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Buffalo Sabres Playoff Game 3 Recap & Reactions @ Boston 3-1 WIN - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: favorite on demand audio podcast platform BRANDICC Wuido and Austin
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  Speaker 1: broad Elite prospects with you going to breakdown and exciting
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  Speaker 1: three to one victory for the Buffalo Sabers on the
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  Speaker 1: road in Game three against the Boston Bruins, taking a
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  Speaker 1: two to one series lead in their first round matchup Austin,
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  Speaker 1: and that was definitely a nail bier all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the end. But we're going to talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about you know, games one and
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  Speaker 1: two as a whole as well. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: first taste of playoff action for the Sabers in fourteen seasons,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, what have you thought of it
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  Speaker 1: so far?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I want to say it's been about what I
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  Speaker 3: expected in terms of from a fan fan standpoint, like
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  Speaker 3: nerves through the roof every game, things like that nail bier.
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  Speaker 3: Glad that they fought back for Game two even though
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't really a nail bier, but they just made
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  Speaker 3: it close. But for the most part, I mean overall,
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  Speaker 3: for three games aside sorry, aside from Game two, I
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  Speaker 3: think the Sabers have just clearly been the better team
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  Speaker 3: at five on five. Like, I don't even think it's
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  Speaker 3: been particularly close, and that's kind of what the Sabers
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  Speaker 3: are going to have to do to close out this series,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and get two more wins. Is keep this
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  Speaker 3: game at five on five. We'll talk about that later
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  Speaker 3: with the power play being what the power play has been.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it feels good, Like I paced
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  Speaker 3: the living room in my house for you know, all
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  Speaker 3: throughout the entire tirity of the third period. Didn't sit
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  Speaker 3: down once during the third period. It good. It feels
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  Speaker 3: good to watch hockey like this again. And I mean
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  Speaker 3: nail biter tonight. I've try to put it into words
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  Speaker 3: like playoff hockey does shave years off your life. It does,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been fourteen years since we've had to experience that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of like trying to quit something cold
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  Speaker 3: turkey once you get that little you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: relapse a little bit and you get a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a taste there. That's kind of what we've gotten
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  Speaker 3: through with these thirstree games. Is like, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how I'm gonna do this for two more. Like they
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  Speaker 3: have two days off now, and that kind of sucks
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  Speaker 3: because I don't want two days off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Game three is not gonna or excuse me, Game
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  Speaker 1: four is not gonna go till Sunday at two pm
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  Speaker 1: because of the great scheduling conflicts that TD Garden's got
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  Speaker 1: to love it with multiple teams playing in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. But again for the Sabers, and well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to monitor. We might cut the Lindy
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  Speaker 1: Rouff and some other post game stuff as it trickles
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  Speaker 1: in here on the post game show tonight. To appreciate
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  Speaker 1: everybody staying up with us tonight. So Austin, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: quickly go over the first two games. Obviously we talk
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  Speaker 1: about we're to get into this game itself, but with
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  Speaker 1: the three to one victory, the empty netter and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. But for the first two you know, that
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  Speaker 1: first game, you know, the fans outside it was incredible
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  Speaker 1: to see a canal side everything going on with the
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  Speaker 1: theatrics and all that. And then having the third period
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  Speaker 1: comeback with with eight minutes left in the final frame,
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  Speaker 1: the Sabers down to nothing and they score, you know,
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  Speaker 1: three goals and have one of the biggest comebacks in
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  Speaker 1: postseason history as far as being able to tie it
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  Speaker 1: and then win it in regulation. Being down by two
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  Speaker 1: goals with less than eight minutes left to go in
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  Speaker 1: the game. You know, that was just I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Sabers fans kind of needed that for the fourteen
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  Speaker 1: year drought.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely as a perfect It's weird, and when you
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  Speaker 3: zoom out from the grand scheme of things, there's a
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  Speaker 3: perfect way to start the playoffs, like a huge, memorable
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  Speaker 3: win for the first time in fourteen years. Obviously in
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  Speaker 3: the moment, would have preferred them to not have to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, come back in the last eight minutes of
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  Speaker 3: the game, but now that we're two days later, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what a perfect way to start at The fans were
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  Speaker 3: absolutely bonkers, which is kind of what we expected. Canalside
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  Speaker 3: was jumping in that game, watching the Rollerblade gang that
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  Speaker 3: they're going by now like it. It was just perfect.
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  Speaker 3: It was exactly what Buffalo needed. And I was really glad, again,
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  Speaker 3: really glad that they were able to get that comeback
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  Speaker 3: win because it kind of kind of just showcased what
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  Speaker 3: this market can be. And having everyone talk about the
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  Speaker 3: Savers for those two days, the day, like, the day
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  Speaker 3: after the game and the night of the win, like,
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  Speaker 3: it was really cool and that's something that I think
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  Speaker 3: all fans be like, Yeah, we've waited so long. We
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  Speaker 3: kind of deserve this. So that first game was just
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  Speaker 3: super memorable for everybody. Like I said, I was watching
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  Speaker 3: it in the back of the truck on my way
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  Speaker 3: home from the airport because I was in Edmonton for
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. Flew home, landed at seven point thirty, watched
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  Speaker 3: the entire game on my phone, walked in the door.
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  Speaker 3: Essentially Samuelson gave them the lead. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And for a guy like Taje Thompson to be
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  Speaker 1: able to step up in a big moment like that
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  Speaker 1: scoring the two goals, right, Like, you want your best
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  Speaker 1: players to be your best players. You know, Tage won
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  Speaker 1: a gold medal with tam Usa this year. He's played
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  Speaker 1: in some big games. Maybe that helped him in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: But you heard Lindy Ruff after that first game, but
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  Speaker 1: saying you want your playoff experience, you got it there,
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  Speaker 1: and even heard Tae Thompson talking about we've sort of
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  Speaker 1: been playing playoff games for the last two months, right,
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  Speaker 1: like with all the big games they had against the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning. So yeah, it's not ideal. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be down to nothing with eight minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: but for them to be able to have some resolve
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  Speaker 1: and some resilience like that. We've kind of seen that
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  Speaker 1: from this team all season long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, again, not that they're stepping aside the
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  Speaker 3: keeping the second game excuting from this. For the most
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  Speaker 3: part this year, when the Sabers have been tested or
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  Speaker 3: face some adversity, they've been able to battle through it.
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  Speaker 3: And that was just another example of that. They were
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  Speaker 3: the better team in that first game. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: anyone will disagree with that. They just were the powerplay sucks,
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  Speaker 3: which we'll talk about that, I'm sure every time we
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  Speaker 3: have a podcast. But they were the better team and
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  Speaker 3: it was honestly, for fifty two minutes Boston was playing.
