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Buffalo Sabres Playoff Game 4 Recap & Reactions @ MTL 3-2 WIN - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 2: you of Elite Prospects to break down the Sabers three
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  Speaker 2: to two victory in Game four of their second round
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  Speaker 2: of playoff matchup against the Montreal Canadians on the road,
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  Speaker 2: evening up the series two games of peas going back
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  Speaker 2: to Buffalo on Thursday nights for Game five. Austin felt
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  Speaker 2: like the sky was sort of falling after the last
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  Speaker 2: two games, after the Sabers had been outscored eleven to
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  Speaker 2: three and really looked all out of sorts in that
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  Speaker 2: third game. But Lindy Ruff and the Sabers obviously had
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  Speaker 2: a bounce back game. They got a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: luck along the way, made some lineup changes and were
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  Speaker 2: able to get the split in Montreal.
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  Speaker 3: That right there at the end was the key, right
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  Speaker 3: because obviously going down to one is not necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: end of the world. Going down to one in the
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  Speaker 3: fashion that they went down to one was obviously atrocious.
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  Speaker 3: But I always had the mentality, even after you know,
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  Speaker 3: splitting at home, all you had to do was just
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  Speaker 3: take one in monthly at all and the series would
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  Speaker 3: have a new life. So I did my best to
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  Speaker 3: kind of stay even keeled over the last couple you
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  Speaker 3: know days, even though I understand why nobody wanted to
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  Speaker 3: because it was really bad, like there was no reason
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  Speaker 3: to be confident in this team after games two and three,
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  Speaker 3: especially Game three. Game two I think was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of some bad plays at the at a bad time,
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  Speaker 3: and the penalty kill was really bad and the power
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  Speaker 3: players really bad, but I felt like they were still okay.
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  Speaker 3: But that first game in Montreal, especially after the start
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  Speaker 3: that they had, it kind of just went off the
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  Speaker 3: rails fast and they were not really able to bounce back.
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  Speaker 3: But they still found themselves in a chance tonight just
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  Speaker 3: win this game and you're going back to Buffalo tied
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  Speaker 3: to two, and they found a way to get it done.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope that not only for the fans, but
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  Speaker 3: for the team they can all kind of sit back,
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  Speaker 3: take a breather, and be like, all right, new series
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  Speaker 3: starting now, because that's kind of where that's where they
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  Speaker 3: sit now, best two out of three going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luckily Game three was only one game, right, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was an atrocious Game three, and they
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  Speaker 2: were able to have some adversity and be able to
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  Speaker 2: bounce back tonight. Again, they got some help from you
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  Speaker 2: know a little bit of lucky breaks here and there,
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  Speaker 2: but they played a much better game than they did
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  Speaker 2: in Game three, and again that was a really a
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  Speaker 2: must win. I know that's a term that's thrown around
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  Speaker 2: a lot Austin and we you know, laugh about it too,
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  Speaker 2: but it felt like if you went down three to
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  Speaker 2: one and had to win the next three, that would
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  Speaker 2: have been really hard to overcome.
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  Speaker 1: And right now, now you feel better.
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  Speaker 2: You're going back home for the next two or three
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  Speaker 2: and you know, at the very least you'll have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to reach a game six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, that's that's the key right there. Not only
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  Speaker 3: are you tied, but you're tied, and now you come
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  Speaker 3: home right like, say what we want? You know nothing.
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  Speaker 3: The Montreal building is insane, so being able to split
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  Speaker 3: in there and I know that the Montreal didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: win every home game in the first round either, but
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  Speaker 3: that environment is crazy. And when you're able to kind
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  Speaker 3: of reset yourself, take one of those games, and now
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  Speaker 3: you get to go back home with a fresher, better
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  Speaker 3: look and you feel a little bit better about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely played better today. There are still some glaring
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  Speaker 3: concerns that I think need to be addressed, but winning
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  Speaker 3: this game was huge. Winning the way that they were
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  Speaker 3: able to win this game was huge. Overcoming some of
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  Speaker 3: the things that happened tonight, whether it was mental mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was weird calls by the ref, whether it
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  Speaker 3: was a shaky start by your starting goalie who you
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  Speaker 3: just went to, you know what I mean, Like there
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  Speaker 3: was it was a lot of weird weirdness tonight and
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo being able to overcome that and steady this series
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  Speaker 3: up is huge. And I mean there's no doubt about
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  Speaker 3: who's been the best players for the Sabers in this round,
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  Speaker 3: and those guys continue to be the best players. And
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  Speaker 3: these are the guys that are gonna have to steady
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  Speaker 3: the ship for the same as well. The big guys
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  Speaker 3: kind of find their footing in the series. But they've
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  Speaker 3: given them a golden opportunity. You know, you're going at
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  Speaker 3: guaranteed two more games, one of them at home. Potentially,
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  Speaker 3: we can probably get into it because I'm about to
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  Speaker 3: say a bunch of stuff about the officiating and a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of stuff about some of the things that went down,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll wait till we kind of delve into the
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  Speaker 3: game here. But just crucial, crucial win for these guys
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully they they've kind of settled themselves and realized
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  Speaker 3: that you don't have to have an overreaction as a
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  Speaker 3: as a team and as a fan base. You just
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  Speaker 3: need to lock in and fight through things. It's a
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  Speaker 3: serious there's a reason it's a series. I understand why
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  Speaker 3: everyone was so down after being down to one, but
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  Speaker 3: this is why you got to win four games and
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  Speaker 3: the Sabers responded very very well, and that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the highs and lows of a seven game series, right,
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  Speaker 2: you got to battle through it. I just quickly want
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  Speaker 2: to throw up the statistic because it's a tough one
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  Speaker 2: for the Sabers. You know, most series losses without a
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  Speaker 2: series win when trailing two games to one and the
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  Speaker 2: best of seven, the Sabers have fourteen all time. Nashville
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  Speaker 2: is second with twelve. So again, the history not in
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  Speaker 2: the Sabers favor, but they do get this one tied up.
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  Speaker 2: But I had ESPN posted that graphic earlier today and
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  Speaker 2: I figured it was a funny one to bring up
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  Speaker 2: to put Regardless of what happened tonight, the lineup is
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  Speaker 2: a big topic of discussion Austin that we want to
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  Speaker 2: just rattle off here.
