10 April 1982: Marco Baron stopped all but one of Buffalo's 33 shots, and Barry Pederson had two goals and an assist to lead the Bruins to a 5-1 victory and a three-game sweep of their Adams Division Semi-Final series.
After an opening five minutes that saw all of the action in the Sabres' end, Boston grabbed control of the game (and the series) with a three-goal outburst in just over two minutes. Terry O'Reilly beat Don Edwards at 6:45, and then Pederson tallied twice in under a minute on helpers from Wayne Cashman to make the score 3-0 and put Buffalo under immediate and severe pressure.
The visitors gradually tightened up their defense and evened out the play as the game moved into its middle third, and Gilbert Perrault's power-play goal midway through the second seemed to signal a shift in fortunes. But Keith Crowder took a turnover in for a breakaway goal at 14:54 and the Buffalo bubble seemed to deflate; when the other Crowder (Bruce) scored a shortie with just four seconds left on Terry O'Reilly's interference call at 9:08 of the third, matters were decided once and for all. The Sabres had their share of scoring chances, but Baron was having none of it as he held them off the scoresheet for the final thirty minutes of the game. FINAL: Boston 5, Buffalo 1.
Stars of the game: * Marco Baron, ** Barry Pederson, *** Wayne Cashman.
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| Marco Baron dulled the Sabres with 32 saves |
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