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  Speaker 3: It was the perfect strategy for Boston, which was just
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  Speaker 3: hope that Swayman kind of keeps us in this game
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  Speaker 3: and we got to capitalize on our chances, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what they did. But when the Sabers broke through, it
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  Speaker 3: was just you could feel that build and shake and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you were watching the MSG broadcast
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  Speaker 3: or the ESPN broadcast, but right after Tage Thompson scored
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  Speaker 3: that goal and the crowd was doing the TNT chant,
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  Speaker 3: Ray Ferro was sat on the ESPN broadcast, The next
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  Speaker 3: five minutes are absolutely crucial for the Boston Bruins. This
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  Speaker 3: arena is about to explode, and in that next five
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  Speaker 3: minutes the Sabers took over and won the game. And
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  Speaker 3: it was I think I thought it was just really poetic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, and I was watching the ESPN broadcast
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  Speaker 1: as well, So yeah, I mean for the Sabers to
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  Speaker 1: do what they did in that first game, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of gave them a buffer for what happened in the
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  Speaker 1: second game. Bruins. You know that four nothing lead, and
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  Speaker 1: we've all seen it, that blooper from from lucan In
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  Speaker 1: and it is what it is, you know, the geeky
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  Speaker 1: dump in that goes over his shoulder and goes in
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  Speaker 1: the net, makes it three nothing. They get the quick
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  Speaker 1: one to start the third period and Alex Lyon comes
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  Speaker 1: in and after that the Saber would score the Bruins
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, and maybe that carried some momentum into tonight
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  Speaker 1: with how how well Alex Lion played. But what would
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  Speaker 1: be your quick quick analysis of what we saw in
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  Speaker 1: that second game?
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  Speaker 3: Game two? Is the strategy for Boston right like Game
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  Speaker 3: one that it kind of worked for fifty two minutes.
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  Speaker 3: But Game two was the pure perfect strategy for Boston
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  Speaker 3: because not only was Swamen playing really good, but Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: was not nearly as confident and aggressive on the four check.
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  Speaker 3: They were, for lack of a better word, mucking the
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  Speaker 3: game up and drawing Buffalo into the stupid after the
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  Speaker 3: whistle crap, and we saw it like Buffalo kind of
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  Speaker 3: played into Boston's hands in that game too. And you
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  Speaker 3: saw it, I mean, whether it was Lion making a
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  Speaker 3: couple saves when he got put in there, or just
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, but once too little,
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  Speaker 3: too late, obviously, but once that switch flipped in that
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  Speaker 3: third period and they scored their first goal, they started
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  Speaker 3: dumping the puck aggressively, wearing them down with the four check,
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  Speaker 3: and it led to two goals for him. Now obviously
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  Speaker 3: again too little too late. But I don't think in
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I hate moral victory type thing. But
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  Speaker 3: you can't under it. You can't understate that that probably
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  Speaker 3: had Buffalo field pretty a lot better than they would
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  Speaker 3: have felt that they'd lost that game for nothing, because
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  Speaker 3: that is the game that Buffalo needed to play, and
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of the game that we saw them play
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  Speaker 3: tonight in this third game, But honestly, I thought through
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  Speaker 3: the first six periods Buffalo was the better team for
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  Speaker 3: the most part, but the strategy was working for Boston
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  Speaker 3: because they're gonna and they're gonna continue for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the series. It's gonna be we're gonna rely on
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  Speaker 3: Jeremy Swayman to be Jeremy Swayman, and we're just gonna
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  Speaker 3: have We're gonna capitalize on our chances. That's kind of
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  Speaker 3: what Boston does. And their first two lines, like the
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  Speaker 3: Arbinson line, was really bad in Game one, but Game two,
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  Speaker 3: Arbinson was their best player and they were dangerous again.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight had a couple of chances, So it's Game two
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  Speaker 3: was picture perfect for Boston. Game one was almost picture perfect,
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  Speaker 3: but Buffalo kind of outlasted them, and tonight we saw
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  Speaker 3: the Sabers play the way that the Sabers need to play.
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  Speaker 3: If the Sabers play the way that they played tonight,
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  Speaker 3: they'll win this series no problem.
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  Speaker 1: So going into what we sort of saw tonight before
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  Speaker 1: we got into the game morning Skate today, Alex Lion
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  Speaker 1: took the net by himself. We knew that that was
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  Speaker 1: interesting because that means that usually means that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to get the start in the net. So a couple
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  Speaker 1: other of the of the player notes, we saw Josh
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  Speaker 1: Norris was out for game three tonight. He was out
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  Speaker 1: day to day with an injury. Again this from Matthew Fairburn.
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  Speaker 1: Noah Austlin takes his place in the lineup, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that ended up working out real wealth with the
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  Speaker 1: Sabers or we talkable, but Alex Tuck also took Norris
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  Speaker 1: a spot on the top power play unit. Austin went
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  Speaker 1: to the second unit, and we saw Alex Lyons start
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  Speaker 1: tonight for lucan In, which I thought was a little
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I actually thought that they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: go back to lucan In just for the fact, to
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  Speaker 1: give him another chance after you know that blunder in
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  Speaker 1: game two. Maybe give him another another opportunity. But the
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  Speaker 1: Sabers have sort of done this all year long. They've
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  Speaker 1: sort of just ridden the hot hand with either Ellis
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  Speaker 1: or Lion or lucan In. And I know Lyon hasn't
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  Speaker 1: started a game in quite a while. He came in
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  Speaker 1: relief for one game, but you know, with the way
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  Speaker 1: that it went tonight, I can't really blame Lindy Rough,
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  Speaker 1: but I was fully expecting lucan In to start Game
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  Speaker 1: three tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I honestly I didn't know. I kind of expected
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  Speaker 3: it to be Lyon only because I thought going to
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  Speaker 3: Lion immediately kind of plays into Lindy Rouff's hand better
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  Speaker 3: because he can go with the well, we've rotated goalies
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  Speaker 3: all year, Whereas if he went to Lucanan tonight and
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  Speaker 3: Lucanan struggled, pulling the cord feels a lot more like
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  Speaker 3: pulling the cord like this is Lion's now. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: still expect Lying to start Game four, but there's no
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  Speaker 3: reason now for Lindy Rough to be like it's Lion
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  Speaker 3: only going forward, because he can be like, no, this
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  Speaker 3: is the rotation that we talked about, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: for a while it was winning, you're in, and then
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  Speaker 3: it was rotating back and forth, back and forth. So
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  Speaker 3: I kind of just thought the easiest solution for Rough
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  Speaker 3: was just, hey, we're gonna go to Lion. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it's the typical rotation, which it is, and doesn't
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  Speaker 3: slam the door on Lucanan. Whereas I think if Lukenan
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  Speaker 3: had one more bad game, you're a lot closer to
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  Speaker 3: slamming the door shut on him than you would be
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  Speaker 3: if you just said, hey, we're gonna rest you for
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  Speaker 3: a bit. Because with Lucanan, like any goalie really, but
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  Speaker 3: especially a guy like Luken, and we know when we
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  Speaker 3: know when he's shaky, things go like awry really fast.