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  Speaker 1: First, we know what sort of happened there. Keric not
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if that was injury related after he
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  Speaker 2: took that shot at the end of the game from JACKI,
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  Speaker 2: or if it was just Lindy Rough looking for some
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  Speaker 2: more offense, getting consta Helenius in the lineup. Ryan McLeod
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  Speaker 2: got moved down to the fourth line center role. You
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  Speaker 2: had Luke Shen come in for Logan Stanley, a more
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  Speaker 2: of a veteran look there. I'm glad that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: stick with the Stanley and Shen pering. They let Timmins
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  Speaker 2: remain in the lineup there, which I think was big
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  Speaker 2: at times with with sheltering Shen's minutes. And then Luken
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  Speaker 2: in as you mentioned off the top, got the start
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  Speaker 2: in net for Lion. You haven't seen him since the
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  Speaker 2: second game against Boston where he lost coming off the
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  Speaker 2: game one victory. But again, these guys have split basically
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  Speaker 2: all year and Ruff's rode the hot hand with Lucan
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  Speaker 2: and Ellis and Lion all season long. It hasn't really
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  Speaker 2: been one guy taking the load. And now Lucanan comes
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  Speaker 2: in in a tough situation really you must win for
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  Speaker 2: the team, and he's able to get it done and
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  Speaker 2: was the first start tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of set it after the Bruins series.
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  Speaker 3: We both were under like we both did not think
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  Speaker 3: that that was the last we were going to see Lucanan. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: this was one of the moves that I did not anticipate,
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  Speaker 3: mostly because the way Ruff was talking, you know, didn't
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  Speaker 3: love lyon in games two or three. But far from
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  Speaker 3: the problem. In Games two and three, Lucan and I
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  Speaker 3: thought after the first period really settled into the game
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  Speaker 3: and played extreamly well. I thought it was an abysmal
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  Speaker 3: first period by him. Obviously, that first goal just a
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  Speaker 3: complete defensive breakdown in front of him, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of been the theme for the Sabers in this series.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't want to blame that all on him
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  Speaker 3: at all. But just that second goal that Coffield scored
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  Speaker 3: on the power play was just the classic thing of
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  Speaker 3: the difference between Lucanan and Lion. Lucanan, with his size
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  Speaker 3: and athleticism, is so big and can move so quickly
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  Speaker 3: through the crease, but he's so overly aggressive, and he
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  Speaker 3: literally lifted his pads off the ice and just allowed
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  Speaker 3: Coffield to slide it in. Now, don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 3: the team put him in a really bad spot by
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  Speaker 3: taking dumb penalties. We could talk about if that tage
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  Speaker 3: penalty in the first period was actually warranted of a
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  Speaker 3: penalty that's beside the point, it was still a penalty,
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  Speaker 3: and to just I thought he was shaky. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he was the Ucapecca Lucanan that we saw in that
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  Speaker 3: second Bruins game. But then the second period hit and
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  Speaker 3: he just eased himself into that game and made some huge,
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  Speaker 3: huge saves on Coffield on another power play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was the cross ice one time or where
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  Speaker 3: he slid over and made a huge stay, like he
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  Speaker 3: just he settled himself into that game so nicely and
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  Speaker 3: started looking more like the Uca Pecca Lucan that was
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  Speaker 3: playing down the stretch. And I think that's huge for
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  Speaker 3: him for him going forward, because if we know anything
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  Speaker 3: about Lindy Rough, we know who's starting the next game,
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  Speaker 3: or at least we can safely assume who started next game,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna be ukupecka.
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  Speaker 1: Lucan in Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he said that game was not online in
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  Speaker 2: game three, but he ended up going to Lucan in
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  Speaker 2: in game four today and even with the lines at
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  Speaker 2: practice with stan Leyod he goes, how do you know
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  Speaker 2: that Schen's playing? So he's it's games have been ship right,
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  Speaker 2: like it's part of playoffs, I guess, But Ruff's been
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  Speaker 2: doing this all season long with you know, just a
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  Speaker 2: flip flopping, I guess, with certain certain lineup decisions things
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  Speaker 2: like that. But yeah, I mean we'll get into it
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  Speaker 2: with the scoring summary and stuff. Lucan In you know,
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  Speaker 2: settled in after that that first period there. Let's start
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  Speaker 2: you want to mention from the game stats?
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  Speaker 1: Tonight Sabers outshot thirty to twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: They outshoot Montreal in the first but get out shot
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  Speaker 2: in the last two periods.
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  Speaker 1: Their face off percentage was a lot better today.
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  Speaker 2: They were fifty two point five per sent to Montreal's
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  Speaker 2: forty seven. That was a big point of emphasis. They
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  Speaker 2: were only thirty seven percent last game. The power play
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  Speaker 2: obviously has started to come to life now after it
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  Speaker 2: was so abysmal for a long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: Two for four tonight.
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  Speaker 2: The penalty kill goes six for seven, which is massive
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  Speaker 2: against a great you know, power play unit that Montreal
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  Speaker 2: can throw out there. And then Sabers had six takeaways
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  Speaker 2: and twenty seven block shots to Montreal's only six. And
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  Speaker 2: there was a couple of big ones at the end
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  Speaker 2: by Timmins and Samuelson to keep the lead alive for
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  Speaker 2: the Sabers.
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  Speaker 1: But anything you want to mention there tonight, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, it's let's just highlight the two the face offs
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  Speaker 3: and the power play, right. I guess penalty kill you
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  Speaker 3: can do too, because they were they were six for seven.
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  Speaker 3: But the face offs and the power play were huge today, right.
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  Speaker 3: The power play you went through for four, getting the
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  Speaker 3: game tying, game winning goals big, even if the second
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  Speaker 3: goal was pere puck cluck, but you know what that happens.
