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Buffalo Sabres STAY ALIVE with 8-3 WIN in Game 6 @ MTL: Recap & Reactions - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: a great Sunday, hopefully with this Sabers eight three victory
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  Speaker 1: in Game six to extend it to a game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Back in Buffalo on Monday night, the Sabers improved a
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  Speaker 1: five and one on the road.
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  Speaker 2: This playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna go over a lot of statistics with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna go over the scoring summary from head coach Lindy
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  Speaker 1: Ruff as well Brandon putto along with you please to
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  Speaker 1: be joined once again by Jonathan Howe of ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: seven hits FN Jonathan, Wow, just you know I lacked
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  Speaker 1: the words, not just because it's a late late night
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  Speaker 1: with the late start for Hockey Night in Canada, but
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  Speaker 1: after the emotions of what this first period was like,
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  Speaker 1: after Lyon gets pulled on three on four shots, I
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  Speaker 1: would not have imagined that we'd be sitting here talking
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  Speaker 1: about an eight to three Sabers victory after what we
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  Speaker 1: saw in Game five.
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  Speaker 3: I did not expect that at all. I really thought.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't feel like it was over. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if I'm just living in La la land,
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  Speaker 3: like if I'm the eternal optimist or what, but I
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  Speaker 3: think when Zucker made it three to two before the
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  Speaker 3: end of the period, I was like, Okay, well they're
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  Speaker 3: not They're not out of it.
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  Speaker 4: There there's something And it felt like even.
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  Speaker 3: Though yes, Lion was our weak point, and it still
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  Speaker 3: felt like we were carrying the play to some extent
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  Speaker 3: even in that first period, so I didn't feel like
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  Speaker 3: we were out of it, but I definitely was stressing
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  Speaker 3: and I definitely was like, this is not how I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to go down for game six.
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  Speaker 1: No, and I know that there's a lot to talk
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  Speaker 1: about here within the game, but I think we should
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  Speaker 1: start out here with the lineup. And again I'm monitoring
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  Speaker 1: the live post game that's going on right now, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll take you to Lindy Ruff when we can here.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Tage Thompson speaking as well, which we
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  Speaker 1: might might get to depending on how lengthy Jonathan and
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  Speaker 1: I really get into it here. You know, when we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it last post game, Jonathan, when Austin was
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  Speaker 1: on with me, we talked about, you know that they
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  Speaker 1: had to split Thompson and Tuck up just it wasn't working.
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  Speaker 1: They were a minus seventeen between the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't producing. The Habs top line was really you know,
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  Speaker 1: just dominating them all in all aspects, and they were
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  Speaker 1: really just having a hard time being able to generate anything.
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  Speaker 1: And the confidence wasn't there between those guys. So Lindy
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  Speaker 1: shuffles up the lineup on the forward side, puts it
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  Speaker 1: all into a blender, and it worked tonight. So I
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  Speaker 1: mean you got Metsa in on the back end for
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  Speaker 1: Luke Shen, which I thought was a really good idea
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  Speaker 1: to get Zach Metsa and there. He hasn't played since
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  Speaker 1: April fifteenth, but looked really good. And we'll talk about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, him getting a late power play goal there.
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  Speaker 1: But you can sit on the video version on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: for you guys watching along Jonathan. He really switched up
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  Speaker 1: the lines tonight. Thompson went to the wing, Krebs went
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  Speaker 1: back to center on the fourth line, Benson got moved up,
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  Speaker 1: talked about moved down to the second line. Just what
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  Speaker 1: were your thoughts on the way Lindy constructed it tonight
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  Speaker 1: in a must win game.
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  Speaker 3: I think he really focused on having some center depth.
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  Speaker 3: We saw how much Thompson was struggling in the faceoff dot.
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  Speaker 3: He was not showing that he could really carry a
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  Speaker 3: line from a center standpoint. And that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you're rolling with F one, F two,
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  Speaker 3: F three, that they don't all interchange anyways. But I
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  Speaker 3: think having Norris up there took some of the pressure
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  Speaker 3: off Thompson allowed him to be a bit more of
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  Speaker 3: a free wheeling winger tonight. McCloud, I think did a
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  Speaker 3: good job of being pretty much unnoticeable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't unremarkable.
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  Speaker 3: It was an unremarkable game for McLoud and sometimes that's
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  Speaker 3: all you need from your second line center because Doan
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  Speaker 3: and Tuck did their thing. Helenius, I have to give
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  Speaker 3: you props, Brandon. Last time we were on you were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pounding the table. You wanted Constant in there,
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  Speaker 3: and you wanted mets It in there. He got him tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and man did they perform. And I know Krebs took
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  Speaker 3: kind of a silly penalty early in the game, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I thought he still did a good job centering that
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  Speaker 3: fourth line as well. So as focus on center depth,
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  Speaker 3: I think that was reflected in the faceoff Dot. Josh
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  Speaker 3: Norris had an amazing night in the faceoff Dot. I
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  Speaker 3: think he was like ten for ten through almost two
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  Speaker 3: and a half periods or something like that. So I
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  Speaker 3: think focusing on center depth was the big difference tonight
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get me going on that Cribs penalty, because
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  Speaker 1: I've I was really fired up at that point when
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  Speaker 1: they just took him just because the helmet came off
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  Speaker 1: of the Montreal player. Yeah, you know, we'll get into
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  Speaker 1: that after, but yeah, I mean just with the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: like they had to change something up. Even if Thompson's
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  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent, I still like him better on
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  Speaker 1: the wing when you're trying to get him going offensively.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a little bit of pressure off him, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, as a center, and the defensive responsibilities just
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, that uh, that's definitely almost the the
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  Speaker 1: craziest thing I saw tonight, even in an eight three game.
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  Speaker 1: But you mentioned the lineup and and Lion got the
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  Speaker 1: start tonight didn't last long. And we talked about on
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  Speaker 1: our last postgame. Austin was very much in the camp
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  Speaker 1: that Lucanan just didn't shouldn't been it, shouldn't play another
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  Speaker 1: game in the series based off of him not being
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of step up in that fifth game.
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  Speaker 1: He looked, you know, just the moment looked a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too big for him. But I got to give
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  Speaker 1: him props tonight. Man, he after Lion gives up three
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  Speaker 1: goals in the first he comes in an almost impossible situation.
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  Speaker 1: Montreal had all the momentum, the crowd was going ballistic.
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  Speaker 1: They had a few more opportunities as well, and he stood.
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  Speaker 1: He shut the door. He stopped all seventeen shots that
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  Speaker 1: he faced tonight from the Canadians after coming in in
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  Speaker 1: that first period. And you know, I think he's earned
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  Speaker 1: himself the Game seven here because we know Lindy Ruff
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  Speaker 1: just rides with the hot hand and you know, even
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  Speaker 1: what a change of events from.
