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Buffalo Sabres Playoff Game 6 Recap & Reactions @ Boston 4-1 WIN - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: your host of the program, Brandon Kbudo. Gonna break down
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  Speaker 1: and react to the Savers advancing to Round two, their
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  Speaker 1: first series playoff win in the NFL Playoffs since two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Yes, a very long time ago and
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  Speaker 1: for me personally, I was in grade ten the last
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  Speaker 1: time the Sabers won a playoff series. As you can
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  Speaker 1: see there, they win Game five on the road in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: taking all three games in Boston in the series. They
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  Speaker 1: win it by a four to one final with an
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  Speaker 1: empty netter. Tonight, we're also going to hear from Sabers
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  Speaker 1: head coach Lindy Ruff, as well as captain Rasmus Dallen
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  Speaker 1: and forward Alex Tuck on the post game have their
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  Speaker 1: postgame thoughts on advancing to Round two to face either
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning or the Montreal Canadians. As Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay held on with a Game six overtime thriller won
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  Speaker 1: nothing to be able to push it to Game seven
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  Speaker 1: against Montreal and that's gonna be a fun one again.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo's gonna have home mice advantage over both of those teams.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever gets through.
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  Speaker 1: It's looking like a Tuesday or Wednesday would be the
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  Speaker 1: start for the Sabers on home ice as they look to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go farther in the playoffs here going to
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  Speaker 1: the second round. It's a pretty crazy to think about
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  Speaker 1: where this team was. Absolutely, Benson is a dog crazy
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  Speaker 1: impressive from a twenty year old. Thank you to Larry
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  Speaker 1: Visuals for that. Definitely, Zack Benson continues to be a
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  Speaker 1: thorn in the side of the Bruins and many teams
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  Speaker 1: around the National Hockey League. He wants to be a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's you know, boot in thirty one other buildings,
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  Speaker 1: sort of like the Sabers developing their own mini brad
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  Speaker 1: marshand here that the Boston Bruins had all those years.
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  Speaker 3: So let's look ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm still trying to process what we
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  Speaker 1: saw in this game. I mean, as I mentioned, the
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  Speaker 1: Bruins came in the second best road team in the
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  Speaker 1: National Hockey League this season, and I know the Sabers
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  Speaker 1: were a very good road team as well in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: so don't want to take any cre away from them,
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  Speaker 1: but to be able to do what they did to
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  Speaker 1: the Bruins in those games on the road, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just a wild first series for the Sabers in fourteen seasons.
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  Speaker 1: And not only did they make the playoffs, they kicked
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  Speaker 1: the door down, won the Atlantic Division and now advance
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  Speaker 1: to the second round. It's just crazy to think about.
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  Speaker 1: I know, downtown Buffalo is going to be rocking for
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  Speaker 1: Round two. Sure the Blade Gang will be there, and
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  Speaker 1: all eyes are on the Sabers right now with this
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  Speaker 1: run that they've had. Jack Adams finalist Lindy Rouff it
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  Speaker 1: was announced today that he's in the running in the
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  Speaker 1: top three for Coach Win the Coaching of the Year award.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously a big accomplishment for Lindy to be able
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  Speaker 1: to come back in his second tenure with the Sabers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read off some statistics later tonight, some
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  Speaker 1: records that the Sabers have broken and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's just an.
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  Speaker 1: Impressive run that they've been on and one that I'm
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  Speaker 1: still sometimes I wake up and wonder if I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: wake back up in November when the team was in
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  Speaker 1: last place. But we're gonna try to discuss this one
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  Speaker 1: as best I can. Again, We'll we'll provide you with
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  Speaker 1: the postgame press conferences from Lindy Ruff as well as
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  Speaker 1: captain Rasmusdalin and Alex talk a little bit later. But
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  Speaker 1: let's uh, let's get forward here. Uh let's let's first,
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  Speaker 1: I want to touch on the lineup. I didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: get this get this pulled up. But Logan Stanley had
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a bug. He missed two games
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  Speaker 1: or he missed the last last two days of practice,
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  Speaker 1: so he was unable to go tonight. So that meant
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  Speaker 1: that Michael kessel Ring got into the lineup for Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: tonight on that third pair.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly, I'll discuss.
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  Speaker 1: was doing the prep here, guys, excuse me. If you're
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  Speaker 1: by then. But we'll we'll pull it up here because
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  Speaker 1: I do want to discuss the lineup a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: as it was obviously a little bit different than we've
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  Speaker 1: seen as of late. So let's get this moved around here,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So lineup Peyton, Krebs, Thompson, Tuck no change
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  Speaker 1: on the top line, Zucker McLeod Quinn on the second line,
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  Speaker 1: Benson Norris Doan on that third line. It was nice
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  Speaker 1: to see Josh Norris back in the lineup. Noah Austlin,
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  Speaker 1: the news was not good on him, unfortunately from Lindy
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  Speaker 1: Ruff the other day at practice. So it looks like
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  Speaker 1: Noah Austlin, his great contribution so far early in his
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  Speaker 1: playoff career, is gonna have to wait a bit. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: if the Sabers already go on a deep playoff run,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe he'll be back but really unfortunate for Noah Austlin.
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  Speaker 1: We know how how big of a game he had
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  Speaker 1: earlier in that series against Boston and was just a
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  Speaker 1: force for the Sabers in those first few games and
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  Speaker 1: a catalyst and one of them to be able to
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  Speaker 1: lift them the victory. So that was really unfortunate for
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  Speaker 1: for Noah Austlin. But luckily Josh Norris was able to
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  Speaker 1: come back into the lineup. He gets an empty night
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  Speaker 1: goal tonight that we'll talk about, but he was centering
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  Speaker 1: that third line with Zach Benson and Josh Done. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about dogs. Those two guys are just so fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch and they get under under the other team's skin.
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  Speaker 1: They're relentless on the fore check and for the same
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  Speaker 1: here we go, thank you for that. Uh, they just
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  Speaker 1: get under on the other team's skin. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was like Josh Don's goal or him setting up Zach
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  Speaker 1: Benson on that third goal for Buffalo to be able
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  Speaker 1: to extend the lead there. That was just an incredible
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  Speaker 1: effort from from a guy like Josh doone that we've
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  Speaker 1: seen since he's been a Buffalo Saber has endured himself
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  Speaker 1: to the locker room, the fan base and He's just
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  Speaker 1: been such a fun player to watch, as well as
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  Speaker 1: Zach Benson. They're just they're they're just two guys that
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  Speaker 1: that are hard to play against and two guys that
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  Speaker 1: are are relentless competitors out there. Benson being an undersized guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, still is able to get in there and
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  Speaker 1: and mix it up with some of those guys. So
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  Speaker 1: he's just a fun player to watch, and and these
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  Speaker 1: guys just in general are are a fun line to watch.
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  Speaker 3: And coming into the playoffs, we talked.