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  Speaker 3: But the face offs was big. It's I am a
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  Speaker 3: very outspoken face offs matter, but I don't get two
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  Speaker 3: worked up about them. But in a game like this,
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  Speaker 3: in a game where, even in a series like this,
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  Speaker 3: where you're playing a team that has you know, equal to,
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  Speaker 3: if not better speed than you, and equal skill than you,
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to be chasing the puck, particularly on
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  Speaker 3: the power play. So for the face offs to be
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  Speaker 3: a plus for the Sabers, and for the power play
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  Speaker 3: to be an advantaged today can't be overstated to how
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  Speaker 3: important it probably was tonight. And getting real specific, I
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  Speaker 3: thought Constant Helenius was really good on face offs, which
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  Speaker 3: is very notable for a twenty year old rookie in
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  Speaker 3: his playoff debut. So those are two that are obviously big,
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  Speaker 3: and the shop block being that heavily favored towards the
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  Speaker 3: Savers can be one of two things. I'm gonna choose
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  Speaker 3: to view it as a positive today. They're getting bodies
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  Speaker 3: on shots and Connord Timmins is a guy that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen that do that regularly, making key blocks. So just overall,
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  Speaker 3: those are the stats that people always harp on, especially
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  Speaker 3: with the Sabers team. Right the power play has been
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  Speaker 3: bad face offs, We're just notoriously awful at it, So
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  Speaker 3: for those to be in the Sabers favor tonight can't
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  Speaker 3: You just can't overstate how important that was to them
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  Speaker 3: getting to win.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's correlated, right, because when they lose
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  Speaker 2: the face off, they have a tough time getting the
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  Speaker 2: zone entry and the power play, and that has been
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  Speaker 2: a result of the struggle as of late.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean that the biggest issue with the
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  Speaker 3: power Play unit now like is the entries, and it's
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  Speaker 3: always gonna be the entries. I thought before rough kind
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  Speaker 3: of switched to the units that we're seeing now. The
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  Speaker 3: whole power play was awful, but watching that Benson and
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  Speaker 3: Thompson like that top unit work the last game and
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  Speaker 3: a half two games, you can see that they're very
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  Speaker 3: good unit once they get the puck in the zone,
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  Speaker 3: but because of their face off issues, they aren't able
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  Speaker 3: to stay in the zone and because their entries are
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  Speaker 3: so abysmal, and so just watching the entries from Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: to Montreal, it's just insane how dumb the saber strategy
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  Speaker 3: is and how poorly they execute it. So yeah, getting
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  Speaker 3: ahead on the face offs is a big thing for
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  Speaker 3: this power play and will be a big factor for
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  Speaker 3: the power Play especially in this series.
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  Speaker 2: Today wasn't quite fifty five seconds in tonight Austin like
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  Speaker 2: it was last game with Tage Thompson, but that game
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  Speaker 2: didn't end up turning in Buffalo's favor. But the Sabers
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  Speaker 2: go up one nothing really good play by Don't Define
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  Speaker 2: Norris and he goes cross ice to Missias Samuelson and
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  Speaker 2: beating you know, jak Abdobish to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: another lead on the road early. I mean, the Sabers
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  Speaker 2: are now four and one on the road in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But that was big after you know, they were questioned
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  Speaker 2: and ridiculed after that that third game.
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  Speaker 1: But for Samrsen to come up with a with a big.
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  Speaker 2: Goal after he had the big block before they transitioned
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  Speaker 2: out of the zone to create that offensive opportunity, that
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  Speaker 2: was a That was a big momentum boost for Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And that style of goal has been there
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  Speaker 3: for the Sabers this entire series. Off the rush, the
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  Speaker 3: cross ice passing, that's one area where you can really
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  Speaker 3: get to jak Abdobish as good as he has been
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  Speaker 3: in as steady as he has been. Obviously the same
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  Speaker 3: for any goalie, but he, like Lukenan, is extremely aggressive
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  Speaker 3: and athletic with his movement. So if you're able to
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  Speaker 3: get him moving across ice, you can take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: And if you look at the same as some goal
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  Speaker 3: that started this off to night to a t if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the some of the goals that the
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  Speaker 3: Saber scored, especially in game one, that's how they were
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  Speaker 3: able to get to Dobish. And even the Tage goal
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  Speaker 3: in game game three, it wasn't a cross ice, but
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  Speaker 3: it was he was over pursuing the puck and then
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  Speaker 3: Tage was able to take advantage of it, banking it
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  Speaker 3: and coming through the backside there. So that is a
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  Speaker 3: goal that if Buffalo can try to mimic, I think
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  Speaker 3: will be huge for them going forward in the series.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, scoring first in three out of four games
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  Speaker 3: has been big starts in the first round. We're kind
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  Speaker 3: of an issue for the Sabers. The starts haven't been
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  Speaker 3: an issue for the Sabers in this round because they've
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  Speaker 3: started hot in most of the games.
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  Speaker 2: And then we thought it was too nothing and we're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna spend as much time on it as this
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  Speaker 2: the review took. But oh my goodness, Jack Wynn is
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  Speaker 2: able to go on the backhand and beat yak Abdobish.
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  Speaker 2: His glove looks to go into the net with the
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  Speaker 2: puck and it crossed the line, reviewed it for over
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  Speaker 2: six minutes. They did declare it a goal on the ice,
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  Speaker 2: and then instantly Montreal challenged for goaltender interference because Constant
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  Speaker 2: Hellnius swiped through the crease when the initial play happened
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  Speaker 2: to result in the scramble to get Quinn the puck,
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  Speaker 2: and then it was deemed that it was goaltender interference.