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  Speaker 2: You know, forty eight hours ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean lyon like he's the road merchant, right,
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  Speaker 3: he had ten wins in the row in the regular
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  Speaker 3: season on the road. It makes sense for him to
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  Speaker 3: be that guy in that moment, I understand the decision,
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  Speaker 3: but I also hated his positioning. Like, if you look
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  Speaker 3: at all the goals tonight, he's out and challenging, which
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  Speaker 3: I love. That's one of the things that I love
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  Speaker 3: about Lion's game. But if you're going to be out
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  Speaker 3: and challenge, you have to be square to the shooter,
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  Speaker 3: and you can just see too much open net for
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  Speaker 3: the Canadian players to shoot at. So you know, from
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  Speaker 3: from my standpoint, not that I know a ton of
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  Speaker 3: about playing goal, but I look at his positioning on
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  Speaker 3: every replay and I was just like, he's just off
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  Speaker 3: by like a foot or two. He's being aggressive, which
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  Speaker 3: I love, but it's just not flying. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that was a really veteran coaching maneuver from Lindy to
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  Speaker 3: be like, hey, it's three on four, three on three,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it was, get him out of there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: care if it's Lion's fallen, don't care if it's the
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  Speaker 3: team in front of him. We need a spark ready
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  Speaker 3: to change. You go to lucan In, and the big
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  Speaker 3: thing about lucan In is just he has the ability
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  Speaker 3: to make the explosive save and sometimes those are almost
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  Speaker 3: better to have in your back pocket because I think
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  Speaker 3: it frustrates the Canadians. I think they started to kind
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  Speaker 3: of look for those opportunities a little more and that
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  Speaker 3: kept them from shooting, I think in some opportunities, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the Sabers just did a better job of
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  Speaker 3: blocking shots. Like I felt like in game game five,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the Sabers did enough to help lucan
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  Speaker 3: in and that's why he probably didn't really live up
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  Speaker 3: to the moment or didn't have the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 3: the hero like maybe some.
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  Speaker 2: Had thought he might be able to be.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, a huge game from Luken In once he
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  Speaker 3: came in and really locked it down, really allowed the
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  Speaker 3: guys to play their game, and we saw that the
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  Speaker 3: offensive output when they know that they've got somebody who's
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  Speaker 3: gonna stop the puck for them behind them, what they
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  Speaker 3: can do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sure did.
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  Speaker 1: And Dobish obviously got pulled late in that game. But
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  Speaker 1: Marty Saint Louis is going to go back to a
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  Speaker 1: starter that was mostly just to get him out of
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  Speaker 1: the neck get his head reset for a Game seven
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night. But we'll talk about him a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more in the scoring summary. But our games test
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  Speaker 2: Quickly go over this one.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan and the Sabers out shoot Montreal thirty six to
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  Speaker 1: twenty two in the game. The first period had three
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  Speaker 1: goals in the first four shots that chased Alex Lion
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  Speaker 1: from this game. Pretty low shot in the in the
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  Speaker 1: third period with Buffalo with that big lead, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the second period was where a lot of the action was,
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  Speaker 1: but ends up being thirty six to twenty two in
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  Speaker 1: the shot department faceoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Big deal for Buffalo tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We know how much they struggle on the Dot, but
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  Speaker 1: they were sixty point seven percent tonight. Maybe that was
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  Speaker 1: because Tage Thompson moved to the wing. I'm not too sure.
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  Speaker 1: Really bad night for Montreal on the dot for their
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  Speaker 1: standards thirty nine point three percent. Buffalo on the power
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  Speaker 1: play went four for six. We know the power play
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  Speaker 1: struggles at times that Buffalo's had. They've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: more success since they moved Benson to that top unit
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  Speaker 1: along with Doan. They've had a lot more success there.
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  Speaker 1: Montreal only goes one for three on the power play tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I think I can read that properly, and that was
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  Speaker 1: big for Buffalo to be able to have a bounce
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  Speaker 1: back performance on the penalty kill. We know they had
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  Speaker 1: a big one in game five or game four, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: game five. Montreal got to them pretty handily on the
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  Speaker 1: power play.
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  Speaker 2: We know that five man units deadly.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the block shot department you mentioned, Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: did a much better job. They're eighteen to nine in
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  Speaker 1: favor of Buffalo and takeaways five to three in favor
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  Speaker 1: of Montreal.
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  Speaker 3: Anything you want to mention from the game stats tonight, honestly, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's all of the face offs. I think
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  Speaker 3: the starting with the puck and shots too. Like I
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  Speaker 3: think having eleven on Dobish making dobish work is the
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  Speaker 3: key to the Saber success. And it's not necessarily that
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  Speaker 3: Dobish shows signs of fatigue by any means. But you're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna score if you don't shoot like you gotta
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  Speaker 3: get pucks on net to them and you gotta limit
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  Speaker 3: Montreal's opportunities. I think coming out of that first period again,
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  Speaker 3: even though they were down three to two and there
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  Speaker 3: was three really ugly goals from Montreal and maybe not
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  Speaker 3: ugly goals, but three goals that maybe you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be given up in the first period of a
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  Speaker 3: game where you're facing elimination. I think the eleven to
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  Speaker 3: five difference in shots in the first period gave me
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  Speaker 3: enough confidence that, Okay, maybe they're gonna be able to stay.
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  Speaker 4: In this game and maybe eke out a win.
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  Speaker 3: And they did that and so much more, especially exploding
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  Speaker 3: for seventeen shots in the second period.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was where they did most of their damage
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  Speaker 1: as well, and we might as well get to FOURD
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  Speaker 1: I know for you Jonathan as well, but you got
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  Speaker 1: great Merritville Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know, and then we double back on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: of course, so we'll see how I didn't have my
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  Speaker 3: jersey on, I'm gonna have my hat on.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta have the radio feed.
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  Speaker 3: Which can we take a minute and once again shout
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  Speaker 3: out Dan dun Levy. I mean, we all know the
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  Speaker 3: magic of r J and how much he meant to
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  Speaker 3: this franchise, but I will say it till the cows
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  Speaker 3: come home that I think Dan Dunlevy has done such
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  Speaker 3: a great job jumping in that big chair and representing
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  Speaker 3: the crest, representing the Blue and Gold in a professional way,
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  Speaker 3: in just enough of a Homer way that you still
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  Speaker 3: having fun with it as the local broadcast. But he's
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  Speaker 3: also always fair and had an iconic call tonight. I
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  Speaker 3: love that jumping Jack Quinn the ripper or with the ripper.
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  Speaker 3: That was a great call on the power play goal.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the second power play goal Quinn
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  Speaker 3: got tonight, and.
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  Speaker 1: Quinn definitely needed that one as well. But yeah, Dan
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  Speaker 1: dun Levy, never you know, RJ's never gonna be you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's irreplaceable. But when you go in that share
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  Speaker 1: and Dan dun Levy's done a fantastic job. He's now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the voice of the Sabers, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: RJ's looking down very proud at the at Dan dun Levy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keeping the chair in good hands.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, don't even get me started on the on.
