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Buffalo Now on Brink of Elimination: Game 5 Recap & Reactions vs MTL 6-3 Loss - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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Speaker 1: obviously following a very tough game for the Buffalo Sabers
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Speaker 1: following sixty three to the Montreal Canadians in Game five
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Speaker 1: on Home Ice now trail three to two in the
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Speaker 1: elap prospects here to.
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Speaker 2: Try to make sense of that one tonight.
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Speaker 1: The Sabers at a three two lead in this game, Austin,
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Speaker 1: they end up falling down and the.
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Speaker 2: Have score was a four unanswered goals.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna obviously try to get through the game stats
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Speaker 1: and the scoring summary tonight, and we'll hear from head
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Speaker 1: coach Lindy Rough. But after a game like that, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to talk about the statistics more so than just
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Speaker 1: you know, the overall effort after what was a very
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Speaker 1: good bounce back game five or game four, excuse me.
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Speaker 1: And now the Canadians have obviously answered here with a
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Speaker 1: bounce back of their own.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, going over things in terms
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Speaker 3: of like stats and things like that, that's just I guess,
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Speaker 3: something that's got to be done. But it's not really
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Speaker 3: what's important today. It's three major storylines that have been
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Speaker 3: happening all series just continue to point the Sabers in
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Speaker 3: the tail and that's literally what bit them again today.
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Speaker 3: Undisciplined not getting saves, whether you want to pin it
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Speaker 3: purely on the goalie playing bat or not, just straight
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Speaker 3: up not getting saves the other team is the coach
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Speaker 3: just is not good enough right now. And your superstars
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Speaker 3: are not only not helping you, they're actively hurting you.
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Speaker 3: And we've said it all. You know, playoffs long, you
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Speaker 3: can get away with that. Against the Boston Bruins, you
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Speaker 3: can't get away with that.
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Speaker 4: Against the Montreal Canadians and you just you can't.
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Speaker 3: They're making you pay for it, as they should, because
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Speaker 3: that's how good this team is, and you're just handing
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Speaker 3: them opportunity after opportunity, and that's what happened tonight. You
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Speaker 3: couldn't capitalize to get that too goal lead the second
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Speaker 3: Montreal tied this game, it was over. Montreal does not
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Speaker 3: make those mistakes. Montreal does not bungle those opportunities. The
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Speaker 3: Sabers bungled opportunity after opportunity, and they've done so all
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Speaker 3: series long.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we saw Lucan and get the start again,
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Speaker 1: which has sort of been Lindy riding the hot hand
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Speaker 1: right when when Lion you know, got pulled and then
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Speaker 1: Lucanan came in and again it's worked. It worked well
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Speaker 1: in Game four, but then you come back home tonight
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Speaker 1: and I know the Sabers have been a better road
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Speaker 1: team this season in general than a home team, but
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Speaker 1: in this playoffs, but you know, just an effort like
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Speaker 1: that on home ice, you have an opportunity to really,
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Speaker 1: you know, bury the Canadians, I feel like in that
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Speaker 1: first period, and they just didn't take take advantage of it,
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Speaker 1: didn't capitalize on it. They let Montreal hang around, hang around,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't capitalize on a few, you know, really
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Speaker 1: good opportunities that could have broken the game open, and
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Speaker 1: instead Montreal was able to rattle off, you know, four
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Speaker 1: unanswered goals from the second in the third period. Buffalo
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Speaker 1: didn't score after the first of what is that eleven
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Speaker 1: minutes of the first.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the biggest difference, particularly between the two
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Speaker 3: starters today, I'll focus on them because this game was
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Speaker 3: over by the time Lion went in the net. But
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Speaker 3: the biggest difference between the two starters is just Dobis
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Speaker 3: had a shot to be rattled early, didn't get rattled.
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Speaker 3: He got better as the game went on. Lucanan crumbled,
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Speaker 3: and that's kind of been the theme for Lucan in
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Speaker 3: all playoffs long. He was really good down the stretch
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Speaker 3: in the regular season. I'm not crucifying him as a goalie,
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Speaker 3: but the proof is in the putting these playoffs. It's
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Speaker 3: his mental toughness has not been good enough. And this game,
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Speaker 3: again three leads and not every goal was on him. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: I think for the most part of the first two
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to blame on him at all. But
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Speaker 3: that the last two goals that he gave up, I
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Speaker 3: think are just prime examples of you need a save
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Speaker 3: and Montreal after the three goals that Buffalo scored, Montreal
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Speaker 3: got saved all night long.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean it looked like they had a
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Speaker 1: game plan against Doul which they were going low on
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Speaker 1: them all three goals. They scored three goals in the
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Speaker 1: first four shots.
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Speaker 2: Of the game.
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Speaker 1: Buffalo did right, and you thought, okay, like you even
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Speaker 1: saw Saint Louis if you're watching the sports Net broadcast,
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Speaker 1: they showed Saint Louis on the bench looked to his
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Speaker 1: assistant coach after that to maybe signal, you know, should
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Speaker 1: we take Dobish out of here? And then you know,
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Speaker 1: put Jacob Fowler, a really young goaltender in a really
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Speaker 1: tough position.
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Speaker 2: You know, good on Saint.
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Speaker 1: Louis for staying with Dobish and he was able to
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Speaker 1: obviously respond and he didn't give up another goal after that,
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Speaker 1: and that just you know, proves that Montreal sort of
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Speaker 1: has the advantage right now in that department.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that goes to my other point that I
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Speaker 3: made just nothing necessarily bad on Lindy Rough, but he's
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Speaker 3: getting out coached, playing and simple. That is a decision
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Speaker 3: that Martine Saint Louis made and paid off dividends, and
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Speaker 3: he's made countless decisions in the series that have been
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Speaker 3: very beneficial to his team and not saying when the
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Speaker 3: rough is actively hurting the Sabers with his decisions, but
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Speaker 3: Saint Luis just seems to have his number in terms
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Speaker 3: of coaching, matchup adjustments and things like that. Like in
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Speaker 3: a game like today, was probably the time to blend
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Speaker 3: some things up after this game sort of kind of
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Speaker 3: got out of hand and we didn't really see that
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Speaker 3: happen until later in the in the game. This is
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Speaker 3: a series where your top line has been futrid all
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Speaker 3: series long, and they've stayed together all series long. And
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Speaker 3: you know, I said on Twitter, as like the middle
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Speaker 3: six cannot do anymore. Maybe the Jack Quinn line could
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Speaker 3: have actually converted on a couple of their chances. I know,
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Speaker 3: Zucker scored, but like and Jolenias scored, but like Quinn
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Speaker 3: had a number of chances. Maybe he could have converted
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Speaker 3: on one. But you can't ask that line or the
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Speaker 3: bens And line to really do any more yet, your
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Speaker 3: two three highest paid forwards because as well. As good
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Speaker 3: as the Bens and line has been, Norris isn't really
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Speaker 3: doing anything. Your three highest paid forwards are.
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Speaker 4: Nowhere, and that is the biggest difference between the two teams.
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Speaker 3: Suzuki, Awfield, Slefkoski and Hudson are all actively contributing. The
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Speaker 3: Sabers depths stepped up. The Saber stars have done nothing.
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Speaker 3: And if your stars are doing nothing, you have you
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Speaker 3: have no shot. You've scored first in four out of
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Speaker 3: five games.
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Speaker 1: And Gus are getting hot too at the right time,
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Speaker 1: right like Demidov and Coffield, they're finally starting to get
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Speaker 1: on the score sheet.
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Speaker 3: So they've been they've been dangerous as you can't say
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Speaker 3: the same for the Sabers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think Tuck and Thompson are now a combined minus
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Speaker 1: seventeen in this series.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about in terms of coaching adjustments,
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Speaker 3: that the coaches refuses to break them up, and that's
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Speaker 3: baffling to me.