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  Speaker 1: After that long delay, it.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Ended up taking about twelve minutes between the two delays
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: and the two reviews. It was ridiculously long of a time.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: So it was called no goal, then a goal, and
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: then waved back because of goaltender interference. Lindy Ruff was
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: not happy about that call, and again the Sabers didn't
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: really let that let it dwell on them. But man,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: it would have been nice to go up to nothing
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: in that sense, and they technically did, but they had
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: goaltender interference right beforehand.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and again I won't spend too much time on it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I think the goalie interference on Hellnius, because that's what
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: they ended up ruling. They ruled it on Helnius. I
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: thought that was a little ticky tack the sports Net
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: broadcast was just obsessed with Mattia Samuelson on this play,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: which I thought was very funny because Gooley was in
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: between Dobish and Samuelson. So I don't don't really know
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: why they were so obsessed with Samuelson on that play.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: That being said, I thought the Hellennious was tick attacked.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I would have understood it a little bit more if
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: they said, hey, Quinn stick pushed Dobis's glove and that's
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: why it went in, I wouldn't have liked it. But
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: like I could have understood that, I thought the Hellennious
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: one was a little bit ticky attacked because he had
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: possession of the puck, drove the crease. Did he make
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: some contact there, Yeah, sure, but I don't think in
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: any way, shape or formed. But that impeded, Yeah, Dobis's
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: ability to make the save. He wanted to know why,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: because he made the save just so happens that his
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: puck went and his glove went into the net. So
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: that's why I thought that was a little bit whatever.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: But yeah, from going up to nothing to then almost
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: immediately given not immediately, but giving bunch of y'all the
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: tying goal and then being down at the end of
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the period. What a momentous thing that was and should
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: have been. But I'll give the Sabers credit. They did
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: not let it kill them when they pretty much could
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: have had any any reason to just be that, but
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: they were able to battle through it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as you mentioned, Montreal gets two goals new Hook.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, just.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Byram mountains apparently. Yeah, I mean, what is this eighth
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: goal the playoffs already six? Yeah, imagine if he was
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: still on Colorado too. I don't know, but Byram and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: mountain Stein just collectively couldn't get that puck out, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: then yeah, I was able to kind of vary it
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: after the Jake Evans chance. And I'm not going to
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: blame Lucan in a ton on that one because the
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Sabers should have been able to get that puck out.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll I'll give fifty percent each to byrom
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: A Moleinstein on that one. But you know, that was
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the Sabers were just still a
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: little bit deflated after that second goal got called back
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden the game's tied, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you know, it is what it is.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, I just didn't like that. Uh, that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: collectiveness there.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: No, that goal against pretty much epitomizes every Saber's mistake
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: that they've made a series, and it's failure to get
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the puck out in just abysmal net front coverage, failure
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: to get the puck out whatever puck ends up rating
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the slot. I don't know if Lukenan got a piece
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: of it right away like on that first one, or
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: if they just missed the net. But then even after
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: the puck went behind the net, you saw I think
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: it was a McCloud and Byron both chased the guy
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: behind the net and then just leaving new Hook wide
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: open in front of the net. Samuelson was late to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: react pucks in the back of the net. So just
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: that's just kind of how Montreal has been able to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: take advantage of the Sabers in this series. And that
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: goal right there just again highlighting every major issue that
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the Sabers have had, and that is something that Ruff
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: absolutely needs to be stressing. And I think it improved
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: a little bit more as this game went along, but
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to get away with
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: making these mistakes on a consistent basis, and that's a
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: big reason why the Sabers got hammered in games two
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: and three because they made these mistakes consistently.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Another thing that could have an irate Sabers team that
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you know has had to battle through a lot of
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: you know, highs and lows of emotions. Zucker Drod drew
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the penalty on the on carrier for the trips the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Savers out of power play and then Dallene gets called
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: for inner you're and so on gooli and he was
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: irate about it. It ends up being four on four
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: on that play, you know, just I know Darling's frustrated there.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: But again, like technically on the in the rule book,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: it is interference, so I don't know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's there's two penalties in this game that
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: the Sabers took that I will call soft and ticky tack.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I think that was one of them. Now granted by definition,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: could interference, right, he kept skating blah blah blah, set
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: a pick, tried to set a pick. We know what
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: he was trying to do there, because everyone does it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: And I think that's why I'm a little bit angry
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: with that one is because that's a play that just
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: everyone does unfortunately was it. I don't even think it
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: was that overly aggressive, but because Googie fell the way
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: that he fell, the ref called it. But yeah, it
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: is unfortunate because that was again a chance to capitalize
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: on power play early and you killed it thirty seven
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: seconds in with the offensive zone penalty, which, whatever do
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you think of the penalty itself. This team has taken
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: away too many offenses and penalties in this series, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: there were more that came after that dollying one, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: that's a killer.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they did it in Game three too, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: it was their detriment. And then you know, we saw
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the Coffield goal, Thompson gets called for cross checking on Goolie.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I don't like that one either.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're you're not a big fan of
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, could you have called it? Sure? I mean,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: did Thompson put his stick and lean on him a
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: little bit? But again, that's just that just seems to
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: be a play that we see all the time. And
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I know they're humans and they're inconsistent and everything, but
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: if you gotta find some consistency with with these specific
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: penalty calls, A lot of the other penalties that happened
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: after this. I you know, the high sticks and stuff.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: You can't really argue those because those are just straight
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: up penalties. This one, I think it's a soft call
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: and it bit him. It bit him in the.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Butt, yep.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: It Coffield scores the goal late at the end of
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the period. There comes in tight and a little shifty
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: move there goes backhand and lucan and opens up the
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: five hole and right there Montreal's got a two one
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: lead when Buffalo had a chance to go up to nothing,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden it's two one month you're
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: off to twenty and you're thinking, oh, man, is this
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: going to be it here?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: No? I mean yeah, I oddly felt not good because
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: they were down too one, But like that, after that period,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I was just like, there's just no like Buffalo at
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: even strength, at five and five was controlling that period.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Bad goal against the time, the game up, bad power
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: play goal given up. But I felt relatively good, thinking
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: if Buffalo plays that way, they're gonna find a way
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to win this game. But yeah, there's just giving up.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: That's the second I can't remember game two exactly, but
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: it's the second time that they've given up a power
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: play goal in the last minute of the first period. Thankfully,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: in game one it didn't kill him. This tonight, it
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: didn't kill them either, but it absolutely could have. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that unfortunately, again, whether whatever you think of the call,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I think it was soft, but an offensive home penalty
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: by one of your leaders is just a killer. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that's exactly what happened there again, and.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: A lot of late late period penalties as well for Buffalo,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: right like, they've had a hard time of taking penalties
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: late into periods and I'm sure Lindy Ruff not happy
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: about that. I will say one of the biggest momentum
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: shifts in the game that isn't going to show up
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: on the box score, but early in that second period,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: when Montreal had the power play, Lucanan came up with
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: two massive saves on col Cawfield.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That could have made this game three to one.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And I think that's part of the reason why Lucanan
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: gets number one start a night, because if Cowfield scores
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: on either of those opportunities, and we know that he's
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: now getting hot and feeling it he scored in the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: last game, and how lethal he is on the power play,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you know if he scores one of those two goals,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's over.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And I think those two saves are a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: big reason. Like I said earlier, that's why Lucanan was
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: able to settle himself and get back into the game.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I think he desperately needed those and the fact that
