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Buffalo Sabres Playoff EPIC Game 1 4-3 Comeback Recap & Reactions vs Boston - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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Speaker 1: Wow, ladies and gentlemen, what we just witnessed about an
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Speaker 1: hour ago, I still can't really put into words, but
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Speaker 1: So wow, Sabers win this one for to three. And
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Speaker 1: again I don't have a co host tonight, so it's
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Speaker 1: just gonna be off the cuff for you guys here Again,
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Speaker 1: not the not the most coherent episode almost at midnight tonight,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna hear from the two press conferences that
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Speaker 1: happened as well.
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Speaker 4: Head coach Lindy.
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Speaker 1: Ruff of the Buffalo Sabers as well as Mattia Samuelson
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Speaker 1: and Tage Thompson. We'll hear from them as well, get
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Speaker 1: their postgame thoughts on a wild third period. And again,
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned off the top, the Sabers a massive
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Speaker 1: comeback in the third period to be able to win
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Speaker 1: this game by a four to three final. Boston gets
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Speaker 1: the late goal there in the dying seconds to make
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Speaker 1: it a four to three game, but Buffalo scored four
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Speaker 1: unanswered goals and and broke a record tonight that I'll
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Speaker 1: that I'll get into late. But three goals in four
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Speaker 1: minutes and thirty four seconds just bedlam there at key
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Speaker 1: Bank Center tonight. From the first playoff game in downtown
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Speaker 1: Buffalo since April of twenty eleven. So the fans were
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Speaker 1: just dying for this moment, for this opportunity to have
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Speaker 1: obviously a playoff game in Buffalo. The party was rocking
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Speaker 1: outside hours leading up, and it took the Sabers a
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Speaker 1: little bit of time. The fans were rowdy, the fans
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Speaker 1: were anxious, but they finally got it going there near
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Speaker 1: the end of the game. And just if anybody is
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Speaker 1: in the comments section was at key Bank Center tonight,
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Speaker 1: I would love to know what the reaction was tonight
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Speaker 1: from downtown at the arena. Just I'm sure it was
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Speaker 1: an amazing atmosphere, even if you're outside at the party.
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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you guys as well, just
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Speaker 1: as far as what the atmosphere was like, because obviously
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Speaker 1: TV doesn't really do it justice, but I would love
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Speaker 1: to be I'd love to have been in that building
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Speaker 1: tonight or around it. I'm sure it was something special
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Speaker 1: that fans have been waiting fourteen seasons for. So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna try to to just I guess, recap and react
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Speaker 1: to what this The end of this game was again,
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Speaker 1: still trying to put my thoughts together about an hour
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Speaker 1: later after the game full disclosure here, So I wasn't
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Speaker 1: even gonna go live for this, but I figured, you
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Speaker 1: know what, after a game like that, I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: guys would just love to hear some live reaction from
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Speaker 1: what happened there tonight.
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Speaker 4: Again just.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, We'll start with the game stats tonight because I
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Speaker 1: really want to talk about the scoring summary. But as always,
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Speaker 1: was loving this as a Sabers fan himself, so I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pull up the stats here just so I can
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Speaker 1: sort of have something to read off of here, bear
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Speaker 1: with me, and the Sabers led in the category as
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Speaker 1: far as shots for foremost of this game. They pretty
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Speaker 1: much dominated the Bruins in the shots on netcap category.
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Speaker 1: And this thing is way too small for me, so
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Speaker 1: I got to pull it up on the on the screen.
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Speaker 4: There there we go.
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Speaker 1: So again Buffalo outshoots Boston by a pretty wide margin there,
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Speaker 1: and I've got the wrong game up. See you guys,
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Speaker 1: I'm just messing up here, so apologies for that. But
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Speaker 1: for the Sabers perspective, the Jeremy Swayman really kept him
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Speaker 1: in this game.
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Speaker 4: He was unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: You know, what more can you say about the Bruins
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Speaker 1: starting goaltender and all that that contract to fiasco that
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Speaker 1: went on with them last season, and obviously last season
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Speaker 1: was a retooling, you know year for them, and the
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Speaker 1: Sabers get to play them in the first round with
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Speaker 1: the Atlantic Division being as powerful as it was, just
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Speaker 1: a thirty eight to twenty was the eventual total in
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Speaker 1: favor of the Sabers. Going to try to get it
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Speaker 1: for you guys here, so you can sort of follow
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Speaker 1: along with that, but thirty eight twenty face offs again,
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Speaker 1: the Sabers have been tested on the faceoff dot most
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Speaker 1: of this season, so that was obviously a point of
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Speaker 1: emphasis for their club to be able to try to
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Speaker 1: have some six us there forty seven point six percent
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Speaker 1: for the Sabers fifty two point four for Boston on
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Speaker 1: the dot.
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Speaker 4: The power play again that I'll touch on in.
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Speaker 1: The scoring summary was again their first power play was
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Speaker 1: very good. They had six shots on net on that
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Speaker 1: first power play, but as the game went on that
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Speaker 1: that top unit just continued to struggle and I got
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Speaker 1: to give the Bruins credit as well, like they did.
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Speaker 1: They did a solid job as far as being able
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Speaker 1: to really limit the Sabers having an opportunity for zone entries,
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Speaker 1: and I think that was a big part of what
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Speaker 1: happened in this game tonight. Don't mind the screenshots sounds
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Speaker 1: as I'm trying to pull everything up for you guys
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Speaker 1: here on the fly for this this epic post game
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Speaker 1: that I wasn't even planning on doing. But again, appreciate
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Speaker 1: everybody sticking around on the YouTube channel for this one,
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Speaker 1: morning shift, you won't even notice a difference. So with
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Speaker 1: that said, again, we'll continuing on here. The Sabers had
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Speaker 1: five takeaways as well as the Bruins, so both teams
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Speaker 1: were even on that, and they also had thirteen giveaways each,
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Speaker 1: so pretty even in that department, hits fifty three to
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Speaker 1: thirty eight in favor of Buffalo. I noticed that the
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Speaker 1: Sabers were very physical on more more. I guess they
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Speaker 1: were physical in the sense that they weren't just running
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Speaker 1: around trying to throw bodies and take stupid penalties, but
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Speaker 1: they were they were asserting themselves in a good way.
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Speaker 1: And I thought that that they really stepped it up tonight,
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Speaker 1: and they knew that the Boston was gonna take it
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Speaker 1: to them. They knew about the Bruins and and sort
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Speaker 1: of what their head coach Marco Sturm had talked about
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Speaker 1: with him coming into this game, saying that we're bigger,
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Speaker 1: we're more physical, and I think the Sabers, you know,
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Speaker 1: and Lindy Ruff sort of took the high road on that,
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Speaker 1: but I think I think they sort of used that
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Speaker 1: as fuel for what they were what they were planning
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Speaker 1: to do there. So I'm gonna pull it up for
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Speaker 1: you guys, here so you can sort of follow along
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Speaker 1: as I've got the right game this time. So thank
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Speaker 1: you very much for that one, Brandon. So again, that's
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Speaker 1: pretty much there with With with that, I mean, the
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Speaker 1: power play, we can.