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  Speaker 1: About this line, you know, being one of Buffalo's best
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  Speaker 1: coming into the playoffs, and you know they've they've shown
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  Speaker 1: it here even though Norris was out a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but Benson and done that combination there has been really
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  Speaker 1: good for Buffalo. And then the fourth line was Jordan Greenway,
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  Speaker 1: Tyson Kozak Beck. Balenstine still knows Sam Krrick. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: if he's able to go in round two at some point,
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  Speaker 1: but would be a big, big return for Buffalo to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get him back for his face off
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  Speaker 1: ability and what he's able to bring on that fourth
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  Speaker 1: line and even with a scoring touch as well. On
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  Speaker 1: the defensive pairs, Dolin and Samerson on the top pair,
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  Speaker 1: Byrom and Power on the second pair, and then it
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  Speaker 1: was kessel Ring and Timmins on the third pair. As
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, Stanley not in the lineup tonight, just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: able to go. Took the warm ups, I believe, and
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't able to go, you know, not just the
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  Speaker 1: energy when you're sick for the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll be ready to go for game one with
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  Speaker 1: that big presence on the back end. But Alex Lion
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  Speaker 1: got to start again for Buffalo as he's played so
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  Speaker 1: well since coming in for Uco Peka Lukenin and had
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  Speaker 1: another great performance tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And the Lion King as they call him down in.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo has looked really good and got the the start
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  Speaker 1: tonight and obviously with positive results there as the Sabers
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  Speaker 1: get the four to one victory. Let's move forward with
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  Speaker 1: be excited about this outcome, big Sabers fan himself. Shots
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  Speaker 1: were even twenty six, twenty six, But when you look
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  Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, it was really that
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  Speaker 1: third period where Buffalo, you know, they had the lead
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to defend the lead. You know, Boston
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  Speaker 1: through two periods of play, got my notes here only
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  Speaker 1: fourteen shots on net. So again, the Sabers are doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job keeping them in perimeter. They almost had
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  Speaker 1: double their time of possession as well. It's late in
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  Speaker 1: the second period when when the was it TNT tonight,
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  Speaker 1: I can't even keep track ESPN, T and T.
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  Speaker 3: The national broadcast had this.
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  Speaker 1: They put the statistic up there that Buffalo's time possession
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  Speaker 1: in the offensive zone was almost double of the Bruins,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just a relentless four check for the Sabers.
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  Speaker 1: There are points in the game where the Bruns just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get the puck out of the net or out
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  Speaker 1: of the zone. Excuse me, because the Sabers doing such
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  Speaker 1: a good job in the fore check and you know,
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  Speaker 1: really forcing the Bruins into making mistakes, making Erron passes,
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, go around the net. The Sabers
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  Speaker 1: first ones on the puck, and we've seen that all
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  Speaker 1: series long, that the four check of the Sabers has
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  Speaker 1: really created turnovers and caused the Bruins to make mistakes
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  Speaker 1: on their own end, and a lot of Buffalo's goals
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  Speaker 1: have come with the Bruins having the puck on their
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  Speaker 1: stick trying to get out of their zone. Hasn't just
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  Speaker 1: been Buffalo scoring on the rush. So very encouraging there.
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  Speaker 1: It ends up being twenty six to twenty six best
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  Speaker 1: because of the third period for Boston there. The Sabers
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  Speaker 1: had scored one on one at one point in the
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  Speaker 1: game as well, so they had one shot and one goal.
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  Speaker 1: The face offs fifty fifty five point nine percent for Boston,
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  Speaker 1: forty four point one for Buffalo. The power play for
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo with a shocker there, they've only scored one in
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  Speaker 1: the entire series. Oh for five or oh for four,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, it was really oh for three. They got
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  Speaker 1: the late five minute power play for McAvoy's antics at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, but they really didn't try
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  Speaker 1: to do anything too crazy there, and they really didn't
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  Speaker 1: try to score there, you know, two three goal lead
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  Speaker 1: minute left in the game. They just really sort of
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  Speaker 1: ragged the puck there, so I'm gonna say it's an
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  Speaker 1: oh for three, it's gonna say oh for four on
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  Speaker 1: the box score, but again still still an over there.
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  Speaker 1: And the Sabers didn't take a minor penalty tonight that
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  Speaker 1: resulted in a Bruins' power play, so no penalty kill
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  Speaker 1: stats for them, and they didn't allow the Bruins to
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  Speaker 1: go in the power play. And we know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the with type of guys that they can throw
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  Speaker 1: out on the man advantage, So good job Buffalo on
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  Speaker 1: that end. The hits forty three twenty seven to fever
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  Speaker 1: of Boston.
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  Speaker 3: We know about that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Marco Stern coming to the series talking about the Bruns
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  Speaker 1: being a more physical team, well, the Savers really punched
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  Speaker 1: back and punched them in the mouth more times than not.
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  Speaker 1: Block shots nineteen nine in favor of the Sabers. They
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  Speaker 1: did a great job blocking shots as usual. The third
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  Speaker 1: pair of kessel Ring and Timmins did a solid job.
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  Speaker 1: Timmins has been blocking a lot of shots throughout the
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  Speaker 1: series with Stanley there and by Room as well has
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  Speaker 1: been a defensive force as well, which will sort of
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  Speaker 1: show the statistics later on if his entire series offensively
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  Speaker 1: and defensively, really showing why this guy won a Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup with the Colorado Avalanche just.
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  Speaker 3: A few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Giveaways nineteen to fifteen in favor of Buffalo and takeaways
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  Speaker 1: three to three both teams there. So again the game
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  Speaker 1: stats can sort of be a discrepancy there when you
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  Speaker 1: look at it. Buffalo, you know, really dominated this game
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  Speaker 1: and the Bruins didn't really have much puck possession throughout
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  Speaker 1: the entire game. Again, the third period was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different with Buffalo holding a lead, but still really
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  Speaker 1: again they held the Bruins shots on net fourteen through
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  Speaker 1: two periods of play on home ice. A. The Sabers defensive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, structure there was really good and obviously not
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  Speaker 1: allowing Boston. The powerplay helps and the shots on that
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  Speaker 1: department as well. So let's let's move.
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  Speaker 3: Forward here with the Sabers stat card.
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  Speaker 1: And again it's a little bit small on the screen
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  Speaker 1: for you guys, so if you're following along on the
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  Speaker 1: audio version, I'll sort of read it off to you.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought this was was interesting and I got
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  Speaker 1: to give credit to hockey stat cards on X They
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  Speaker 1: do a great job. This is a breakdown of the
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  Speaker 1: entire series for Buffalo, not just the one game they
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  Speaker 1: do it. They do a breakdown after every game as well,
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  Speaker 1: but first round you can see there on the video
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  Speaker 1: version just how well the Sabers did in the and
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  Speaker 1: bow and byrom like look at the you can see
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  Speaker 1: on the left side is defense and on the right
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  Speaker 1: side offense. Just what an unbelievable performance from him. You
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  Speaker 1: can see how how big his tally is there and
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  Speaker 1: what he was able to do for the Sabers. You
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  Speaker 1: look at guys like Tage Thompson, Alex Talk, Rasmus Dalen.
