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Buffalo Sabres Revival Season Comes to an End via 3-2 OT loss in Game 7 - Sabres Semantics · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Armchair GM Sports Network and welcome
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Speaker 1: into another episode of Sabersmantics Live. Following Game seven of
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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup second round matchup between the Montreal Canadians
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Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Sabers, Montreal taking it three to two
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Speaker 1: in overtime, advancing to the Eastern Conference Final to face
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Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes right here on the Armchair GM Sports Network.
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Speaker 1: and Scott Street in St. Catharines, Brandon Putto and Austin
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Speaker 1: broad of Lee Prospects with you still de escalating a
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Speaker 1: little bit from what was, you know, very intense tense
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Speaker 1: game overtime just ended about ten minutes ago. Montreal moving on.
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Speaker 1: Alex Newhook gets the overtime winner. Buffalo battles back from
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Speaker 1: being down to nothing and controlled most of this game,
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Speaker 1: you know, for a team that's went through a fourteen
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Speaker 1: season playoff drought. Austin winning the Atlantic Division, getting to
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Speaker 1: Game seven of the second round with a chance to
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Speaker 1: be in the Eastern Conference Final. Very disappointing right now,
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Speaker 1: but really proud of what this group accomplished.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Just to say that it's already over is kind of tough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not I'm gonna yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: we could talk about the other stuff later. Obviously not
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Speaker 3: gonna crap on the entire season, but just probably not
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Speaker 3: the the sentiment that I'm going to go with tonight,
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Speaker 3: just because there's lots of time for that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, appreciate everybody tuning in live on the
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Speaker 1: day in your favorite on demand audio podcast platform. I
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Speaker 1: wish I was you guys tuning in tomorrow morning. But
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Speaker 1: we'll quickly go over the game stats of scoring summary,
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from Lindy Ruff briefly tonight. We're it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be an extended postgame episode for you guys that
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Speaker 1: we would usually do. Austin and myself just we're gonna
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Speaker 1: keep it short and sweet tonight, so we'll get through
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Speaker 1: it as quick as possible. But appreciate everybody tuning in nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: and we'll do a full offseason preview down the road.
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Speaker 1: But again, to say this this season is already in
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Speaker 1: past tense. Is really tough with you know, the way
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Speaker 1: that you know the series looked at one point in
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Speaker 1: favor of the Savers. So no lineup changes Austin for
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Speaker 1: tonight in the game obviously, other than lucan In who
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Speaker 1: basically played the entire game in that anyway, for when
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Speaker 1: he came in and relief a line in game six
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Speaker 1: after giving him three and four. You know, what did
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Speaker 1: you think, was there anything that you would have wanted
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Speaker 1: to see different? You thought they were just going to
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Speaker 1: run it back with the same thing that we saw
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Speaker 1: in six to get them here.
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Speaker 3: No, it's similar to when UPL started game five, right,
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Speaker 3: played well in relief the game before. No, he won
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Speaker 3: the game before captain net. He played well in relief
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Speaker 3: game six, kept the net Like it makes sense. We
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Speaker 3: know Lindy's m O is not really to change much
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Speaker 3: when it's going well, and that's kind of the guns
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Speaker 3: that he's stuck to. And the lineup again like was fine.
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Speaker 3: The Sabers is the last two game at five on
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Speaker 3: five were the much better team, and I mean as
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Speaker 3: evidenced by the score of the last two games. But
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Speaker 3: I mean, unfortunately when it comes down to it. Lineup changes,
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Speaker 3: how well you're playing at five on five and all
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Speaker 3: that stuff doesn't mean anything. You just have to find
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Speaker 3: a way to get it done. And at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day, new Hook found a chance and converted
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Speaker 3: on it, whereas the Sabers could not convert on their
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Speaker 3: chances in overtime because they had number of chances to
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Speaker 3: win that game.