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  Speaker 1: The sports Net broadcast again, because for you people in
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with here in Canada with the sports
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  Speaker 1: Net broadcast playing the Montreal Canadians Hockey night in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, the theatrics leading up to the.
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  Speaker 3: Game and just you cole play playing like on top
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  Speaker 3: of the fact that it plays when the team comes out,
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  Speaker 3: they're playing on the broadcast like it'd be like if
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  Speaker 3: if ESPN was playing like saber Dance into Rocky Lak
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  Speaker 4: Like That's what we had to deal with on that
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  Speaker 4: Canadian broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not familiar with watching a game on Roger
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  Speaker 3: Sports that right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, and I don't want Canadians
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  Speaker 1: fans coming after me in the chat. Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: They're the last Canadian team in the Playoffsada. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what, the Sabers have kind of taken on the
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  Speaker 1: role of Candada's team, at least for the people here
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  Speaker 1: in southern Ontario and us here in the Naga region.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody wants to jump on the bandwagon, even those
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  Speaker 1: sad Leaf fans, so you know, shout out to them,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but they got a lot more problems. So
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  Speaker 1: let's move forward with our scoring summary. Jonathan here and
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  Speaker 1: Dahleen gets the Sabers on the board early. This is
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  Speaker 1: the fifth time in six games the Sabers have scored
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  Speaker 1: the first goal in the game, and they get it
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  Speaker 1: really early there. Dahleen thirty two seconds in just what
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  Speaker 1: can you say, just walks left Coffs. He goes on
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  Speaker 1: the backhand and goes over top of Dobis to silence
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  Speaker 1: a rock as Bell center Crop Gross.
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  Speaker 3: It was a disgusting goal. I was so that's what
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to see from Rasmus. I feel like all
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  Speaker 3: playoffs have been waiting for that spectacular individual play to
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  Speaker 3: set the tone, and he absolutely did that. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: you know it didn't last very long, as Jackuy goes
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  Speaker 3: back at it, but Dahleen set in the tone and
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  Speaker 3: living up to it with a huge as you're pointing
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dahleen scored thirty two seconds into Game six, making
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  Speaker 1: the fastest set fastest goal for to start a playoff
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  Speaker 1: game in Sabers history, behind Derek Roy nine seconds into
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  Speaker 1: Game four of the two thousand and seven Conference Final.
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  Speaker 1: Roy's was also in a potential elimination game, So Dallian
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  Speaker 1: turning back to clock there for the Sabers.
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  Speaker 2: So that's really great to see.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, yeah, just he really needed that one, right,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Like the captain, he's he's been struggling offensively in the
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: second round, you know that. You know, he had to
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: answer the bell here and after some really bad penalties
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: as well in Game five, and him and Tage Tom
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: seventy two and twenty six needed to have big games
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: or the Sabers we're going to get eliminated tonight. And
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I feel like they had definitely had bounce back performances
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: with Dallen starting it off here.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Absolutely couldn't say I could ask for much more from Dawlian.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I thought he was really brilliant tonight. So I know
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Habs fans were upset with me.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: A couple of post games ago because I didn't go
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: in depth on every one in Montreal's goals. Well, unfortunately,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: you can go watch our friends over at ABS tonight
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: if you want to listen to the in depth analysis
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: of all of Montreal's goals. I'm not going to break
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: them all down for you here, but they do score
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: three unanswered there, Austin.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: It's deja vous from the other night.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean the first goal, Jack Guy, the
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: face off win after Demodov has a really good chance
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: in tight when Dollen gave the puck away off that
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: next face off arbor Jack Guy, the former Hamilton Bulldog,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: takes the points shot there, gets past Lion.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: It's one to one.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Another quick strike response from the Canadians, which they've done
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: all series long. And then shortly after that, Demodov from
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the right circle takes the pass from Lane Hudson and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: that was on the Krebs penalty that I don't want
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to go into, but that was the power play goal
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: there for the Canadians and just a bomb from Demodov
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and Caffield and Demodov have started to pick it up
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: obviously as the series has gone on.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Demodov makes it two to one.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And then shortly after Jake Evans, after Buffalo gets a
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: power play, Josh Norris drew the penalty on Philip Deno.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: You think, okay, this is Buffalo chance here, and Dobish
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: came up, came up with a save, and then it
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: goes down the other way. Jake Evans keeps on the
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: two on one and goes far side on Lucan it
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: or on Lion excuse me, and it's three goals on
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: four shots. The bell center's rocking a shorthanded goal, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you see Ugo Peca Lucan And
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: getting his helmet and he comes in given alex lyon
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the early hook there after what was meant to be
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: his game to kind of shine, and all of a sudden,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you know, it's three to one Montreal, And I think
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the most important thing was that the Sabers have been
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in this position before in this series and they didn't
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: let it get to them. I know, Lucan and came
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: up with a few saves and there was one that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: was sort of hanging around his crease right right when
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: he came in the game. But they really held it
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: down there because you know, after those three goals they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: could have just crumbled in the series, could have been over.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I thought that one.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: That was another point in the game where I was like, Okay,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I believe they When that puck's slid through Lukenin's legs
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: and then out the backside, and I can't remember which
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: defender was there to sweep it away. When that happened,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, They're not going down this easily.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: They're still in this They're playing decent, and it just
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: felt like there's still reason to believe.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I'm just like the.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Optimist or the eternal optimist when it comes to this
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: team in this season in particular, because like, I don't know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: how do you doubt them after a ten game win streak,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: after you know, you lose your win streak on an
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: ugly loss, you come back and you win four, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you win three, and you've had to play three goalies
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: all year, and you've had so many injuries to start
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the year and guys coming up, guys going out of
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the lineup guys and getting hurt after acquired like this
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: just there's so many things that they have faced as
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: adversity throughout the year, and they just keep finding ways
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to stay in it, stay alive, and keep going. This
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: whole game almost felt like a microcosm of the whole
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: season right where it was like it was so much
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: optimism with Dollen coming in out and score on early
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: and then you know, three straight. You're like, they give
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: up a power play goal, a shorthanded goal, and power plays,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: a mass everything, and then they just pour it on
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and score six straight, seven straight to to finish it out.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that soccer goal late in the first was
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: the reason that I believed in it. I think that's
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the reason the team still had belief going into the second.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think Mike Matheson's four minute high
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: sticking penalty changed this game because if he doesn't take
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that on Norris and get on Norris for the cell
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: job as well on the bleeding, making sure that the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: ref saw that, you know, they get that play that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: goal and Norris sets up Zucker going going cross crease,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: finding him there and it goes over the patent under
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the arm adulbish So a little bit of a weird
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: placement of that shot, but it makes it three to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: two right near the end of the period, and I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: think that was massive as you mentioned to, after you
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: go down three to one, your goaltender gets yanked, you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: get a four minute power play. If Buffalo doesn't score
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in that four minute power play, the momentum continues in
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: mon Trell's favor and maybe they even go up for one,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: but instead they let Buffalo hang around in this game,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and it's a three to two game. App Despite how
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: disastrous the first period was, it was only a one
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: goal game, and I think Buffalo and Lindy Rouff obviously