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Speaker 2: I was happy that Helenius got in again.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, it was nice to see him score after we
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Speaker 1: talked about the other night where he had two, you know,
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Speaker 1: really good opportunities, and we talked about how good of
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Speaker 1: a playoff debut he had. You know, were you okay
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Speaker 1: with the way the lineup was constructed, or you would
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Speaker 1: you have moved some stuff around, or even like in
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Speaker 1: game adjustments as you mentioned, like after tape after things
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Speaker 1: weren't working there, Like would you have switched something up
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you absolutely switched something up in the middle of
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Speaker 3: the game. The line up at the start of the
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Speaker 3: game is fine. You can't really expect much changes to
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Speaker 3: happen when you won and looked really well, really good.
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Speaker 3: But even then it's been to Benton and Dowan pairing.
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Speaker 3: Norris hasn't put anything up on the score sheet, but
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Speaker 3: he's also not actively hurting the team. But also he
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Speaker 3: makes almost eight million dollars. You would need him to
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Speaker 3: start contributing, but just watching how bad Tuck and Thompson look,
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Speaker 3: and Crebs is kind of catching heat here because he's
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Speaker 3: on that line and they're not doing anything. He's also
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Speaker 3: not contributing either, but I feel like he's being Never
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Speaker 3: thought i'd say this, but I feel like Crebs is
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Speaker 3: being completely weighed down by Tuck and Thompson, and that's
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Speaker 3: not a good thing. The fourth line is the fourth line.
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Speaker 3: They chip in every now and then. They were actually
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Speaker 3: I thought pretty solid tonight too, But it's also kind
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Speaker 3: of unfair to expect the fourth line to score regularly.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, it just comes down to Montreal's big
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Speaker 3: guys are firing, Buffaloes aren't, and yak Abdobish is playing
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Speaker 3: relatively well solid at times, and Buffalo's goaltending, whether they're
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Speaker 3: fully to blame or not, they've given up five plus
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Speaker 3: goals and every loss.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry about that.
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Speaker 1: I was just getting the list stream up for the
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Speaker 1: post game from Lindy to come here shortly. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, with what we've what we saw in the
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Speaker 1: Boston series, obviously Tuck led the team in points. Thompson
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Speaker 1: had the two goals, but we talked about, you know,
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Speaker 1: we praised him for the amount of other aspects of
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Speaker 1: his game that he was doing well, right, Like, he
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Speaker 1: had only scored the two goals in the first game
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Speaker 1: against Boston, but he was doing a lot of other
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Speaker 1: things to create offense to help the team. But it
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Speaker 1: feels like in this series, for whatever reason other than
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Speaker 1: that lucky you know, rim around the boards off the
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Speaker 1: Zamboni entrance stanchion or whatever you want to call it
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Speaker 1: and pass Dobis for the luckiest power play goal of
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Speaker 1: all time. You know, Thompson takes undisciplined penalty tonight to
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Speaker 1: Dolleen took a penalty as well, and again, like I
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Speaker 1: just I discipline, going back to what you talked about
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Speaker 1: in the open. Your best players have to be your
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Speaker 1: best players, and they're not leading by example right now
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Speaker 1: in that department.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not even that they're not playing like their
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Speaker 3: best players, they're actively hurting the team. Like those are
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Speaker 3: just two costly penalties, and Montreal scored on both the
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Speaker 3: power plays, and then on the flip side, Buffalo couldn't
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Speaker 3: do couldn't convert on their power plays. So like it's
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Speaker 3: just every single matchup, every single aspect of this series
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Speaker 3: that we said that Buffalo needs to kind of tighten
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Speaker 3: things up on, they have not. They've actively like the
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Speaker 3: power play has been better this series overall, but again
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Speaker 3: in a big game like tonight, you needed it early
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Speaker 3: in this game and nothing, and then Montreal gets a
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Speaker 3: power play and they convert immediately. Terrible goal to give
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Speaker 3: up by Yukupeca Lukenan, but they converted on the power
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Speaker 3: play and that ended the game essentially, because that power
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Speaker 3: play go wi put them up five to three. This
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Speaker 3: game down down four to three going into the third period.
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Speaker 3: You don't feel like this game's over. But the second
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Speaker 3: that power play goal is, it goes in to two
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Speaker 3: goal lead. You're not coming back on a two goal
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Speaker 3: lead on this team because even though Buffalo dominated the
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Speaker 3: third period, Montreal's defense, their ability to clear out the
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Speaker 3: front of the net, and Dovish has just got more
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Speaker 3: confident as the game went along and it was over.
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Speaker 4: It was it was too late.
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Speaker 1: Late penalty, late goal for Montreal. You know, that was
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Speaker 1: the backbreaker for Buffalo. Once again, let's quickly, let's quickly
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Speaker 1: you know, spend a lot of time on this after
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Speaker 1: what we just witnessed tonight. As you mentioned, Buffalo at
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Speaker 1: shot Montreal twenty to three in the third, but they're
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Speaker 1: down three goals at that point for the game, it's
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Speaker 1: thirty six twenty six in favor of Buffalo. Face off
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Speaker 1: percentage Montreal gets back after a bad game for them,
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Speaker 1: specifically fifty five point nine to forty four point one
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. For Buffalo. Montreal goes two for two on
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Speaker 1: the powerplay. They had one shot, one goal in the
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Speaker 1: power play at one point. Buffalo goes zero for two
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Speaker 1: on the man advantage. They The Montreal Canadians had a
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Speaker 1: lot more block shots tonight. That was another thing that
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Speaker 1: swayed in Montreal's favor tonight, twenty five to eleven block shots.
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Speaker 1: Buffalo had eleven giveaways and four takeaways. I know you
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Speaker 1: probably don't want to mention anything about that tonight.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean, it doesn't matter. I did.
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Speaker 3: The stats of that matter are your boneheaded leadership group
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Speaker 3: is playing like boneheads. Your coach is getting his absolute
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Speaker 3: lunch money taken away from him by Martin Saint Louis
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Speaker 3: and your goalie. I'm not gonna sit here and say
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Speaker 3: I agreed to it's the decision to keep ryding Lucanan,
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Speaker 3: because that's kind of what you've been doing. But he clearly,
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Speaker 3: so clearly early on, did not have it. And that's
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Speaker 3: been Lucanan's mo the entire playoffs, aside from the first
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Speaker 3: game the second it went downhill with him, it went downhill.
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Speaker 3: He I thought he kind of erased some of those
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Speaker 3: demons by getting a big win in Montreal, but you.
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Speaker 4: Could see it tonight.
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Speaker 3: He's just shaky, not confident, and there's just there's not
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Speaker 3: only no way it's obviously lying in Game six, but
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Speaker 3: I don't think there's anything you can do that would
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Speaker 3: convince me that now lucanan should ever get a shot
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Speaker 3: back at the mat.
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Speaker 4: I don't care how bad Lion plays.
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Speaker 3: Like, if you win game six, and you win Game seven, obviously,
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Speaker 3: and you go to the Eastern Conference Finals, somehow it
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Speaker 3: should just be Lyon's that the rest of the way.
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Speaker 3: Not that I'm against the rotation or anything like that,
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Speaker 3: but I'm against what I've seen from lucan in and
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Speaker 3: that's just he is not a confident guy, and I
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Speaker 3: don't know how he's ever going to get that back,
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Speaker 3: especially in the middle of this playoff run. Not that
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Speaker 3: starting line would have been the biggest difference in the world.
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Speaker 3: I guess we don't know. I can't say it wouldn't
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Speaker 3: have made a difference, because it very well could have,
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Speaker 3: But Today was like the first time out of one
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Speaker 3: of these losses in this series where I was more
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Speaker 3: upset with the goaltending than the rest of the team,
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Speaker 3: because you had three leads in the first period, and
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Speaker 3: every time you got a lead, they tied it up
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Speaker 3: almost instantly, right until the three to three goal, where
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Speaker 3: took them a little bit longer. But the second it
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Speaker 3: was three to three, it Montreal took over that game.