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: he's able to make them, and it kind of set
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the tone for the rest of the game for Lucanan
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: because without those saves, like you said, the game is
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: getting away from him yet again. But that's what you
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: need from your goalie and that's what we've seen Lucanan
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: in line be able to Dotty consistently this year. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: extremely extremely glad that Luca was able to make those
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: saves because I kind of said to myself after again
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: opinion on the penalty aside just penalties in general, I said,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Buffalo is going to get some power plays coming now
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: if they keep the game at five on five, if
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: they be smart and control play the way that they were.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: These rest were calling everything, as evidenced by the amount
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: of power plays that were in this game. Knew that
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: there was gonna be able to flip back in Buffalo's favor,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: so being able to kill that off was massive. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: that's twice early in the period, early in the second
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: and early in the third. The penalty kill comes up
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: huge for Buffalo and those those can't like. Those are
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: huge momentum swings that work in Buffalo's favor from the
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: penalty kill, which is something that we had not seen
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: from the Savers this year, is a penalty kill actually
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: giving them momentum, and I think it was able to
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: give them a ton of momentum.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Tonight, and especially that five man unit Montreal puts out there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It's pretty lethal.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: It's nasty. Yeah, it's insane to watch them move the puck,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: their entry is, their tip passes. It's just night and
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: day watching that power play where it compared.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: To the Sabers, and everybody has an identity and a
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: role of what they're supposed to do on that power
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: play and it runs through Lane Hudson. Dahalene gets a
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: high stick in the face. That's a double minor. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Sabers again just get a very lucky break accounts as
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: a power play goal and I don't know if this
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: saves their season or not. But Tage Thompson rims one
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: in and to note, Montreal was defending on the end
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: where the Zamboni entrance is, so it rimmed off of
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the Zamboni entrance door area and went off of yak
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Abdobis into the net. So again not how they draw
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: it up for a power play goal, but the way
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Tage Thompson has been, you know, really trying to get
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: things going here. You know, they'll take it for sure,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: And Sabers get a lucky break to tie this game
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: at two in the middle of the period.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Puck don't lie, right, that's what like, that's what they say, like,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: that's just lucky, all that stuff. But a bounce finally
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: went the Sabers way, because I thought there was a
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: couple bounces that did not go their way in game
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: in game three, whether it was the puck that bounced
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: off the backboards into Lions' legs, through his legs in
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Montreal's able a bigger goal, whether it was the Benson
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: chances on that big power play that Buffalo had that
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: could have brought the game back within one. Pucks weren't
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: bouncing their way the other game. They were bouncing the
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Sabers way tonight, especially on that one. And you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure Habs fans and Habs players know
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: that bounced all too well, so it probably sucks for
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: them that it bit him in the butt tonight. But
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you got to take goals anyway you can get them,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: especially when things aren't necessarily going your way. But that
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: was another moment where one sequal kind of went in.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Buffalo didn't take over or anything like that, but they started,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: they settled themselves down again and they were able to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: kind of build going from there. They honestly had a
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: couple of huge chances on the rest of that power play,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: just weren't able to convert there. But that was you
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: gotta be lucky to be good, and tonight the Sabers
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: luck on their side.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And again the penalty kill comes up big as you
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: mentioned again, like Byroom gets called for a double minor
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: late in the period for high sticking on Texia and
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: early in the period, yeah, early in the third Lukenin
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: has one squeaking by him and Samilson's able to sweep
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it right off the goal line. And Samuelson, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was good on the offensive and defensive side of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: game tonight, and you know, Montreal almost had they had
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the game tied there or go ahead.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: The go ahead goal.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, but again, just the discipline for the Sabers
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: at the end of periods its really, you know, been
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: something that I've noticed in the last two or three
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: games here.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, discipline in general, right, I mean, in key moments,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: it's been really dumb. And like I said, like those
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: types of penalties, the high sticking ones like that, there's
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: just how you can't argue against those. Those are just
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: those are just penalties. And that one was a double
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: minor that could have again been a dagger, but the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: penalty kill was was massive for Buffalo. It felt like
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: they're high sticking was like the theme of the night
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: in this game, I guess, because there probably could have
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: been two or three more called or not called. But
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: dear lord, I don't know if I've seen so many
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: stick in fractions in one game. I was gonna say
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Disabers obviously scored on their double minor, but I couldn't
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: remember the last time I've seen each team get a
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: double minor power play in a game.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was one of those games, right, And
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: then you know, later in the period, Buffalo on the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: power play once again gets their second power play. Marker
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Benson finds the positioning there, you know, right in front
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: of the net, and makes no mistake on the backhand
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: going over top Adobish.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And what can you say about Zach Benson.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: He's continued to be one of the major heart beats
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: of this team throughout the playoffs. He's developed, you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: quite the identity and quite the reputation around the league,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: especially in that first game first series against the Boston Bruins.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: He can beat you in a lot of different ways,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: and he does it with a smile, which pisses the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: other team off even more.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: He's just a player with no fear.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Small guy, you know, gets in the dirty areas and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: he's so shifty and and so you know, get gifted
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: with his stick handling that he's able to get that
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: one in and tight and go over top Adobitsch for
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: the eventual game winning goal.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's Zach Benson and Josh Doones. Those
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: the two guys we always talk about. The two guys
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: we've been talking about most of these playoffs, but especially
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: in this series. So the two that have showed up
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: every game. Benson getting that goal on his birthday just massive.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: That was a goal that I literally went from my
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: worst fear to like the most jubilation I've had on
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: night because watching Tage sort of fumble the puck at
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: the top there before he gets the puck down to Don,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, it's just another Tage turnover
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that leads to a goal against. But he was able
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: to recover get it to doan done to Benson in
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the slot, and Benson uses his feet to control the
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: puck and he's not He's not gonna missed from in
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: there a lot of times, so he was able to
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: capitalize there and get a huge, the game winning goal
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: on your birthday. The kid's got to feel great. He's
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: he's been consistently showing up. He can do it all,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: whether it's pretty, whether it's grimy, whether it's dirty, Like
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: there's just nothing that the kid can't do. And I
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: think this is his coming out party. It's good to
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: see him get rewarded with a game winning goal and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: at least prolonging his playoff run by two more games
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: because he's just he's been a joy to watch.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: And I think those those adjustments on the power play,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: as far as the you know, switching the guys around
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a little bit in the personnel. Right, you put Doan
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and Benson on that top unit, you take off Zucker
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and Norris, and right there it pays dividends.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's made a huge difference. Like I said, I
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: think the entries are not going to be pretty for
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: that power play unit because you know, nothing as good
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: as Benson is getting the puck over the blue line.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: They don't really have burners and they're still for some
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: reason employed that drop pass. But that's beside the point
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the unit that they're rough assembled. For that top unit,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: once they get the puck in the offensive zone, they've
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: been really effective and it's good to see them. You know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the Caage goal is whatever, it's a power play goal,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: but it's not really them working. But that goal right
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: there was just the good puck movement, getting the puck
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: to the slot and being able to capitalize. And that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: basically what this unit strategy is gonna have to be
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: because aside from Tatus, they're not elite shooters. They're just
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: guys who will outwork you and get the puck to
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: the dirty areas. And that's that's what they did there.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: And the Sabers could have actually had a couple more
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: goals here there was two separate two on ones from
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Zucker to Helenius and one hit the post and one