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Speaker 1: Yep, new Hook with that was now his seventh goal
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Speaker 1: of the playoffs. And what a playoff performer he's been
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Speaker 1: for the Montreal Canadians. Again, the road team once again
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Speaker 1: gets the victory here and the Canadians respond after the
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Speaker 1: loss again, just like they've done in the Tampa Bay
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Speaker 1: series and now in the Buffalo series. Just what a
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Speaker 1: back and forth series. And who would have thought that?
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Speaker 1: You know, the road team, what did they? They win
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Speaker 1: six of the seven games in the series.
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Speaker 3: Uh No, each team had one game okay Buffalo, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Buffalo one game one, Montreal one game three.
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Speaker 1: So Buffalo their game seven record now falls to one
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Speaker 1: At the end of it, I believe in overtime that
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Speaker 1: the shot attempts were like eighty to fifty in favor
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Speaker 1: of Buffalo. It was probably a little bit more after
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Speaker 1: the graphic was shown there, But obviously, you know, Buffalo
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Speaker 1: I would say controlled play in this game tonight for
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Speaker 1: the most part, and you know Montreal had scored those
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Speaker 1: quick two goals. But when you really break down what
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Speaker 1: happened in this game tonight, you know, you look, you
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Speaker 1: can see it on the scre in there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Buffalo shots thirty nine to twenty five. Montreal had a
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Speaker 1: lot more block shots, which may have led to them
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Speaker 1: being successful tonight. They had seven takeaways to the Sabers three.
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Speaker 1: Sabers had sixteen giveaways to Montreal's twenty two. But again,
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Speaker 1: like when you look at the underlying stats, and I
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Speaker 1: believe you had reposted something that Jay Fresh had put
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Speaker 1: out I think after the second period when it was
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Speaker 1: two to one, and it was very much in a
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Speaker 1: lopsided than Buffalo's favor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I mean, aside from I mean, even the
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Speaker 3: first period was ended up being a lot more even
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Speaker 3: according on what models you look at. But the second
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Speaker 3: period Buffalo dominated and they were only able to obviously
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Speaker 3: be Dobis once and that's kind of been it's been
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Speaker 3: the moral of the story for the Sabers is the
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Speaker 3: games that they were able to win, they were able
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Speaker 3: to get to Dobish early and often today they weren't
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Speaker 3: able to get to them early, but they were able
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Speaker 3: to get you know, they're able to get to them
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Speaker 3: and get two past them, but they couldn't find a
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Speaker 3: way to get that next goal. And that's kind of
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Speaker 3: been the issue with the Sabers this whole series, whether
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Speaker 3: it was you know, they scored first and five out
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Speaker 3: of seven games, and in a lot of those games
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Speaker 3: they ended up either trailing or tied after scoring the
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Speaker 3: first goal, like, they were never able to just continue
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Speaker 3: to add to that lead. And that's why in the
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Speaker 3: losses obviously the games that they won there with ad
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Speaker 3: but I'm talking specifically the losses, they were never able
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Speaker 3: to add to that lead and it came back to
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Speaker 3: bite them, and that's kind of what happened today. They
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Speaker 3: got down early, but when they got to Dobish, and
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Speaker 3: when they were able to tie the game up, they
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Speaker 3: were just not able to get that next goal. They
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Speaker 3: were rolling, they were an avalanche coming down the hill
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Speaker 3: and they just couldn't get it over the line and
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Speaker 3: end up, you know, it ends up biting them in
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Speaker 3: the butt. Like Dobish was rock solid in the third
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Speaker 3: period and in overtime despite giving up the tying goal,
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Speaker 3: he was the difference maker for Montreal and a handful
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Speaker 3: of the games.
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Speaker 2: That in this series.
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Speaker 3: And that's the biggest reason why Montreal is moving on today,
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Speaker 3: specifically from Game seven, Like Dobish is the bigg reason
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Speaker 3: why they're moving on.
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Speaker 1: And penalty is only one power play to each side.