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  Speaker 3: You're big guys.
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  Speaker 1: You're your main catalysts that you expect and your highest
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  Speaker 1: paid players to come through in the biggest moments. Owen
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  Speaker 1: Power also had a good series. You could see there
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  Speaker 1: in the big orange and red statistics. Logan Stanley was
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  Speaker 1: really good. Connor Timmins was great. Bowen Byram as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: look at the red and orange there for his on
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  Speaker 1: ice you know, defensive abilities there and even guys like
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  Speaker 1: Ryan McLeod, Jason Zucker and Jack Quinn that line there
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  Speaker 1: had had solid defensive stats in the for the Sabers
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  Speaker 1: in the series and led them to be able to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of success there and again Bowen Byram
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  Speaker 1: just one of his best performances as a Saber I
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  Speaker 1: think in the series has really elevated here. And a
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  Speaker 1: guy that we talked about in our last episode that
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  Speaker 1: was talks that he might not be a Saber going
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  Speaker 1: forward to the last offseason there were trade talks with
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  Speaker 1: him and what was his future going to be like
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo, needing a new contract. But again he's here
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  Speaker 1: and thankfully he's been able to help up the Sabers
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  Speaker 1: here on this run so far and what have been one.
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  Speaker 3: Of their their key contributors there.
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  Speaker 1: So I just wanted to quickly touch on that because
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was important to wrap up the entire
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  Speaker 1: series and show you guys on on paper there sort
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  Speaker 1: of what the Sabers have been able to do individually
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  Speaker 1: and as a team.
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  Speaker 3: It's been.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was really you know, even though the
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  Speaker 1: Bruins won that game in overtime in Game five, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like the Sabers were in control of the
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  Speaker 1: series for most of it. We know, the laps in
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  Speaker 1: Game one where they had to come back and have
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  Speaker 1: that miraculous comeback, we know they didn't play a great
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  Speaker 1: game in Game two as well, and that was really
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  Speaker 1: their their big stinker of the series.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what happened last game.
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  Speaker 1: You would have loved for them to be able to
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  Speaker 1: end it on home ice, but they ended here in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: taking all three games on the road. Let's move forward
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  Speaker 1: Get my notes out here for you guys so I
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  Speaker 1: can follow along because felt like felt like two days
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  Speaker 1: ago that this game started for me. But again, Rasmus
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  Speaker 1: Doleen gets things started for the Sabers. He finds Alex
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  Speaker 1: Tuck Doleen cut down and for some reason, both Bruins
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: defenders just left Alex Tuck standing right in front of
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the net. I don't know what McAvoy was doing on
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: that play. Seemed like he was just really frustrated throughout
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the entire series for the most part, quite frankly on
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the Bruins side for their best defenseman. But Dahlin's able
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: to find Alex Tuck there right in the blue paint
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and he just shovels it, redirects it right in for
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: his fourth goal of the playoffs. That was three minutes
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and twenty five seconds into the game, and that's a
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: big start for the Sabers on the road again. The
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Bruins crowd came out in full force, wanting to sport
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: their team, but the Sabers silenced them early in that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: first period and we're able to get the lead again.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Just great job by Dollen and we haven't even seen
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: his best really in this series, and the Sabers have
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: still had that great success. So it's nice to see
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Dollen contribute here offensively and really, you know, get the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Sabers going on the board here in a big start here.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: You know, just I don't know what the Bruns were
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: doing on this play quite frankly, I keep just scratching
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: my head about it. But Tuck finds himself loose there
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and he's able to just redirect that great pass from Dallen,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: you know, from the goal line, cutting down from the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: from the point down near the left side of the
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of the boards and finds Tuck right out front and right,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: just like that, the Savers have a one nothing lead
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in this game. The next shift, actually the Sabers had
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: a goal called back. Zach Benson, trying to I guess
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: showcase his baseball skills, was able to whack one out
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of the air as Dick was clearly over top of
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the goal of the crossbar, so that one was waved off.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: But I guess a solid hand eye coordination there from
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Zach Benson. If he wants to play baseball this summer,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I think a team would want to call him. But
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: that the Sabers had a second goal waved off there immediately,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: no no real, real great from the Sabers end. It
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was clearly high and Benson, you know, he got got
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: something later in the game, so I'm sure he wasn't
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: too upset about that one. The Sabers got a power play.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: There was only one shot up until this point. Thirteen
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: minute mark of the first period. Lindholm went off for
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: cross checking Zach Benson into the boards, and Benson once
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: again just continued to get under under the skin of
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the Bruins. He drew another penalty and again just a
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: guy that was so frustrating for the Bruins to be
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: able to get to We saw what Charlie McAvoy did
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: at the end of the game there, and a guy
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that is just really elevated as still a very young
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: player as well, Like we got to level our expectations.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: This kid, you know, could still be playing, you know,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in junior hockey when you really think about it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: There.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But Zach Benson, you know, undersized guy, but he does
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: what he can. Creates a power play for the Sabers.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But again the power play is a major concern for Buffalo.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Still only one power play goal. I believe it's forty
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: four chances now, just not going to be able to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: be good enough. The second unit generated some decent chances tonight,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: but again we've been saying for a long time that
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the second unit has been able to generate more than
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the first unit for Buffalo, which is quite concerning when
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you look at the amount of talent that they put
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: out there, and it's just a confidence thing I think
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: at this point, just being able to get over that
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: hump again. The Sabers had a miscommunication on a change
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: with only four players out on the ice and Casey
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: middlestadt former Saber, went in on a clean breakaway and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he was stoned by Alex Lyon and on the rebound
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: as well, So big opportunity in the game there for
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the Bruins to try to tie it, and Lion came
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: up with a massive save on Casey middlestadt a little
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: bit of miscommunication there, as Rob Raye Thing mentioned Ray Ferraro,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: excuse me in between the benches that the Sabers were
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: just caught in between a change and lost Casey Middlestat.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: But big save by Alex Lion continues to be a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: big reason why Buffalo was able to have success in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the later part of the series. Mattia Samuelson then at
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the twelve to twenty six mark of the first period,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Crebs with a nice, nice drop pass to him as
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: he gained the zone and there was a lot of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: guys standing in front of the net and he just
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: fires one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: With all that traffic.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Swayman didn't see it, and that's the way you're gonna
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: have to beat a great goaltender like Jeremy Swayman. But
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Tia samerson second goal of the playoffs after that big,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: big one that he had in Game one in that comeback,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Peyton Krebs's fourth assist of the playoffs. Tage Thompson gets
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a secondary assist on that one as well as was
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: one of the players that was net front to be
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: able to give Buffalo a two nothing lead, and that
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was big obviously on the road to be able to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: have a too nothing lead going into the first intermission,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: knowing the Bruins are on the brink of elimination and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: knowing how tough goals have been to come for the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Bruins in this series, so massive goal for Samuelson and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the Sabers continue to get production from the back end
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that's been you know, one of their strong points all
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: season long second in the National Hockey League and goals
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: for their defensive course, so the Tia Samerson continues his