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Speaker 1: And what did we say about Lucanan in the last game.
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Speaker 1: You know, Montreal had a good first and then Lucanan
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Speaker 1: had to come up with some big saves early in
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Speaker 1: the second period to be able to get them that victory. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: it just felt like anytime they needed a timely save
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Speaker 1: after obviously taking out the first eleven minutes, because we
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Speaker 1: know Dobish was really shaky in the eleven minutes, but
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Speaker 1: I felt like after that he came up with big
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Speaker 1: saves when he needed to. Obviously didn't give up another
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Speaker 1: goal the rest of the game, but it felt like
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Speaker 1: every time Montreal had an opportunity and Lucan needed to
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Speaker 1: come up with a big save to keep Buffalo the
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Speaker 1: momentum or try to change the momentum in their way.
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Speaker 2: They just didn't get it in those.
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Speaker 1: Final whatever you want to call it forty you know
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Speaker 1: what a sixty minute games, so forty nine minutes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there were some really big saves by
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Speaker 3: Lucanan and like you know that one on Demidov comes
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Speaker 3: to mind, like he made some he made some big saves,
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Speaker 3: but it's not the big saves, it's the goals that
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Speaker 3: he gave up were just backbreaking, and that to me
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Speaker 3: outweighs any time we saved that he might have made
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Speaker 3: while he was in there for that second period, because
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Speaker 3: the fourth and fifth goals.
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Speaker 4: Just can't go in, just can't.
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Speaker 3: Like the fourth goal, you absolutely cannot have the puck
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Speaker 3: just get behind you on that angle and let Montreal
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Speaker 3: bang it in. The fifth goal, I know it was
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Speaker 3: a quick pass up to the slot, but goal just
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Speaker 3: can't beat you. Like I know it's a power play
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Speaker 3: and it was nice puck movement to Suzuki there and
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Speaker 3: in the face off circle, but just can't beat you.
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Speaker 4: Not at that time.
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Speaker 3: I know, your assistant captain put you in a really
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Speaker 3: bad spot by taking another dumb cross jacking penalty, but
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Speaker 3: that is when you need your goalie to step up
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Speaker 3: and he did it, and that kind of doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: I mean, don't get me wrong. The power play goal
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Speaker 4: that line gave up.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, one goal and three shots isn't great, but at
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Speaker 3: that point you're down, You're down to one salts.
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Speaker 4: Power play is lethal. Demidov had been clicking all night.
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Speaker 3: Kind of hard to blame it on that, but you
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Speaker 3: maybe had a chance of coming back down to But
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Speaker 3: I don't know it.
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Speaker 4: We said it.
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Speaker 3: Earlier in the in the show, if your best players
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Speaker 3: aren't playing like your best players, if your coach isn't
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Speaker 3: making the right adjustments, and if your goaltender isn't making
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Speaker 3: saves and giving up soft goals, you're not gonna win.
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Speaker 4: The three goals in.
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Speaker 3: The first period were Zucker, Helenius and Don't that's your
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Speaker 3: middle six, you know who dug Montreal out of the
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Speaker 3: hole in the first period. It was their depth as well,
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Speaker 3: but they also got contributions from the superstars. That's the
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Speaker 3: biggest difference in tonight's game. This goalie made saves, Montreal's
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Speaker 3: big guys score goals.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If on your next work opportunity today you mentioned Buffalo's
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Speaker 1: three goals. In the first they scored two minutes in.
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Speaker 1: Jason Zucker on that point shot or with traffic from
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Speaker 1: Jack Quinn hits off. Zucker hits off, Matheson, goes past
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Speaker 1: Dobich to give Buffalo an early lead. Kawfield then evens
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Speaker 1: the game up there with Luken and kind of sprambling around.
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Speaker 1: Josh Done then gives the Sabers the two to one
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Speaker 1: lead with a nice give and go with Owen power
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Speaker 1: and he goes low once again on Dovis. Both shots
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Speaker 1: low two goals on three shots to open up on
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Speaker 1: the goaltender there. And then it was Texaia on the
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Speaker 1: next shift, as they were still announced. They hadn't eventarted
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Speaker 1: announcing the second Buffalo goal yet. Carrie takes a point
16:56
Speaker 1: shot Texaday's battling with a Sabers defender in front, and
17:00
Speaker 1: of course it hits. It was going wide anyway, but
17:01
Speaker 1: it hits off them, goes past Lucanan and all of
17:04
Speaker 1: a sudden the games tied it two Costa Helenius gets
17:07
Speaker 1: the goal there, which was nice to see. Kind of
17:09
Speaker 1: surprising Dobis you made like a little nice stutter step
17:12
Speaker 1: there in the slot and maybe fool them went five hole.
17:14
Speaker 1: The Sabers have three goals on four shots on Dobish.
17:17
Speaker 1: At that point you're thinking, wow, like this is this
17:19
Speaker 1: is a dream star for Buffalo in the first ten
17:21
Speaker 1: or so minutes. But they had the three to two
17:23
Speaker 1: lead after the first period. But then that's when things
17:26
Speaker 1: sort of turned and we saw the four unanswered goals
17:30
Speaker 1: by Montreal. I don't know if there's any specific ones
17:32
Speaker 1: you want to touch on or go over there.
17:35
Speaker 4: No, I've already talked about the goals that need to
17:37
Speaker 4: be talked about.
17:38
Speaker 3: It's much more productive, I think in Cathartic to talk
17:43
Speaker 3: about the Sabers and what they can do, if anything,
17:48
Speaker 3: to bounce back from this, because whether you know, whether
17:51
Speaker 3: people want to hear it or not, the series is
17:53
Speaker 3: not over. You have, you know, you got to win
17:55
Speaker 3: into in a row. You got to go beat Montreal
17:57
Speaker 3: on a Saturday night at Montreal, which is never easy.
17:59
Speaker 3: But there was good to take from the Savers tonight,
18:04
Speaker 3: but the bad. I think if the bad doesn't change,
18:06
Speaker 3: this will be over in six and not only will
18:09
Speaker 3: be over in six.
18:09
Speaker 4: I think Montreal will beat the brakes off the Savers
18:12
Speaker 4: if the big guys don't figure something out.
18:16
Speaker 1: I will say for me, I think the biggest turning
18:19
Speaker 1: point in the game. Austin and again, we don't really
18:22
Speaker 1: talk a lot during the game. Full disclosure for those listening,
18:24
Speaker 1: like Austin and I don't talk a lot during the
18:26
Speaker 1: game because we want to sort of just get our
18:29
Speaker 1: reactions to each other live on the show. Here, I
18:31
Speaker 1: think the biggest turning point in the game was Thompson
18:34
Speaker 1: not scoring on that breakaway early in the second period.
18:36
Speaker 2: You're up three to two. Dobich comes up with the
18:39
Speaker 2: big save early on.
18:40
Speaker 1: I think Hudson got mixed up on a line change
18:42
Speaker 1: or something and Thompson winning all alone. And I don't
18:45
Speaker 1: know if Dobich got that with his left pad or
18:47
Speaker 1: his glove, but right there, your superstar has an opportunity
18:50
Speaker 1: to put you up by two early in the second period,
18:53
Speaker 1: with the Montreal goaltender really struggling, and you give him
18:56
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make a save there, and obviously the
18:59
Speaker 1: game turns from there. But to me, like that was
19:01
Speaker 1: the pinpoint right there. If the Sabers were going to
19:03
Speaker 1: win the game, they were going to win it right there.
19:06
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:06
Speaker 3: No, that's that's a pretty big turning point as well.