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Speaker 4: Talk about that.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely been you know, I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: an area of concern because we've sort of had concerns
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Speaker 1: about it for the last three or four months, but
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Speaker 1: it was an area that I felt like the Sabers
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Speaker 1: needed to capitalize on if they were gonna have success
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Speaker 1: in the series. Well, in Game one they went over
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Speaker 1: four in the power play and they won a four
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Speaker 1: to three. So again, I do think the Bruins, if
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Speaker 1: they were to replay that last eight minutes of gameplay,
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Speaker 1: they'll want to have that back because to nothing on
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Speaker 1: the road, you've got it unlock.
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Speaker 4: Swayman was playing fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You thought that they were even if they gave up
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Speaker 1: a goal, you know, maybe that they were still gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to hold onto this thing. But that was
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Speaker 1: not the case as the Sabers used that momentum after
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Speaker 1: they finally got one past Swayman and it was just
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Speaker 1: an onslought after that and the sold out Key Bank
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Speaker 1: Center front a nineteen thousand and probably a couple of
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Speaker 1: more thousand outside was just waiting, and the Sabers obviously
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Speaker 1: fed off that the energy in the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: game as well, I think Sabers had to sort of
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Speaker 1: just get through it, get a couple of shifts in
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Speaker 1: for their guys, and just sort of settle down because
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Speaker 1: of all the emotion of what that was and how
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Speaker 1: big the crowd was early on. Just you know, you
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Speaker 1: can sort of get in your own your own emotions
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Speaker 1: on that and you don't want to wear yourself out
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Speaker 1: for a long game. So the Bruins, I thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: played a pretty good, good road game. They had a
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Speaker 1: couple more opportunities that they missed on Passernrock had some breakaways.
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Speaker 1: Geeky for some reason that his head down when he
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Speaker 1: had an ope and gaping that late in that first
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Speaker 1: period could have really opened it up for Boston. But
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Speaker 1: as far as that, that was sort of the game
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Speaker 1: So again, the scoring summary tonight, you can see it
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Speaker 1: up on the screen there. Morgan Geeky got things going,
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Speaker 1: and I have notes, so I want to I want
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Speaker 1: to just read off some of my notes there. Geeky
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Speaker 1: got the scoring started for the Bruins there in that
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Speaker 1: first period, at the ten fifty two mark, halfway through
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Speaker 1: the first a little bit of a play where Paschernak
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Speaker 1: was just able to find Morgan Geeky out front, sort
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Speaker 1: of one of those I wouldn't say prettiest stuff setups,
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Speaker 1: but Morgan geeky guy that had thirty nine goals in
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Speaker 1: the regular season, and again he went through a pretty
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Speaker 1: big goal slump as well, but he's able to get
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Speaker 1: the Bruins that all important road goal. And they were
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Speaker 1: talking on the broadcast, the ESPN broadcast. Sometimes you might
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Speaker 1: want to start on the road, just because you have
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Speaker 1: a little bit less pressure. Obviously, the Bruins come in
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Speaker 1: as underdogs, but given their playoff experience as opposed to
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Speaker 1: the Sabers, who are still new with this, you knew
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Speaker 1: that they were they were gonna come out firing and
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Speaker 1: this was not going to be a second wildcard team
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Speaker 1: or a wildcard team excuse me, against a top seed
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Speaker 1: in the Atlantic Division, So you knew what to expect
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Speaker 1: from the Atlantic this season. There was five teams from
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Speaker 1: that division that made it the season, so it was
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Speaker 1: you know that this was not going to be a
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Speaker 1: walk in the park, especially for Buffalo being in their
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Speaker 1: first playoff experience, and now that they've gotten through a
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Speaker 1: game like this, maybe maybe we could throw that narrative
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Speaker 1: out the window. But that was the only scoring in
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Speaker 1: the first period. Nothing in the second as well. Zucker
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Speaker 1: at one point had jammed to puck into the net
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Speaker 1: office Swayman's pad. It was ruled right away no goal
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Speaker 1: because he sort of shoveled it in there. So that
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Speaker 1: was something that happened in the first period as well,
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Speaker 1: and seven shots on that for the Buffalo and the
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Speaker 1: first power play weren't able to capitalize, but that was
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Speaker 1: their best opportunity there.
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Speaker 4: On the man advantage.
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Speaker 1: Zucker got called for a late late hook in the
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Speaker 1: first period, given Boston a power play heading into the second,
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Speaker 1: but it was a quickly after Pablo Zaka went to
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Speaker 1: the box and for holding Alex Tuckstick, which ended up
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Speaker 1: going like seventy feet from where the actual play was.
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Speaker 4: I thought that was just a little bit interesting.
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Speaker 1: Again, just Buffalo had their second and third power plays
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Speaker 1: in that second period, and it just wasn't.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't crisp, It wasn't. The zone entries just weren't
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Speaker 4: good enough.
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Speaker 1: Boston was doing a good job of being able to
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Speaker 1: limit them being able to enter the zone.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 1: It was just a really hard time for the Sabers
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Speaker 1: being able to set up. The second unit would get
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Speaker 1: out there late in the in the in the power play,
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Speaker 1: and they would end up having more opportunities, I guess
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Speaker 1: than the first unit was. So it was it was
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Speaker 1: definitely a struggle to watch. The fans were getting restless.
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Speaker 1: Obviously at that point they still hadn't had to scored
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Speaker 1: a goal yet, So when you're waiting for your first
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Speaker 1: playoff goal in fourteen seasons, you can understand why the
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Speaker 1: fans were a little bit antsy on that, especially with
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Speaker 1: the talent that the Sabers can put out on the
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Speaker 1: power play, but they continue to be over in that
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Speaker 1: even going back to the regular season. I think they're
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Speaker 1: in the twenties now. Of they haven't scored in twenty
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Speaker 1: straight power play I think it's at like twenty five
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Speaker 1: right now. Just not good enough for the Sabers on
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Speaker 1: the manned advantage. And as that goes along, they're definitely
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Speaker 1: gonna want to be able to have success on the
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Speaker 1: man advantage. It's gonna be paramount as we get this
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Speaker 1: get into this long, you're not gonna be able to have,
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Speaker 1: you know, four goal ten minute comebacks at the end
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Speaker 1: of every single game here, especially now that Boston I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they're not going to try to allow that to
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Speaker 1: happen again. So yes, Trevor, let's go Buffalo. Abslutely. So
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Speaker 1: we get into the third period, because this is what
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to hear anyway, again, the Bruins make it
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Speaker 1: to nothing early in that second or early in the
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Speaker 1: third period. Excuse me, where Elias Lindholm a minute eight
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Speaker 1: and is able to the cycle game from Boston. We
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Speaker 1: knew that that was gonna be a point of emphasis
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Speaker 1: for them. Pastornak finds geeky who stepped who was stopped
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Speaker 1: out front, but Lindholm was able to kind of shovel
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Speaker 1: the rebound passed Lucan in to make it to nothing
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Speaker 1: and right there as wow, I mean, two goals for
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Speaker 1: the Bruins on the road, really, you know, keeping that
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Speaker 1: the Key Bank Center crowd quiet when they were really
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Speaker 1: you know, just waiting for the Sabers to be able
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Speaker 1: to give them a moment here. But at the one
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Speaker 1: o eight mark of the third Lindholm makes it to
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Speaker 1: nothing for the for the Bees, and again Lucanan came
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Speaker 1: up with some big saves, a couple of them on posture,
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Speaker 1: knock on a break on some breakaways and even in
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Speaker 1: that third period to make sure that it was only
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Speaker 1: a two goal deficit for Buffalo. And that's when things
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Speaker 1: started to turn in the Sabers direction. They were able
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Speaker 1: to keep the puck in the Bruins. Turnovers really cost
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Speaker 1: him in this game three of Buffalo. All three of
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Speaker 1: Buffalo's goals, not including the empty netter, were all scored
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Speaker 1: I think off of off of turnovers for Boston had
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Speaker 1: the puck.