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: breakout year, is able to get that that timely goal.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: He scored two time league goals in the series so far.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And they don't I guess, they don't ask ask how,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just ask how many? And that's what Samuelson with two
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: big ones so far in his NHL playoff debut.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: In the second period.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: There the Bruins were able to finally get on the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: board two on one Pastor taking the cross ice feed
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: from Zaka and he buried it again. Pastornach didn't get
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: all of it. It was a little bit of a knuckle puck,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: but he was able to put it in the right spot.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: He caused the turnover on the cloud in the neutral
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: zone as well, and you knew at some point that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the Bruins big guns were at least gonna strike it
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: at some point to get back into the game. Pasternak's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: third of the playoffs. Zaka has been quiet this playoffs
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and was quiet since it's over for them. Two assists
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: or second assist for him in the playoffs. That was
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a minute fifty four into the second period. So again
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the Sabers give up an early goal, but that was
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: really it because they weren't able to capitalize more momentum
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: on that. After that, that Pastronach goal and that little
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: laps there that the Sabers had. They did a good
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: job in that second period and we're able to have
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that two to one lead, you know, really going to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the third period. The Sabers had another power play in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that period, obviously didn't didn't do anything significant the Sabers.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: They buried the Bruins in a long shift at one
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: point in the second period, I put down here, Byron
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: walked down all alone, but was stopped. The Boston just
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: had such a hard time getting the puck out of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: their zone, and they had guys that were out there
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: for about a two minute three minute shift and Buffalo
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: was doing a good job of hamming them in their
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: own end. But that was the best chance there with
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Byron being able to cut down, had nobody really around
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: him and swim and made a nice pad save to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: be able to keep it at that score. At one point,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: there were eight minutes without a whistle. Though in that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: second period it was just a game that was, you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it didn't have the best flow to it, but and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it wasn't, you know, pretty at times, but it was
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: just eight minute stretch of play without a single whistle,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and it was it was one of those the just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: nerve wracking times where you know, there were a couple
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of plays here and there, but it was just the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: team's going through the motions there, going through the line changes,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: being able to change on the fly with that long
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: change in the second period as well. So that was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: pretty interesting to watch their eight straight minutes without a whistle,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But that meant later in the period we got extra
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: on the TV timeouts, and man, those are frustrating to watch,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: especially when you got a seven to thirty start. But
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: regardless of that, some other statistics. As I mentioned, Boston
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: only had fourteen shots in the open through two periods
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of play. The Sabers were in a great job blocking shots.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Here are a couple other statistics that we were mentioned
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: by the national broadcast tonight. The Bruins have had one
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven deficits and elimination games in their
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: NHL history and have only won four of them. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that is now four on one hundred and fifty eight
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: if you're keeping track for Bruins fans. There again, the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Sabers their first playoff round win since two thousand and seven.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The Bruins coming in had won six of eight previous
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: all time playoff series against the Sabers head to head,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So now the Sabers pick up their third in all
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: time against the Bruins. And we remember the great May
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Day back in the day as well, nineteen ninety three.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Great moment.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: There a couple other statistics that'll touch on later on
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in the episode, but in the third period, Jason Zucker
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: got hit pretty hard and then he's going to the bench.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: He took another hit, but he was able to remain
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in the game.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: He's been a tough veteran for the Sabers and it's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: going to take a lot to keep number seventeen out
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: for very long. Again, the Bruins down two to one
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: going to the third period with their lives, their playoff
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: lives on the line here. I didn't really notice a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: lot from the Bruins in that third period. I didn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: really see that desperation that you would expect from a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: team that's on the brink of elimination on home ice.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I think that Sabers just really you know, clogged and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: really did a good job of not really giving them
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of great opportunities. I think, you know, the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: defensive structure and what Lindy Ruff was preaching coming in,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: learning a lot from that game too, loss that they had,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: or even you know, what they did in Game one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and having to have a miraculous comeback.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, they learned a lot.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: From some of those earlier games in the series, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: again against a good team like Boston that for some
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: reason didn't play James Haggins again and burning the year
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: off his entry level contract to still head scratch her there,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: great young player, and again the Bruins have some very good,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: talented young players and they'll be back in future years.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: But as I mentioned off the open, this Zach Benson
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: goal was all due as Josh Done.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: What a play.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: You know, the Bruins win the face off, they have
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: an offensive zone draw, they went it back to the point,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: defenseman fumbles it and you know it's don't I think
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: it was done. He was able to kind of shovel
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the puck away and able to get to get the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: puck down the ice, and he beats both Bruins defenders
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to the puck. I don't know if they just stopped
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: skating or didn't realize that he was that close. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: then as a result of that, Zach Benson standing right
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in the slot, Josh Done finds him and he's able
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to bury it. Zach Benson's second goal of the playoffs
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: at the five fifty eight mark to make a three
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to one Buffalo And man, did that ever feel like
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it took the wind out of the Bruins sales if
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it didn't already earlier in that game. I mean, just
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: that right there goes to show whatever can do for you,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: because the Bruins had an offensive own draw, got it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: back to the point and somehow it ends up in
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the Bruns net shortly shortly after that, just by a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: relentless for check by Josh Stone and getting the puck
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to Zach Benson and showing why these two guys have
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: been so valuable for the Sabers all season long and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: now in the playoffs coming up with big performances. These
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: are the types of guys and the types of goals
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and plays that you see that get you deep into
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And what a play that was from Josh
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: doone to be able to find Zach Benson and sort
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of shell shock the Bruins fans, but also the two
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: defensemen on the ice that were sort of miscommunicating of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: what the heck actually happened on that play. The Bruns
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: pulled the goalie with three forty left down two you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: expect that obviously, and it was shortly after Josh Norris
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: sealed it in the empty net with his first goal
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and you know that's good for him
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: because he's obviously been injured in the series and he
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: gets the dagger there for the Bruins wasn't already over.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: That was the final nail in the Bruins coffin for
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the twenty five to twenty sixth season at the sixteen
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to forty mark and advances Buffalo to the second round
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for the first time since two thousand and seven. Just
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: so fun to watch this game tonight, you know, as
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: nervous as a lot of people were coming in about
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you know, are the Bruins finally going to get one
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: at home and push it to Game seven in Buffalo
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: on Sunday? While Buffalo came out with a perfect execution
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and game plan tonight. Alex Line was named the first
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: star in the building with a nine to sixty two
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: save percentage twenty five saves on twenty six shots.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Tape Thompson with his two assists was the second star.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Swayman was the third star in the building, giving
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: up those those three goals to Buffalo, but he was
