Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each record a hat-trick on Tuesday night to help power the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 victory over the Boston Bruins at KeyBank Center. A complete game recap from WGR:

Peterka scored a hat trick and had an assist in a 7-2 win against the Bruins on Tuesday. It was his first NHL hat trick.

With three goals and one assist apiece, Thompson and Peterka led the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 thrashing of the Boston Bruins. Fittingly, Buffalo’s most recent two-hat trick game had come against the Atlanta Thrashers on Jan. 18, 2008, courtesy of Derek Roy and Drew Stafford.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded a hat trick as the Buffalo Sabres (19-26-5) rolled past the Boston Bruins (25-21-6), 7-2, at KeyBank Center on Tuesday night. Thompson notched his seventh career hat trick, while Peterka earned his first.

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.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Thompson and Peterka became the first pair to score a hat trick in the same game for the Sabres since 2008.

The Bruins’ plan for Mason Lohrei at the start of the season most likely did not call for the second-year defenseman to see 18:30 of ice time a night. But when the team lost workhorse left defenseman Hampus Lindholm to a knee injury on Nov.

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka had hat tricks, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 saves as Buffalo rolled to a 7-2 win over Boston.

At or near the bottom of their respective conferences, the Sabres host the Predators on Friday night. Both of these teams own 43 points, which puts Buffalo last in the Eastern Conference, and Nashville third from the bottom in the West.

‘There’s a lot that goes into that I don’t really think about,” Kozak said after Thursday’s practice at KeyBank Center, reflecting on his recent back-and-forth between rosters. “I just think about playing the best I can, trying to get better every day. Just trying to make those decisions a little tougher.”

Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesda