Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman has been named the team's starter for Tuesday's action against the Buffalo Sabres. He will enter the matchup with a 16-16-4 record. Swayman is coming off one of his best performances of the season,

The Boston Bruins saw their impressive two-game winning streak snapped with a disappointing 7-2 defeat to the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.

Facing Sabres

NHL analyst Craig Button has criticized Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman's performance following his eight-year, $66 million extension with the club in October.

The Bruins lost by a 7-2 score to the Sabres, who are at the very bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. They were outplayed in every aspect of the contest, and this can officially be labeled as one of Boston's most embarrassing losses of the 2024-25 season.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka both had hat tricks in the win. Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka turned in one of the most productive performances by a set of teammates in Buffalo Sabres history, both scoring hat tricks to fuel a 7-2 win over the Boston Bruins at KeyBank Center on Tuesday.

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.

Thompson and JJ Peterka had hat tricks against the Bruins on Tuesday night — a good sign for Lindy Ruff's lineup tweaks.

Fans reacted as the Boston Bruins suffered a disappointing 7-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night. The loss dropped the Bruins' record to 25-21-6 on the season.

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.