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  Speaker 3: And he wasn't bad in game one, but he was
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  Speaker 3: a little bit shaky at times in Game one, started
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  Speaker 3: Game two extremely calm, and then that blunder happened and
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  Speaker 3: you could tell it was just kind of it was
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  Speaker 3: done from there. So I think given him a rest
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  Speaker 3: was probably the better call in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Lion basically played that entire third period
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  Speaker 1: right like Boston scored go right away, and it gave
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  Speaker 1: Lyon a little bit of time to get in there, right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like he just came in to muck
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  Speaker 1: it up in the last couple of minutes of the game,
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  Speaker 1: like he he basically played a full period, so he
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  Speaker 1: was sort of ready to go, and he he looked
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  Speaker 1: decent like it wasn't like the Bruins, you know, did
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot with up four nothing They really went
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  Speaker 1: sort of prevent But I guess it was enough for
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  Speaker 1: Lindy rough to say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna ride
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  Speaker 1: with this guy, because as you mentioned, that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: the rotation that they've done all season long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think oddly enough, when Lyon didn't start
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  Speaker 3: the third period, I think that was rough Chance being like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna let Luken, We're gonna let you finish this
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  Speaker 3: game strong, see if you can rebound. And I think
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  Speaker 3: I think had Lucanan finished that third period strong, he's
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  Speaker 3: probably starting tonight. But because he gave up that goal
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  Speaker 3: and when he was like, all right, we got to
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  Speaker 3: get him out, I think he kind of made the
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  Speaker 3: decision for him that night. But again, I do fully believe,
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  Speaker 3: like I don't think anyone believes this is the last
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  Speaker 3: we'll see Lucan.
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  Speaker 1: In the playoffs, right, No, absolutely, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: if knock on what it doesn't happen. But if Lyon
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  Speaker 1: were to struggle in Game four, we'd see Lucanan right
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  Speaker 1: back in there for Game five. I believe that would
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  Speaker 1: be my take from it. But Norris being out day
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  Speaker 1: to day's injured Ausland. You know, he was ready to
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  Speaker 1: go miss twelve games, so it worked out. I guess
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  Speaker 1: for Buffalo in that sense, But you know Norris, we
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  Speaker 1: know we talked about his extensive injury history for you know,
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  Speaker 1: the entire season we were doing this podcast as he's
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  Speaker 1: been a Saber but had been pretty healthy down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch and got in the first two games but just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't able to go, And with him being on the
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  Speaker 1: top power play unit as well, it sort of changed
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  Speaker 1: things up there. So what did you think of the
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  Speaker 1: lineup changes that Lindy Ruff had to make tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm surprised it wasn't more drastic. He literally just
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  Speaker 3: subbed Kozak and Austlin and for done Norris. The Norris
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  Speaker 3: injury is a little peculiar because my timeline is messed up.
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  Speaker 3: But do you remember when he took that hard fall
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  Speaker 3: into the boards in the offense of his own Was
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  Speaker 3: that game one or two? Honestly, my memory is very
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  Speaker 3: hazy on if that was one or two. I can't
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  Speaker 3: really remember, But I think again, obviously we don't know
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  Speaker 3: safe to assume that's probably what happened. Maybe not, but
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  Speaker 3: I kind of thought when he was able to finish
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  Speaker 3: that game, and if it was game I kind of
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  Speaker 3: thought we were in the clear. But honestly, with a
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  Speaker 3: guy like Norris, if it truly is day to day,
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  Speaker 3: we know when the rust day to day quickly can
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  Speaker 3: turn into a Look at Ausland, he was day to
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  Speaker 3: day and then he missed twelve games. But if it
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  Speaker 3: truly is just day to day, no problem in sitting
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  Speaker 3: him out. I again, same thing. It worked out because
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  Speaker 3: they won, but I honestly was surprised it was just
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  Speaker 3: a straight up two subs, two subs for two. I
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  Speaker 3: thought he was gonna try and tweak something he didn't
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  Speaker 3: ended up working out. Power play is still hot garbage,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully we'll with the way awesome played today. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how you don't throw them on the top
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  Speaker 3: unit because that is going to again it hasn't. It
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  Speaker 3: has burned you through three games, but you're up to
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  Speaker 3: one through three games, so it hasn't been like as
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: big of a deal as it should be. But in
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: like a crucial game, the power play is needed. And
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: the fact that you're zero for twelve in the playoffs
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: now I believe, and you haven't scored a power play
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: goal in all of April, that's a problem. Thankfully, your
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: penalty kill is making up for how bad your power
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: play is, because the penalty kill has been excellent, but
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: at some point this power play is going to need
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: to not look like hot garbage. I thought the first
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: two power plays I thought were pretty solid. They kind
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: of had done away with the drop pass and we're
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: entering the zone, and then all of a sudden, the
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: drop passes kind of came back into it. And Dolan
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: and Quinn have struggled mightily on that top unit, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: I thought both were not very good today on that
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: power play.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: The Sabers, which isn't scored an entire month of apos
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, has now surpassed sixty minutes of power play
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: time without a goal. That's a full game with an
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: extra skaters, scoreless run of sixty one minutes and thirteen seconds. Yeah,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: just has not been good enough. I think it's oh
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: for their last thirty two. Now if if my masters
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: me correct, beyond that those last couple there, don't don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: come after me if it's if it's worse or better.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: But I think it's it's around that. But it's just
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: not it's not good enough. And we saw some changes
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: obviously with the Norris injury. So Lindy Can could have
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: used as an excuse because he said after game one, Nope, nope, nope,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: we're not going to be making any changes there. You
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: don't want to change a bunch of stuff up. But
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: with the Norris injury, he sort of had a scapegoat
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: to be able to say, oh yeah, I'm going to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: change it the power play because one of the guys
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: on our top unich was injured. So we saw Alex
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Tucker move up, get moved up to that top unit,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned Austlin with his first game he got
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: moved up to the second unit there. And I thought
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the second unit had a couple of good looks tonight,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: even though they were only out there for about twenty
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: seconds at each unit or each power play opportunity. But
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that top unit,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: but it's almost just seems like they're trying to pass
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: their way out of a goal.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really know what's going on with it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And obviously Alex Tuck was awesome tonight, so this doesn't
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: include him, but the second power play unit, and they
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: weren't good on the power play, but the second power
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: play unit featured the three best players for the same tonight, McCleod.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: In my opinion, McLeod, I don't think anyone will argue
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: against Oastlan and Byron has been your best defenseman through
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: three games. Sanielson was awesome in game one, has kind
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: of struggled the last two. Biram has progressively gotten better
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: as these playoffs gone along, and as Osland just had
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: the game of his life. So I mean the way,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: my biggest issue with the power play is the zone entries.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: And just watch McLeod like he doesn't drop. He does sometimes,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: but mclod just says, you know what, I'm gonna take
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: this puck. I'm gonna use my speed, I'm gonna gain
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: the zone. Why not try, mcclod, I don't know, try
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: something new. Nothing against Tuck. Put In Tuck on the
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: first power play I think is a smart movement. He
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: should be there, But that to me is not significant
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: enough of a change to make a difference. And that's
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: not a knock on Tuck. Tuck's not the puck carrier.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: And to me, their problem is with their zone entries.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: McLoud doesn't have any issues with zone entries. Byron is
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: pretty solid on zone entries. Oceland's a. I know it
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: was five on five obviously, but Oslin's assist was off
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: his zone entry Like, I don't know, you're gonna need
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: more of a drastic change, because I think you're being
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: extremely nice when you say it's not good enough. It
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: is garbage. When they scored the goal to tie it
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: up and got the power played right away, that power
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: play should have been a chance to build momentum and
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: bury the Bruins further, and that power play stunk and
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: gave the Bruins momentum. That's when it's really bad, not