19:10
Speaker 3: You need your forty one goal scorer to score on
19:13
Speaker 3: a breakaway, just plain and simple. I think the turning
19:18
Speaker 3: point is obviously hindsight p in twenty twenty. The turning
19:21
Speaker 3: point is something that happened extremely early in the game,
19:23
Speaker 3: and that's Martanne Saint Louis making the choice to stick
19:25
Speaker 3: with the Akamdobis and having confidence in his guy. Because
19:29
Speaker 3: it could have been very easy to pull the trigger
19:30
Speaker 3: three goals on four shots, he chose not to, and
19:34
Speaker 3: he was rewarded for that decision.
19:35
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, do you think if it's
19:37
Speaker 1: a veteran goalie on the bench and not a young
19:39
Speaker 1: goalie and Jacob Fowler, he would would have made that call.
19:45
Speaker 4: Depends how veteran.
19:46
Speaker 3: I mean, if we're talking Montreal's depth chart, I don't
19:49
Speaker 3: even think it mattered if it was Fowler or mont Tambal.
19:52
Speaker 3: I don't think there was any way Sant Louis was
19:53
Speaker 3: making that decision right there. I don't know if it
19:57
Speaker 3: had anything necessarily to do with Fowler. It was more
20:01
Speaker 3: Saint Louis has a pretty solid feel for the pulse
20:04
Speaker 3: of this series and the pulse of this game, and
20:06
Speaker 3: he knew he was He knew that this game was
20:09
Speaker 3: not over. It was only three two. He knew that Dobish,
20:13
Speaker 3: much like Lukenan in Game four, was gonna have a
20:16
Speaker 3: chance to rebound, and he trusted his guy to rebound,
20:19
Speaker 3: and he did, like in a big way, whether it
20:21
Speaker 3: was that breakaway save, whether it was blanking the Sabers
20:24
Speaker 3: power play in the second period, whether it was, you know,
20:27
Speaker 3: a couple of key saves here and there. He sat
20:32
Speaker 3: Louis was rewarded for trusting his guys. And I know
20:35
Speaker 3: that's kind of a easy cop out because Ruff has
20:37
Speaker 3: been trusting his guys and necessarily hasn't been rewarded. But
20:41
Speaker 3: to me, it just it goes to Saint Louis has
20:44
Speaker 3: more of a finger on the pulse of this series.
20:45
Speaker 4: Than when you Rough does.
20:46
Speaker 3: Right now, that's not the biggest reason why the Sabers
20:49
Speaker 3: are behind. It's not the reason the Sabers are down
20:51
Speaker 3: three two. The biggest reason.
20:52
Speaker 4: Is the players just aren't showing up for Buffalo that
20:54
Speaker 4: needs to show up.
20:56
Speaker 3: But I thought that was a pretty big moment and
21:00
Speaker 3: that kind of leads to the turning point that you
21:01
Speaker 3: had because if Dobi if vulers in the nettage, I
21:04
Speaker 3: think Page probably converts that breakaway.
21:06
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:06
Speaker 1: I think you're right too, like a very tough situation
21:08
Speaker 1: for a young goalie. We talked about last game that
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, age doesn't really matter. If it's like with Helenius,
21:14
Speaker 1: you put him in the lineup or Helenoose. I guess
21:16
Speaker 1: we're going by now. You know you put him in
21:18
Speaker 1: the lineup despite not having playoff experience. Shen got in
21:22
Speaker 1: the lineup again. I guess we should mention that Stanley
21:24
Speaker 1: was left out again. They put kessel Ring in full
21:27
Speaker 1: equipment and put him out for the warm up. I
21:28
Speaker 1: don't know if that was supposed to throw somebody off,
21:30
Speaker 1: but regardless, Shen got in the game again. Did you
21:33
Speaker 1: were you okay with that decision or would you have
21:36
Speaker 1: looked to see something else?
21:38
Speaker 3: No, I didn't have any issue with Shen tonight. I
21:40
Speaker 3: think Connord Timmins was putrid awful. As much praise as
21:44
Speaker 3: we've given him these playoffs. He's another guy I think
21:47
Speaker 3: deserves a ton of blame for the reason that this
21:49
Speaker 3: game happened the way that it happened. First goal turnover
21:52
Speaker 3: cannot happen. That's a benchable offense. Even the back door
21:58
Speaker 3: goal I believe it have been would have been coffields.
22:04
Speaker 3: I believe he just stood there in no man's land.
22:09
Speaker 3: Helenius tied up the guy in the crease and Timmins
22:12
Speaker 3: decided to try and get to the back door. It
22:13
Speaker 3: was too late and couldn't get there. He just he
22:17
Speaker 3: for as good as and steady as he had been
22:19
Speaker 3: through most of the games, he was awful. I think
22:22
Speaker 3: he was on the ice for four les against in
22:24
Speaker 3: twelve minutes of ice time, if he even got twelve
22:27
Speaker 3: minutes of ice time, So I think you know he
22:30
Speaker 3: had maintenance stake because he was banged up. So maybe
22:33
Speaker 3: the excuse there is he wasn't feeling himself. But dear God,
22:37
Speaker 3: if that performance isn't good enough to get him benched,
22:40
Speaker 3: it goes back to I don't know what Lindy Ruff
22:42
Speaker 3: is doing this series, because any other guy who plays
22:45
Speaker 3: the way Timmins plays.
22:48
Speaker 4: Should be stapled to the bench.
22:50
Speaker 1: Timmins got ten to fifty six tonight, Shen got eight
22:53
Speaker 1: oh one. Everybody else played over twenty minutes tonight, the
22:56
Speaker 1: top four of Byron, Samison, Power and Doling.
23:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't even know if you want twenty
23:02
Speaker 3: six and four playing that much with the way they've
23:04
Speaker 3: been this series, because again, just.
23:06
Speaker 4: Not good enough.
23:07
Speaker 1: I know Zucker was criticized a lot after Game three
23:12
Speaker 1: where he played under seven minutes.
23:14
Speaker 2: He's looked better.
23:14
Speaker 3: Than I don't think it was Zuker that was criticized.
23:17
Speaker 3: I think it was Rough that was criticized, and rightfully
23:19
Speaker 3: so right because we just assumed Zucker was hurt and
23:24
Speaker 3: that's clearly not the case because the last two games
23:25
Speaker 3: he's been playing regularly.
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23:29
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Speaker 1: following his team's six' three loss on home ice through
28:10
Speaker 1: The Montreal. Canadians now on the brink of elimination period.
28:13
Speaker 4: In the second period became what it.
28:15
Speaker 8: BECAME i actually thought the start of the second period
28:19
Speaker 8: was pretty. Good you, Know thompson had to in a
28:24
Speaker 8: loan to make the score for, two and THEN i
28:27
Speaker 8: thought they had a pretty good push there for seven
28:31
Speaker 8: or eight minutes where we didn't execute as well as
28:33
Speaker 8: we needed to. EXECUTE i thought some of our puck
28:36
Speaker 8: play was we're missing passes and you know we were
28:40
Speaker 8: going north in a hurly and hurry early.
28:43
Speaker 4: In the, game.
28:45
Speaker 8: And then the second period we just sloaded.
28:47
Speaker 5: Down what does this team have to do to Counter
28:51
Speaker 5: montreal speed, shifting as and playmaking in game six to
28:55
Speaker 5: force A game?
28:56
Speaker 4: Seven, Well i'll just.
28:59
Speaker 8: Say this The we've won four out of five games
29:02
Speaker 8: on the road in real tough. Buildings we've played, Fast
29:08
Speaker 8: we've played, Hard WE'VE i mean again, tonight the start
29:11
Speaker 8: of the game was the start we. Wanted they got
29:15
Speaker 8: a little bit of a break when the puck the
29:17
Speaker 8: went off the skate on the. Backside you have to
29:20
Speaker 8: fight through. BREAKS i thought early in the second we
29:25
Speaker 8: could have probably pushed, them pushed them back a little,
29:28
Speaker 8: further and we had a couple opportunities to make them,
29:31
Speaker 8: pay and we. Didn't and when we made a couple
29:34
Speaker 8: of our, mistakes they made us.