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: took that as positives going into the room. And they
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: come out, you know, a minute into the second period
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and Benson picks up the rebound after Dobich couldn't find it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: He was kind of scrambling around and he buries it
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in the back end. Zach Benson continues to be one
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of Buffalo's most dynamic players. He's going to get himself
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: paid this summer, well deserved. He's turning into, you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: a young Brad marshand in front of our eyes that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: can do so many good things. And for him to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: get that game tied early in the second period, Buffalo
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: had all the momentum after you know, what was a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: disastrous first you know, eleven minutes of this game.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Benson's goal is huge.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Again, like I've been hammering the table, I got, what
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: do I know about goaltending? But every single time I'm
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: watching a goal go in on Dobish, he is going
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: left to right, right to left. It just seems to
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: open him up when you have to make him move latterly.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And you know, they get a moving latterly latterly on
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: that Benson goal and he has to scramble and then
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that's loses the puck and that's what allows that goal
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to go in. Right, So I think the Sabers have
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: figured out Yakub Doobish to an extent. It's can the
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Montreal defense do enough to protect the weakness that the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Sabers have now found and clearly exposed on things tonight?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But Benson's goal was huge to get it going. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: then I was texting with another friend of mine during
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the first period and we were talking about Jack Quinn
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: because I think he had just he had hit a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: post or something in that first period, and my buddy
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: was like, man, if I watch that guy come in
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: on the right side with no pressure and they let
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: him down there and he misses the net again like
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna lose it, and I'm like, man, jack Quinn
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: could win the power ball and not be able to
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: afford to buy a goal. But sure enough, in the
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: second period he shows up with the power play goal.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: It was incredible to see jack Quinn break through like that,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and I think if his teammates loved it. I think
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: there was a crazy stat I saw on the sports Net.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I was watching the sports Net while having the WGR call,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and I think they said, like, I think he had
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: like fifty shot attempts going into the playoffs game tonight
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and had not scored on any of them.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: So for jack Quinn to finally.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Break through, I couldn't have been happier for a guy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Twenty shots, fifty five attempts for Jack Quinn. Unbelievable to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: finally get his first career playoff goal. Just cinema, as
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that picture would say, just you know it's it was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: big at the time.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: You know. It was his first of two on the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: power play. Really nice setup.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I think that was Dollen that got it over to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: him on the left circle there and he just fires
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: it short side to make it four to three for Buffalo.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: That was his second goal.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, his first one was the one timer off
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the pass from Dahlin on the other side, but yeah,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: he really needed that one put Buffalo up four to three.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And I mean we can go over the entire scoring
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: summary here, but the skate the Sabers were down three
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to one.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: In this game.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They scored seven unanswered goals. I do think another big
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: one was Helenius or Helenus's goal to go up by two.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: That was a big one.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I know the Canadians were sort of screaming for a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: penalty after Joe Vellano got an elbow up from Boween
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Byram trying to enter the zone. There wasn't called. Goes
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: for a two on one the other way, and Zucker
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: finds Helenos. He had a couple of chances in his
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: first playoff game in this same scenario, but as you mentioned,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: they got dobish going you know, right to left, left
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to right, and Helenus buries this one for his first
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: career playoff goal.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And that was big for the young man.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Obviously, he's he looks like a like a vet already
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: at twenty years old. The moment's not too big for
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: him and he gets rewarded there to put the Sabers
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: up by two, because I think that was really big
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for them to be able to get that two goal
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: lead there, and that was basically all they needed tonight.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: And I mean, like, I can't say enough about how
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: impressed I am with Helenus's ability to play up the middle.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Like when you had cool It go down earlier in
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the year, we were kind of like, Okay, well that's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a center guy, but he's developing as a centerman, Like,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: we'll see if that's really that big of a loss.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: We acquire Sam Carrick at the deadline.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Krick's brought in to be this faceoff guy, brought into
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: stabilize up the middle, down low, but be able to
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: play up the lineup if he needs.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: He gets hurt, that sucks, but.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Constant Helenis is just unbelievable to play with the poise
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to be winning the face offs.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I know that he was much hyped even as a
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: junior player.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You know, Yoginan was talking him up as his coach
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: over on the European side. He's obviously impressed a lot
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: in Rochester as well. But I am so thrilled with
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: this guy. I don't want to hear his name in
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: any kind of trade talks go going forward. This guy
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: should be a cornerstone centerman that we are building a line,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: building a team around up the middle. Keep this guy
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: in the fold absolutely, And that was their second goal
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: in two minutes and five seconds, which was big between
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the Quinn power play goal and the hell A new
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: schoal obviously very big there. And then the Sabers end
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: up getting that that goal in the third from from
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Jack Quinn, the second power play marker that really put
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: it out of reach there, and then Thompson gets the
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: empty netter with Montreal had the goalie pulled down multiple goals,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: and then Zach Metsa on a late power play that
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Buffalo gets rewarded after some funny stuff was going on
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: with you know, ten minute misconducts getting tossed everywhere, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: just a really good, feel feel good moment for Zach
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Metza because obviously he hasn't played much, he hasn't played
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: since April fifteenth, but the great I guess reward for
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: him coming in in a really tough spot with their
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: season on the line, getting rewarded with a you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: a garbage time power play goal like let's let's call
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: it for what it is. But at the same time,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: you know, the Sabers end up winning this game eight three,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: but they don't get there with the con without the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: contribution to some of those guys in that second period.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Metsa looked unbelievable tonight. Like I have to say that
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I was not buying the hype. I was not drinking
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: the kool aid on Metsa. I know the stats of
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: how many wins they had when he was in the
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: lineup versus not.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I get all that, but.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I thought he really stabilized the back end tonight and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: just was a great just great at putting out fires.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Like anytime things started to kind of get a little
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: crazy in the zone, he was able to make the
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: easy play.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: And get the puck out.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: And then I think that power play goal was just
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: a reward for what was a really solid night and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: a really solid return to the lineup for Zach Metza.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Probably the best decision that Lindy Ruff has made coaching
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: wise this entire playoffs, And that might be might be
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: an overstatement, but I don't.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Think it is right now, No, it isn't.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And I think you know that sixth defenseman has been
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a topic of conversation obviously with you know, TIMMS had
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a really rough game last game, SHN was in there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: SHN got them to win. In Game five, he didn't
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: play much. He was sheltered minutes. I haven't exactly looked
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: at the ice time yet. I got it to pull
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: up in a little bit here. But I think that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you know what, what Zach Metsa gives you is stability
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: back there. But he's also he's also mobile, and I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: think that's something that you lack from a Luke Shn