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Dovis went across and made a marvelous save on Helenius,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: who was a little snake bit on that same play twice.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: That could have extended the Sabers lead there, but they
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: had the three to two lead. Montreal pulls the goaltender.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: They get the time out as well, but they're not
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: able to beat Uko pecaluc and a couple of big
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: blocks at the end by Timmins and Samuelson who was
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: obviously noticeable tonight, and the Sabers were able to hold
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: on there and take a big road victory to even
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the series up absolutely.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: And I mean, I know he didn't score, but I
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: think Hellnius was an interesting guy to discuss, especially in
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: regards to this game and kind of the narrative that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: was around him, because I know I said it right
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: after the last game he needs to be in the lineup,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: and there was some pushback on you know, Twitter, there
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: was some push back from a couple of Sabers writers
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: being like, can't put the twenty year old in the moment,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: would be too big for him in that environment. All
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: this stuff, blah blah blah. I really wish he would
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: scored one of those goals because it would just it
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: would make his impact so much greater. But he was
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: phenomenal tonight. He's one of their more point and responsible
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: centers already as a rookie at twenty years old. The
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: dude's been playing pro hockey for years, whether it's in Finland,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: HL or Buffalo now. He is not the type of
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: guy to wither away. And I don't care that he's twenty.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: You know who else is twenty, Zach Benson, and he's
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: the best player that the Savers have. Age is not
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: a reason to hold the kid out. Experience is not
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: a reason to hold the kid out in the series
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: where speed and defensive play matters, that's what constant Helllnius
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: brings to your lineup, and I thought him, Quinn and
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Zucker were awesome. They This was another night where they
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: that line deserved a goal and Helenius should have had.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Two, Quinn had one. It just got called back.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Another point there too, But it's just like that, that line,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: that line was I don't love McCloud being the fourth
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: line center, but I even thought him on that fourth
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: line brought some juice to that fourth line because you
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: have two of your faster guys and your more responsible
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: guys on that line with Allen Saint Greenway and McCloud. Like,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I thought the lineup construction by Lendy Ruff was good
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: because up until this game four, I thought Lendy Ruff
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: was getting his butt handed to him by Martin Saint
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Louis in terms of coaching and in game adjustments and
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: things like that. This was a nice response by Roff
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: and a nice response by the team here. And I
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: think constant Helnius just showed one you should never care
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: about burning someone's entry level contract. I think that was
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: the dumbest argument for not letting him into a playoff lineup.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: And two, play your best players. I don't care what
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: their age or experience is. Constant Helinius is one of
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: their best players, and I think he showed it tonight.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And a bounce back from Zucker as well, because there
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: was a lot of talk after he played under seven
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: minutes last game. Rough kind of downplayed it, saying because
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: there were penalty teams things like that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Down played it. But I think it was valid questions
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: right because.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: His linemates at the same amount of minutes like that
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: were normal.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Exactly, so good response to see him there. I know
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: he I think it was a shop block. He was
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: in some pain on the bench again, and I know
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: he's had a couple of scares in these playoffs, which
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: is why people were justifiably so wondering about his health.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: But it's good to see him play. You know, his
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: eleven minutes that he played tonight and the line be effective.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I really wish Ideas would have buried
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: those because those guys that line deserves something tonight.
• 33:27
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  Speaker 2: down the Sabers three two victory in Game four of
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  Speaker 2: their second round Stanley Cup plaoff matchup against the Montreal Canadians,
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  Speaker 2: evening the series up at two games apiece autoin before
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  Speaker 2: we go to head coach Lindy Rouff with his postgame thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Thursday night back at the back at Key
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  Speaker 2: Banks Center. I'm sure it's going to be a rocking
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  Speaker 2: crowd there. I know the sky was falling after that
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the second and third game, how those ended, and the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Sabers span some of them were already planning the funeral
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: for this season. But it's gonna at least be three,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: at least two more games than possibly three, because this
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: thing's now tied. And as you mentioned, the ebbs and
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  Speaker 2: flows and the roller coaster a series, one day you
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: go from thinking it's over and the next you think
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: to wow, you gained home ice advantage back.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the beauty of a playoff series, right, like
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I said it. It was a great response by the Sabers.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: It was a great pushback from everyone who played in
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: in this game tonight, and even the Luke shen thing, Like,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: we haven't really talked about it that much, and I
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: know people were like, why the heck is Luke shen
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: in blah blah blah this stuff. It could have been
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: kess Ring too. But I love I love the idea
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: of putting someone in who you know is only going
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: to play seven minutes tops, because that means one of
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Dollyen Biram, Power or Samuelson are always going to consistently
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: be on the ice. Because that's what Rough has done.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: He's done the rotation of the top four and just
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: using the bottom pair. It's basically a break a breather
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: every now and then, and that's when the Sabers were
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: clicking and humming at their best. And what better time
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: to load up on your top four than in the playoffs,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: because that's the reason you do all this stuff. And
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I think it worked out well because you know, either
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: were some struggles from Dolleen and Biram, particularly those two
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: where he had were not great. But I think Samuelson
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: stepped up big and I think oh In Power was
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: just again another guy. Points might not be Owen Power,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: but he is rising to the occasion in these playoffs,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: and I thought he was. He was excellent tonight. I
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: think he was by far their best defenseman.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Two penalties for Dollen and a double minor plus another
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: miner for Bowen Byram, so as you mentioned, there their
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: two best defensemen. Really we're off the ice for a
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: lot of this game, so you had to rely on
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Tim and Samuelson Owen power. I know Luke Sheen only
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: is going to play seven minutes tonight, but as you mentioned,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: a couple of big blocks, didn't you know, look completely
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: out of place? And get his teeth kicked in when
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: he was out there. You know, it was a stable,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: you know, veteran presence back there in place of Logan Stanley.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Timm In stepped up big tonight, playing over twenty one
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: minutes tonight.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I had five blocks.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: He was really good on the penalty kill when guys
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: like Byram and Dolleen were in the box, and as
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: you mentioned, you know, everybody on that decor and collectively
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: just picked up the slack and even the seven minutes
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: from SHN, I don't think it's going to go unnoticed
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely not. And again penalty related obviously, but
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: it is pretty notable that, aside from Lucen, I think
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Rasmus Dallien was the lowest for any defenseman, and again
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of that is the penalties and stuff. But
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: wasn't the best game from your two star defenseman environment Dollen.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: But the other one stepped up, and that's huge. Like
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Samuelson hitting block shots, Timmins hits block shots, power making
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: the breakouts and the transition play well because that's what
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: he does, carrying the puck and things like that. If
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: you have you know, if those guys are clicking you
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: can get away with playing pretty much five defensemen, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be interesting to see. We know how
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Rough is with his lineup. When something works, he tends
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: to stick to it, So I imagine whether it's Shn, Cassel Ring,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: even Stanley coming back in, I imagine the strategy will
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: be very similar for game five.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Back on Buffalo, I think was that Ryan McLeod was
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the lowest forward tonight with nine to thirty five on ice,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: and Greenway was the only one under ten minutes is
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: other than McLeod.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was again McLeod being the fourth line center
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: kind of made up to it. Helennius was second among
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: forwards of five on five list time, and he was
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: out there a couple times late in the game protecting
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: the lead, which I thought was notable. Again, just continuing
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: my theory of play your best players. I don't care
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: what their age or experience is. Helenius stepped up some
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Keith moments there. It's just you have to match Montreal's
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: speed and work ethic, and I think this lineup that
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: he iced tonight is their best chance at it, especially
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: particularly the forwards. Defensively, you know, adding shinter lineup makes
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: you relatively slower, but if you're not going to play him,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: it helps.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So let's go do a Sabers head coach Lindy
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  Speaker 2: his team's three to two victory in Game four.