29:36
Speaker 9: Pay, wendy what is your level of concern at this
29:41
Speaker 9: point With Alex tuck no points in this series and
29:43
Speaker 9: what does he have to do offensively to become a
29:46
Speaker 9: factor like we saw in the last.
29:47
Speaker 8: Series you, KNOW i think you get in a series
29:52
Speaker 8: like this and and you're struggling a little.
29:55
Speaker 4: BIT i think he's.
29:56
Speaker 8: Lost just a little bit of confidence that trying a
29:59
Speaker 8: little bit too hard make make that extra. PLAY i
30:03
Speaker 8: think number one is the biggest thing is you got
30:06
Speaker 8: to move your. Feet always move your. Feet get your feet,
30:08
Speaker 8: moving whether it's through the neutra, zone whether it's you're
30:12
Speaker 8: challenging at the blue line and that that line just
30:16
Speaker 8: hasn't been quite. CONNECTED i think it all comes down,
30:19
Speaker 8: to you, know skating on bucks and the offensive. Zone
30:21
Speaker 8: if you want to go.
30:24
Speaker 4: To a couple of.
30:24
Speaker 8: Games that they're In boston in the first period the game,
30:27
Speaker 8: six how well they moved inside the. Zone feet have
30:31
Speaker 8: to get.
30:32
Speaker 4: Moving you decided to put.
30:37
Speaker 9: McCloud i'm, helen he's up.
30:39
Speaker 8: There you were trying different things with that top. Line
30:41
Speaker 8: have you considered kind of Separating thompson And tuck just
30:44
Speaker 8: to try to get get those two guys.
30:47
Speaker 4: Going, well we did for a couple of.
30:49
Speaker 8: SHIFTS i don't know if you if you, noticed you,
30:52
Speaker 8: know we Had clouder down with With tucky and THEN
30:57
Speaker 8: i Put Crabs greenway. Together and and when the game
31:02
Speaker 8: gets where you need a couple of, goals you got
31:04
Speaker 8: to put your best players. Together they gotta.
31:06
Speaker 4: Play hard to play four.
31:09
Speaker 8: Lines when you're down because you gotta you gotta believe
31:12
Speaker 8: in your top guys and they got to get it
31:13
Speaker 8: done for.
31:14
Speaker 1: You, okay there Was sabers head Coach Lindy ruff on
31:18
Speaker 1: The Wild Bills auto repair post game as. Always video
31:20
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Speaker 1: The National Hockey League. Austin, YEAH i mean he said
31:27
Speaker 1: he Moved krebs or excuse, Me thompson And tuck away
31:30
Speaker 1: for a few. Shifts, uh but, uh what were your
31:33
Speaker 1: thoughts on What lindy said?
31:34
Speaker 4: Tonight too, little too?
31:37
Speaker 3: LATE i mean that line has done nothing all serious and,
31:43
Speaker 3: Yo tuck has lost his. Confidence, yeah no, Shit, Lindy
31:46
Speaker 3: like sorry for my language, there but like, duh he's
31:50
Speaker 3: him And tage have literally been, awful awful and that's
31:53
Speaker 3: coming from you, know Like i'm. Not this is not
31:56
Speaker 3: my overall opinion on these guys going forward As Buffalo.
31:59
Speaker 3: Sabers but Dear, God Alex tuck to start contrast between
32:03
Speaker 3: you versus The bruins and you versus The. Habs and
32:05
Speaker 3: by the, way you want to eight year contract making
32:07
Speaker 3: more than ten million per year when this how you
32:10
Speaker 3: look right now is probably how you're going to look
32:11
Speaker 3: in two to three. Years Dear, god no chance in
32:15
Speaker 3: hell DO i want any part of that. Cage you
32:18
Speaker 3: want to be in number one, center.
32:20
Speaker 4: Show, Up just show, up, dude because you didn't show up.
32:26
Speaker 1: TODAY i look at like LIKE i look at the
32:32
Speaker 1: top three players for each, team Right, like let's, say
32:35
Speaker 1: let's just Put, Suzuki, cawfield And hudson up Against, Thompson
32:41
Speaker 1: tuck And dollan's production in this. Series you, know you
32:44
Speaker 1: look at What Lane hudson's been. Doing you look at
32:46
Speaker 1: What Cole cawfield has now got on the score. Shot
32:49
Speaker 1: you Saw sazuki with a big power play goal, tonight
32:51
Speaker 1: winning key, faceoffs and The sabers best players are just
32:54
Speaker 1: not their best players right, now and as you, said
32:56
Speaker 1: they're actively hurting them with bad penalties And Alex stuck
33:00
Speaker 1: being in a contract. YEAR i know he loves and
33:02
Speaker 1: Loves Buffalo on, obviously but if he's gonna want upwards
33:05
Speaker 1: of ten eleven million dollars for an eight year, contract
33:07
Speaker 1: as you, MENTIONED i want no part of.
33:09
Speaker 2: That after what we've seen in this. Series, yeah he
33:13
Speaker 2: just is.
33:15
Speaker 3: Proving that he doesn't. Like this is a foreshadow of
33:21
Speaker 3: what he's going to look. Like in two three, years
33:25
Speaker 3: maybe even, Sooner like he's not a guy you can
33:29
Speaker 3: commit to for eight years when no offense to these.
33:31
Speaker 3: Guys their best players are the twenty four year old,
33:35
Speaker 3: down twenty one year Old, benson twenty one year old
33:38
Speaker 3: twenty year old hell It is And oacetland when he
33:40
Speaker 3: was in in The boston series was also very. Good
33:43
Speaker 3: like the youth and the speed is what is making
33:47
Speaker 3: an impact on this.
33:48
Speaker 4: Series The benson's work ethic has talked about a.
33:52
Speaker 3: Lot what doesn't get talked about is how skilled he actually,
33:54
Speaker 3: is because he's more than just a hard. Worker but
33:58
Speaker 3: just look at the start contrast between and how those
34:01
Speaker 3: Even Jack, quinn who you, know get credit for being
34:06
Speaker 3: having buzz and flying around out. There eventually you need
34:10
Speaker 3: to start producing in order to actually truly get. Credit
34:12
Speaker 3: but he just feels like he's snake bit right. Now
34:14
Speaker 3: but you just look at the way that those two
34:15
Speaker 3: middle lines play compared to the way that the top line,
34:18
Speaker 3: plays and it's just not only are those middle six
34:21
Speaker 3: guys out Working montreal when they're on the, ice but
34:25
Speaker 3: they're playing. Well it doesn't even feel Like Tage crabs
34:27
Speaker 3: and talk, AGAIN i feel like crebs is getting bumped
34:29
Speaker 3: in there because he has to. Be it's more So
34:31
Speaker 3: tuck And thompson just don't have the. Juice whether that's health,
34:36
Speaker 3: RELATED i don't. Care you're in the, lineup you're making
34:39
Speaker 3: a lot of. Money battle through, it Like, dolleen whatever
34:43
Speaker 3: is happening to you right now that's made you lose your.
34:46
Speaker 4: Screws in the series Against, montreal figure it.
34:48
Speaker 3: Out byron went from looking like a true Actual Stanley
34:53
Speaker 3: cup run style defenseman TO i don't know what.
34:55
Speaker 4: The heck has happened to.
34:56
Speaker 3: Him it's very easy to see Why montreal is, winning
34:59
Speaker 3: and it's not because.
35:02
Speaker 4: They're just straight up.