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Speaker 1: I was happy that the refs sort of kept their
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Speaker 1: whistles away, except you know, their whistle. There was an
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Speaker 1: early whistle, which we'll get into. But as far as
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Speaker 1: the penalties go, I'm glad that they let them play.
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Speaker 1: For the most part. Into Game seven, Montreal scored in
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Speaker 1: their one power play. Buffle was not successful in their
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Speaker 1: one power play, I like, especially in Game sevens like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to see it four or five power
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Speaker 1: plays either way. I know there was some stuff that
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Speaker 1: could have been called, and I know the Sabers fans
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Speaker 1: were really trying to get on the refs tonight, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you got any quick thoughts on
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Speaker 1: that side of it.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean, there was some stuff that could have
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Speaker 3: been called against Buffalo, some stuff that could have been
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Speaker 3: called against Montreal, and it is what it is. But
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Speaker 3: again big difference there. Montreal won for one, Buffalo over
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Speaker 3: one and really had I think Quinn had one decent
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Speaker 3: chance on the power play, but other than that, the
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Speaker 3: power play was abysmal and another big reason why they
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Speaker 3: had a chance to get momentum back with that power
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Speaker 3: play and they couldn't. And that's again been a pretty
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Speaker 3: common theme for the Sabers throat these playoffs and games
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Speaker 3: that they were unable to win.
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Speaker 1: opening goal. Philip to know is able to get that well,
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Speaker 1: I mean they didn't call it a kick, but Anderson
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Speaker 1: beat Byron.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't a kick.
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Speaker 3: If you watch the replays, skate his Yeah, it wasn't
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Speaker 3: a kick.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know the the Sabers bench was screaming for
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Speaker 1: a review on that one. But when you look at
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Speaker 1: the overhead camera, he just kind of had had his
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Speaker 1: skate turned the one way. He didn't kick it in,
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Speaker 1: he just sort of it kind of hit off of
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Speaker 1: him off the Anderson shot. But I'm more concerned about
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Speaker 1: Byrom getting beat to the puck behind the net because
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Speaker 1: the Sabers had that puck and.
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Speaker 3: Common yeah, common theme all night for Bowen Byram.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not his best game whatsoever. And I
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Speaker 1: know that they were rolling. Both teams are rolling five
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Speaker 1: defensemen and they're the fatigue factor gets into it as well.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think number four would would probably want
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Speaker 1: to have this game back. He passed up a few
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Speaker 1: opportunities as well. But yeah, Montreal gets that early lead,
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Speaker 1: or not early, but they get the lead to to
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Speaker 1: make it one nothing on the road. Once again, Lukenan
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Speaker 1: came up with two big saves after the slavkovsky Ford
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Speaker 1: check on Cawfield, and then Benson got a delay game
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Speaker 1: penalty which led to Montreal's only power play goal, although
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Speaker 1: I mean the Sabers almost killed it off. It was
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Speaker 1: right near the end of it. Bull Duke had come
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Speaker 1: out for the second unit and almost like whatever the
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Speaker 1: next line was going to be after the power play ended,
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Speaker 1: but the Sabers just kind of lost bull Duke, like
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Speaker 1: right out in the in the right circle there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what talking and some of those guys were
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Speaker 1: looking at. But Suzuki makes the pass from from behind
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Speaker 1: the net and bull Duke's wide open to make it
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Speaker 1: to nothing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Again, common common themes that have hurt the Sabers and
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Speaker 3: their losses hurt them today. I know this is more
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Speaker 3: of a penalty kill than a five on five, but
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Speaker 3: just poor, poor defensive zone coverage. Samuelson kind of tried
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Speaker 3: to play the behind the net pass and kind of
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Speaker 3: just gave away his position at the front. No, none
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Speaker 3: of the too high forwards even marked that bull Duke
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Speaker 3: was coming into the zone and he was just left
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Speaker 3: wide open and it was a really really nice shot
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Speaker 3: by him and just a what could have been a
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Speaker 3: backbreaking goal. It probably should have been a backbreaking goal,
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Speaker 3: but the Sabers were able to battle back after that one.