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: their MVP all series long and showed out to Jeremy
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: swam and he was he kept him in most games
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and if it wasn't for him, the series might have
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: been over quicker. But his again, his statistics might not
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: show it in this game, but I wouldn't say it
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: was his best performance of the series, but definitely gave
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Boston an opportunity to remain in the game, even though
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they really didn't didn't have much urgency offensively until it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: was a little bit too late there. I know they
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: ended up with twenty six shots, but it was fourteen
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: through two periods and the Sabers again had double the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: time of possession after two periods of play as well.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So the Sabers win it for to one, and they
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: take it overall in the series by a three to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: two score. Game six ends the Bruins season at TD Gardens.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: The Sabers went all three games on the road in
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Boston and advanced to the second round to play either
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Montreal or Tampa Bay. After that heroic Game six overtime
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: victory by Tampa Bay to push it to Game seven,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: won nothing, So again, the Sabers are gonna have home
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: ice advantage over either of those teams no matter what happens,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna start either Tuesday or Wednesday, most likely
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: as the Atlantic Division champions. The only team they wouldn't
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: have home ice on is the Carolina Hurricanes, who are
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: facing the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So we'll have to wait.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Don't want to get too ahead of ourselves here, but
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that's the road ahead for Buffalo if they do want
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to advance to the Eastern Conference Final, and maybe you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: if you want to even say that even further.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: But taking a look at the.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Scores again, Game one for Buffalo four to three victory
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: with that massive third period comeback. Boston won four to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: two in Game two to even the series one to one.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: The Sabers won Game three three to one to go
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: up two to one. Game four they won six to
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: one convincingly in Boston. Those two games were massive to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: go up three to one in the series. Boston wins
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Game five in Buffalo two to one in overtime to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: be able to remain alive. Sabers stillup three to two
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: in the series, and then the Sabers end at four
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to one tonight. So when you look at it their
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: total goals for the series, let me do some quick
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: math here, give me one second, twenty goals four for
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the Sabers in the six games. Great job there by
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: them being able to get it done. So for those
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: audio listeners, this is going to be our break here
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: on Saber Semantics, thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 1: go through some of the statistics, and again these are
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  Speaker 3: Here are some statistics here.
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  Speaker 1: a couple I saved. There was about ten other ones,
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  Speaker 1: but I just thought these ones were a little bit
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: interesting for the Sabers perspective. Tonight's win marks the second
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: time in franchise history that the Savers have earned a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: win in their first three road contest of a playoff year.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: They lasted that from April sixth to April fourteenth, nineteen
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: eighty three at Montreal, two games in Boston, one game,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: so they haven't done that since nineteen eighty three, so
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: take that as you wish. Alex Lion allowed just five
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: total goals and five appearances in the series. Again, Lukeanan
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: started games as well. It is the fewest goals allowed
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in any five games span in the playoffs by a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Sabers goaltender all time, Alex Lyon breaking all time records
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: for the Sabers. Pretty impressive there, and Buffalo allowed just
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: one goal per road game played in the series. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: marks the first time in franchise history that the Sabers
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: have recorded a three game road streak of one or
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: fewer goals allowed in the playoffs. The only other Buffalo allowed.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: The only other time Buffalo allowed three or fewer goals
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: in a three game roadspan in the playoffs was from
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: April twenty first to twenty seventh, nineteen ninety seven versus
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the Ottawa Senator. So some pretty crazy statistics there and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the last one. Zach Benson's goal was his second of
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's the first Sabers skater aged twenty or
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: younger to record multiple goals in his first six playoff
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: games of their career since Pierre Turjehon, a former first
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: overall pick of the Sabers from April six to April fourteenth,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, where he had four goals and three assists.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: So Zach Benson tyan a Pierre Turjon record, Alex Lion
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: breaking a goaltending record for the Sabers with all the
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: great goaltenders they've had in the past, the Millers and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the Dominic Ashicks as you can see behind me there,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: but just again, for a team that hasn't won a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: series since two thousand and seven, the Sabers sure are
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: not only getting there, but they're they're breaking down the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: door with some of some of the things that they've
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: been able to do on this run. It's been it's
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: been incredible to watch and we're gonna raise at least
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: another banner with the Atlantic Division championship and now moving
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: on to Round two.
• 37:21
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  Speaker 1: to Round two of the NHL Playoffs again in the chat, again,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: as as Larry Visual said earlier, Benson is a dog
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: crazy impressive from a twenty year old. Yeah, absolutely, a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: guy could be playing in his overage season, not that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that would have been likely, but technically still could have
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: been playing in junior hockey. So that's just crazy to
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: think about that that Zach Benson is still so young,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: that the that the the Sabers are are still developing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: You know, they've got that young core locked up for
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a long period of time. You got Josh Doone locked
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: up as well. Most of the defensive core is locked
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: up again. Alex Tuck's an unrestricted free agent, but depending
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: on the type of run that the Sabers go on here,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: maybe a hometown discount is in order for the Rochester
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: boy and the Sabers fan growing up.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: So we'll have to wait and see with Alex Tuck.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: But again, sort of their inner rental, and they knew
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: that that they would need a guy like that going
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and absolutely they've needed him for a
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: run like this, And I couldn't even imagine what the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: team would have looked like right now if Alex Duck
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: was traded at the deadline just because he was an
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent, I don't know where what this team
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: would look like right now. I don't know what the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: morale in the locker room would be like right now.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: But I'm glad that the Yarmokeek line did not go
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: in that rope. As I mentioned earlier, Logan Stanley did
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: not play for the Sabers in this game. He was
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: out with an illness, so we'll have to wait and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: see if he's able to go later in the series.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Let's get to Sabers head coach Lindy Ruff with his
• 38:55
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  Speaker 1: and talk more about it.
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  Speaker 8: The need with this group of players and what they
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: accomplished to get to the playoffs for the first time
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: for this organization in fifteen years. What makes this first
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: playoff series win for you as a coaching for you
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: as part of this team so meaningful.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, I think this part A is getting
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: to the playoffs. Part B is trying to have success
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: once you get there. And you know, we talked about
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: how hard this series was going to be, what a
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: challenge it was going to be to try to you know,
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: take out a good team. Boston is a good team,
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: and then too to do it on the road with
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: the team that played so well at home, one of
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: the better home records in the league. I thought our
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: guys dug in and gave us a heck of a game
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: to When do.
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  Speaker 10: You talk this morning about what it would take to
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: win this game, whether it was using your speed and
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: that type of thing. It seemed like you executed it
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: almost perfectly the way you laid it out earlier.
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, we uh, we knew we could be better.
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: You know in the small areas. Get inside.
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: I thought the first goal was a great job of
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: getting inside, getting activating our d dolls, getting involved. Thought
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: tom Or made a great play coming off the wall, but.
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: Moving our feet.