35:03
Speaker 3: Better it's because they're big guys have risen to the,
35:06
Speaker 3: moment whereas The sabers big guys have. Crumbled the depth is,
35:10
Speaker 3: equal if not probably In buffalo's favor because The benson
35:13
Speaker 3: And domeline and Now helen uth line have been very
35:16
Speaker 3: good for two. Games but it's It's, Coffield, Suzukis lefkowski
35:20
Speaker 3: And hudson that's the difference right. Now and those guys
35:22
Speaker 3: are very. GOOD i, know you Know buffalo can match.
35:25
Speaker 3: That just those guys aren't On buffalo aren't doing absolutely.
35:29
Speaker 2: Nothing what are your thoughts.
35:31
Speaker 1: On just like we saw The shenanigans in the first
35:34
Speaker 1: couple of games of the, series it hasn't been as
35:36
Speaker 1: much as of. Late we saw a little bit more
35:37
Speaker 1: When buffalo is down by two or.
35:39
Speaker 3: Three but, yeah that's a. Loser it's just being a.
35:41
Speaker 3: Loser it's just being a. Loser if you're The buffalo,
35:43
Speaker 3: Savers i'm, sorry that's that's being a. Baby and just straight,
35:48
Speaker 3: up you know you've got your teeth kicked, in so
35:50
Speaker 3: you're acting out that stuff at the end of the.
35:53
Speaker 4: GAME i hated every second of.
35:55
Speaker 2: That where was?
35:55
Speaker 3: That don't get me, wrong the end of the, game the,
35:58
Speaker 3: scrums nor is doing what he did to mathieson all that.
36:02
Speaker 3: Stuff just that's the loser. Attitude you got your teeth kicked.
36:06
Speaker 3: In actually you didn't because you actually Outplayed montreal, tonight
36:09
Speaker 3: but like scoreboard, wise you got your teeth kicked. In man,
36:12
Speaker 3: up save the shenanigans for, later because you know, what
36:18
Speaker 3: the shenanigans have meant nothing on this. Series The shenanigans
36:21
Speaker 3: have only shown up in the games That buffalo has,
36:23
Speaker 3: lost and that's because you've been blown out in every.
36:25
Speaker 3: Loss just playing, it simple play yours game and you
36:30
Speaker 3: will be. Fine play the way you played In game
36:32
Speaker 3: one and In game, four and you won't have to
36:34
Speaker 3: worry about. Shenanigans the best thing that happens is When
36:39
Speaker 3: dobson and all these people try to do stuff to
36:41
Speaker 3: guys like crabs and you just sit there and look
36:42
Speaker 3: at him and don't let anything. Happen that's when you
36:45
Speaker 3: get the edge Over. Montreal when you buy into, this
36:48
Speaker 3: they know they're in your, head and when you have
36:51
Speaker 3: the mental advantage taken away from, you you have no,
36:53
Speaker 3: shot especially in an equally matched series like, This because
36:56
Speaker 3: it doesn't look like it on the. Scoreboard these two
36:58
Speaker 3: teams are a lot closer than what the scoreboard has
37:00
Speaker 3: indicated in this, round.
37:02
Speaker 4: At least in my.
37:02
Speaker 1: Opinion, yeah AND i, mean you, Know buffalo had a
37:06
Speaker 1: lot of pressure in that third, period But montreal pretty
37:09
Speaker 1: much went into Prevent at that, point you're.
37:11
Speaker 2: Down they scored the early, goal and it's a three goal. Game.
37:15
Speaker 4: See, yeah it was the equivalent Of game one When buffalo.
37:17
Speaker 1: Had the two and Then buffalo pulled the goalie with
37:19
Speaker 1: what was that six twenty nine left down by.
37:21
Speaker 2: Three, YEAH i thought that WAS.
37:23
Speaker 4: I gotta do something.
37:24
Speaker 2: INTERESTING i, yeah.
37:25
Speaker 4: You gotta do. SOMETHING i, GUESS i don't.
37:27
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37:41
Speaker 1: i'm gonna, Say, helen that's just because he scored AND
37:43
Speaker 1: i thought he looked.
37:44
Speaker 3: Decent, Yeah i'll Go, benson because, again as this game
37:50
Speaker 3: could have been so much, different you could have talked
37:52
Speaker 3: about how That benson Don Norris lyon Had Dlayne hudson
37:57
Speaker 3: pair and a, blender because there were just times When
37:59
Speaker 3: benson it was just dominant with his ability to create
38:03
Speaker 3: space in the offensive, zone the ability to get his own,
38:05
Speaker 3: entries the ability to take pucks, away and things like.
38:07
Speaker 3: That he is stepping up and rising to the. Moment
38:11
Speaker 3: don't is stepping up and rising to the. Moment and
38:14
Speaker 3: instead of talking about how these young guys could have
38:17
Speaker 3: carried The sabers to a huge game.
38:18
Speaker 4: Five, win we have to talk about how the.
38:21
Speaker 3: Players you expect to Be buffalo's contributors continue to just
38:26
Speaker 3: make bone, headed dumb plays that not only do nothing
38:32
Speaker 3: to help, you actively hurt, you cost you the. Series
38:35
Speaker 3: and now your back is against the. Wall it's time
38:37
Speaker 3: to really put up and see what you're made, of because.
38:42
Speaker 4: You're going into.
38:42
Speaker 3: A hostile environment on A saturday night In montreal with
38:45
Speaker 3: a chance for The habs to go to the conference,
38:47
Speaker 3: final and if you show up the way you showed
38:51
Speaker 3: up tonight again mostly the big Guys i'm talking about,
38:53
Speaker 3: here it's not even going to be.
38:55
Speaker 1: Close so to kind of wrap up here because obviously
39:00
Speaker 1: there's Not we're just gonna beat a dead horse here
39:02
Speaker 1: for you, know as long as we can. Here what would?
39:05
Speaker 1: Be are you gonna make lineup changes for the next?
39:07
Speaker 1: Game do you want to see anybody? In do you
39:08
Speaker 1: want to see anybody? Out do you want to see
39:10
Speaker 1: things like guys moved up or down the? Lineup like
39:12
Speaker 1: what if you're making the lineup card For lindy in
39:14
Speaker 1: game six On saturday?
39:15
Speaker 2: Night what are you doing?
39:16
Speaker 4: HERE i probably Put stanley And metsa in as your third.
39:24
Speaker 2: Over timmins And. Shen there's just.
39:27
Speaker 4: No way you can Put Connor timmins in the lineup
39:28
Speaker 4: after the way he played. Today there's just not if
39:30
Speaker 4: you are a respectable, coach you just you. Can't he was.
39:34
Speaker 4: Awful he was just.
39:36
Speaker 3: Putrid and he's not good enough to have a putrid
39:38
Speaker 3: game and stay in the lineup as much As i'm
39:40
Speaker 3: talking about To dolly and And. Tages, unfortunately like those, guys
39:43
Speaker 3: you have to work through, it you have to figure it.
39:45
Speaker 3: OUT a guy Like Connor, TIMMINS i don't care about
39:47
Speaker 3: the penalty. Kill the penalty kill was over to. Tonight
39:50
Speaker 3: as good as it was last, game it was equally
39:51
Speaker 3: as bad this. Game AND i know there's only two,
39:53
Speaker 3: chances but you were zero percent like. It and if
39:58
Speaker 3: that's all he's good, for and then up, front it's
40:02
Speaker 3: not going to. Happen But kozak Or karrik in For,
40:05
Speaker 3: greenway but it's it's not gonna. Happen not That greenway
40:10
Speaker 3: was even, Bad but the problem With greenway is he's
40:12
Speaker 3: now all of a sudden become the number one forward
40:14
Speaker 3: on the penalty kill for The, sabers AND i just
40:16
Speaker 3: against this power play.
40:17
Speaker 4: Unit as big as he, is he's too. Slow and
40:19
Speaker 4: that's not.