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  Speaker 3: Tim he won that game, and you said you battled
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: all the elements.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Do this have a similar feel where just every challenge
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: was getting thrown at you for sixty minutes?
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. I thought we got off to tremendous start
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: to the game. We talked about getting off too fast
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: start and trying to quiet the building, and at first
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: eight minutes I thought it might have been some of
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: the best hockey we've played.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: Lindy, With about two and a half minutes left, Constant
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: hit a post on a two on one from Zucker.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: But I immediately looked up at the clock and saw how
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: much time was left. In the fact that in his
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: first playoff game he was out there on the ice,
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: what did you see from him tonight that you trusted
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: him in that situation with the lead.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: I thought he played a He played an excellent game
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: from start to finish. I mean they made a save
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: on him, I don't know what eight ten minutes left
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: to another two and one where if he gets it
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: up as a goal, the next one hit the post.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: Thought he skated well, competed hard. He gave us a
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: heck of a game here.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Lindy, you know you don't as a young group,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: you don't get to get playoff experience until you live it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: And you talked about how.
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: The Boston Series was big for your team, especially Game
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: six that come in here tonight, houst Ale Arena, all
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: the different things that happened tonight, and to grind that
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: out and to.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Stick with it. What could that do for the growth
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: of the seed? I could do.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: It can do a lot, because there was a lot
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: of elements that went the other way. You know, the
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: review where we get the goal, the review where they
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: take it away, which I totally disagree with, just for
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: the fact that Dobeesh always.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Is swinging a stick.
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: He initiated the contact with Helenus with a stick coming
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: across the crease, and I thought Helenis did a great
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: job of trying to avoid the goaltender. There guy ends
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: up hitting the goaltender. So I really thought that that
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: was going our way, and I know that's my opinion.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: By a great play by the kid and just a
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: tough review on us.
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: Along those lines, there were guys in your room we
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: talked about how the emotions got away from them in
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: game three, just the building and everything. How much do
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: you sense your team really learned from Game three and
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: things were going against them in this one too, and
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: they figured out a way to battle through it.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so definitely, but we had some self inflicted pain,
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: and I think there's a part of the game our
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: players need to understand that, whether you like it or not,
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: there are some light penalties getting called both ways. You
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: got to keep your stick off people. You've got to
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: it's the time of year where a player is going
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: to do his best to make whatever call.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: Seem like it's the almost the end of the world,
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: the Thompson play, the Dolline play, those types of place.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Our guys haven't lived enough of that yet to understand it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: We talked yesterday at length about discipline for the game,
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: and we didn't pass the discipline test.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Do I like all the calls?
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: I think you can tell I don't like all the calls,
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: but I have been there and I've lived all those
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: calls in the past, and it's something that we have
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: to be better with.
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: What was was it?
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Was?
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: It kind of your message after the first because it
• 46:20
  Speaker 9: feels like there was a lot of frustration after the
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: lost challenge in the two bills from the half, So
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: what was the message in locker room between the first
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  Speaker 9: and second.
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  Speaker 6: I just stayed with it, you know, the message all time.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: As we're playing a good team. We said it was
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: going to be a long match, a long series. We've
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: got to stay with how we're playing. The way we
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: started the first period. We wanted to start the second period.
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  Speaker 6: We felt that we had the edge five on five,
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: and I think, you know, penaly killing took a lot
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: of wind out of our sails, and it took a
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: lot of our guys out of the out of the
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: mix for a while, which which hurt us when it
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: came to.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: Five on five.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: There was Sabers head coach Lindy ruff on the wild
• 47:08
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  Speaker 1: Gostenin what were your takeaways from what Lindy said tonight?
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you can't. You never know with Lindy,
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: but my takeaways are constant. Helenius is not going anywhere.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: He will be in the lineup. The moment was not
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: too big for him. Turns out he was not overwhelmed
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: by the Montreal atmosphere. Turns out he was not overwhelmed
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: by debuting in the playoffs, which is kind of funny
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: because you look at some of the key performances. Not
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: to Hellnia score tonight or anything, but Zack Benson has
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: been a key performer. Noel Austlin only played a game
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: in a period, but his playoff debut was unreal, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: now Helenius having a very solid playoff debut. It's almost
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: like these young kids, if given the chance, can show
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: up for you and contribute. And that's what we've kind
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: of seen with the Sabers so far, and just the
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: rest of his stuff, right like the discipline test. He
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: doesn't like all the calls, which none of us do,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: but at some point I stopped. You just can't put
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: yourself in the position to to get yourself called. Right
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Like I hate the tage call. I do probably don't
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: need to put your stick on Gooli's back after a whistle, right,
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: You probably just don't need to, whether it's a soft
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: call or not. So discipline is going to be the
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: message going forward because you're not going to get away
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: with seven power play chances for Montreal ever again probably
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: right like they' they're too talented, they're too good. So
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: those are my two things. The discipline is going to
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: continue to be the biggest message for Buffalo going forward
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: because I think at five on five for the most part,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: the Sabers have looked very good in the series. There
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: just hasn't been a lot of five on five play.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: And two, I don't expect, at least to the forward group.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I don't expect any changes going forward because that group
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: look confident and very capable tonight.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Do you think Stanley gets back in for Game four?
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: For Game five?