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: only when your power play. If the power play was
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: just not in a cold spell, I'd be all right
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: with it. But the power play is actively hurting the
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Sabers momentum in games.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And it was nineteenth in the season, but it was
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it was horrible down the stretch and we was all
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: year Like seth Abbert, you know, he's been, you know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: an easy target for Sabers fans with what's happened with
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that power play unit. But even as you mentioned a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: small change there with McLeod, like he I almost feel
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: like he got in on the first unit on the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: way one of the line changes happened. But he's one
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of the fastest skaters in the National Hockey League, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: you saw it with him being able to enter the zone, right, Like,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: why why not try something like that because it's not
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: working with those five guys. Even when Norris was there,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: he was giving the puck away for almost half breakaways
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to the Bruins on the zone entries as well. So
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it's just a whole, you know, scheme. We've talked about
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it for you know, months on end about it's not
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a talent issue. We had the players that can do this.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Even when Doan was up on the first unit, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: he was going to the net and doing the doing
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the dirty work. But I don't know, I throw Tage
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Thompson in front of the net. I know you want
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: him to have his his shot, but like you saw
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: what happened when he screened a goalie tonight.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I I honestly again, at times I
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: thought the first power play was moving the puck. Well,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: they were doing goal line plays like Zucker had some
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: really good chances, just couldn't beat swaymen. But it's kind
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: of the issue with the Sabers power play is at
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: times it actually does look good. You can see it there,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: but there is no in between the power play that
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: looks solid or it is just awful. Like there are
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: there are times where, like I mean, we obviously all
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: say this decline the penalty, declined the penalty, but there
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: were literally times tonight, like when Tage got tripped at
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: the end of the second period and there was no
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: penalty call. I was like, thank god, there was no
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: penalty call, because the last thing I want to see
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: is the Savers a good power play right now, They're
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: better at five on five, they were dominating at five
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: on five. This was the type of game where thankfully
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: your penalty kill was up to the task because there
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: was some untied Like we were actually two times that
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: you took a penalty, killed it off and immediately took
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: another penalty because it happened in the first period and
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: it happened in the third period. It just thankfully the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: penalty kill was good. But yeah, like the second unit,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the only problem I have with the second unit is
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: there's just no Elite shooter on that unit. Yeah, but again,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the second unit gets has been getting thirty seconds of
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: the power play if they're lucky, so it's not a problem,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: but like I'm hoping Ruscott two days here, I'm hoping
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: he kind of tweaked something drastically, whether that's I mean,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Zucker got some key chances tonight, so maybe you can't
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: take him off, but maybe try Osener McLoud on the
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: top unit. Maybe go two defensemen with byronman Dalen. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: don't know, because.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Try Jack Quinn on that second unit. Maybe if you
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: took talk.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: About jack Quinn had some really blatant turnovers on the
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: power play tonight that really could have cost the Sabers.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: But I've liked, Again, it's only on the power play
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I've There hasn't been a lot of players that I've
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: disliked that five on five. It's just the power play
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: feels like jack Quinn and Dolly don't really know what
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: they're doing right now, and Tage at times had some issues.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: So it's just hopefully it won't kill you in this series.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: The way that the series has gone, it doesn't look
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: like it's going to, but we are going to need
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: it at some point, and I just hope, hope the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: right adjustments are made, but they haven't been yet.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So we'll see Lindy Ruff's at the podium. Do you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: want to go to him?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You can cut into him quick, all right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: So let's go to uh Buffalo Sabers head coach Lindy
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  Speaker 4: Kim doing with puck and he came up with a
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: huge safe for us and at.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: The crucial time of the game, Inde, this is really
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: the first time all series he played with the lead.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: How did you see maybe Boston change their game a
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: bit and chasing the game and the way you guys
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: really walked in and defended No.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: You know, I think our I talked about our game
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: where we needed better puck play. I thought our puck
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: played throughout the game was really good. Our passing was good.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: You know that led to better team speed. I don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: think they changed their game. They're really good at how
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: they play, and we have to focus on how we play.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: And I said before this started, you've got two good
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: teams that are playing hockey against each other.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: They how would you evaluate Alex Ellis first start.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Playoffs the same?
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I thought he was very good tonight. I thought
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: both goalies, Uh, both teams left some high quality stuff
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: out there. You know, even the third period, I think
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: we had the Greenway hit a post, uh Zacher hit
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: a crossbar. The opportunities were there. I thought Alex Alex
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: made some cross ice passes, even a couple in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: first period. You know that I think frustrated frustrated them
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: a little bit. But at the same time, you know,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: our power play let let's swing en off. So we
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: had an empty net, Dolls had an empty net to
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: shoot in and he chose pass. But there were some
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: good stuff there and both goaltenders made some big saves
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: at key times. And Noah Aucelin said he was a
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: little nervous at the beginning of the game, but for
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: him to have the debut he had, what's it say
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: about him, Well, you know, I think he he said
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: it as best he could. He's got experience, he's played against,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: he's been in the playoffs. Everybody's a little nervous going
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: into a game like that. I totally understand that. I
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: thought he played played a really solid game for us,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: a little disjointed with all the penalties, you know where
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: you know, like to see him play a little bit
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: more because he was going so good. But for a
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: first playoff game with us, he let's say, gets an
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: a plus if there hasn't been a lot of if
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• 24:31
  Speaker 4: and what were you thinking when he was uh he
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: had all that that stage. Are you talking to first
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: goal toxical? Well, I just thought, you know, we had
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: good motion inside the zone. We won a couple of battles.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I thought we did a lot better job of moving
• 24:48
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• 24:52
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• 29:02
  Speaker 1: So there was Sabers head coach Lindy Rough on the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Wild Bills out of repair post game following his team's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: three to one victory in Game three of the Stanley
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Cup playoffs. Austin, what did you take away from what
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Lindy said there?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we want to just get right into it,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I think he was spot on about Austlin. I mean,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I thought early on he had a couple of shakey
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: plays in his own zone, but you can kind of
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: tell the second he made that he set up that
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Byron goal, kind of calmed himself and ease back into
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: the game, and then he kind of was just a
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: force for the rest of the game, Like he was
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: so effective on the fore check him. Benson and Don't
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: has to be the most annoying thing in the world
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: because they're all Don't aside because Don't has like normal
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: NHL side, but like Austlin and Benson are just so
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: much smaller, but they're they're able to like use their
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: lower body and their backstrength to shield the puck, keep
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: players at bay work behind the net, and you can
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: tell like it's just it's frustrating to play against a
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: player like them. And then when you have a guy
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: who's just gifted as as Austlin, is that think that
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: pass to Byron was a sick oh pass, like from
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: behind the net to the defenseman like that. I know
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: it took a bit of a deflection like tip for
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: him to spot that pass and deliver it. Not many
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: players on the Sabers I think can pass the way
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: that he is. He might be their best peer playmaker
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: at this point in time. And that's saying something because
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Benson McLeod are pretty good set up guys.