40:20
Speaker 3: Saying he's just a complete like he's not saying he's
40:22
Speaker 3: bad it's just that this is a terrible matchup for
40:25
Speaker 3: a guy Like. Greenway on the penalty. Kill the four
40:27
Speaker 3: LINE i think has relatively been okay because they've been
40:29
Speaker 3: able to kind of just hold the puck and do
40:31
Speaker 3: things like. That but on the penalty kill he's become
40:33
Speaker 3: like the most important, forward AND i don't understand, why
40:36
Speaker 3: because it's not like he's any good at. It so
40:38
Speaker 3: IDEALLY i would like to see again match the Speed
40:41
Speaker 3: kozak in for For greenway would be an ideal. Move
40:45
Speaker 3: not That greenway is being, punished BUT i think you
40:47
Speaker 3: need to match the hab, speed And kozak does, That
40:50
Speaker 3: greenway does, Not SO i switch up that third, pair
40:53
Speaker 3: give him that's a real. Shot stanley goes back in and,
40:57
Speaker 3: yeah try try to inject some more speed into the offensive,
41:00
Speaker 3: lineup but realistically it'll just be shuffling.
41:02
Speaker 4: That top line around.
41:04
Speaker 3: SOMEHOW i don't exactly know what that looks like or
41:05
Speaker 3: what he will, do but maybe it's breaking Up benson
41:10
Speaker 3: And don't as awesome if they have been, together they
41:12
Speaker 3: are playing so. Well trust them to each handle their
41:15
Speaker 3: own line at this point and then Keep i'd keep
41:18
Speaker 3: The Zucker Helenius quinn line together because for two GAMES
41:20
Speaker 3: i thought they've been really.
41:21
Speaker 2: Good would you drop Like, Thompson Tuck krebs as like
41:24
Speaker 2: the third.
41:24
Speaker 4: Line, No, no that's not a.
41:27
Speaker 3: Line that's not a there's no way that can be a.
41:29
Speaker 3: Line there's just Not thompson And tuck cannot be.
41:32
Speaker 4: Together they just.
41:33
Speaker 1: Can't, yeah like you, Know i'm looking at it right,
41:37
Speaker 1: Now like with the possibilities. THERE i, know we Know
41:39
Speaker 1: austlin's not, available but you've Got kozak And.
41:43
Speaker 2: Kerrick those are two.
41:44
Speaker 1: CENTERS i, mean one of, them you, know realistically could
41:46
Speaker 1: play the wing if you really wanted, to just to
41:47
Speaker 1: have a matchup based if somebody gets kicked out of the.
41:50
Speaker 1: Circle you want to see McCloud get moved, Up LIKE
41:53
Speaker 1: i don't, know because mcloud's the best.
41:55
Speaker 4: Team but, no LIKE i, SAID i you can't unless
42:01
Speaker 4: you're gonna throw.
42:02
Speaker 1: Mcleoud you think it's matchup base two, obviously depending on
42:06
Speaker 1: what line they're oute there.
42:06
Speaker 3: Against, yeah, well unfortunately you've lost the ability to match.
42:10
Speaker 4: Up you don't have last change.
42:11
Speaker 2: Anymore, yeah it's real, game.
42:13
Speaker 3: Man this is the type of stuff That i'm talking
42:15
Speaker 3: about Where i'm not actively trying to crap On Lindi.
42:18
Speaker 3: Rough he's a really good, coach But San louis working
42:21
Speaker 3: him in this.
42:21
Speaker 2: Series he's responded every, time.
42:25
Speaker 3: AND i Give rough credit for The helenius in putting
42:30
Speaker 3: him in. There that was a, big, big big lineup
42:32
Speaker 3: adjustment for him and it worked. Out but every time you've,
42:35
Speaker 3: Won montreal has responded And montreal really didn't even do
42:39
Speaker 3: anything different, Tonight But Sant louis is just those little tiny,
42:43
Speaker 3: moments whether it was even in that, game like that
42:46
Speaker 3: challenge was a big moment For. Montreal it ended up
42:50
Speaker 3: not thankfully it didn't hurt The sabers in the result
42:52
Speaker 3: of the, game but that's a big moment for.
42:53
Speaker 4: Them ended up Being montreal getting the.
42:55
Speaker 3: Lead, today Trusting dobish to stay in end, up you,
43:00
Speaker 3: know not, immediately but you end up taking the, lead
43:03
Speaker 3: and just there's there's no panic for The habs When
43:07
Speaker 3: buffalo gets a, lead whereas it feels like in every
43:10
Speaker 3: game When montreal has gotten the, lead except For game
43:12
Speaker 3: four because we came, Back but except For game, four
43:15
Speaker 3: it feels like every Time montreal has gotten a lead
43:17
Speaker 3: in this, Series buffalo does not know how to push.
43:19
Speaker 3: Back they would push back On boston when they were.
43:21
Speaker 3: Down they are struggling to push back On, montreal and
43:24
Speaker 3: that's That's monreal deserves a lot.
43:26
Speaker 4: Of credit for. That they're, very very good hockey.
43:28
Speaker 3: Team but that's when you need something LIKE i don't,
43:33
Speaker 3: know like we'll, see BUT i would give real thought
43:39
Speaker 3: to To metsa And stanley bumping into the third, pair
43:42
Speaker 3: and then you got to split up that top line some.
43:45
Speaker 3: Way my middle six face, Together SO i guess that
43:48
Speaker 3: does technically mean you're moving mc.
43:49
Speaker 2: Cloud UP i think the third, line.
43:55
Speaker 4: And then who's playing on the top, Line.
43:57
Speaker 2: QUINN i don't like the sounds of it.
44:02
Speaker 1: Either i'm just trying to come up with something, like
44:04
Speaker 1: Maybe don't gets moved, up because you, said if if
44:06
Speaker 1: don'an And benson aren't going to play, together maybe Give
44:09
Speaker 1: don't a look on the top line With.
44:10
Speaker 2: Thompson that's.
44:13
Speaker 3: That's where it gets a little, Bit. HARRY i think
44:15
Speaker 3: you should Trust don't And benson to ply split up
44:17
Speaker 3: as good as they have, been because they have obviously
44:19
Speaker 3: been your best two players this entire.
44:21
Speaker 4: Series BUT.
44:24
Speaker 3: I honestly would, bump, like if you're not changing the hellennious,
44:27
Speaker 3: line keep. It but if you are going to change.
44:29
Speaker 3: IT i would Put hellennius at center With thompson And
44:33
Speaker 3: crabs and Then.
44:34
Speaker 4: Tuck, Yeah Tucky.
44:35
Speaker 2: Thompson to the right.
44:35
Speaker 3: Wing, YEAH i don't Think thompson can play center the
44:39
Speaker 3: rest of the. SERIES i just he's not playing. Well
44:41
Speaker 3: he doesn't look. Right ALTHOUGH i know today When helenia's
44:44
Speaker 3: got a shift with, Him hellennius was on the. Wing
44:47
Speaker 3: SO i guess, again we'll have to. See But ruff's
44:49
Speaker 3: gonna have to make some some adjustments and find somehow
44:51
Speaker 3: some way to Get thompson And tuck going because that's
44:54
Speaker 3: the only.
44:54
Speaker 4: Hope That buffalo has because defense de.
44:57
Speaker 3: Wise they're not Being, yeah depth, wise they're not be.
45:00
Speaker 3: Out this is not a depth issue for The. Sabers
45:02
Speaker 3: this is a top line issue for The.
45:03
Speaker 1: Sabers LIKE i think it was two or three, goals
45:06
Speaker 1: The sabers just couldn't win a face off in their
45:08
Speaker 1: defensive end and it.
45:09
Speaker 3: Led, YEAH i mean there's there's nothing you can add
45:13
Speaker 3: to this lineup that's going to fix.
45:15
Speaker 7: That.