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: For shen That's one thing I don't know. I don't
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: see why there's any reason why you can't put Stanley
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: in and just employ the same strategy of playing your
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: top four more than anyone else, But who knows. Lindy
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Roff does like to not tweak things when it goes well,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: and tonight it went well, so I genuinely don't know.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: I do know. Michael Kesmer's probably never playing again. Shen
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: played seven minutes, Causlering only played like four when he
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: got in, so it'll be I don't know, it'll be interesting.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Timmans played twenty one. I don't think he's going to
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: do that again unless Byram and Dully in take.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Timmans played twenty one tonight because the penalties were
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: just insane and he's their best penalty killing defenseman. But yeah,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: I don't. I'm very curious as too. If he stays
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: with the same group, or throws in Stanley but keeps
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: the same strategy, or if he just tries to go
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: back to three even pairs, it'll be very interesting. Because
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Byron was very bad tonight, Dallien was very bad tonight.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be bad going forward,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: so you can still try the same strategy. But maybe
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: maybe he thought one game off. Maybe he thinks one
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: game off for Stanley was all he needed. I don't know.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: We'll see. The defense will be the only thing that
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: I think is worth monitoring going forward because I don't
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: expect any changes of that forward group. And with the
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: way the goal irrotation has been luc in one, I
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: see no reason why he won't give him another shot.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: And he played well like he played well and one.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know he rides the hot hand there. Yeah.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: The only comment I had was the self inflicted. Got
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: to keep your sticks off of people. Embellishment's going to
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: happen this time of year, so that yeah.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Like I said, a lot of those, a lot of
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: those penalties, whether you just can't argue those like I
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: sticked in the face no matter what you think, Like
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: that's gonna get called. The Dallian interference on Coffield, Like sorry,
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: that's just a dumb penalty. To the first interference on Goolie.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: I didn't like that one, and I didn't like the
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: one on Tage. The other ones, I don't know. I
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: don't know how those are penalties, man, Whether I seven's
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: a lot, and you know, they tell me, they try
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: to tell us that penalties don't get called in the playoffs,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: but apparently they just do. But those a lot of
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: them are penalties, and there's not much you can do
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: about it. Just try and, like rough said, keep your
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: sticks to yourself. Try to be disciplined because you know,
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: the way this series has gone, power players are gonna
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: get called. So if you're the disciplined team, you take
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: advantage of your power play opportunities, that's another plus for you.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: But if you give a team like Montreal seven power plays,
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: they're gonna make you pay. Tonight just happened to be
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: not one of those Knights.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: So lastly, I guess I'll say, uh, you know, there
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't as much funny business as there was in the
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: last game, right like they're I don't know if that
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: came down from the league as well, with both fines
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: going both ways to Malenstein and the Jack Guy. We
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: know what Norris? Did we know Malenstein? Did we know
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: what happened to Kerrick at the end of the game
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: with Jack Guy as well? How do you think the
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Sabers responded just in the I guess just the toughness
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: part of the game tonight, I think they responded fine.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: I think this is a series where you don't need
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: to get involved with that funny business It's not like
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: the Bruins where that's you know, like no offense to
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: the Canadians. Knanes are a really good team. But I'm
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: not worried about the Canadians bullying me. I'm worried about
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: the Canadians beating me with their speed and skill. So
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: if the Canadians want to do this stuff, and especially
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: the way it's been officiated, let them do this stuff.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Last game obviously a different story, and near the end
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: of the game, you're pissed off, you're frustrated. I understand
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: that emotions get the better of you, but in terms
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: of just gameplay going forward, you don't need to get
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: involved with that stuff. That's not that's a bonus to
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: the Canadians if you're doing that, because that means they're
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: in your head. And when a team like them are
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: in your head, with the speed and skill if they have,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: you're gonna lose. So if you just stay calm and
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: play your game like you did tonight, like you did
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: in game one, it's gonna more times than not be
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: better off for you than it will be for them.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: So before we wrap up, as always our player, the
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• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Austin got a lot of good options tonight. But who
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: are you going with for your player of the game.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: Gotta go Benson birthday boy, game winning goal continues to
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: you know, just his ability to use his footwork and
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: his his stick and his motor to wear people down,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: create loose pucks, things like that get to the slot.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: He's been their best performer and he came up big
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: yet again. So I'm gonna go with Zack Benson.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say my one b option because Benson was
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: gonna be my guy. I'm gonna say Matia Samuelson. He
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: logged the most minutes for any defenseman tonight for the Sabers,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: had twenty seven shifts, had that first goal for Buffalo,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: He had two shots, He had six blocks, six hits,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: and a takeaway as well. So Samilson did everything tonight
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: and even you know, swipe one off the goal line
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: there early in the third period and came up with
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: big blocks when Montreal had the goalie pulled trying to press.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: So I think number twenty three Samuelson was you know,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: a big impact tonight.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want to give him a shoutout.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Love that, and I know we've already talked about him,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: but also get some still looking in starting out really
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: bad in huge saves. That play where he pulled the
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: puck off the goal line on the penalty kill was awesome,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: So he deserves the shout out because even though it
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: started out shaky, he studied the ship for Buffalo and
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: ended up being very, very solid.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: So Austin.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Final thoughts going into uh Thursday series tied to too
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: going back home. We know, we know what the you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: the block parties have been like in downtown Buffalo. You've
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: been to a couple of them now, I'm sure they're
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: they're incredible, but I know they've been a better road
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: team in the playoffs. But now they've got two of
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: the next three at home and trying to to take
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: this series. We thought it was going to go all
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: the way to the to the end here and now
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: they've given themselves a chance.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Final thoughts basically, please keep the game at five on five,
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: like playing and simple not even just obviously discipline and
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. But there are stretches where Montreal is
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: obviously taking it to him. But I feel like, for
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: the most part, at five on five in the series,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: you feel pretty about how you've performed. If you're Lindy
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Rough in the Buffalo Savers, you can match their speed
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: at five on five. You have the same skill as them.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: It's when the other stuff starts coming into it and
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: you give them power plays and you just give them
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: kicks at the can? Who kill yourself? And if you
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: keep this game at five on five, I think that
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: they've shown the ability to all playoff long. They've shown
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: the ability that we are a all season long, really
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: that they're a good five on five teams. So be disciplined,
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: keep the game at five on five and things will
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: go your way.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: And both these teams know how to respond off losses.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: So not real.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: You're hoping that you have the same bounce back after
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: game one that you did in game two. And for
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the Savers, you hope that you can keep you know,
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: this momentum up and really keeping yourself in this series.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: So series tied to two. Savers win this one by
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: a four or three to two score, excuse me? In
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: game four in Monthreal to tie the series up to two,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: going back home to Buffalo Thursday night. That's gonna be
• 56:01
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