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Speaker 4: At one point and Buffalo was able to kind of
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Speaker 4: turn that over.
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Speaker 1: Tage Thompson scores on the wrap round as the Sabers
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Speaker 1: were able to keep the puck in just a really
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Speaker 1: nice nice play on the four check after the same
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Speaker 1: after the Bruins couldn't couldn't clear the puck out. Rather
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Speaker 1: the Sabers got it down low and Swayman was sort
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Speaker 1: of looking behind the net, didn't really know exactly where
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Speaker 1: the puck was, and Tage Thompson with that long reach,
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Speaker 1: is able to wrap that thing around and get the
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Speaker 1: Sabers on the board with seven to fifty eight left
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Speaker 1: and finally get the key Banks Center crowd off their feet.
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Speaker 1: And then shortly after, Tae Thompson picks up the puck
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Speaker 1: off the four check and Tuck after the after injury,
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Speaker 1: Peak couldn't get the puck out. He got the puck
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Speaker 1: and then for some reason just went to the went
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Speaker 1: behind the net, went went to the boards with it,
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Speaker 1: and Tage Thompson was able to get him off that puck.
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Speaker 1: Tuck was was strong in the fore check as well,
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Speaker 1: and he's able to find Tage Thompson out front is
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Speaker 1: Alex Tuk and he makes no mistake going under the
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Speaker 1: Paddis Swayman. I would say that this, considering the saves
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Speaker 1: he made in tonight's game, that would be one that
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Swayman would want to have back. He lifted his
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Speaker 1: pad just ever so slightly, and Alex Tuck was able
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Speaker 1: to shovel it right under the pad to make it
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Speaker 1: a two to two game, and at the fifteen forty
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Speaker 1: four mark and send this Key Bank Center crowd even
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Speaker 1: into a more of a frenzy, tying it at two,
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Speaker 1: and the Savers get two quick goals. They're to stun
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Speaker 1: the Bruins after they'd done such a good job of
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Speaker 1: having a road lead in the playoffs, having two nothing lead,
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Speaker 1: it was it was fun to see, so obviously that
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Speaker 1: was unexpected considering how well Swayman had been playing and
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Speaker 1: how well the Bruins had been playing. Two bad giveaways
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Speaker 1: in their own end. And it turns into two goals
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Speaker 1: for the Sabers and we got a tie game, folks,
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Speaker 1: And you know, shortly after that, but a minute to
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Speaker 1: minute later, Jack Quinn gets the puck. After this was
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Speaker 1: an unfortunate break. So I'm not gonna say this one
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Speaker 1: was completely on the Bruins. It was just an unfortunate
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Speaker 1: break as Elias Lindholm stick broke behind the net and
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Speaker 1: they weren't able to clear the puck out. Jack Quinn
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Speaker 1: sort of picks the puck up from the goal line.
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Speaker 1: He's able to cut down through the right circle and
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Speaker 1: he finds Mattia Samuelson. They're still announcing the last goal,
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Speaker 1: by the way for Taje Thompson, and Mattia Samuelson cuts down.
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Speaker 4: From the point.
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Speaker 1: Jason Zucker is doing a great job in front of
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Speaker 1: the net screening Jeremy swimming. He had no chance of
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Speaker 1: seeing this puck. The Bruins were still sort of scrambling
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Speaker 1: in their own end after that, Linholm broken stick and
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Speaker 1: Samulson makes no mistake and just makes it three to
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Speaker 1: two Sabers, And Wow, what an unbelievable moment for a
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Speaker 1: team that hasn't seen playoff action in fourteen seasons. You
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Speaker 1: can't script the game one any better than that. Being
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Speaker 1: able to come back from a two to nothing deficit.
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Speaker 4: The Sabers made it three to two.
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Speaker 1: At that point, Tae Thompson, with the goalie pulled for
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Speaker 1: the Bruins, is able to bank that the puck off
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Speaker 1: the glass in the defensive zone or out of the zone,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, and Alex Tuck with a burst of speed
17:37
Speaker 1: is able to get that thing into the empty net.
17:39
Speaker 4: To make it four to two at that point, which.
17:41
Speaker 1: Was the empty netter and now I guess technically the
17:44
Speaker 1: game winner because Pasturenoch after Thompson went to the box
17:48
Speaker 1: with about eighteen seconds left, scored on a backhand shot
17:51
Speaker 1: to make it four to three with eight seconds left,
17:54
Speaker 1: so the Bruins cut it to a one goal deficit,
17:57
Speaker 1: but it was really a four to two game at
17:58
Speaker 1: that point, So I feel bad for anybody that had
18:01
Speaker 1: the Sabers plus plus one and a half. I know
18:04
Speaker 1: you're probably sick to your stomach right now, but for Saberland, unfortunately,
18:08
Speaker 1: we're probably not not too upset about the Sabers picking
18:11
Speaker 1: up the win, even though that they didn't cover the
18:13
Speaker 1: one and a half of that. But yeah, just an
18:18
Speaker 1: incredible scene down there at key Bank Center. Again, if
18:21
Speaker 1: anybody was there, please let me know. I'd love to
18:23
Speaker 1: hear your experiences from what was a wild game one
18:29
Speaker 1: and what a way to start off the Stanley Cup playoffs.
18:31
Speaker 1: I must say, just a lot of great games, even
18:34
Speaker 1: in the other Atlantic game today, the Montreal Canadians come
18:37
Speaker 1: up with a big victory on the road in Tampa
18:39
Speaker 1: Bay with Slafkoffki's hat trick. Playoff hockey in the NHL
18:43
Speaker 1: nothing like it. Just an unbelievable moment that that Sabers
18:48
Speaker 1: fans and the Sabers organization have been waiting a long
18:50
Speaker 1: time for.
18:50
Speaker 4: We're in here. From Lindy Ruff a little bit later.
18:52
Speaker 1: But he said that that was the sweetest playoff win
18:56
Speaker 1: that he's had as a head coach, maybe because he
18:58
Speaker 1: thought he would never get back to this opportunity and
19:00
Speaker 1: being able to do it with the Sabers team for
19:02
Speaker 1: a second to second stint around.
19:04
Speaker 4: I must say these shot attempts.
19:06
Speaker 1: Were in favor of Buffalo seventy to forty six on
19:09
Speaker 1: this night, and again three goals in four minutes and
19:12
Speaker 1: thirty four seconds for the Sabers.
19:15
Speaker 4: This was also a historic.
19:18
Speaker 1: Night for many reasons and maybe deja vu for Bruins fans.