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and a Logan Stanley. For whatever reason, Michael kessel Ring
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: has now become the ninth defenseman on this team. And
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: again that's a discussion for the offseason whether he's you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: played his last game as a Saber or not. But
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I was really happy to see Zach Metsa get to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: get in because I think he deserved it. And you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I think that they they held the fourth there when
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Montreal was really pressing and then allowed Buffalo to sort
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of take over that game. They didn't really I didn't
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: notice Zach Metsa a lot in the defensive end. I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: think that was a good thing, Like he wasn't caught
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: at a position. He wasn't giving up big, big breakdowns
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: or big you know, opportunities for the Canadians after they
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: got that lead, they sort of just went into it
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to a prevent mode. But I was really happy with
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the way that that Metsa played, and I think he's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: earned himself that spot for Game seven.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: It's funny, actually, I'm looking over the box score and
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I didn't I couldn't even tell you where this happened,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: but Zach mets was the only Sabers defenseman to finish
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: on the minus tonight. He was actually minus one with
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: his twelve minutes and nineteen seconds of ice time.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you where that happened or what.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: The mistake was.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: You know, I was sitting here praising him.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: We're talking about how he wasn't very noticeable in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: defensive end. But whatever you plus minus isn gonna lose
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: isn't always the most truth telling stat. But yeah, pretty
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: wild to see that every single Sabers defenseman besides Metsa
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: was a plus tonight.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, quickly going over that. You can see it on
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the YouTube version for you people listening in. Benson was
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: one goal, one assist, plus three to night ten pims.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It's usually a pretty you know, pretty standard statistic for
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: number six. He logged over twenty minutes tonight. The other
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: forwards that logged over twenty minutes were McLoud at time
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: twenty one to fifty six and nobody else.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Actually, those are the only two.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: On the defensive side of things, you had Samuelson at
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: twenty two to fifty three power at twenty two to
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: twenty two, and he was We didn't really mention him
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: off the top. He was questionable coming in after he
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: got nicked up there in Game five, but he was
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: good enough to go and played some solid minutes tonight
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: for Buffalo. Was a plus one there took twenty four shifts.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Daleen played just under twenty minutes. Metsa played twelve nineteen,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: so again he was able to play a decent amount.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And Timmins had a bounce back game I believe comparatively
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: atrocious Game five that he had.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He had five blocks tonight.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I know he had three giveaways, but he played seventeen
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: minutes tonight and got to give him number twenty one
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: credit the Saint Catherine's Native. I think he had a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: really good bounce back after, you know, what was a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: really tough Game five for him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really love Timmins game tonight. I thought he
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: was really effective, really a huge bounce back. I know
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: that giveaways. I think giveaways are also not necessarily a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: misleading stat but I think there's just so easy against
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: a team like all They've got active sticks, they got
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: quick foot speed.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: You're gonna give the puck away. You can't play a
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: perfect game.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: But the biggest thing that I thought made the Savers
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: successful throughout this entire night, it was their ability to battle.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Even when they did lose a puck battle or even
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: when they did turn it over, it seemed like they
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: were right there dogging back to get that puck again.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: And I just don't think they allowed Montreal to get
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: to their game. And you know it was it was huge.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I really they gave themselves a blueprint, like even more
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: so than Game four. Like Game four was a great win,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: it was a great road win. You battled out, You
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: probably won a game that maybe you shouldn't have tonight,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: they deserve to win this game.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: So how do you build on that?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: How do you what do you take away from this
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: game to go into Game seven in your home rink,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: which you, for whatever reason, have struggled with this year
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: in this postseason. How do you take that game and
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  Speaker 3: make it apply at home for a do or die
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Game seven, which is what every player is dreamt of
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  Speaker 3: doing for this Sabers team. I mean, how could you
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: want anything more other than this? Like, how could we
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: ask for anything but this? I mean to have seven
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: games of this series, win loser drawing Game seven. We
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: have been rewarded with an awesome one, but man, I'm
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I'm so fired up, but I just want to see
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: them not fall flat, just build on this and finish
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: this series strong.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You're one of the last five teams remaining, you won
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Division, and now you're going to Game seven
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: with a chance to go to the Eastern Conference Final
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: after a fourteen season playoff throat. So again we talk
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: about the negatives and things like that. You know, it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: just I think that win loser draws you mentioned, it's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: still a successful season. I know the Sabers fans want more,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and you know it's right there for the taking. But
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I got to take the posites where we can get them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, there's something I want to kind of
• 31:51
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  Speaker 1: say following his team's bounce back performance tight in game six.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: A couple of Bucks went in and we were playing well,
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: got off the great start, playing well, and I just
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: told the team stay with it. We're moving the puck well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: defending well.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: Lindy, you guys at ow.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Five and one on the road in these playoffs, but
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: they're five and two of the road.
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: You know, why, why can't that be when.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: These two arenas are so exciting that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: The home team seems to be better off on the road.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Well, we're in the process of seeing if we can
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: play here on Monday, Lindy.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Going off of that, how do you make Monday feel
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: like a road game?
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Does this involve like added hotels.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Or what are you guys going to do?
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got some thought going into that right now,
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: but we are going to change up what we've done
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: at home. I don't I don't have the I really
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: don't have the answer, and I don't think anybody has
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: been able to help me with the answer yet. So uh,
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: you know, I'm sure they're probably searching for the answer
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: to you know, in their building in Boston was searching
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: for the same answer in their building. So we know
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: it's it's one game now for a chance to move on.
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: Today's askings his first elimination game and he scored on
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: his first shift and ends up with five points.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: And what ways did he he set the toe to you.
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: Guys, Well, you know again, we've been able to get
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: off to a quick start. I thought, just that little
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: rotation and in the play he made, you know, I
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: think he held on long enough. Somebody went by him
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: there lowing the D zone and he got to the
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: net on his backhand, and the heck of a shot
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: and I don't know whether it went off understick or not,
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: but it was it was at that time was I mean,
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: we've been able to score early and that helps take
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: a little bit of this crowd out of it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: More than the lean for most of your players, that
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: was a new experience, which we're back against a Waltz.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: How proud are you that will your leaders respond to
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: night in that game?
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: Very proud of our guys. We talked this morning about
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: everybody needs to play the best game, that the regular
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: season doesn't mean anything. In the Boston series doesn't mean
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: anything in the five games from this point really don't
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: mean anything. The our defining moment is this game tonight,
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: that we have to play our best game.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Wendy, what went into all the lineup changes?
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: You shoveled up the line, you switch your goalie, Like,
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: what went into that?
