Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded a hat trick as the Buffalo Sabres (19-26-5) rolled past the Boston Bruins (25-21-6), 7-2, at KeyBank Center on Tuesday night. Thompson notched his seventh career hat trick, while Peterka earned his first.
Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka had hat tricks, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 saves as Buffalo rolled to a 7-2 win over Boston.
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Sabres get two hat tricks in 7-2 thumping of BruinsTage Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
Buffalo got two hat tricks for the first time since 2008 as Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka both had three goals and four points. Jiri Kulich had an assist to give the line six goals and three assists for nine points.
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Tage Thompson & J.J. Peterka’s Hat Tricks Power Sabres Past Bruins in 7-2 VictoryThe Boston Bruins hit the road to take on the Buffalo Sabres. The two teams have had polar opposite results in the win and loss column. The Bruins were 3-1-1 in their last five games, whereas the Sabres were coming off a four-game road trip and went 1-3.
With three goals and one assist apiece, Thompson and Peterka led the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 thrashing of the Boston Bruins. Fittingly, Buffalo’s most recent two-hat trick game had come against the Atlanta Thrashers on Jan. 18, 2008, courtesy of Derek Roy and Drew Stafford.
Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
The Bruins took a short-lived 1-0 lead on Mason Lohrei’s goal in the first period, but the Sabres rattled off the next four goals to ice it.
BUFFALO -- Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each scored a hat trick and had an assist for the Buffalo Sabres in a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins at KeyBank Center on Tuesday. Thompson got his 7th NHL hat trick, Peterka his first.
The lead lasted all of 55 seconds. The B’s top line got hemmed in its own end for much of the shift and, after it finally pushed it out of the zone, the players got caught in a change. On a Sabre 4-on-3, Matt Poitras got lost out high and Dylan Cozens connected with the wide-open trailer Thompson, who ripped a slapper past Swayman.
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