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: You know, I thought the game at home, I just
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: felt there was a lot of you know, they got
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: in the way. There's you know, maybe I didn't like
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: some of the holding and the hooking, and but I
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: just told our guys tonight, keep your feet moving. We
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: got to keep our feet move We've got to get
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: inside and keep our feet movement. And I think it
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: was the biggest difference in the game, like shift after
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: shift that the compete on the puck was excellent. The
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: moving inside the offensive zone was led to three of
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: the goals.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: After Benson made it three to one, it seemed like
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the four check game that puck management just took up
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to another level.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Is that just eighteen guys smelling the finish line with
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: ten minutes.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: Ago, Well, you look at the Benson goals, a heck
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: of an example of what an effort by Dome on
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: a fifty to fifteen keep your feet moving and find
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: a Benny and a great shot by Benson finding the
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: top corner.
• 41:26
  Speaker 11: That was a big goal.
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: At the time of the game, I thought, I thought
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: we started the third period just a little bit nervous,
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: like we didn't handle a puck well.
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: And I thought, if we could, if we get a
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: couple opportunities to get the.
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: Third goal, we would loosen up, and I thought as
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: a period went on, we found our game.
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: What did your sense from the team this morning? You know,
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: you didn't skate, you know, you kind of had the
• 41:48
  Speaker 12: guys at the hotel Cage said, they all felt like
• 41:51
  Speaker 12: they were going to win this game. Like, what was
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: it just the vibe you were picking up from the
• 41:55
  Speaker 12: team this morning.
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: Yeah, part of it was.
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: I want him to come here only once today, just
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: to just to be ready to play and basically try
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: to keep them away from you guys.
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: You know, there's a lot of pressure inside.
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: A series, from game to game to you know, losing
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: the home game. Really felt we didn't need to come
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: here and have a morning skate or even make.
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: It optional and come here.
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: I actually think we surprised a few guys who were
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: They didn't even look at our itinerary and they thought
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: we were coming to the ring. So it's it's a
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: group that you know, hasn't been here. I wanted to
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: try to keep it relaxed. I told him we're going
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: to win the game. I said, we are going to
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: win the series. We're going to win the game. We've
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: got to we've got to do some things better. But
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: we're going to win the.
• 42:51
  Speaker 13: Game, Lindy, We're not such bad guys, just for the record, No, no.
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: You guys are you just you cause stress and pressure
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: for them.
• 43:00
  Speaker 13: So talk about stress and pressure on the road, you guys,
• 43:02
  Speaker 13: transit transition from a terrible road team to an excellent
• 43:06
  Speaker 13: road team this year.
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: But the playoffs or another animal?
• 43:09
  Speaker 13: What does it mean to you these guys continued their
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: play on the road and go three and oh in
• 43:12
  Speaker 13: the playoffs on the road in this first.
• 43:14
  Speaker 11: Series, Well, it meant everything in this series for sure.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: You look at them coming into our building and winning
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: two games, us coming into their building and winning three games.
• 43:24
  Speaker 11: Really like to, you know, grab a hold of how.
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: Energized our building is and use that to an advantage
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: and win hockey games. Would have really liked this game
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: to have been in Buffalo. It wasn't, but it would
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: have been special to have this.
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: Game there, Lindy.
• 43:42
  Speaker 14: Alex Lyon can be overshadowed just to the euphoria of
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: the win, but just two huge saves early he was
• 43:48
  Speaker 14: your backbone, you know, as a series progress, Just what
• 43:52
  Speaker 14: can you say about his performance over these last you know,
• 43:56
  Speaker 14: four games played excellent?
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: You mentioned the two saves.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: I thought the first period he made three or four
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: saves that were.
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: Game changers. You look at the breakaway.
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: I thought breakaway was borderline too many men on the
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: ice on their part, but we got caught and he
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: covered up for us.
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: Part of what we talked about this morning.
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: If there's going to be mistakes in the game, somebody's
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: gonna have to cover up for somebody. And I thought,
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: al he covered up some of our mistakes. You covered
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: up some big mistakes in the game. Our goaltenders have
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: done that all year. Force UPL, Elie Alex have have
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: done a great job. You look at the UPL getting
• 44:41
  Speaker 9: us some winning this series. It's been a year that
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: we've used them all and they've been there and they've
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: been big for us when a couple of mistakes led
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: to a goal.
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: But you had to be happy.
• 44:52
  Speaker 10: I mean, the building's going crazy, but you had to
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: like the response in your team after that. They didn't
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: seem to deturd at all, even though the places going
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: nuts in Boston had scored.
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think that that's part that you
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: have to deal with. When the home team scores, you've
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: got a building that's gonna go crazy.
• 45:11
  Speaker 11: You got to keep the game simple.
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: You've got to move it north, You've got to get
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: the pucking behind them. Those next couple shifts are really important,
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: especially when you're in the visiting team's building for sure.
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: And I thought our guys handled that well.
• 45:25
  Speaker 12: Well what do you think of the macavoy play at
• 45:28
  Speaker 12: the end of the game, and also just kind of
• 45:30
  Speaker 12: the way it seemed like you guys got under his
• 45:32
  Speaker 12: skin all series.
• 45:33
  Speaker 11: I think he was minus. Yeah, I don't know.
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: If we've got we got under his skin or not,
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: but I you know, you don't want to see the
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: last play of the game. You don't want to see
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: a guy take a chop like that as somebody else.
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: And I haven't looked at the play, you know, I
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: think he feels that Benson tripped him on the play
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: or took his feet out from underneath him.
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: Our thoughts on the end of the game was let's
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: just get through the end of the game.
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: We're not going to try to not going to try to,
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: or just get through the game again.
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: I'm just gonna say rawing motion, Charlie's a hell of
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: a player, cares about winning. Anybody would want Charlie on
• 46:13
  Speaker 9: his team.
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: Probably went a little too farther.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Lindy, you've been here before, you've had playoff wins.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: But what does it mean for the guys that haven't
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: been able to experience this before.
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: Well, I think the only way you get experiences by winning.