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: And how do you feel like like it worked out?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: You know, I just think the that you know, our
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: top line had struggled. They had been good for such
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: a long time. I mean we'd had a few times
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: we'd switched back and forth, but really felt that it
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: was it was just time to make a change. You know,
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: met with the coaches and you know talking like probably
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: you guys are talking how can you break up this
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: line and how can you break up that line? But
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: the bottom line is we just felt it would help
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: our couple of our guys get going and and we
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: went back to the McLeod don talk line, which played
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: a lot earlier in the year. You know, she just
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: looked back on games that you know, you thought lines
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: were real good, and we thought there was a connection
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: between There was times when awesome would play with Benson
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: and Tom. Uh So we just decided to put Tom
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: er over on that side. So I mean, just discussions,
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: trying to trying to generate the more from your top guys.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: Lindy, what in particular sparked this team in the second period.
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'll still say this. I thought we
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: played a hell of a first period. We just didn't
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: win the score sheet battle. I thought we played an
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: even better second period, for sure. I thought our skating
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: in the offensive zone we separated all the time. It
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: made it really tough. It made it really tough on coverage.
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: They couldn't quite catch up to, you know, the low rotation,
• 41:34
  Speaker 9: some of the high rotation, and all of a sudden
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: we had guys open. But it's like I said this morning,
• 41:41
  Speaker 9: we need to skate. We need to skate on bucks.
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: And I thought that was the biggest difference in the
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: boat zones for us. We skated, We took space and
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: time away in the D zone, and we skated away
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: from people in the offensive zone.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: There was Sabers head coach Lindy Ruff on the Wild
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  Speaker 1: Bills Auto repair postgame his thoughts tonight after the Big
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• 42:16
  Speaker 1: about we're trying to see if we can have Game
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: seven back here in Montreal. I don't know Sabers fan
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: would be pretty happy about that, but yeah, I mean
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: he said he might change some things up for their
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: preparation going into the Game seven as well, which I
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: thought was interesting. Maybe get them to stay at a hotel,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: which they do on the road. I've heard teams do
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that before to try to, you know, simulate, you know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the solid road play.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: But what did you What were your takeaways from what
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Lindy said tonight.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: I love his sense of humor. I love how light.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: This version of Lindy Ruff has been, this era of
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Lindy Ruff. Not that he didn't have like a joking
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: past when he was the coach previous, but he really
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: seems that like as he has matured and gone on
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: his career, he's learned how to take things light. He's
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: learned how to deflect a lot of the serious questions
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: in a much better way.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: He's always been so good in the media.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: But I just I think the biggest thing that I
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: hear from him is that they just they know what
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: they have to do right and I think that there's
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: a great comment here in the chat from a trip
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: to Man reminding us about the fact that the season
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: did start with Benson, Norris and Tage as a line commination,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and that Zucker McLeod Tuck was a really hot line
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: that we saw last year. Right, there's enough chemistry throughout
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: this lineup that you can have the confidence to go
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: and mix things up, So you know, I think, yes,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: they probably second guests themselves when they were looking at
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: that lineup board or they're looking at the whiteboard in
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: the locker room between Lindy and the other coaching staff.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: I'm glad they made the decisions that they made. I'm
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: glad that they were willing to risk it, and yeah,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: we'll see what We'll see.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: What the me and the energy's like.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, even if they did in Montreal for Game seven,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Key Bank was packed tonight for a watch party, I'm
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: sure it'd be the same thing.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: So Savers fans would be probably pretty thrilled with that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So Canalside's going to be rocking on Wednesday night and
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: the Blade crew I think will be you know, the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: population of Palmonville probably out there, and I'm interested to
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: see who the the drum will be because we know
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: that it hasn't worked o well for the Savers as
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of late. But you know, whoever they bring in for
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that drum, I who are sure hope they win or
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: they're going to be said that they were the jinks
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: of the Savers not advancing to the Eastern Conference Final.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: We got some Tames Thompson audio.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I think we should go to him as well because
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: he had obviously a big bounce back performance tonight. With
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: with his performance he had on the night a goal
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and three assists, he was a plus three six shots
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: on net three hits for number seventy two of the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: leader of the Sabers up front and was able to
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: gain some confidence there on the wing. Let's go to
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Tae Thompson. Hear what he had to say following this
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: big victory tonight, and so.
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: You know, I think everyone in this room just looked
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: at it.
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: It doesn't really matter what's happened up to this point.
• 45:06
  Speaker 8: You know, regular season, first round, the previous five games
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: in this round.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: Our only job was to win a hockey.
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: Game tonight, and we've done that and now the same
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: thing doesn't matter what we've done up until this point
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: in this game.
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: OAE in the second period might have been what was
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: the mess we see three guys in this playoff? What
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: was the mess in going out into that period?
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: We we loved our first period.
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: You know, the score wasn't representative of it, but we
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: were playing the game the right way. I thought we
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: were putting pucks deep, you know, for check and take
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: away over time and space, and I thought our dson
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: was was good. We were getting looks. We knew that
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: we played that way for you know, the rest of
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: the game, that we were going to find ourselves back
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: in it if not, you know, in the lead, and
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: how our play was great for us tonight. Kill came
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: up big when we needed and obviously it will be
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: steps in and make some big stays when we need
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: them as well. Take after game five arrestments fantastic.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: It was just a matter of if you guys best
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: players being the best players, and you said, yeah.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: Simple as that.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: How much did you guys sort of put.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: That message kind of like on your shoulders coming into
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: this months, like.
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's something I think we we all in here
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: pride ourselves on, you know, being the best player every
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: time we step on the ice.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: I don't think anyone goes into a game to play
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: a game.
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: Without that expectation of themselves, or at least they should
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: have that expectation of themselves. And you know it's something
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: that everyone in this room has. And you know that
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: there's obviously games that don't go your way or where
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: you don't have your best effort or need to be better.
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: And you know, the sun comes up in the morning
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: and get a new opportunity to do that. And today
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: was was just like that. So new opportunity, new challenge
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: in front of us today. It doesn't really matter what's
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: happened in the past. So that's really the only way
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: you can look at things.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Do you do an as individuals and collectively as the grip.
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: The same thing we did tonight.
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: Forget about what's happened up to this point and let's
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: play a shift at a time and focus on your job.