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Speaker 3: But again, it's just the common themes that you're seeing
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Speaker 3: with the Sabers this series has been when they lose,
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Speaker 3: they can't get the puck out, they lose a puck battle,
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Speaker 3: and then just poor defensive zone coverage, and all three
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Speaker 3: of those were pretty evident in the first period. They
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Speaker 3: cleaned it up a little bit as the game went on,
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Speaker 3: but in the first period really killed you. Starting the
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Speaker 3: game seven like that, and.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, for me, if the Sabers would have
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Speaker 1: won this game tonight, I had starred this as a
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Speaker 1: big turning point. The Textia breakaway Lucan and staying with
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Speaker 1: them that could have made it three to nothing. I
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Speaker 1: think that was obviously big because you go down three,
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Speaker 1: you probably don't even get to overtime at this point.
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Speaker 1: So I think Lucan in Again, we were pretty critical
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Speaker 1: of them after the Game five loss in Buffalo, where
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Speaker 1: the moments sort of looked too big for him, but
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Speaker 1: he definitely after those two goals, I feel like gave
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Speaker 1: Buffalo a chance to win. I mean, we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the overtime winner. I mean the overtime win aside.
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Speaker 1: I think you know, he he did his job. After
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Speaker 1: Montreal went up to nothing, I was pretty pleased with
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Speaker 1: the way that he played. Were there are a couple
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Speaker 1: of rebounds I want to have back, sure, but I
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Speaker 1: mean he got them to the overtime.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say
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Speaker 3: he played bad. He didn't, but he had a couple
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Speaker 3: of nice breakaway saves and big saves and things like that.
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Speaker 3: But it again, it just comes down to in a
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Speaker 3: big moment, you needed him or your goalie in general,
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Speaker 3: to step up, and in the series, the goalie rarely
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Speaker 3: ever stepped up. I know he kept you in this
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Speaker 3: game as you battled back, I don't know. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 3: he had some big saves and I'm not gonna say
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Speaker 3: he's the reason that they lost the game, but it's
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Speaker 3: pretty what happened in overtime can kind of wipe that
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Speaker 3: out because when they like, there's just no Dobis made
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Speaker 3: saves and kept Montreal in it, and Dobish won the
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Speaker 3: game for Buffalo. You can't say, really on any of
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Speaker 3: Buffalo's wins in this series that the goalie won.
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Speaker 1: Them the game, right, Yeah, I mean, that's not.
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Speaker 3: A recipe for success in the playoffs, Like in the
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Speaker 3: first round, Alex Line won them the game or two
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Speaker 3: in the first round. In the second round, line and
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Speaker 3: Lucanan really did not steal a game for the Sabers,
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Speaker 3: and that's a big reason why again this series even
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Speaker 3: went seven, and it's a big reason why they couldn't
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Speaker 3: win tonight because they were not able to get by Dobish,
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Speaker 3: something that they had done recently in the last couple
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Speaker 3: of games.
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Speaker 1: tonight for sure. Zucker on the two on one, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you got any quick thoughts on that
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Speaker 1: chance that Buffalo had late in that first year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Gary a follow up the pass.
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Speaker 3: Probably should have shot, But also him and Jlnius and
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Speaker 3: Quinn have been working that two on one game all
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Speaker 3: series long and it's kind of worked well, So I
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Speaker 3: would have liked to have seen him shoot there. But
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to criticize the guy for trying to
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Speaker 3: make him play that he had been consistently made making
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Speaker 3: the last three games, even though yes, obviously I would
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Speaker 3: have liked to see him bury that because he is
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Speaker 3: capable of scoring at the net front, but tough to
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Speaker 3: get on the guy for something.
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Speaker 2: He succeeded at three games in a row.