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  Speaker 1: eight to twenty five in the game. They actually led
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  Speaker 1: have not done in all season long. The power play
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: that we mentioned just continues to be horrendous zero for five,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: although four for four in the penalty kill, you can
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: take that as a positive. There hits thirty eight to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: thirty five for the in favor of the Savers. We
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  Speaker 1: knew that that was going to be a point of
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  Speaker 1: v Is coming in and Marco Stern had that sound
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: by at the beginning, saying that we're a better we're
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a more physical team than the Sabers are, and Lindy
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Reff kind of, you know, laughed it off. But the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Sabers have definitely shown that they're not backing down to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a team like the Bruins in that sense. And then
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: six or five in favor of Buffalo and the takeaway department.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to mention anything here
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: from the game stats tonight.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, the face offs are surprising obviously because
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: that I think at one point in game two, face
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: offs were like nineteen to three in favor of the Bruins,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: So being able to come away with it, it kind
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: of seems like it kind of felt like every big
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: penalty kill faceoff in the third period Buffalo one, I
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: think at one point, the Sabers were seventy five percent
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: on the penalty kill in the third period, so or
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: just in general, I think it was for face offs,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: So like that's huge. That's a big reason why the
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: penalty kill is able to kind of do what they
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: do and be as aggressive as they were. But face offs,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I know it can kind of people kind of grow
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: when we talk about it, but like there are times
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: where it's extremely important, and a series like this it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: been crucial. So it was good to see Buffalo away
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: with that. I mean, the power play is the power
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: play kind of just it is what it is. The
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: hitting is notable because especially Games one and three, the
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Savers out hit the Bruins, but they also kind of
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: felt like they possessed they possessed the puck more than
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the Bruins, which is kind of not how it's supposed
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: to work. Like you're not supposed to you're supposed to
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: throw hits when you don't have the puck, and it
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: just hasn't felt like that. And through games one and three,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: which is obviously a good sign for Buffalo, they are
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: kind of proving that we're not going to back down
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: just because you pretend that you're more like you can
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: think that you're more physical than us, but when the
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: time comes, we're gonna be able to do it. Like
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Tage Thompson. Tage Thompson didn't have any points or anything tonight,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: but he threw a couple of really big hits and
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was really effective on the wall in the four tracks.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: So you're seeing players like Tage Chuck had the goal tonight,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: but like you're seeing those guys do more than just
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: try to provide offense. And that's what playoff hockey is
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: all about.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: So we'll move forward with the scoring summary tonight brought
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  Speaker 1: to find your next work opportunity today. And yeah, you mentioned, uh,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you know that, I don't know we can talk about
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the power play until the until the couch come home.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just ye, I can't. I can't stress
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: about it anymore. Everybody knows what the problems are on it,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and they just need to get this thing figured out
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: because I don't know if you can go deep, if
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you're you can't even score a goal in their your
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: last thirty five power play opportunities, Like I don't know
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: any of these other top teams that they're gonna get
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a late power play needing a goal. Luckily, it's worked
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in the Sabers favor as you said, they're up to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: one in the series. But it it's just it's got
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to be better.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like we've we've we've talked about it
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: ad nauseum, like it's it's gonna kill them at some point.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I just hopefully it's not during the series. But hey,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, unfortunately, if the trade off is you dominate
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: the series on five one five, I think I'll be
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: okay with that, because whether we want to talk about
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: it or not, Like I do expect officiating to tighten
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: up as these playoffs gets deeper. Kind of has been
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: the classic We're gonna call a bunch of penalties in
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: the first round because people say we never call penalties
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs and kind of tighten it up. But
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: we'll see, I mean, looking at the scoring summary there,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: like we kind of already talked about it, like Tuck
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Byronman also were their best three players offensively? There are
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: two players I want to mention that didn't show up
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: on the score, So we kind of already talked about McLoud.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I thought McLoud was excellent, you know, whether it be
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: on the penalty kill or his ability to carry the
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: pucket use his speed to be effective. I think one
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: of the things that was kind of talked about when
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the Oilers traded him was he wasn't as effective on
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: their playoff runs as they would have liked him to be.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: And he might not have the production right now, but
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: he's been one of the sabers more effective players, and
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I think Connor Timmins deserves a huge shout out him
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: man Logan Stanley, if you want to talk about both
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: of them, they've been good, but Tims was kind of
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: hot garbage down the stretch a little bit, and that's
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: why he wasn't in regularly. That's why we were seeing
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: a guy like Zach Metz to play. But you're seeing
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Timmins' playoff experience shine through early on here. He is
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: blocking shots on the penalty kill, He's been smart with
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: the puck. Him and Stanley, I think was our biggest
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: fear going into this, how would they fare? And I
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: think him and Stanley have been a strength.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was actually gonna ask you about that, about
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: how you thought about that third pair, because we both
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: thought Metza kessel Ring definitely not shen unless they wanted
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to get into a Donnie Brook with Tampa Bay. But
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I've been pretty impressed with the way Stanley and Timmins
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: have been playing. Timmins has come up with some big blocks.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: He came up with another big one tonight tonight, you know.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: And Stanley he hasn't like really gotten out of place
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and out of order, hasn't taken stupid penalties. Again, we
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: know his mobility isn't quite there, but you can see
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the playoff experience Timmins, you know, in his time in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the NHL, and also Stanley with his time with the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Winnipeg Jets. It's definitely paying off. And yeah, I think
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: that as long as they got serviceable you know play
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: from those two guys and that third pair, the Sabers
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: were gonna be good. But yeah, I agree. I think
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Connor Timmins, the Saint Catherine's native, has really stepped it
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: up in this playoffs for Buffalo and been a valuable
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: piece as that sixth defenseman.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like you know, we kind of laughed at, like, oh,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Timmins is playing because of the penalty kill. Well, he's
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: been huge on the penalty kill and that's been a
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: big deal for the Sabers in these first three games.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: So definitely thought he deserved a shout out there because
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: he's kind of doing the work that people don't love doing.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: You know, it's not fun to take a bunch of
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: shots to your body, but he's doing it and he's
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I think it was Game one on the penalty kill,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: like he came from the corner and like skate it
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: out into the slot and dove across the block of shot.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: It's just like that. That's the type of thing where
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: it's like you're seeing timmins playoff experience kind of shine through,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: and honestly, the same kind of goes for Byram. I
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: mean you just like he's been on cup runs and
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: stuff with Colorado and you're kind of seeing it like this.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: The playoffs haven't looked too big for Byram. I think
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Dollen has struggled a bit through these first three games.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone is a shock to anyone there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: So you can look at it one of two ways.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: The good Dollen is gonna come and that's going to
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: be beneficial for the Sabers or like we're gonna have
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: to go on a run until Doling kind of figures
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: it out. Because I think right now, byron empower is
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: your top unit. I know power is kind of a
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: you know, polarizing figure, but I've I've liked going power
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: through these first three games.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: He jumped into the third. The third game, he can
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: tell he was a little bit more engaged in the offense.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the Sabers bread and butter is there
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: are defense activating and you saw it in the first
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: game a little bit. You didn't really see it in
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the second game, and you saw it tonight and it
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: made a huge difference.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: So that that first goal for Janeau, that was to me,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: that was the only mistake of Alex Lion made tonight.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I need to save there coming down the left wing