19:22
Speaker 1: This goal and the legendary and this win excuse me,
19:26
Speaker 1: and the legendary may Day goal by Brad may back
19:28
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three are the only third period playoff
19:31
Speaker 1: comebacks in Buffalo Sabers history, and both were against the
19:34
Speaker 1: Boston Bruins, so that's probably not a statistic that they
19:37
Speaker 1: want to hear about, but just crazy that from nineteen
19:41
Speaker 1: ninety three, these are the only two in Sabers history
19:44
Speaker 1: to be able to have a third period come back
19:46
Speaker 1: and take the victory. There was also another another stat
19:50
Speaker 1: that I want to read off because it was there
19:52
Speaker 1: we go. The Buffalo Sabers become the first team in
19:55
Speaker 1: NHL postseason history to win in regulation time trailing by
20:00
Speaker 1: two or more goals to zero, two or more goals
20:03
Speaker 1: to nothing with eight minutes or fewer remaining in regulations.
20:06
Speaker 4: So there you go.
20:08
Speaker 1: Unbelievable stat there for not only Sabers playoff history, but
20:13
Speaker 1: NHL playoff history. So this, despite what the first fifty
20:18
Speaker 1: minutes of this game was and had, Sabers fans had
20:21
Speaker 1: to wait very patiently and anxiously for something to happen.
20:24
Speaker 1: They finally got it there late in that period, so
20:27
Speaker 1: and late in the third period. And for those people
20:29
Speaker 1: who spent a lot of harder and money to be
20:31
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20:34
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20:37
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20:38
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20:43
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20:45
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20:48
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20:50
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Speaker 1: With that, we're going to go to uh the postgame.
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Speaker 1: Let's start off with Mattia Samson and Tage Thompson. As always,
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Speaker 1: Samuelson with their thoughts on after their Game one come
25:14
Speaker 1: back against the Boston Bruins, and we'll come back and react.
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Speaker 3: To that, Tage? What is this about this team? Why
25:21
Speaker 3: does it refuse to lose?
25:22
Speaker 7: First off?
25:26
Speaker 8: I mean, I think we've been in situations all season
25:28
Speaker 8: that have prepared us for games like this. You know,
25:32
Speaker 8: it's another level and the intensity ramps up. But you know,
25:35
Speaker 8: we've been in situations where we've been behind them games
25:38
Speaker 8: and found our way, you know, out of them. So
25:42
Speaker 8: I think when you do that, you get.
25:43
Speaker 3: Confidence and when you're in similar situations, you know you
25:45
Speaker 3: can do it again.
25:52
Speaker 9: Gears, well, how fun was it writing that momentum that
26:00
Speaker 9: Age created with the two goals and then for you
26:03
Speaker 9: with the crowd already still buzzing for you to score,
26:05
Speaker 9: What did that feel like?
26:07
Speaker 3: Yeah?
26:08
Speaker 10: I think the crowd was great all night. Obviously obviously
26:12
Speaker 10: Tom or guys going there, and the plays just erupted
26:14
Speaker 10: and you can feel the energy building, you know. I
26:19
Speaker 10: think as a group we thought once we crack them,
26:22
Speaker 10: we could.
26:23
Speaker 3: Roll from there.
26:24
Speaker 10: And obviously Tom were guys going and the fans fans
26:27
Speaker 10: helped a ton.
26:29
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just tried to pile it on as much
26:31
Speaker 3: as we can.
26:33
Speaker 11: He just described like the mood in the locker room
26:36
Speaker 11: of the second period, Grass.
26:38
Speaker 3: Was saying, you know, no panic focus. Could you subscribe
26:41
Speaker 3: it in your own words? Yeah, I mean similar to
26:44
Speaker 3: what I said before.
26:45
Speaker 8: I've been in situations like this most of the season
26:48
Speaker 8: and you gained confidence from that, and I think it
26:52
Speaker 8: was no different tonight, even though it's you know, a
26:53
Speaker 8: lot of our first playoff games. The energy is a
26:57
Speaker 8: lot better and the intensity is higher. But in between periods,
27:01
Speaker 8: I thought we did a good job just staying pretty
27:03
Speaker 8: even keel, you know.
27:05
Speaker 3: To be honest, I thought we all play him for
27:06
Speaker 3: the first two periods, controlled most.
27:10
Speaker 8: Of the play and like Sammy said, now if we uh,
27:13
Speaker 8: you know, we could get one, we'd probably get a
27:16
Speaker 8: couple more. And obviously we wille he does a great
27:21
Speaker 8: job keeping us in there until we can find our
27:23
Speaker 8: first one, and just started to roll from there.
27:28
Speaker 11: Taje Jesus, you talk about the team mentality after forty minutes,
27:32
Speaker 11: but for you personally.
27:34
Speaker 3: If you look at the two goals you scored, it
27:36
Speaker 3: felt like.
27:36
Speaker 4: You were really imposing your will, okay real.
27:39
Speaker 3: In cage of efforts. So what was going through your
27:41
Speaker 3: mind in terms of just what you want to do
27:45
Speaker 3: in that period and just trying to impose your worth?
27:48
Speaker 8: Oh, well, I don't think by any means those individual effort.
27:52
Speaker 8: I think if you look at both those plays, it's
27:54
Speaker 8: from both my linemates for checking and disrupting and causing
27:57
Speaker 8: a turnover, and you know the right spoer put finds
28:01
Speaker 8: me off their off their pressure.
28:03
Speaker 3: And I think those two goals are exactly what we
28:07
Speaker 3: wanted to do all night.
28:08
Speaker 8: You put bucks behind them, found their d make a
28:12
Speaker 8: tough night on them, and just hit the repeat button
28:15
Speaker 8: on that. You know, you go back for enough pucks,
28:17
Speaker 8: it's pretty exhausting and create loose pucks and get chances
28:23
Speaker 8: from there. And fortunately they went in for us.
28:27
Speaker 12: Mattias on your goal, obviously, you guys have tied the
28:29
Speaker 12: game up. The crowd's going crazy. Moll manage in your favor.
28:33
Speaker 12: How much were you on your toes and you know
28:35
Speaker 12: attacking the net on that play and what did you
28:37
Speaker 12: see in terms of getting the pass and you know,
28:40
Speaker 12: making a play there when the team needed.
28:44
Speaker 3: Uh?
28:45
Speaker 10: Yeah, I saw twos or corner come out of the
28:49
Speaker 10: corner hunting with the puck, and I'm not sure where
28:53
Speaker 10: the winner was, but I thought it was pretty open.
28:55
Speaker 13: There and.
28:57
Speaker 3: I just tried to call for it.
28:58
Speaker 10: Corner being unbelievable play and I thought I could slip
29:02
Speaker 10: a short side there, and uh yeah, I mean the
29:06
Speaker 10: fans are unbelievable, you know. Going out after we tied
29:09
Speaker 10: it there, you could feel feel the energy within the group,
29:13
Speaker 10: the belief within the group, and you can feel it
29:16
Speaker 10: all game, but just the energy the fans provided just yeah,
29:21
Speaker 10: I just kept trying to roll with that.