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Speaker 1: Now I should mention that there was another penalty called
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Speaker 1: in this game. It was originally a four minute high
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Speaker 1: sticking penalty that was negated after the review that obviously
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Speaker 1: showed that Benson got his stick up on Norris, which
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Speaker 1: you know that if that penalty stands, who knows what
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Speaker 1: we're saying right now, but it was clearly, you know,
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Speaker 1: Buffalo's own stick that high sticked Norris in the face.
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Speaker 1: So the rest made the right call there, and then
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Speaker 1: you know Buffalo is able to get their first goal.
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Speaker 1: You know, they get some zone pressure. With about eight
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Speaker 1: minutes left, Dolbis made a glove save on Talk Who's
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Speaker 1: you know, gonna really kick himself for this series. Buffalo
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Speaker 1: gets the goal lane, Hudson loses his stick and the
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Speaker 1: puck was kept in. Samerson kind of took that point
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Speaker 1: shot and Dolbich was screened a good shift by the
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Speaker 1: fourth line and the ford check there by Malenstein, and
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Speaker 1: it ends up hitting off of Greenway's pants and going
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Speaker 1: past Dobitch. But Samulson took the shot and it gets
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Speaker 1: buffalo on the board there with you know, finally being
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Speaker 1: able to break through.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it was a great shift by
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Speaker 3: the fourth line. They were able to work out of
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Speaker 3: the cycle there, and that's kind of what you expect
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Speaker 3: your fourth line to do.
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 3: I thought they were pretty solid today for the most part,
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Speaker 3: and it was good to see them get rewarded with
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Speaker 3: a goal. Even Yeah, I mean it hit off Greenway's pants,
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Speaker 3: So the fourth line gets credit for the goal, and
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Speaker 3: Samuelson gets credit for a point because obviously he took
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Speaker 3: the shot.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was just kind of.
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Speaker 3: It's a Usually it's a bonus when you're fourth line
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Speaker 3: chips in on the scoreboard, and it felt like it
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Speaker 3: wasn't a bonus today. It felt like it was a
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Speaker 3: necessary result because someone had to kind of settle things
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Speaker 3: in and it being the veteran line of Crevis Greenway
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Speaker 3: and Maleenstein just doing what they do and working the
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Speaker 3: puck down low and possessing the.
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Speaker 2: Puck, wearing you down and grinding you out. It was good.
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Speaker 3: It was a good good for them to break through,
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Speaker 3: and it kind of set the tone for the rest
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Speaker 3: of the regulation, which ended up being heavily in Buffalo's favor.
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Speaker 3: So with that, obviously, without that goal, we're not talking
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Speaker 3: about an overtime game, We're not talking about anything like that,
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Speaker 3: So good for them. I thought Greenway had some pretty
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Speaker 3: big moments in this series and some pretty bad moments
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Speaker 3: in this series too, but in this in this round
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Speaker 3: in particular, his bright spots probably outweighed his negatives, and
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Speaker 3: he deserved to get credit for a point on that
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Speaker 3: play because he was big on that shift.
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Speaker 1: Tamman mountains time and that really got the sabers and momentum.
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Speaker 1: They had a lot of late late second period pressure there.
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Speaker 1: Montreal sort of survived that period. The shot attempts after
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Speaker 1: two were thirty seven to thirteen in favor of Buffalo,
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Speaker 1: and Montreal was lucky to get to that room because
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Speaker 1: the Key Bank Center crowd was rocking tonight and they
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Speaker 1: definitely gave Buffalo some momentum. There are you going to
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Speaker 1: say something there?
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Speaker 2: No, No, You're good.
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Speaker 1: And then in the third period there Deno gets a
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Speaker 1: stick up on Samulson led to Buffalo's first power play.