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the Niagra Dentric Clinic creating actual
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  Speaker 1: smiles in the Niagara region for over twenty five years. Jonathan,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you know good stuff there from Tage Thompson as always.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: A video courtesy of x dot Com, Slash Buffalo Sabers
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: MSG and the National Hockey League. It seemed like he
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: had a nice bounce back tonight and had the mindset
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that they were going to have a bounce back performance
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: with their best players needing to be their best players,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and they showed that tonight.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were like even if the score sheet wasn't
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: dominated by Thompson. I mean, Dollian had five and I
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: guess Thompson had four points, right, So they did show
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: up on the score sheet. It was just the actual
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: way they drove play for me that I was super
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: impressed by. And it started early with Dallian taking it
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: to the net and having that absolute highlight reel goal
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: to kick off the game. Obviously it goes a little
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: sideways from them, but they fight back. They make smart plays,
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: even that empty net or that Thompson ends up with
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: such a smart play to just look up the ice
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: and just get it towards the net and see what happens,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: right as opposed to making a panicked play maybe trying
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: to skate it a little bit further. The best players
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: showed up tonight for the Sabers, and that almost galvanized
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: the rest of the group and allowed them to do
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: their thing. You saw Jack Quinn break through for those
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: power play goals. Awesome to see Helenius, Awesome to see
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: his performance tonight.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Alex Stuck, I know.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: His score sheet's not gonna look great with the dash
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: one and the zeros on the board, but I really
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: thought Tuck had a better game, maybe his best game
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: of the series, which again it just goes to show
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: that he's even got another gear that they can reach
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: and they're gonna need it from Alex Stuck going into
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Game seven.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: And I will say about Thompson, like early in the series,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: he was asked if he's playing hurt and he basically
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: snapped back at Paul Hamilton, who's the Sabers, you know,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: a traveling reporter, and basically says, of your business. So
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: to me, that that means that out that TAJE. Thompson's
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent. We saw that he wasn't able
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to kind of really get that one timer go, and
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to really elevate a lot of
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: pucks on that breakaway that he had in Game five.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: That was a big opportunity for Buffalo he wasn't able
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: to do that there. So even if he is, you know,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: playing herd, he's choosing to be in the lineup, right,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: So if you're in the lineup, then you're expected to produce.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: And we know that twenty six, seventy two and eighty
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: nine have been heavily criticized in the series, you know,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: after you know, having a good first series against Boston,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: but they were just having their lunch eating by the
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Canadians top players and the cow Fields and the you know,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: the Suzuki's, the Slefkowski's and and Cole and Lane Hudson
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: running the power play unit for them. So it it
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: was a definite needed bounce back performance tonight. And as
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, a five point night for Dolleen, a four
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: point night for Thompson. I know Tuck, you know, didn't
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: really get on the score sheet as well, and he's
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: you know, turned into the new Jack Quinn where he's
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: just snake bit now. But you noticed eighty nine a
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: little bit more tonight, even though you know that second
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: did have some struggles tonight. You know, I thought Ryan
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: McLeod had a good game, He had some bursts of speed,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: He had a post as well, like I thought that
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: the lineup changes for Lindy and throwing them all into
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: a blender, you know, really woke the team up. And
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: you know they got the contributions from up and down
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the lineup tonight.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I thought again, like even tonight with Thompson,
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: it seemed like he could shoot the puck a little
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: bit better. So I don't know if the guys all
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: went like a hyperbaric chamber and everybody like magically felt
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: better or what. I don't know what kind of sports
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: science tricks that they had, but it just seemed like
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: everybody had just a little bit.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: More in the tank tonight.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: You know, I mentioned the last time we had a
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: chance to have this conversation and you had me on
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: how in the Boston series it was so noticeable when
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: the Savers would get that two day break, how much
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: speed they came out of the gate with after.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Those rest days. They obviously don't have that in this series.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a challenge once again to regroup for
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a huge Game seven, pressure packed moment at Key Bank.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: I like the idea of putting the team on the road.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, even in the NFL, that's a very common
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: thing where like the home team stays in a hotel
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: the night before a game and they lock in, and
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I think, just it seems like with this group too,
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: the big thing about being on the road and being
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: together is it seems to give the guys like just
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: this camaraderie. It seems like that's been the story of
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: this team altogether, is you know, going back to Dolly
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: and talking about drinking beers with the boys, right, everybody
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: going to dinner together. It just seems like that that
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: atmosphere of maybe being all together in the hotel the
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: night before a big game, maybe that can bring some
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: magic as maybe that as annoying as that might be,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: as frustrating as that might be for some of the
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: families and stuff like that, it's if that's what's got
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: to be done to make Game seven happen. And one
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: other weird stat because I don't know, I don't know
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: if and maybe you can tell me if this happened,
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: but they are undefeated at home when Sabertooth comes down
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: from the rafters.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think he did it in.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Game five, but he did it in Game one of
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: the Boston series and Game one of the Montreal series.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: So to get up there, buddy, you're coming down the rafters.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: That if that might be the thing that we need
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: most for the Savers to win.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Need saber Tooth to risk his life in order for
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the Sabers to advance. But yeah, I mean seven goal
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: scorers tonight for Buffalo. Obviously, they like the big guys
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: stepped up, but they also got the contributions you know,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: up and down the lineup. Maybe that was because the
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: lines got you know, people got spread out a little
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: bit more to have that depth scoring. I don't think
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the fourth line score, but I think the other three
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: lines did produce tonight, which was big obviously, and lucan
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: In you know, was a big performer as well, you know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: looking at that. But I think there's a few statistics
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I just want to quickly throw up on the screen
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: for you guys, just to kind of show what the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: what what an interesting game this was. This was for
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: both teams. This is an interesting one from sports net stats.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: This is the first playoff game to feature four goalies
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: who played without getting injured since Game three of the
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twelve Eastern Conference quarter or Eastern quarter Finals between
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the Florida Panthers and the New Jersey Devils.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: Weird stat would have thought that was the Pittsburgh Philadelphia
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: series back in the day, but I guess that would
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: make sense.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: And then the Sabers multi goal comeback record. Tonight's win
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: marks the second time Buffalo has earned five wins in
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: their first six road contest in a single playoff year.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: The Sabers also did it from April twenty second to
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: May twenty third and nineteen ninety eight. It's the third
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: multi goal comeback win when facing elimination in franchise history,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: following Game six of the nineteen eighty three Division Finals
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and in Game four of the nineteen eighty semi finals
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: that we both were not around for.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: No, we were not, but unbelievable, man Like, there's just
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: so many weird things that are happening with this run,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: which makes it feel that much more special and just
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: makes me really hope that we get something good in
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Game seven.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: And then the last one here to go over is
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Rasmus Dahalin joins Derek Roy on May fifth, two thousand
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and six, as At Ottawa and John Tucker. As I
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier April on April tenth, nineteen eighty eight, versus
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Boston is the only Saber skaters to record five points
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: in a playoff game all time, so no Saber has
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: had more than that. So he joins Derek Roy again
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: for another statistic there. So yeah, trip the man says,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: drop Sabertooth on Jack. Yeah, well, I don't know which
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: which Montreal player you're referring to there, but you know,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: maybe Upie comes out and maybe Upie and saber Toooth
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: can have a scrap for the boys and really get
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the crowd fired up.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't know if you saw it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: His tooth took a bit of a spill at the
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: at the watch party tonight. I guess they had the
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: big flag that they pass around the stands.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: It was out on the main like ice.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and for whatever reason, they left Tooth alone to
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: try and wrap it up and pull it.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Off the ice himself.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: He took a little bit of a tumble, but honestly,
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: as long as he is a okay to goal, I
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: think you got to get the guy up on the
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: rafters and get Sabertooth coming down to fire up the
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: crowd a key bank in game seven and make it
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: extra special.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Sabers and seven.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: I believe.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I believe usually I'm the eternal optimist on this show
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: and Austin's the pessimist. So I guess I have to
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: play the role of pessimist now since you've now become
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the eternal optimist coming in relief. So I don't know,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: we can't have both of us banging the table in positivity.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be on both sides of the fence depending
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: on who's on the show. I can play both gimmicks
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: if needed.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: But all right, which goalie do you start for Game seven?