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: And you know, I've had disappointing games in Boston going
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: way back when and Boston Bruins series, But to win
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: the series and coming here and win it in this building,
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: it's not an easy town to come in and play
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: and win hockey games. And got to give our guys
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: a lot of credit. You know, you look at losing
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: that home game and you give them momentum. If by
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: chance they would have won this game, the pressure would
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: have been back on us going back home.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: There was Sabers head coach Lindy Rough on the weild
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Bills out of repair post game, as always, Video courtesy
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers. Some thoughts that I had from some takeaways
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: I had from Lindy's thoughts there. He said, there's a
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: lot of pressure in a series. I wanted to keep
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: them relaxed coming in, talked about their itinerary not be
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: being big there and talked about, you know, just wanted
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: to keep them away from the media jokingly that they
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on them sometimes in a
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: series like this. Would have loved for the game to
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: been in Buffalo and it would have been special if
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: they would have been able to close that on home ice. Obviously,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: he said borderline too many men on them on the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: middle stat breakaway, but talked about the Lion's ability to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: come up with some big saves early on in that
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: contest and again they've been there for us all season
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: long and been great for us. Talking about the goaltending
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: with UPL getting a win earlier in the series and
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: as well alex Lyon here being able to finish it off.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: He talked about the next few shifts after goals as
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the visiting team being big. Obviously when the Bruns got
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: their first goal there, the Sabers came up with some
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: big shifts right after that and was able to kind
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: of you keep that momentum from spreading and being able
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: for the Bruns to tie that game up with it
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: only being a one goal game, so big shifts by
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the visiting team, and then later when asked about the
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Charlie McAvoy two hand chop on Zach Benson after Benson
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: sort of maybe tripped him going into the boards they
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: were late in the game, he said that Charlie is
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: a hell of a player, but probably went a bit
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: too far there. Talked about the raw motion and he
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: would love to have a guy like Charlie McAvoy and
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: his team, but thought he went a little too far
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: on that end. And then the only way you get
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: experience is winning, so talked about the team's lack of
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: playoff experience. Well, now they've got a series win under
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: their belts and see how they sort of take that
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: positive experience. And going through a six game series wasn't
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: like they just swept it through. They were in through
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: adversity in this series, especially in game one with the comeback,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: losing Game two, losing Game five in overtime, So they
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: learned a lot in the six game series against a
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: solid brus Bruins team. And again with the Atlantic Division
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: being so strong this year, five teams from the Atlantic
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: were in the division in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: so the Burns were no slouch and they gave the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Sabers a lot to handle there for their first playoff
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: series in fourteen seasons. But again, when you have a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: goaltender like Jeremy Swaman back there, anything can happen, and
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: the Sabers were able to get to him in the
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: series and take it by a four a four to
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: two final in the series there. So let's move forward
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: from Lindy Rouff and go to our Sabers feature player
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: interviews tonight plural because both Rasmus Dalen and Alex Tuck
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: were at the podium tonight brought to you by the
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• 49:54
  Speaker 1: over twenty five years. Here's what Captain Rasmus Dalen and
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: veteran forward Buffalo fan Alex Tuck had to say about
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: their team's performance and moving on to round two.
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  Speaker 7: Really special. It feels like it's been a long time coming.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: I know Dolls has been here a little bit longer
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: than me, but for me, it's been five long years
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: and waiting for something special to happen, and we're hoping
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: it's just a start.
• 50:24
  Speaker 15: That's questions for Asthmus.
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  Speaker 8: This is your first playoff series, your team's first playoff
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: series win team together.
• 50:30
  Speaker 11: What was it like for you to kind of count.
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: Down and play in those final minutes and seconds of
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: this playoff win for you?
• 50:37
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it was it was unreal.
• 50:39
  Speaker 16: I I uh, I liked how we attacked this series
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: as a team, a lot of non experienced guys just
• 50:48
  Speaker 16: playing the way we did in all series. It's it's
• 50:51
  Speaker 16: pretty cool and then we have good things ahead. We
• 50:56
  Speaker 16: can learn a lot from this and but I but
• 50:59
  Speaker 16: I love what we did in this series. It was
• 51:02
  Speaker 16: so special.
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: Question for either of you.
• 51:05
  Speaker 14: Just Alex Lion, I mean he came in the series
• 51:08
  Speaker 14: and he was really your backbone too, early saves that
• 51:11
  Speaker 14: you know, kept kept you guys up. Just what could
• 51:14
  Speaker 14: you say about the way he's played this series and tonight?
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: Can't get much better than that. I mean, he's his
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: lights out. The only way they beat him to night
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: was uh just a great two on one back door
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: I mean passion act. He's he's a really good player.
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: So yeah, he was. He was lights out. He was
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: just in his zone, attacked every opportunity they threw out
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: him and Steady Eddie. It was awesome. I guess a
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: buch a lot of confidence when he got a guy
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: like that playing the way he was.
• 51:50
  Speaker 13: For both of you, guys, i'd like you to just
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: take us through the first goal. I mean, you guys
• 51:54
  Speaker 13: end up on your toes, they're on their heels.
• 51:57
  Speaker 15: Just what did you see? What did you see?
• 52:02
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 52:02
  Speaker 15: I kind of half joined the rush to me. I
• 52:05
  Speaker 15: made a good play.
• 52:06
  Speaker 16: It was in my feet, but I kind of knew
• 52:08
  Speaker 16: that I had someone back to her. And then I
• 52:10
  Speaker 16: just looked up and there was Tucky in the right
• 52:14
  Speaker 16: spot at the right.
• 52:15
  Speaker 15: Time, So it was just easy to give it to him.
• 52:18
  Speaker 15: How were you out? What did you feel?
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: H Yeah, like you said, great play by Tomer. Uh
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Dolls dribbled it in his feet the sweet he is
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: about three different times, so suwer actually being helped.
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: Uh.
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: And then I mean someone asked me before, but he
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: I can't believe how well he plays with his head up,
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: even with the bobbling puck, gets control of it head up,
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: and I just try to find the open area because
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: he's gonna find you. Uh, one of the best in
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: the game to do it. I would lose the puck
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: a lot if I played like him. So yeah, just
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: really specially just trying to get open for Alex.
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: Uh, you guys lose game five, you have to come here,
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: there's two days off.
• 53:02
  Speaker 15: How how did you guys.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: Manage the emotions sort of the time, Like, what was
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: the anticipation like for this game?
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it was.
• 53:14
  Speaker 15: It was obviously tough.
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: Being through a couple tough overtime games myself in the playoffs,
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: it always sucks, honestly.
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: So I thought we were really close to.
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: Finishing the series at home, and we would have loved
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: to do that, but we wanted to just come out
• 53:34
  Speaker 7: and just attack, just just have that mindset of just
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: playing our game, playing fast, getting talk some bodies in
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: the net, and just trying to win anyway we can.
• 53:47
  Speaker 15: What did you guys see.
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: On that third goal, Josh Dollan winning that race and
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: then you know, Benson finishing it. Maybe maybe your two
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: hardest working guys making the biggest play of the year.
• 53:59
  Speaker 15: Yeah. I I love how that line place.
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: You can see it throughout the whole serious they they
• 54:06
  Speaker 16: hunt pucks and there seeing the n front. They're getting
• 54:10
  Speaker 16: under the other team's skin, and they've been they've been
• 54:15
  Speaker 16: an unbelievable line for us, and today they scored a
• 54:19
  Speaker 16: couple of goals, So, uh, that's always good.
• 54:21
  Speaker 15: So yeah, it's it's they're they're a great.
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: Line, Alex. I guess to follow up on that back here,
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: when did you know Josh was gonna win that race
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: to the puck? And then obviously it happens pretty fast
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: after that. But what was the reaction for you guys
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: on the bench when you saw that play unfold? Yeah,
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: I mean right when it happened, I knew he had
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: a chance, and I knew he was taken off maybe
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: a little bit of a misqueue one on two going
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: into battles. Uh, it's funny, don't and I always talk
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: about takeaways and and uh, just winning the stick battles
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: and trying to get body positioned, and he made it
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: unbelieve will play to find it was ended up being
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: a Toronto, but Ben decided to take it for himself.
