Sabres’ Noah Ostlund leaves Game 5 against Bruins with lower-body injury
The Buffalo Sabres announced that forward Noah Ostlund left Tuesday’s Game 5 matchup against the Boston Bruins with a lower-body injury and would not return.
Noah Ostlund will not return to tonight's game due to a lower-body injury.
Ostlund suffered the injury midway through the first period after getting tangled up with Bruins’ forward Casey Mittelstadt. He struggled to get to the Sabres’ bench and went straight to the locker room.
Ostlund got tangled up with Mittelstadt and went down akwardly. Crawled to the bench #LetsGoBuffalo #NHLBruins
Ostlund finished the game with two shots on goal in 2:55 of ice time. He’s dressed in three games during the first-round series and has one goal and one assist for two points.
Through 60 regular-season games in 2025-26, the 22-year-old forward scored 11 goals and recorded 16 assists for 27 points, averaging 13:58 of ice time.
Ostlund, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, was taken by the Sabres with the No. 16 overall pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. In parts of three AHL seasons with the Rochester Americans, he’s got 22 goals and 25 assists for 47 points in 54 regular-season games. He’s also scored a goal and two assists for three points in 11 Calder Cup Playoff games.
In parts of three seasons with Djurgardens Jr. in Sweden’s junior league, Ostlund scored 16 goals and added 41 assists for 57 points in 42 games. Before making the jump to North America, he spent one full season in Sweden’s top domestic league, where he scored 12 goals and recorded 11 assists for 23 points in 38 games with Vaxjo HC.
Buffalo went into Tuesday’s contest up 3-1 over Boston in their seven-game series. A win would send them to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in nearly two decades.