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: short side Tanner Janeau's first career playoff goal. You know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: roll eye roll on that one, because you know he's
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: just been a giant, you know, haint in the butt
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: for the Sabers so far, and you know he's in
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: his career with Nashville and Tampa just more of a
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you know, bruising fourth fourth line type of guy. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you know he was getting at it with the Sabers
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: bench in Game two with those colorful comment he was
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: making in between the benches and things like that. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to me, that was the only some mistake Alex Lion
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: made tonight. And you know, gave the Burns and one
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: nothing leading the second.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when, again, not a goal you want to
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: give up. Kind of a brutal turnover before that, but
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: again it's just a goal you'd like to see your
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: goalie save. Thankfully, Lion was able to make up for
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: it in other ways. But yeah, it's just the one
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: mistake that he made. But I don't know that he
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: was solid, like his his saves early on in the
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: first period were so crucial and just you could tell
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the savers were not nervous tonight, but you could tell
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: a couple of those big saves were like all right,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Like it's hard to explain how good you feel when
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: you know your goalies on and aside from that one goal,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: you just you Lion was on tonight and it kind
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: of helps relax everybody, especially when the goaltending was shaky.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: He gave two Yeah, he made that like sprawling save
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: on Lindholm and the rebound on Geekye on the penalty
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: kill in the first period, like that was a massive
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: save at that point. And then even after he gave
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: up the goal to you know know, I think it
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: was the next shift Pasturenoch had a chance where he
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: kind of were line and stumbled and almost had to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: get back in a position he was way out of
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the net, and he was able to make the save
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: right after that, So you could tell that he was
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: able to get his composure back come up with a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: big save when the Bruins could have went up to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: nothing in that game and they had the momentum right
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: so and.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: The penalty shot, like he it was hard to tell,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: but he got a piece like he stopped that with
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: his blocker like he he was. He was very solid tonight.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: And you know, I mean we should say here in Nitpick,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: like we said that goal is a tough one to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: give up, but when not your only blemish doesn't really matter.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned the penalty shot. That was my next
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: point is that was the turning point in the game
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: for me. You know, just unfortunate play where Samulson stick
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: breaks as he's trying to the Sabers are trying to
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: break out of the zone and it just gives Arbitson
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: basically a breakaway. Dline has to hook him in order
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to to stop him from getting to the net with
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the breakaway. He's award of the penalty shot you mentioned.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: He comes down on Lion. We all thought he missed
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the net, and they they go back later on and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: give us a slow motion replay that Alex Alex Lyon
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: actually did get a piece of his blocker on that,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: so that when the Bruins were up one nothing, with
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: those two opportunities to go up to nothing for Alex
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Line to keep them in that game, we could have
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: been talking about him a completely different result tonight if
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the Bruins score on either of those.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's one thing I think the Sabers are
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: gonna want to work on because like there has been
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: a the Bruins also do a good job of not
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: cherry picking, but they do a good job of like
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: get like fleeing the zone really, especially that Pasternack line
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: and get on Arbitson. They do a good job of
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: getting out leaving the zone really and getting behind the defense.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Obviously that the penalty shot was off of turnover. It
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't because of anything like Arbadson stuck behind anybody. It
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: was just straight up Samuels had broke his stick and
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: then tried to kick the puck over, which tough situation
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: for Samuelson. Obviously, it's easy for me to sit there
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: and say like I'm just falling and eat that puck
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: instead of trying to kick it over because he kind
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: of forecasted where he was going with the puck. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: a play there where Dollian probably did what he had
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: to do because it's just a really unfortunate timing for
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: that penalty shot holder or a penalty shot turnover there.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: But I think all in all of the goalie bailt
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Like I said, Lion bailed them out a couple of times,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and that's what you want from your goalie. And most
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: of the big guys had really good games today for
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: the Sabers, and they you know, a guy like a
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: guy like Oaceland steps up like that's huge.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he carried the puck in, you know, went behind
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the net, fired a beautiful pass that you sort of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: mentioned a bit earlier out front to Byram and he's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: able to really one touch that that pass and take
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: that shot right away. I think if Byram waits on
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: that shot, it doesn't go in and he has to
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: get it off right away. He's able to get that
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: quick shot off and I think it went off of
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Haggens and over top of Swaymen, so again it didn't
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: directly go in. But that was just a quick, quick
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: play and a quick puck to the net that I
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: feel like the Sabers need to do more of, especially
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: on the power play where they just try to wait
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: it out, wait it out, waited out, and that play
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: by Austlin, you can it didn't look like he was
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a guy that's been out for twelve games, that's for sure.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: He came up with a big play there and found
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Byram and and the Sabers get a lucky bat to
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: get over top of Swaymen, and that's what they're gonna need.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Like I said, Oceland had a few plays
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: earlier in the game where I was like, you could
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: see the nerves like a few like weak defensive zone passes.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: But once that play happened, he settled in and was
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: really effective for the Sabers. The tuck Thompson Crebs line,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: it just continues to be effective.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Like it.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I guess if Peyton Crebs is just the top line
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: winger now, like just what it is. But it's crazy
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: to think that. But the one other thing I'll say
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: with the Sabers, especially these through these first three games,
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: it just feels like once they get that first one,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: they are able to just relax and score. Like I know,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the second one wasn't like immediately after. It wasn't until
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: later in the period obviously, but they scored the Yron
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: goal and you can kind of tell they loosened up
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: a little bit, were pressing. They got the power player,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: though it was trapped, like they were able to kind
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: of take control back of the game. And then even
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: through the first two games, once they were able to
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: crack Swiman, once they were able to to find a
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: way to beat him a couple of times and start
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: to generate those more high danger looks and get more
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: traffic to the net. Tonight felt a lot different than
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: the first game in terms of it felt like they
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: were getting traffic in front of the net and getting
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: those low chances. Swaymen was just playing unreal. He's been
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: on real the entire series. But definitely good. That something
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: to note, especially you know, with a big, potentially crucial
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Game four coming up, because the Sabers can put a
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: stranglehold on this series if they went on Sunday to
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: just keep plugging and playing the way that they played today,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Because if they play the way that they played today
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: and in Game one, they're gonna beat a lot of
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: good playoff teams.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean yeah, kind of going off that
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: point that you mentioned, like getting one on Swaymen is
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: almost like something that they need to just get over
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: in the mental hurdle, right Like, once they get that
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: first goal on them, they feel like, Okay, now we
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: can we can start to play our game a little bit.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: But it's almost like until he lets us get that
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: first one, it's almost like, oh, we're just gonna get
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: shut out tonight. It's Uh, Swayman has to be the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Bruins' best player in this series for them to stand
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: a chance, in my opinion, and he has looked like
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: their best player on uh in points of this series
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: so far, for most of it really obviously with the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Sabers that they score in bunches that seemed like in
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: that those first two games and then tonight coming up
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: with the three unanswered. But yeah, I just think it's
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: a It's a thing where they have to mentally get
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: over themselves to say, hey, we can we can beat
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: this guy, and when we get one in, we have
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the confidence that we're gonna go and get two more,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: sort of like they did in game one.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean when we did our preview thing, we