29:24
Speaker 14: So Matias, what was it like when you guys saw
29:26
Speaker 14: Tage's second one going and then Tage same question about
29:30
Speaker 14: Patias's goal when you saw the third one going, Because
29:33
Speaker 14: it just all happened so fast in a couple of
29:35
Speaker 14: minutes there.
29:36
Speaker 10: Yeah, Like I was saying, I don't think the belief
29:40
Speaker 10: that was ever wavered. You know, we just tried to
29:43
Speaker 10: stick up the process. Obviously, Tom made some really nice
29:47
Speaker 10: plays there and stuck a couple in. I just think.
29:54
Speaker 3: We just had a lot of belief within the group.
29:58
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just tried to try to ride them on
30:00
Speaker 10: right the moment with the fans and it worked that nice.
30:07
Speaker 13: Hey, you grasp my set after the game that you
30:10
Speaker 13: guys say to each other.
30:11
Speaker 3: Dogs have to be dogs. How much have you guys
30:14
Speaker 3: kind of.
30:15
Speaker 13: Just embraced like when you're in those tough spots, being
30:17
Speaker 13: those guys that can hold.
30:19
Speaker 3: This team out. Yeah, I mean I think it's up
30:23
Speaker 3: and down our lineup.
30:24
Speaker 8: I think we uh, we want to go into games
30:27
Speaker 8: being the guys that are going to make a difference.
30:28
Speaker 8: And I think every guy in the NHL, especially on
30:32
Speaker 8: our team, is.
30:34
Speaker 3: The guy that wants to go over the boards and
30:35
Speaker 3: make an impact every time they touch the sheet. I
30:38
Speaker 3: think if you don't, then he probably shouldn't be playing
30:41
Speaker 3: the sport.
30:42
Speaker 8: So yeah, it's so a little mantra. We like to
30:44
Speaker 8: tell each other and you know, see who can be
30:48
Speaker 8: a game changer. And these are the kind of games
30:51
Speaker 8: you live for. Do you want to be in these
30:52
Speaker 8: games and spend a long time coming? So that was
30:57
Speaker 8: it was a fun first one.
30:57
Speaker 3: For sure. We're going.
31:00
Speaker 7: Guys.
31:01
Speaker 15: There are a kind of confidence that comes from having
31:04
Speaker 15: played this type of game.
31:06
Speaker 3: Obviously a different scenario because it's.
31:08
Speaker 15: Playoffs, but this kind of game where you get down
31:10
Speaker 15: but you come.
31:11
Speaker 7: Back in it no matter what.
31:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's.
31:17
Speaker 8: Every game means so much, It's every shift means so much,
31:21
Speaker 8: and I think there's just way more desperation and you
31:25
Speaker 8: never know what's going to be the turning point in
31:27
Speaker 8: a series and.
31:29
Speaker 3: In a game. I think for us as a as
31:32
Speaker 3: a group, we just want to.
31:33
Speaker 8: Make sure we're just focused on a shift at a time,
31:36
Speaker 8: not looking too far down the road and not looking
31:38
Speaker 8: in the rear view. I think that's kind of something
31:40
Speaker 8: we've been doing all season that's gotten us to this point.
31:43
Speaker 3: So we've had success with it, and that's it's kind
31:49
Speaker 3: of mentality we need moving forward. Taow. I've half joking
31:54
Speaker 3: about one of the narratives going in here was this
31:56
Speaker 3: team lacking playoff experience. How much do you think you
32:00
Speaker 3: prove that nerdive wrong today? Yeah, I mean.
32:09
Speaker 8: Lack of experience. I mean we've been in a game
32:13
Speaker 8: instead of prepared us for this. I think eight years
32:19
Speaker 8: of adversity is it's enough experience to get you ready
32:26
Speaker 8: for something like this. I think anytime you go for
32:29
Speaker 8: eight years and not making playoffs and then it's finally here,
32:34
Speaker 8: the last thing you want is regret and.
32:38
Speaker 3: There's just a.
32:40
Speaker 8: Heightened feeling of hunger. You just don't want to let
32:44
Speaker 8: this opportunity slip. And thought tonight was really important to
32:49
Speaker 8: make a statement and set our standard. I think we
32:52
Speaker 8: still have another level to get to and we're just
32:54
Speaker 8: going to keep trying every game to find another.
32:56
Speaker 3: Level of This question is for about Tage and for Matia.
32:59
Speaker 5: So a lot of firsts tonight, first playoff game, first goals,
33:02
Speaker 5: first full.
33:02
Speaker 6: Playoff game, and I to build the one, sustain that
33:07
Speaker 6: and carry that into team two.
33:10
Speaker 3: I think.
33:12
Speaker 10: I think we learned a lot just about the heis
33:14
Speaker 10: and loves in games and series. I think that was
33:18
Speaker 10: a good learning lesson for us tonight. Yeah, just take
33:22
Speaker 10: that into game too. There's now many times you're down,
33:25
Speaker 10: there's the guys you're gonna make mistakes just about you know,
33:29
Speaker 10: stepping up when you need to and making the right
33:32
Speaker 10: play when you can. And yeah, just I mean there's
33:37
Speaker 10: gonna be things that happened throughout this series, and I
33:39
Speaker 10: think we learned a lot of that tonight.
33:40
Speaker 3: But you know, the belief in the group never waivers.
33:46
Speaker 11: Sage, Obviously, you don't dwell on it a lot in
33:49
Speaker 11: the moment, but coming out for you know, buffalos first
33:52
Speaker 11: playoff hockey game in fifteen years, was that.
33:54
Speaker 3: Seem like just sort of coming out on the ice,
33:57
Speaker 3: it was unbelievable. Generally, Noolitics back, to be honest with you,
34:01
Speaker 3: kind to think about.
34:02
Speaker 8: It all day the last few days actually, you know,
34:06
Speaker 8: last half of the season, the fans have been unbelievable
34:08
Speaker 8: and it's been so much fun to play in front
34:11
Speaker 8: of them and be able to, you know, strength some
34:14
Speaker 8: winning games for them and find ourselves in playoffs.
34:17
Speaker 3: And I didn't know what the next level, I guess
34:23
Speaker 3: for the fan base could could get to. And I
34:26
Speaker 3: was pretty exciting to see.
34:27
Speaker 8: Coming out from warm ups and it was already almost full,
34:31
Speaker 8: just a ton of energy, and tonight's game was just
34:35
Speaker 8: just full.
34:35
Speaker 3: Of emotion, I think for everyone. So I was happy
34:39
Speaker 3: that we could come on coming out on the right
34:41
Speaker 3: side of it. And you mentioned, you know, on your
34:45
Speaker 3: goal both of you your get.
34:46
Speaker 13: Up, steep, your force and turnovers, like, did you have
34:49
Speaker 13: a feeling as the game went on it was going
34:51
Speaker 13: to take kind of some of those hard working, greasy
34:54
Speaker 13: goals to get through on swinging because.
34:56
Speaker 8: He was pretty locked in and really, yeah, he's a
34:59
Speaker 8: great goalie, so I think anytime he's seeing clean shots.
35:02
Speaker 3: You're you're gonna have a tough time beating them.
