but could not beat the B s netminder The Sabres didn t do themselves any favors either At one point they had a -on- but did not get a shot on net The B s meanwhile did not have a shot on net through the first but they managed to come out of the opening frame with a - lead They got the first two power plays of the meeting and after not getting a shot on net on the first one the white hot Morgan Geekie got the B s on the board After Pavel Zacha muscled the puck over to him on the left wing David Pastrnak hit Geekie with a great cross-slot pass and Geekie roofed a wrister over Alex Lyon at He stretched his goal streak to six straight games with his ninth of the year Exactly two minutes later Pastrnak doubled the lead Ryan McLeod looked like he had chosen time and space to make a play high in the Bruins zone but Pastrnak got his stick on his shot and headed the other way on a -on- with Elias Lindholm From his off wing Pastrnak slipped his seventh of the year between Lyon s pads After the B s killed off a late penalty the Sabres went into the break with a - shot advantage but nothing tangible to show for it Despite chances for both sides in the second the figure remained - when at Elias Lindholm ran into big Jordan Greenway in the center ice circle After it appeared his left knee buckled the centerman went down in a heap in obvious pain and would need certain assistance getting off the ice and down the tunnel e did not return After various line juggling the B s had a chance to put the hammer down when they got another power play but they coughed it up late when Zacha took a hooking penalty On the advantage the Sabres certainly beat Korpisalo at when Rasmus Dahlin point shot got through a screen to the back of the net But for the second time in four games the B s scored in the final seconds of the second period to give themselves a two-goal lead going into the third Sean Kuraly took a shot from the right wing that Lyon stopped but could not control Tanner Jeannot took another whack at the rebound and got it through Lyon With the puck sitting in the crease Lyon could not locate it before Mark Kastelic jammed it home with seconds left Tempers flared after that with Nikita Zadorov and Jeannot jawing with Greenway It took a limited minutes for the personnel regain order as Zadorov and Bowen Byram yapped at each other on the benches As the seconds were ticking off Zacha took an ill-advised crosschecking penalty on Josh Dunne giving the Sabres a full two-minute power play to start the third The B s were able to kill that one off but the Sabres controlled much of the play until they inched back to within a goal at of the third Korpisalo stopped an Alex Tuch shot from the right wing but the rebound popped high in the air and into the slot Doan gloved it down and was able to tuck it around Korpisalo s pad too make it -