45:15
Speaker 1: YEAH i, Mean kerck's not going to be playing twenty minutes,
45:17
Speaker 1: tonight so you know it unless it's like three on
45:21
Speaker 1: three overtime where you have the guy take the face
45:22
Speaker 1: off and then get off the ice. Immediately, unfortunately when
45:25
Speaker 1: in playoffs you don't have the three on three. Ability
45:27
Speaker 1: BUT i don't, KNOW i just they got to change something.
45:30
Speaker 1: Up but the problem, IS i feel, like and this
45:33
Speaker 1: is probably the last Thing i'm going to, say is
45:35
Speaker 1: that every time The canadians have had a bad game
45:38
Speaker 1: or just hasn't gone their, way they had, responded responded
45:41
Speaker 1: Like game one was really bad for, them they had
45:44
Speaker 1: a Great game, two and even Good game, three they
45:47
Speaker 1: had a really bad, well they didn't even have a
45:48
Speaker 1: Bad game. FOUR i just feel like they had a
45:50
Speaker 1: couple of bounces go wrong their way And buffalo had
45:52
Speaker 1: the right opportunities at the. End and then they respond tonight,
45:55
Speaker 1: LIKE i just don't know How you're not expecting a
45:57
Speaker 1: pushback if You're buffalo and either of those two scenario
46:00
Speaker 1: that you, know a team like that that's well coached
46:02
Speaker 1: is not going to Push so if You're Lindy, ROUGH
46:05
Speaker 1: i don't, know you have to figure out something quickly
46:07
Speaker 1: or obviously you're going to be packing your bags After.
46:09
Speaker 3: Saturday, yeah and, honestly this this here is not a
46:12
Speaker 3: shot At, lindy because what else is he supposed to,
46:14
Speaker 3: say BUT i also don't love. That his response, is,
46:16
Speaker 3: well we play good on the. Road it's, like, yeah
46:19
Speaker 3: but you know what else could help to play good at?
46:21
Speaker 1: Home you have home ice advantage for a, reason like
46:25
Speaker 1: going In, YEAH i don't. Know, yeah SO i mean six,
46:30
Speaker 1: three it is what it. Is game Six saturday at
46:33
Speaker 1: The Bell. Center and, again as as you, mentioned sort,
46:36
Speaker 1: of the only positive thing you can say is that
46:38
Speaker 1: The sabers have played well on the. Road they're four
46:40
Speaker 1: and one in the, postseason and can they push it
46:42
Speaker 1: to A game seven On? Monday i'll give you final,
46:45
Speaker 1: thoughts Your. Austin are we here we won't be here
46:48
Speaker 1: with us On, saturday but are we here doing a
46:50
Speaker 1: game recap On monday possibly talking about A sabers series?
46:54
Speaker 1: Victory or do you think it tonight was really you,
46:57
Speaker 1: know the nail on the.
46:58
Speaker 4: COFFIN i, mean it's not really fair to ask me
47:01
Speaker 4: right now.
47:05
Speaker 5: Like.
47:05
Speaker 3: This this was your chance to take a stranglehold on the,
47:08
Speaker 3: series and you've fumbled it. Spectacularly so it's very hard
47:13
Speaker 3: to sit here and be like. Yeah that being, SAID
47:17
Speaker 3: i would not be surprised If.
47:18
Speaker 4: Buffalo Wins saturday and Forces game.
47:20
Speaker 1: Seven, right but but then what Then you've got to
47:26
Speaker 1: come back home?
47:27
Speaker 2: Again.
47:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it's just it's.
47:31
Speaker 3: Not every every POSSIBLE x factor that we talked about
47:35
Speaker 3: in this series preview has just Gone montreal's way and.
47:38
Speaker 4: Predictably SO i think for the most.
47:40
Speaker 3: Part but now we can no longer just talk ABOUT
47:45
Speaker 3: i don't know this is, Again we're the season is
47:47
Speaker 3: not over, yet SO i don't want to keep bringing
47:49
Speaker 3: up stuff that's a longer. Term but kind of not
47:52
Speaker 3: really surprising that yourmo keklin and tried to add a
47:58
Speaker 3: number one center Like Robert thomas this, roster Because i'm
48:00
Speaker 3: pretty sure he probably foresaw something like this. Happening JUST
48:07
Speaker 3: i don't know that it's easy to, say Like i'm
48:10
Speaker 3: blamed rough a lot in this, podcast AND i will
48:12
Speaker 3: continue to say that he has not been good enough
48:14
Speaker 3: as a head, Coach but it really just comes down
48:16
Speaker 3: to seventy, two eighty nine and twenty. Six that's, it right.
48:21
Speaker 3: Now That's that's the only reason we're sitting here pissed off.
48:24
Speaker 3: Tonight it's the only reason we're sitting here pissed off
48:26
Speaker 3: down three to, two is.
48:27
Speaker 4: Just because those guys haven't been good.
48:28
Speaker 3: Enough if you would have told me, that if we
48:30
Speaker 3: would have said, That Consta helenus scored a, Goal Jason
48:35
Speaker 3: zucker scored a goal, tonight and Then doan also scored
48:38
Speaker 3: a goal, Tonight.
48:40
Speaker 4: Chances are we feel pretty.
48:41
Speaker 3: Good but the rest of the lineup did a, zero
48:46
Speaker 3: and unfortunately Lucan. In it's so hard to say because
48:53
Speaker 3: how can you not agree with the decision to start.
48:55
Speaker 3: Him but maybe there is something to that stat that
48:58
Speaker 3: was floating around that The sabers goalie who wins has
49:01
Speaker 3: always had multiple days rests so far in these. PLAYOFFS
49:03
Speaker 3: i don't, KNOW i DON'T i don't, know but it
49:07
Speaker 3: feels like there's a chance that that was the end
49:09
Speaker 3: Of Ukapeca luca and In buffalo and he went out
49:12
Speaker 3: very very.
49:12
Speaker 1: Poorly And ruff's a finalist for The Jack Adams, trophy,
49:16
Speaker 1: right like you just kind of expect.
49:18
Speaker 4: He's he's a very good head.
49:20
Speaker 3: Coach but LIKE i did, SAY i did say the
49:23
Speaker 3: start of this, series it's going to be very interesting
49:26
Speaker 3: when you're going up against another very good head, coach
49:28
Speaker 3: but another very good head coach that has an equal,
49:31
Speaker 3: to if not slightly better. Lineup your talent was just
49:34
Speaker 3: better Than. Boston it didn't matter who the heck was their,
49:36
Speaker 3: coach it didn't matter what the heck was going. On
49:38
Speaker 3: you were just a straight up better. Team in this
49:41
Speaker 3: the teams are a lot. More Even San louis has
49:46
Speaker 3: won the advantage.
49:46
Speaker 4: In terms of.
49:47
Speaker 1: Coaching, YEAH i, mean realistically and plainly, put The sabers
49:53
Speaker 1: best players have to show up On, saturday and if they,
49:56
Speaker 1: don't then we'll be talking about a summer or an
49:58
Speaker 1: offseason Of Alex tugby re. Signed, well you're Mokiek line
50:02
Speaker 1: and circle back around to That Robert thomas trade after
50:04
Speaker 1: not wanting to do anything within that. Room you know who.
50:07
Speaker 1: Knows but again that's. Premature there's still two more games to.
50:10
Speaker 1: Go sabers could Win game, six go To game, seven who.
50:13
Speaker 1: Knows but The Carolina hurricanes are resting up nicely for
50:16
Speaker 1: and hoping this gate the series goes farther because they're
50:19
Speaker 1: looking their chops right, now waiting to host The Eastern Conference.
50:22
Speaker 1: Finals So austin, appreciated and uh, yeah hopefully we're back
50:26
Speaker 1: here On monday talking about A game.
50:27
Speaker 2: Seven, yeah hopefully that's.
50:29
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50:32
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