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: said that the X factors were gonna be the power
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: player in Swayman, Swayman versus Upl. Well, Swayman has outdualed Upl.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: He didn't outdue a Liant tonight, but he's outdual UPL.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I think he's clearly been nothing against Pasternaker, Geeku and Arbinson,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: who have all been very good. But I think Swayman's
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: clearly been the Bruins' best player. But the Sabers have
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: been able to beat him twice and that's huge. Uh,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have to find a way to Hey, we
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: made it halfway through the game for scoring today. Now
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: hopefully in Game four, maybe we could get one in
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the first period.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: That'd be nice, right, because I think it was a
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: stat that the Sabers through the first two games. I
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: think it's just give me one second. I haven't booked
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: these things bookmarked sadly, but after the Sabers road power play,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: by the way, is thirty first in the league, so
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: that I guess they're sort of going off of that trend.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: But the other that one book mark tweet I had.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: The second one was lead times through two games. Boston
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: seventy nine minutes and fifty eight, Buffalo three minutes and
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: twenty four seconds, so at least they led for more
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: game time tonight.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the crazy thing about that status it
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't do Game one justice. It kind of makes it
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: seem like Buffalo is they were playing from behind in
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Game one, but they were the better team in game one.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Game two. That status is perfect capsulation because Boston got
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: a lead on them early and they were able to
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: just suffocate the Savers. But yeah, it definitely helps that
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: you were able to lead for sixteen minutes in this game,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: because that is something that Buffalo has been good at
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: this year, Like they've been good at playing with the
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: lead in the third period. So having that recipe finally happened.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: This was the first game this series where they weren't
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: trailing starting the third period. I think that's a big
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: help for that team like this.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: And this was an interesting game because the Bruins came
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: in with the second best home record in the National
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Hockey League, the Sabers the second best road record in
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the National Hockey League, so something had to give.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: I guess sorry as I was saying, this was the
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: first time in this series that they were tied going
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: into the third period, which I think is obviously huge
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: mentally being able to not have like knowing you have
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: to just win a period and you win the game,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: rather than like, oh crap, we got to claw our
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: way back on a huge deficite here. But yeah, I
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: mean through three games, it's gone pretty well for the Sabers.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: They don't you know, people will obviously have some things
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: we can nitpick, but being up to one, like you said,
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I think the Sabers were the best road team in
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: the East or in terms of wins and second only
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: to Colorado with road winds, which is a big thing
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: because we know how good Boston has been at home.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: But being able to take home ice back right away
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: got to be a huge, huge relief for this team
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: because worst case scenario, you're coming back home tied best case,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: you're coming back home up through.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: One and Alex Tuck got that the game winning goal
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and Tage Thompson screening in front of the net. You know,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that was just a great play. Crabs sort of stole
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the puck, as they say, the Bruins were trying trying
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: to transition out of the zone. The Sabers kept it
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: in and they find Tuck out front from sort of
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the the left hash mark there and he fires it
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: over top a swim and he didn't see this puck
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: at all with big six foot seven stage tops and
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: standing in front of him, which maybe that gives Lindy
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Rough an idea maybe what he should do in the
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: power play. But well, going back to game one, like
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: and that was a in the game winning goal tonight.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Turnovers this the Bruins had the puck understick three times
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: between game one and this game tonight, where the Sabers
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: you know, for check and just being able to cause
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the Bruins to create a turnover led to their goals.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like they're just scoring off the rush. The
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Sabers did the hard work with the Bruins having the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: puck on their stick. I know one of the goals
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: was because a Bruins stick broke, But again, that doesn't
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: even happen if the Sabers don't don't have a you know,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: a good attack in that sense, and being able to
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: create those those turnovers and get those giveaways from Boston
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: that it led to a game winning goal tonight and
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: two goals earlier in the series.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Bruins like doubled up the Sabers and giveaways,
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: which is a huge deal. I think if you watch
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: the Sabers carefully this year, when they're not loose with
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: the puck, they're just a dominant team, and tonight they
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: weren't loose with the puck. Obviously you have giveaways here
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: and there, but they only had eight of them tonight,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: So that's a big thing. It's those small margins that
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: are gonna help when the power play is as bad
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: as it is, because normally we say the power play
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: is the X factor. Well, we know the power play
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: is not going to be a positive X factor for
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: the Sabers, so they're going to have to find these
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: little margins elsewhere and being smart with the puck, getting
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: that good goaltending and just having you know, being able
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: to play a dump and chase game, which is not
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: something we're used to with the Sabers. It makes a
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: huge difference when you can use your four check as
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: a weapon instead of just relying off the rush end through.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Like the two games that they won, the four check
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: was relentless and that is the recipe for the Savers,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: and the best part about that is easily duplicated, like
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: you could do that night in a night out.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: And the Bruins, they were given every opportunity in the
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: world to tie this game late, right like the two penalties,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the Dalline interference penalty with when him and macavoy ran
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: into each other. To me, that was ridiculous. Tage getting
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: called for a trip as well later in the game.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to go back to the penalty
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: in the first period where Timmins got called for something
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: on Pastornak when he was falling. That one was brutal
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: to me too, But again, it is what it is.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Officiating is what it is. But the Sabers are able
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: to kill off both those late power plays by the Bruins.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: The six on five as well, after the Bruins had
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: taken their time out and Noah Austlin gets the empty
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: net goal and the Savers are able to close it
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: out there in the final five minutes.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a pure unreal effort played by Ocelan on
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: that empty neckl too to beat out the icing and
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: then also get that puck in. Was just he provided
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: such a boost that even more so than I think
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: any of us thought it, Like we knew he was
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: going to be effective when he got back in, but
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know one obviously saw this type of performance
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: for him and his playoff debut, but he was just
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: he was unreal. The Sabers locked it down when they
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: needed to, and though you know their big forward line
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: was good, that McLeod quinn Zucker line I thought was
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: effective at five on five like it, This was honestly
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: a game that was not as close as the scoreboard was.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Like the Sabers were just not even. It was not
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: close at five on five, like I've said it a
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: couple of times already tonight, like they they were so
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: good at five on five, Boston didn't really have a chance.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: The only time Boston got chances was, like I said,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: off a mistake or when Buffalo was on the penalty kill.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: But Buffalo's penalty kill was great tonight and a big
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: reason of that is Lion Tuck McLeod Timmins. So they
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: deserve a lot of credit a great, great way to
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: rebound back after that loss. Especially in the playoffs, we
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: always talk about how do you respond to a loss.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: That's kind of been an issue with the Savers of
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: the past is they don't respond well the losses. This year,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: they've been able to battle through adversity and this was
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: just another test that they passed with I'm not gonna
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: give him flying colors because the power play is still garbage,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: but they passed the test really well and it just
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: feels like, again we said it in the preview episode,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: aside from swaymen, Buffalo is a better team and it's
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: shown through two of these three games.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: And pastornock to me like he's missed a lot of opportunities,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: especially on the power play high and wide. We knew
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: that eighty eight they would have to lock in on
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: him to be able to have success in the series,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: and for the most part they've been able to shut