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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, they did nothing on it, but later
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Speaker 1: in the period, Dollie was able to cut down from
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Speaker 1: the left wing off the face off face off win
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Speaker 1: by Ryan McLeod gave it to Owen Power and he
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Speaker 1: just sort of found Doleen, you know, with that quick
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Speaker 1: play to cut down low there and he goes short
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Speaker 1: side over the blocker of jak Abdobish and a really
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Speaker 1: nice goal and a really nice set up there from
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Speaker 1: Owen Power to find Doleen, And wow, what a difference
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Speaker 1: a face off win makes for Ryan McLeod and Buffalo
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Speaker 1: gets that game tied, and it just felt like as
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Speaker 1: that period was going on, they were gonna get they
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Speaker 1: were going to get that game tied. Montreal really didn't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of good opportunities. They were taking a
16:31
Speaker 1: lot of perimeter shots and just dumping the puck in,
16:34
Speaker 1: just trying to play a lot of prevent They couldn't
16:35
Speaker 1: really get a lot inside on Buffalo's defense in that
16:39
Speaker 1: third period. So Dollan gets the game tied and you know,
16:42
Speaker 1: it sends Key Bank Center in a frenzy at the time.
16:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, just an excellent, excellent, excellent set up by Owen
16:48
Speaker 3: Power there to kind of control the puck. Nice behind
16:52
Speaker 3: the net view showed Kirby Doc made a split second
16:57
Speaker 3: error of not taking Dolling the full way, he kind
16:59
Speaker 3: of cut into try and take ice away from Power,
17:01
Speaker 3: and Power is able to dish it off to Dolly
17:03
Speaker 3: and who then quickly put the puck in the back
17:06
Speaker 3: of the net, and obviously the arena was going crazy
17:08
Speaker 3: at that point. Buffalo had kind of been controlling the
17:10
Speaker 3: game for a while there, and it really felt like
17:13
Speaker 3: the game had finally swung back to them. Just like
17:17
Speaker 3: I said, they just they weren't able to capitalize on
17:19
Speaker 3: that momentum and beat Dobish again. They had plenty of chances,
17:21
Speaker 3: probably should have gotten one or two buy them in
17:23
Speaker 3: the last half of that third period, but just we're
17:25
Speaker 3: unable to convert. But yeah, for the most part, like
17:29
Speaker 3: the Sabers played extremely well, which is why I'm kind
17:31
Speaker 3: of sitting here calm and pretty collected, because as angry
17:35
Speaker 3: and upset as I want to be, unfortunately, that's just
17:37
Speaker 3: the way this sport works. But it really felt like
17:41
Speaker 3: the Sabers the last two games, maybe even three of
17:46
Speaker 3: the last four games kind of swung back and showed
17:49
Speaker 3: that they were able to not only play with Montreal
17:52
Speaker 3: and play that speed up and down game, but today specifically,
17:55
Speaker 3: we're able to play a really, really good, tight style
18:00
Speaker 3: of game against a team with the speed and skill
18:02
Speaker 3: of Montreal, because for the first six games we did
18:04
Speaker 3: not see a style of hockey that was played tonight.
18:07
Speaker 3: So it was good to see Buffalo get back to that.
18:09
Speaker 3: And I genuinely thought that it would work in the
18:12
Speaker 3: Sabers favor, but unfortunately it just it didn't.
18:14
Speaker 1: So yeah, naturally this game goes to overtime, just so
18:17
Speaker 1: that keeps us up longer and makes her anxiety even
18:20
Speaker 1: that much bigger. Obviously, the few chances in overtime, Anderson
18:24
Speaker 1: had a few good chances. One I wasn't able to
18:27
Speaker 1: get the shot off, the other one he hit off
18:28
Speaker 1: the post. And then Tage Thompson on that two on
18:30
Speaker 1: one with Benson, I don't know what your thoughts on
18:33
Speaker 1: that one were, No.