35:04
Speaker 8: You gotta get traffic, you gotta get bodies there and
35:06
Speaker 8: disrupt them and try to get him off his game
35:09
Speaker 8: anyway you can, and it's just death by a thousand cuts,
35:14
Speaker 8: I think, and you just keep wearing on them, wearing
35:16
Speaker 8: them until finally crack them. And you know we did,
35:19
Speaker 8: and I think as a group we knew if we
35:21
Speaker 8: could get one it was it was going to go
35:23
Speaker 8: our way.
35:23
Speaker 3: So you know that's gonna be the same thing moving forward.
35:27
Speaker 7: And it's uh.
35:28
Speaker 8: I think in games like this, when when both teams
35:31
Speaker 8: are playing really hard defensively, those are the kind of
35:34
Speaker 8: goals you got to score. You gotta get around the
35:35
Speaker 8: net and.
35:37
Speaker 1: Let me get greasy, get greasy, says Tage Thompson and
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Speaker 1: there and the nigridentri Clinic Sabers Player post game. Some
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Speaker 1: takeaways I had from Tage there following that press conference
36:02
Speaker 1: was eight years of adversity is enough. I guess when
36:06
Speaker 1: they were asking about not being not having any sort
36:10
Speaker 1: of playoff experience, but they've played in playoff games down
36:13
Speaker 1: the stretch, some big games against the Tampa Bay Lightning
36:15
Speaker 1: and those sorts of things. So he talked about having
36:17
Speaker 1: playoff experience, and in that aspect, he talked about the
36:22
Speaker 1: last thing you want to do is have regret. You
36:24
Speaker 1: don't want to let it slip, and they wanted to
36:27
Speaker 1: just make a statement here. Every shift and game is
36:29
Speaker 1: so important. Swimon's a great goalie, so we just have
36:32
Speaker 1: to get traffic and disrupt him. Sort of death by
36:35
Speaker 1: a thousand paper cuts is the analogy he used to
36:38
Speaker 1: finally crack him, and that's what they did. So that
36:41
Speaker 1: was Tage Thompson and Mattia Samuelson two massive goal scorers
36:45
Speaker 1: tonight for the Sabers, and Taje Thompson as uco. Pek
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Speaker 1: Lukenan said that I don't have the audio for his
36:51
Speaker 1: press conference, but he talked about just how Tage has
36:55
Speaker 1: emerged as a leader this season, how he's really taking
36:57
Speaker 1: a step on and off the ice and being able
36:59
Speaker 1: to be a game breaker in those no scenarios. Number
37:03
Speaker 1: seventy two just steps up in the biggest ways for
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Speaker 1: this team, in the biggest moments. And again, even though
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Speaker 1: he might have not been putting up the elite end
37:12
Speaker 1: points near the end of the season, that Norris Stone
37:14
Speaker 1: and Benson Line really had sort of taken the shine
37:18
Speaker 1: as of late near down the stretch, but in the
37:21
Speaker 1: big games, big moments, Taje. Thompson's won an Olympic gold
37:23
Speaker 1: medal now with Team USA this season and shows up
37:27
Speaker 1: in the biggest way for Buffalo as the offensive catalyst
37:30
Speaker 1: to score both their first two goals and I get
37:32
Speaker 1: them the victory there with a three point night.
37:34
Speaker 4: So with that we'll go next to Sabers head coach
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Speaker 4: Lindy Ruff.
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Speaker 1: Lindy Ruff had to say following his team's epic four
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Speaker 1: to three comeback victory against the Boston Burns in Game
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Speaker 1: one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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Speaker 3: How did you pull that one off?
37:57
Speaker 4: I mean, you guys were coming coming, but you couldn't
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Speaker 4: get anything by sway And what changed?
38:05
Speaker 3: Well, I think we won.
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Speaker 7: We won a couple of battles here down low. I thought,
38:09
Speaker 7: if you look at the goal, see a couple of
38:12
Speaker 7: the battles blow the goal line coming out of the corners.
38:15
Speaker 7: You look at the play that Quinn came out of
38:16
Speaker 7: the corner got at the samuson. You look at the
38:18
Speaker 7: play where Tuck was in the battle and Thomer came
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Speaker 7: out with it. We beat their guys back to the
38:26
Speaker 7: front of the net, and both those plays turned into goals.
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Speaker 13: Lindy, You've been in this building for more big games
38:35
Speaker 13: and maybe anybody how did that feeling compare.
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Speaker 7: For Somebody said this, have you ever been in one
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Speaker 7: like that in the playoffs? And I said, well, with
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Speaker 7: a couple thousand games, I think so, but I don't know.
38:50
Speaker 7: You could feel the building shaking again, even upstairs. I
38:54
Speaker 7: guess they said the same thing to me. The atmosphere
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Speaker 7: was unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: And it was.
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Speaker 12: It was.
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Speaker 7: It was great to give our fans.
39:02
Speaker 3: You know that.
39:02
Speaker 7: That third period was you know, you always wonder what
39:06
Speaker 7: you're gonna come out and how you're gonna come out.
39:07
Speaker 7: We didn't make enough good plays. I think our puck play.
39:10
Speaker 7: We were a little bit jittery.
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Speaker 3: That hurt us.
39:13
Speaker 7: They hurt us in a lot of aspects of our game,
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Speaker 7: But that last ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: Everybody felt we got We got our game in.
39:21
Speaker 7: A good place.
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Speaker 12: Lindy you get the game. Even Thompson makes a couple
39:25
Speaker 12: of plays. How much had you just sense the crowd,
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Speaker 12: your bench, the guys on the ice. You saw what
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Speaker 12: happened in Samuson's goal. Everybody out on their toes, and
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Speaker 12: they almost felt like that's not going to.
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Speaker 3: Be too too in overtime, there's more to come.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean their their defensive structure is good. I mean,
39:44
Speaker 7: there's a reason that they were able.
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Speaker 9: To make it.
39:48
Speaker 7: And they're they're like I said, you got two good
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Speaker 7: teams playing Honky, two good teams that I mean, we
39:54
Speaker 7: made a couple of mistakes.
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Speaker 3: They made us pay for the early mistake in the
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Speaker 3: third period. We made them pay for those.
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Speaker 7: Couple of mistakes down over where we beat guys back
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Speaker 7: to the front of the net. They weren't getting beat
40:07
Speaker 7: early on. I think maybe, you know, some of our
40:09
Speaker 7: physicality warmed down. I thought that Samson was an absolute,
40:13
Speaker 7: absolute stud in the game. We're running over people and
40:16
Speaker 7: physical But the fact we were able to wear them
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Speaker 7: down after a while, I think made a difference.
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Speaker 11: Coach, the power play at times got booed tonight by
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Speaker 11: the crowd. Do you consider changing everything about it or
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Speaker 11: is it too late a year.
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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, you know, some of the best
40:37
Speaker 7: power plays have been together for a long time. Players
40:40
Speaker 7: have been together for a long time. You can't just
40:43
Speaker 7: start changing everything. There's a lot of little areas in
40:47
Speaker 7: that power play. The first power play was really good.