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it was I mean, Downer's he's a dog.
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: He just he just loves hunting the puck, make Creighton
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: turnovers and unbelievable player.
• 55:19
  Speaker 11: Alex.
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: You mentioned I think it was in January that you
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: guys weren't just trying to make the playoffs. You were
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: trying to win the Stanley Cup. To have a first
• 55:27
  Speaker 12: round series like this against a team like that that
• 55:29
  Speaker 12: that kind of plays the way they do, that's been
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: here before. Like, how validating is it for that idea
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: that you guys can go on a run here.
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's one step in the right direction,
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: that's it. Every team sets out in training camp to
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: try to be the best at the end of the
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: year and trying to hoist the Stanley Cup, and so
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: obviously that's a that's a goal for our team as well.
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: We're one round in the playoffs. In our eyes, we
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: haven't done anything yet. We're gonna enjoy this win, the
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: series win. We're gonna move on and be ready for
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: whoever we play next, because this whole we're hoping. It's
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: a long road to head for us and it's going
• 56:11
  Speaker 7: to be a grind each and every day, and so
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: we're gonna have to be ready.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: There was captain Rasmus Dalen and forward Alex Tuck on
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: the Niagardentro Clinic player post game. As always, Audio and
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: video courtesy of x dot Com, Slash, Buffalo Sabers, MSG,
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  Speaker 1: and the National Hockey League. All audio rights courtesy of
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabers. Some quick thoughts from what they had
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: to say tonight can't get much better than that. He
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: was lights out, Alex Tuck on Alex Lyon just talking
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: about his goaltending. He talked about Sewer jokingly, Sewer helped
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: helped out with the the pucks in his feet, talking
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: about Rasmus Doleen. I was able to get that puck
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: in his feet and make the play for that opening goal.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: He talked about Dalen, but he's gonna find you. You
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: just try to get open and gave his praise to
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: captain there and said he was one of the best
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: in all the National Hockey League and plays doesn't understand
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: how he can play so well with his head up
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: and not even looking down at what he's doing with
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the puck. He talked about just attacking, playing fast. It's
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: just one step in the right direction.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: We haven't done anything yet and we're hoping for a
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: lot more going forward. So there was Alex Tuck and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Rasmus Dallin's postgame thoughts following the elimination of the Boston
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Bruins in Game six of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, winning
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: it by a four to one final before I get
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: out of here tonight. Thank you everybody again for tuning
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: in on the episode. Keith Perry says, hope Austlin and
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Kerrick can play at some point, Yes, absolutely, Sam Kerrick
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: would be a massive return for the Sabers for that
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: fourth line center role. And Noah Austland had been looked
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: so good in his first few games coming back in
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the series after missing fourteen games between the regular season
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: and they started the playoff series and played so well
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: in those few games that he had, so hopefull he's
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: able to come back later on here. But again at
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: the twelve thirty mark, appreciate everybody sticking around with us
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: on the video version on YouTube. So as always I'm
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: gonna just quickly give my player the game, but I
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: want to bring up the player box score here because
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to mention and and look at
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: what the Sabers.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Were able to do tonight.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: And there we go, so you guys can see it
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit there on the video version for you
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: guys listening and audio also read it off. Benson was
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: a plus two tonight, one goal, one assist. He also
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: had a block, a hit, did a lot through a
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: few penalties as well. Norris was a plus two in
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: this game. Krebs was a plus two in the game.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Thompson was a plus two in the game with two assists.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Talk was a plus two with a goal. Doan was
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: a plus two with an assist in the game. He
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: also led the.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Sabers forwards with five shots on net did Josh Stone.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: He also had three hits. Malenstein laid five hits. Norris
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: also laid five hits. For a guy that has gone
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: through his injury troubles, He's definitely back in the lineup
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: with with.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: A force for the Sabers and.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: You hope that he can remain as a valuable piece
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: on the ice bowm Biron was a plus one tonight
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: three blocks as well on the defensive side for Buffalo.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: You saw it when I showed the statistics from the
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: entire series earlier on in the episode Offensively a defensively
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: bow and Byron has been very good. Connor Timmons is
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: also a plus one tonight. He logged eighteen minutes and
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: thirty nine seconds of ice time, a little bit more
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: than he's used to there. Kessel Ring only four minutes
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: and twenty five seconds for him of ice time tonight,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Samuelson played over twenty two minutes again, which is as
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: big for him he had. The goal was a plus
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: two two blocks, two hits, two shots solid a stat.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Line for Mattia Samison.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Tonight, Dollin led the defensive side in time on ice
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: twenty three minutes forty nine seconds. He also had five
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: shots on net two blocks in a hit as well.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Owen Power didn't have any statistics to say, but he
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: had twenty seven shifts, was only fourth on the defensive
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: side for sabers shifts there, and he logged twenty one
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: minutes and twenty four seconds of ice time. Dallin had
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: thirty three shifts, Byronim at thirty, Samerson at thirty, Power
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: at twenty seven, Timmins with twenty eight, and then kessel
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Ring with the five shifts for him as well obviously
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Logan Stanley hopefully he'll be back for the next series
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: there because him and Timmins have been so good on
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: that third pair throughout this series on the forward side,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: leading in the ice time with Tage Thompson twenty one
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: minutes fifty four seconds, Tuck at twenty thirty six, and
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone else was over twenty minutes for
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the Sabers tonight on the forward side, so uh Tuck
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: and Thompson leading the way there as well. With the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: power play minutes just again over three for the Savers
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: on the the man advantage, but technically they were over
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: four but they.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: Really didn't do anything in the last minute.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: They get the five minute major penalty power play for
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Charlie McAvoy doing what he did, so the Sabers advance
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to Round two of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Round two
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: is going to begin Wednesday. I think Tuesday would be unlikely,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I think at this point, but with Game seven of
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Montreal and Tampa Bay taking place on Sunday, they need
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: at least the one day off, So we'll see if
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Game one Round two a Key Bank Center is going
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: to be Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm sure it's going to
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: be rocking down there in downtown Buffalo. Just hopefully they
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: can get something going for those away games as well.
• 1:01:27
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• 1:01:29
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• 1:01:33
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:50
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  Speaker 3: So the Buffalo Sabers four.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: The Boston Bruins won in game five, Game six excuse
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  Speaker 1: me of the Stanley Cup Playoffs again, they eliminate the
• 1:02:48
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  Speaker 1: Thank you everybody tuned in late here on this Friday,
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• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: So for my co host Austin Broad who's not here tonight,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: my name is Brandon Capudo. Again, this has been another
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  Speaker 1: Sports Network. The Buffalo Sabers win their first playoff series
• 1:03:11
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• 1:03:14
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• 1:03:16
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• 1:03:19
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