With Brad Marchand gone and Charlie McAvoy still injured, Pastrnak is the only player with a letter (an A) on his jersey. So after Marat Khusnutdinov was called for tripping, 3:59 into overtime, he animatedly protested to no avail. He was even more angry when Buffalo scored the game-winner with 10.6 seconds left to send Boston to a 3-2 loss.

While the Buffalo Sabres have been the standard of futility in the National Hockey League for over a decade now, the Bruins, in their current state, are now looking up at their lowly Atlantic Division rivals in terms of offensive talent.

The Boston Bruins failed to produce and get pucks to the net as they fell 3-2 to the Buffalo Sabres in overtime on Monday night at the TD Garden. Joonas Korpisalo made 27 saves in the loss. The Bruins got off to a slow start as the Sabres spent a majority of the first half of the first period on the offensive,