40:51
Speaker 7: I thought after that we digressed a little bit. But no,
40:55
Speaker 7: we're not going to change everything. We've we've got to
40:57
Speaker 7: execute at a higher level. We've got to break their
41:02
Speaker 7: pressure and understand where that's going to be, like we
41:05
Speaker 7: did on the first power play, and then sometimes you
41:09
Speaker 7: just have to flat out win more battles. Like you
41:11
Speaker 7: watch our penalty killing against their power play. They got
41:14
Speaker 7: a good power play too. It's hard this time of year.
41:18
Speaker 7: The teams that make it typically have good penalty killers.
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Speaker 6: There have been a lot of first for this team tonight,
41:27
Speaker 6: this week, this season. What did you learn about your
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Speaker 6: team in its first playoff game together?
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Speaker 7: The same thing I learned all year long. This team
41:34
Speaker 7: doesn't quit. They don't they don't give up. We've had
41:40
Speaker 7: Let's just go back to the Tampa game where you know,
41:44
Speaker 7: Tampa built a lead late and we just came back
41:46
Speaker 7: in that game, and tonight we just said, if we
41:49
Speaker 7: get one I felt we would get the second one.
41:54
Speaker 7: The energy on the bench, the energy and the building
41:57
Speaker 7: after we got the first one, I just felt we're
41:59
Speaker 7: going to get We're going to have.
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Speaker 3: A good look to get the next one.
42:03
Speaker 7: Because we were garnering a lot of the offensive zone play.
42:07
Speaker 7: It was just whether we could break him down and
42:09
Speaker 7: get that good chance. And I thought that top Line
42:12
Speaker 7: did a couple of times, and Quinn made his play,
42:14
Speaker 7: and just felt that we finally got him to a
42:18
Speaker 7: place where we created the turnovers that we needed. It's
42:24
Speaker 7: almost overshaded by all the goals made with people.
42:27
Speaker 12: Pepe's performance and stuff to David Paul for that breakadays,
42:30
Speaker 12: is what you think of him tonight?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I thought he played great for us. He gave us
42:34
Speaker 7: a chance to get back in the game. They didn't
42:37
Speaker 7: have a lot of opportunities, but we gave him a
42:39
Speaker 7: couple of big ones. With When you talk about the breakaways,
42:43
Speaker 7: I mean, we're well aware that you know in our
42:46
Speaker 7: offensive zone play that he will take off. We hung
42:51
Speaker 7: in there just a little bit too long and that
42:53
Speaker 7: we're gonna have to be better at next game.
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Speaker 13: What did you think of the energy that's when you
42:58
Speaker 13: locked in the locker room and.
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Speaker 3: It's the second or third period.
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Speaker 7: Just talks about getting back in the game, that if
43:06
Speaker 7: we trust what we're doing and continue to do it, well,
43:09
Speaker 7: we're gonna we'll get an opportunity to score goals. The
43:12
Speaker 7: energy was good.
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Speaker 3: There was nobody we.
43:15
Speaker 7: Weren't talking about, you know, no chance or you know,
43:18
Speaker 7: we got to.
43:19
Speaker 3: Do this better.
43:19
Speaker 7: That we knew there were some areas of the game
43:21
Speaker 7: need to be better.
43:22
Speaker 3: But part of this is believing in.
43:25
Speaker 7: How you play and trusting how you play and continue.
43:28
Speaker 3: To play that way.
43:29
Speaker 14: And you mentioned it a little bit, but Sadu said
43:31
Speaker 14: that nine hits tonight, what kind of impact does.
43:34
Speaker 3: They have on a game?
43:38
Speaker 7: I mean, just you know, we talked about making sure
43:42
Speaker 7: that we finished people when we had the opportunity, that
43:45
Speaker 7: we took them out of the play, and or that
43:47
Speaker 7: in our zone we were able to kill plays right away,
43:49
Speaker 7: so we broke out. I thought, like I said, I thought,
43:53
Speaker 7: by far he was he was our most physical and
43:57
Speaker 7: I mean he gets rewarded with the goal, and he
44:00
Speaker 7: played a heck of a game from the way he
44:02
Speaker 7: moved the puck to the way he ended up scoring. Lindy.
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Speaker 15: Is there a kind of confidence that comes with this
44:11
Speaker 15: team because you've played this kind of game throughout the season.
44:14
Speaker 15: Granted it's playoffs, it's a different setting, but you've played
44:17
Speaker 15: this exact kind of game and come out on top
44:19
Speaker 15: so many times this year.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we can. You know, I liked our
44:23
Speaker 7: first period. We went after him, we were shooting, and
44:26
Speaker 7: we did a lot of good things. We just didn't
44:28
Speaker 7: quite get inside and around the net enough. We know
44:30
Speaker 7: we have to be better in some areas. You know,
44:34
Speaker 7: we're going to just continue to try to play our
44:36
Speaker 7: game and in every game we're going to try to improve.
44:39
Speaker 3: I think there's areas we can improve for sure, And
44:43
Speaker 3: that's what a seven game series is all about. What
44:45
Speaker 3: what are they going to do? What are we going
44:47
Speaker 3: to do?
44:47
Speaker 7: We know there's areas that we're going to have to
44:50
Speaker 7: get better at. You look at the second goal we
44:54
Speaker 7: gave up. It's a goal that in our structure we shouldn't.
44:58
Speaker 3: We shouldn't have two guys.
44:59
Speaker 16: Open Lindy after Tage's second goal, Do you need to
45:04
Speaker 16: tell the team anything like go for it now, look
45:08
Speaker 16: what we are doing right now?
45:10
Speaker 7: Or do you have to even say I didn't have
45:11
Speaker 7: to tell them anything. I mean I'm a horse as
45:13
Speaker 7: it is from yelling. A couple of those were at
45:16
Speaker 7: the officials, But the bench was electric. I mean, the
45:22
Speaker 7: players were talking about going and getting the third one.
45:25
Speaker 7: There was the energy on the bench. The emotion on
45:28
Speaker 7: the bench was where you needed to be in a
45:30
Speaker 7: playoff game.
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Speaker 13: You mentioned earlier this week that after one shift, guys
45:35
Speaker 13: kind of at playoff experience. After a game like that,
45:38
Speaker 13: how much do you feel like the whole playoff experience
45:41
Speaker 13: thing kind of goes out the window?
45:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?
45:43
Speaker 7: Well, I told him right after the game you want experience.
45:45
Speaker 7: You got to know, I mean what an experience. I mean,
45:48
Speaker 7: if you're going to say this was my first playoff game,
45:50
Speaker 7: you've got a great story to tell.
45:54
Speaker 3: Coach.
45:54
Speaker 10: The sad way that question about playoff experience, which one
45:58
Speaker 10: feels so much sweeter your first playoff win ever as
46:01
Speaker 10: a coach, for this one tonight.
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Speaker 7: This one right here, right here, right now. Now, we
46:08
Speaker 7: just got to go try to win one more.
46:10
Speaker 3: But this.
46:12
Speaker 7: Was probably the sweetest of all of them.
46:17
Speaker 1: There was Lindy Ruff's postgame following their Game one victory
46:23
Speaker 1: against the Boston Bruins, and Yeah, just a lot of
46:25
Speaker 1: great stuff there from.
46:26
Speaker 4: Lindy with his postgame thoughts.
