The Boston Bruins took an overtime win over the Sabres to stave off elimination, and Marco Sturm took notice of the team's improvement.

Bruins forwards Mikey Eyssimont and Alex Steeves joined the lineup for Tuesday's Game 5. Joe Hrycych / BUFFALO, N.Y. — Marco Sturm had a Viktor Arvidsson problem. The No. 2 right wing was unavailable for Game 5 because of an upper-body injury.

David Pastrnak said Game 4 was weighing on the Bruins players. In addition to all the obvious reasons for wanting to win Game 5, they didn’t want Sunday’s 6-1 embarrassing loss to the Sabres to be the final impression they left on their home crowd this season.

The puck was on his stick, after a turnover by Peyton Krebs just inside the Boston Bruins defensive zone. He paused and then flung it, the stretch pass sailing up ice to where David Pastrnak had just come on after a change,

Anderson: The Bruins' best players came to the rink on Tuesday night, and more takeaways from a season-extending Game 5 win in Buffalo.

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The Boston Bruins coach knew he was throwing a wrench at his team, his lines into a Vitamix, new combinations at his players before the start of a do-or-die Game 5 on the road against the Buffalo Sabres in the Eastern Conference First Round. So, he wasn’t exactly eager to show them what he’d come up with.

David Pastrnak's overtime goal lifted the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres in Game 5, forcing Game 6.

The injury bug hit the Sabres up the middle for the second time in the series, as center Noah Ostlund left the game in the first period with a lower body injury. The rookie scored a goal and assist in his playoff debut in Game 3,