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Then you gotta go back to Lucanan. I mean, I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: know lyon you wanted to go to him, and I
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: know Lucanan struggled heavily at home, But I think you
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: gotta go Lucan in after he came in and you
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: saved your season basically in that first period.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: I can't disagree with that.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: And I really think if I'm Lindy, I pull Lion
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: aside and be like, just be ready because the leash
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: is going to be an all time short.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: I don't even know.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: If Global Pet Food sells a leash that short that
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: is going to be on the goaltenders.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: How about that for a plug.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: There you go, A love that, but yeah, it's almost
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: like the opener in baseball, like he's got a very
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: short seas we got. We already got a guy warming
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: up in the pen in the first inning, just in case.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: How to get you through?
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Is it possible to put Ellis bench?
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: Like?
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Can we dress like eleven forwards and carry Ellis for
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: a goal? I know Trip the Hants had a couple
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: of times where he's mentioning Ellis here. I did watch
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Colt Malice win US a game in Buffalo against Montreal
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: this year on Reunion Night, So it wouldn't be insane
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: at this point to see Colt Malice trust for the
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: Sabers and get on the IC in Game seven, It
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luke starts in and let Ellis's backup.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: That would be a heck of a conversation that lead
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: up to Game seven, which is a seven thirty start again,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: not quite eight twenty like tonight, but still another later
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: start on a Monday night, and that's a work night
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: for a lot of people. So hopefully it'll be worth
• 57:07
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• 57:09
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• 57:30
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• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Man, I'm having such a hard time with this.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like the obvious pick would be
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: like doline, But you know what, I'm gonna give it
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: to Jack Quinn. Two goals and assist plus one on
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: the night finally breaks through to get on the score sheet,
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: and not just once but twice, and to do it
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: on the power play. And that second goal was from
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: an absolutely disgusting angle too. He shelves that thing from
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: like basically the red line. I gotta give my stick
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: tap to Jack Quinn.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously him breaking through there with his first and
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: second career playoff goals after fifty five shot attempts through
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: twelve games. It was definitely big for him, and that
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: power play goal was the game winning goal. So great
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: choice there. I'm gonna go with lucan In just because
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: you know, you come in that spot, Lion's given up
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: three on four, the bell center's rocking, it's a three
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to one game.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Your season's on the line. You know. He comes up
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: with a few big saves.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: I know that one sort of squeaked by him again
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and it was just incredible to see. But I think
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: he really needed a bounce back because he's a guy
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: that has been heavily criticized, you know, and rightfully so
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: for what was a really bad performance for him in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Game five. But he bounced back tonight and again this
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: carousel of the Sabers goaltending of oh, it's Lions net, Nope,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: it's upl's net. Nope, it's Lions net. And now we're
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: on the side where it's upl's net again. I don't
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: know when we'ere we're going to get to the Colton
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Nellis portion of it, but I think, you know, lucan
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: In with the big seventeen saves, he came in and
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: shut the door.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: You know, he did.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: The Canadians didn't didn't score a goal on him tonight,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: so I think I'm gonna have to give it to him.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: And if I have to go to a skater, you know,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: I really think that uh.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Tage Thompson deserves a shoutow because I think he had
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: a really good bounce back game tonight.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, can't go wrong with either of those picks. Again,
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: I think it's been the theme of the series and
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: theme of the playoffs. The Big Dog's gotta eat upl
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: probably came into the season as the starting guy, and
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: uh Tage Thompson came in as you know, our our
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: number one forward, and they both had great games tonight
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: and that's a big reason by the Sabers live to
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: fight another day.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: And thank you to Trip the Man for his nine
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: dollars ninety nine cent us, which is a lot more
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in Canadian dollars. So thank you Trip for tuning in
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: UH and being a part of our post game show.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Is always great to have our fan interaction there, and
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: thank you everybody that tuned in live on the chat.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: We're just over midnight now, we're now into UH in
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: the Sunday on this Victoria day long week end here
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: in Canada for you in the United States, we do
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: have it's a long weekend for us on the Monday,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: so a lot of the Canadian Sabers. Sabers fans will
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: definitely you know, having an early start on their pregame,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: I think, but you know, I have to somewhat stay
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: even keel for a long night of postgames.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: So it's just gonna be fun.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Like like as you mentioned, as we kind of wrap
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: up here, Jonathan, it was great having you.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: It's it's a lot of fun.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: You know, this is what you dream for as a
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: as a fan and somebody and media members covering the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: team after what the last fourteen seasons are win loser
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: or they can't be draw, but win or lose on
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: on Monday. You know, I know Sabers fans will be disappointed,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: but it's it's been a fun ride and if it
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: does come to an end on Monday, the Sabers have
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of momentum you know, on their side, and
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: this won't be the last that we've seen.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: These are two fantastic, you know, young teams.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: They're both so fun to watch and I don't think
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: this is the last time the Sabers and Canadians are
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: going to be facing off in the playoffs.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I have love, you know,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: all things aside. I absolutely love this Habs lineup. I
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: think they are going to be a problem for a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: very long time. I think they are going to be
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: that team that takes hold of the Atlantic Division for
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: a very long time. I don't see the end insight
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: for their rain as one of the top teams in
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: the Atlantic.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: But Buffalo, They've got more than.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: Enough talent to continue on with it regardless of what
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: happens in Game seven. And this game just made my
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Sunday on Southern Ontario's Best Rock ninety seven to seven
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: hits FM a whole lot more fun to go and
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: do tomorrow. So I'm looking forward to that and looking
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: forward to somehow. I guess I gotta find a way
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: to listen to the game and call a race Monday night,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: weather permitting at Maryville Speedway. Busy end of the weekend,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: but I am so so ready for Game seven.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately Carolina continues to sit there and lick their
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: chops and get the good scouting report on both these teams.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: But that long layoff could hurt them as well, but
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: we're not going to get to it ahead of that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what's waiting in the wings for one of
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  Speaker 1: these two teams is the top seeded Carolina Hurricanes in
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Final. But that's gonna be it for
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  Speaker 1: treat because it's only for home victories, and the Sabers
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  Speaker 1: have done nothing but win on the road so far
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  Speaker 1: in this in this playoff series. But maybe they can
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  Speaker 1: get it done on in Game seven and then Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers eight three victors in game six of their
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