"It's really painful right now," Buffalo coach Ralph Krueger said, "to digest a game where, in Boston, against for me the best team in the League at the moment, we played as good a first period as we could play, and dominated in every, every area of the game except for the score. You know coming in out of that period 1-1, the guys deserved more from that, and I thought they stuck with it and never gave up and kept playing well.
"Boston raised their game a touch, but we still dominated."
Marchand tied it 1-1 by tipping a Zdeno Chara shot at 13:52.
"Just kind of shows how bad we were playing in that first period, so we're lucky to get out tied after the first and not [be] behind by five," Marchand said. "So good thing we had [Rask] there [in] that first period."
Marchand made it 2-1 on the power play at 14:45 of the second period, scoring on the rebound of a Matt Grzelcyk shot from the point.