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: him down and even Morgan geeky to a lesser extent.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I know he had a goal in the first game,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: but the Savers have done a good job of limiting
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: the opportunities for those those big guys and the big guns,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: for the especially passeronok we know how dangerous he is,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: but Austland in his playoff debut one goal, one assist
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: plus two fourteen minutes and eighteen seconds of ice time
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: on twenty shifts, two shots on net at a block
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: shot as well, So can't ask for much more of
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a guy, especially that's missed the last twelve games as
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: well coming in.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, a twenty two year old rookie in
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: his playoff debut, coming off an injury to step up
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: like that just awesome. It's that type of contribution, is
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: that type of performance that makes a difference in a
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: playoff game, in a playoff series. So for him to
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: get that under his belt like immediately, it's going to
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: be a huge, huge boost for him going forward and
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: then a huge boost for the Sabers because you know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: we have to talk like the Norris thing. If he
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: truly is only day to day, he's not done, Like
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: we'll get an update obviously, but as right now we
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: gotta take rough as his word. Well, he's going to
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: be day to day being able to get Norris back
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: in and add Oceland to the lineup is going to
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: be huge for them, and Osland kind of showed today
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: alone like when I'm in, I need to be playing
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: because without him they don't win tonight.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: So theoretically, if Norris is back for Game four and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: he goes back to that third line center role where
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: you put Auceland.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: I genuinely don't know, because Crebs has been playing so
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: well with those two guys. My initial thought was Kreb's
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: fourth line center. And then Benson comes out. Yeah, Kozak
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: comes out, Benson goes up to Thompson and Tuck, and
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: then you go back to the Oaceland Norris don't line
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: that was working so well because again I know they
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: I've actually really like Jordan Greenway hasn't really been a
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: problem in the had a great shot tonight. He looks
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: for he looks fast for Jordan Greenway, which is a
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: compliment because he's not a fast skater. Like his skating
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: looks extremely good. He's using his size, he's using his reach.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Allenstein is Maalleenstine. So it would have to be Kozak
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: coming out, and then some kind of configuration with the lines,
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: and I don't truly know what it would be, but
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: that's a problem for another day. Like I said, it's
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: it's hard to take one of Rough had his word
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: with day to day injuries because we that's just Lindy Ruff,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: It's what he does.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, you can't be upset with what
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: you saw from No. Austlin tonight, and it gives you
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of encouragement if Norris is to miss another
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: game or two in the series, that they're gonna be
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: okay okay in that sense. And we don't expect Sam
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Carreck to be back until possibly the second round at
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: this point, which is unfortunate because he's obviously one of
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the Sabers' best, uh you know, contributors on the faceoff
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: dot and him with Mallenstein were so good on that
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: fourth line, even contributing some goals late in the season.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: So are you good with them sticking with Stanley and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Timmins as well in that third pair. Don't change anything
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: up right now we won't see the scoring.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: And yeah, no, I don't think you need to change
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: anything on the defense. If you really wanted to, maybe
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: you could tweak the top four some way, like maybe buyer.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't even know. I wouldn't touch the
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: defensive pairs because Sanderson had a great Game one, Dollyen
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: has struggled, but he's still dolly and and empower Environm
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: have just been really good. And Stanley and Timmins they
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: fit well for this type of series, like Stanley like
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: they haven't been a problem at all. So I think
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: the defense is good. I think the lineup is good.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: We just know if Josh Norris is healthy. We know
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: he's gonna play because he's an eight million dollars center
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: and he's he's a good player where he's healthy. So
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: it'll be interesting what happens here with a two day break.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: But winning and going into that two day break is
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: not only good for the Savers mentally, is good for
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Sabers fans mentally because now we can kind of just
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: enjoy the weekend and have a chance to go up
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: through one on Sunday.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, quick thoughts. You were in the bill,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: you were at the the canal side on for Game two?
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Was what was the vibe like there? And then you
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: know TV only does a justice, but for somebody that
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: was on the ground there, what was that.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: Experience, like I mean, vibe at the start of the
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: game was awesome. I imagine it was pretty similar. No,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: it obviously wasn't the exact same as game one because
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Game one was like the full on nostalgia and everything,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: but Game two it was rocketers, people in the trees.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Obviously the game didn't go that well, so it wasn't
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: the best, But come Oleside's cool and I hope, I mean,
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens if they go on a deep run.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: I kind of hope that they try to open it
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: up for more than just home games, because it would
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: be cool to have something like that for a road game.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: But that's a topic for another day. But watching playoff hockey,
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: it's it's nothing like it.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: No, absolutely, So I guess you're we're gonna go to
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: our player of the game, brought to you by the
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Niagradentric Clinic, creating national smiles in the Naga region for
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: over twenty five years. I know you mentioned McLeod there
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: as he sort of in Austland. I think would probably
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: be your player of the game.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's the easy player of the
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: game right because of the way he played. But honestly,
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go I'll go with Byron right, Austin I
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: had a couple of huge plays obviously, but Byron has
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: just been steady and has really stepped up when their
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: best defenseman hasn't been himself, and that's made a huge difference.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: So Byron's gonna get the flowers for me, because we've
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: kind of already talked about Austlin. But Byron's ability to
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: activate gain you know, gain the zone with possession, use
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: his passing and his shooting ability. He's you know, he's
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: got two goals in the last two games. He's been
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: really effective. I thought Tonight was the the driving force
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: behind behind the blue line him in power to me,
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: where the are the top pair right now?
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: And I'll go with the Alex Lion Tonight stop in
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five, came up with big saves
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: in that middle period where the Bruins could have went
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: up to nothing. Obviously on the penalty shot as well.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: So a great job by Alex Lion getting his you know,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: big pressure moment there, coming in in a in a
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: one to one series, hadn't played, hadn't started the game
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: in quite a while, and he comes in there and
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: comes with a big performance. Even after giving up that
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: first goal, he rebounded really well and you could tell,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: you know, the veteran presence that he brings to the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Sabers team. So I'm gonna give it to Alex Lion tonight.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely deserving he I think they said on the
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: broadcast at like four of his five playoffs, four of
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: his last five playoff starts have been against Boston, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: you know, he was part of that that Florida team
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: that came back and took Boston. I know, Butbroski kind
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: of took over for line at the at the turning
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: point of that series. But Lions has some playoff experience,
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: especially in that building. So he was a rock and
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: that's that's that was absolutely needed after some shaky play
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: by lucan In so a lot of very worthy player.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Game four goes Sunday afternoon, two o'clock, two o'clock game.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: It's almost feels like a football Sunday in that sense.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, maybe we'll be back with you guys for
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: some postgame thoughts on that one as well. But austin
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: final thoughts as we wrap this one up. Sabers up
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: to one in the series. One more on the road here.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: No, I mean final thoughts is, how how do you
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: not feel good? Right? They responded to the loss extremely well.
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: They got two days off now to kind of tweak
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: their power play, which I know is a problem. But
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: they have a chance to go up three to one
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: on Sunday and put a stranglehold on this series. And
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: how do you not how are you not happy with that?
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: So and they again, like I'll reiterate it again, just
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: a dominant team at five on five against the Bruges tonight,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: so that's extremely positive.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: And they led for more than three minutes in the game,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: so that's also a very big positive as well. So
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: that's going to wrap it up for our Saber Semantics
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• 58:59
  Speaker 1: against the Boston Burns, winning it by a three to
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