Bruins get even with Sabres, take 3-1 decision

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BUFFALOIt wasnt nearly as contentious as their first meeting of the season, and perhaps thats why there was a different result.

The Bruins played a good road hockey game entering the third period with a tied score, and used an unlikely weapon, the power play, to take the 3-1 decision over the Sabres at the First Niagara Center.

The game-winner came midway through the third period after Mike Weber was whistled for a penalty, and the Bruins new top PP unit of Zdeno Chara, Rich Peverley, Patrice Bergeron, Chris Bourque and Brad Marchand took the ice for Boston. Bergeron won an offensive zone face-off, Bourque wound up and fired wide left with a point shot that caromed off the end boards right back to Bergeron as he moved to the net.

The Bruins center fired the puck past Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller, and the Bruins had all they would need to give them only one regulation loss in their first 10 games of the seasonand a three-game winning streak following their loss to the Sabres two weeks ago.

The Bruins had taken a lead in the second period when Brad Marchand snapped his team-leading sixth goal of the year past Millers glove hand. Fired up by some track-talking with Steve Ott, Marchand moved his glove to his lips to give a Shh! motion to the Sabres bench after his score.

The Sabres capitalized on a woeful Bruins power play in the second period by tying the score right after Bostons PP time had concluded. A Bruins defensive breakdown left Tyler Ennis all alone in front of the net and he managed to get a puck past Anton Khudobin after a couple of quick fakes got the goalie flopping in the crease.

Milan Lucic added the empty net goal late in the third to clinch things for the Black and Gold.

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