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46:38
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Speaker 1: to us on a quick few thoughts from Lindy said
47:00
Speaker 1: there you could feel the energy and the building and
47:03
Speaker 1: the building shaking. He said no, no, no, no, no,
47:06
Speaker 1: about eight times about the power play. He's gonna change
47:09
Speaker 1: anything up there. He had said, some of the best
47:12
Speaker 1: power plays have been together for a long time. Uh,
47:15
Speaker 1: talking in generality there from the NHL. Not gonna change everything.
47:19
Speaker 1: Just need to execute and to win more battles. He
47:21
Speaker 1: liked the first power play in it where they had
47:22
Speaker 1: six shots on net. He talked about this team does
47:25
Speaker 1: not quit. He talked about that they've been like that
47:28
Speaker 1: all season long. He also said that we know he
47:32
Speaker 1: will take off in regards to pastor knock and how
47:34
Speaker 1: they sort of have to play him going forward.
47:37
Speaker 4: Trust what we're doing.
47:38
Speaker 1: Was the message after between the second and the third
47:41
Speaker 1: period that things were gonna come through, and he talked
47:43
Speaker 1: about the bench was just the electric.
47:45
Speaker 4: He didn't have to say a word.
47:47
Speaker 1: It was just an amazing, amazing I guess atmosphere not
47:52
Speaker 1: only you know from the fan base, but also the
47:54
Speaker 1: crowd is what and and the bench as well. They
47:57
Speaker 1: were they were very positive, upbeat, they were and they
48:01
Speaker 1: were electric with that emotion of being able to have
48:04
Speaker 1: that third period comeback, he said. And he told them basically,
48:07
Speaker 1: you want the experience, you got it now and talked
48:11
Speaker 1: about this being the sweetest victory that he's had when
48:14
Speaker 1: asked if this or his first playoff win as a
48:16
Speaker 1: coach was the best one that he's felt. So there
48:20
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48:26
Speaker 1: this one by a four to three. Final player of
48:29
Speaker 1: the game, I'm gonna give it to Taje Thompson but
48:32
Speaker 1: I know in the room, Tage graciously as he is,
48:36
Speaker 1: gave it to Ucopeka Lucanan who made seventeen of twenty
48:39
Speaker 1: saves on this night. But again when it was too
48:42
Speaker 1: nothing Boston, things could have really got gotten out of
48:44
Speaker 1: hand there and things could have gone the other way
48:47
Speaker 1: in the Bruins favor. So you got to tip your
48:49
Speaker 1: cap to lucan In who will again his stat line
48:52
Speaker 1: won't look fantastic in tonight's game, but he's deserving of
48:58
Speaker 1: what he was able to accomplish tonight for the Sabers
49:01
Speaker 1: team to be able to get their first again playoff
49:03
Speaker 1: victory since twenty eleven.
49:06
Speaker 4: Other players of note there the three stars in the building.
49:09
Speaker 1: Tage Thompson two goals, one assist, Samuelson had the second
49:13
Speaker 1: star with a goal, and Alex Tuck was named the
49:15
Speaker 1: third star with a goal and an assist. He got
49:17
Speaker 1: the empty netter and the lone assist on Tage Thompson's
49:22
Speaker 1: second goal, which was the game tying goal. Jack Quinn
49:25
Speaker 1: also picked up and assist. He set up Mattia Samuelson
49:29
Speaker 1: for that quote unquote game winner. We're still gonna call
49:33
Speaker 1: it the game winner, even though Boston scored was six
49:35
Speaker 1: seconds left. I don't care what the box score says
49:38
Speaker 1: on that one. And Peyton Krebs got the assist on
49:40
Speaker 1: Thompson's first goal on the wrap round where they were
49:43
Speaker 1: able to keep the puck in there again Pastor Knock.
49:46
Speaker 1: He scored the late goal there on the power play
49:49
Speaker 1: with less than eight seconds left from Zaka and Geeky.
49:52
Speaker 4: So Geeky had two points on the.
49:53
Speaker 1: Night, could have scored that other goal where he just
49:55
Speaker 1: decided not to shoot, and as well Pasternack. With those breakaways,
49:59
Speaker 1: Boston gonna want a lot more. They're gonna want to
50:01
Speaker 1: be able to close out a game like that after
50:03
Speaker 1: what happened there. So I expect Tuesday night against against
50:07
Speaker 1: Boston back here at Key Banks Center to be another
50:10
Speaker 1: great effort from the Bruins. I expect the Bruins to
50:12
Speaker 1: come out, you know, pissed off obviously with with how
50:17
Speaker 1: that one ended. They thought they were in control of
50:20
Speaker 1: that game, and you know, with eight minutes left they were,
50:22
Speaker 1: and it took a comeback of epic proportions for the
50:25
Speaker 1: Sabers to be able to pull out that victory. See, no,
50:28
Speaker 1: Marco Sterns is gonna have his team ready to go.
50:30
Speaker 1: I found it, excuse me, interesting that Casey Middlestat every
50:38
Speaker 1: time he touched the puck was pretty heavily booed as
50:40
Speaker 1: a former Sabers first round pick playing for Boston as
50:43
Speaker 1: well as Nikida is a door of a former first
50:45
Speaker 1: round pick of the Sabers as well was also booed
50:48
Speaker 1: pretty heavily as well. But it was pretty awesome to see, uh,
50:53
Speaker 1: just how the fan base was able to rally around
50:56
Speaker 1: this team the last three or so months of the
50:58
Speaker 1: season when the Atlantic Division for the first time. The
51:01
Speaker 1: last time they'd won the division championship was back when
51:03
Speaker 1: it was a Northeast Division back in.
51:04
Speaker 4: Two thousand and nine twenty ten. So a lot of
51:07
Speaker 4: great stuff there.
51:09
Speaker 1: Again, would love to hear from from the fan base,
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Speaker 1: that that the result was what it was. If it
51:30
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51:43
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51:46
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51:48
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51:51
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of momentum, a lot of just
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52:53
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53:17
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers become the first team in NHL postseason history
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Speaker 1: to win a regulation time after trailing by two or
53:23
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53:26
Speaker 1: in regulation.
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Speaker 4: There you go. What an amazing statistic there for the
53:30
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53:33
Speaker 1: Game two goes Tuesday from Key Bank Center, and expect
53:37
Speaker 1: the Bruns to come out with another fiery effort in
53:39
Speaker 1: that one with Jeremy Swayman. Gonna have to beat him again,
53:43
Speaker 1: proving why he was deserving of that big contract that
53:46
Speaker 1: the Bruins gave him just a season ago. And again,
53:49
Speaker 1: this Bruins team is not gonna go away, so it's
53:53
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun series.
53:54
Speaker 4: This one is not over.
53:55
Speaker 1: He first went first team to four wins, gets it
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Speaker 1: final score once again the Buffalo Sabers four and the
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Speaker 1: Boston Bruins three. We'll talk to you guys again for
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Speaker 1: more postgame reaction as we go forward here in this
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Speaker 1: first round series with the Boston Bruins and the Buffalo Sabers.
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Speaker 4: Until next time.
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Speaker 1: That's another episode of Saber Semantics and we'll talk to
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Speaker 1: you guys again very soon. Have yourself a great rest
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Speaker 1: of your night, or have a great Monday afternoon.
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