18:35
Speaker 3: I mean, he he the drag at first I thought
18:39
Speaker 3: was a bit unnecessary, but then when it kind of
18:42
Speaker 3: showed the play if it looks like if he would
18:45
Speaker 3: have shot at the exact moment he started the drag,
18:48
Speaker 3: the Habs player was sliding into frame. He might have
18:51
Speaker 3: gotten a piece of it. I don't know, but it
18:53
Speaker 3: was good patience. He had a guy, you know, good
18:55
Speaker 3: defensive played by Evans On there just was unable to
18:58
Speaker 3: outwait Dobish. Dobish was rock solid in overtime, whether it
19:01
Speaker 3: was not play, whether it was the Benson one time
19:03
Speaker 3: or earlier, whether it.
19:03
Speaker 2: Was the deflection.
19:07
Speaker 3: I think Crabs fired a puck at the end, it
19:09
Speaker 3: kind of got tipped and kind of just hit him
19:10
Speaker 3: off his pad.
19:11
Speaker 2: It was just.
19:13
Speaker 3: The Sabers again for the most part in overtime, they
19:16
Speaker 3: even felt like they were in control. It didn't feel
19:19
Speaker 3: like they were going to lose that game because that's
19:20
Speaker 3: how well that they were playing.
19:21
Speaker 2: And then just.
19:22
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, uh hesitation a bit of a not a great
19:30
Speaker 3: play at the offensive line by Tage and Dollen, But
19:33
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I don't think it
19:36
Speaker 3: should have mattered because I think your goalie needs to
19:38
Speaker 3: make that safe, especially from that far out. It was
19:40
Speaker 3: at the top of the circle. It wasn't in the
19:42
Speaker 3: slought or anything like that, but probably a play that
19:45
Speaker 3: Dolling and Tage are going to be thinking about for
19:47
Speaker 3: a while because if they were just put the puck deep,
19:49
Speaker 3: maybe that doesn't happen. But I think at the end
19:52
Speaker 3: of the day, Luken is going to have to be
19:53
Speaker 3: the one that lives with that because he let in
19:56
Speaker 3: a softy when it mattered most.
19:59
Speaker 1: Yeap new Hook gets the goal in overtime, you know,
20:01
Speaker 1: down that left wing and as you mentioned, goes far
20:03
Speaker 1: side glove. Lucan in after the saves he made in
20:06
Speaker 1: this game, that one is one that he should have had,
20:08
Speaker 1: and then the sports Net broadcast immediately showed him tossing
20:12
Speaker 1: his goalie helmet down the Sabers tunnel in frustration. Obviously,
20:18
Speaker 1: you know, not the way you want to end it.
20:19
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, Montreal's goaltender steals them the victory.
20:23
Speaker 1: I mean, what more can you say? I mean, the
20:25
Speaker 1: Sabers really played a played a solid game. They had
20:28
Speaker 1: opportunities to end this thing. They just couldn't get past
20:32
Speaker 1: Dobish as many time as they needed to, and they
20:34
Speaker 1: lose this one three to two in overtime.
20:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean saying this is going to st I'm
20:39
Speaker 3: blaming Lucan at it.
20:40
Speaker 2: I'm not.
20:40
Speaker 3: But realistically games five and six, no, games five six.
20:47
Speaker 3: They won six games four games. The games that they
20:50
Speaker 3: Sabers lost, they did not get saves today. They got
20:54
Speaker 3: a few saves, but they didn't get to save when
20:56
Speaker 3: it mattered most and today Montreal got multiple.
20:58
Speaker 2: Saves when it mattered most.
21:00
Speaker 3: I'm not blaming lucan In, but at the end of
21:01
Speaker 3: the day, lucanan lost the goalie battle. Lion loste the
21:05
Speaker 3: goalie battle, as well all the other stuff that I
21:07
Speaker 3: talked about throughout this series, whether it was the coaching,
21:09
Speaker 3: the power play, the Henley cou those are all things
21:12
Speaker 3: that we can talk about and things that definitely swung
21:14
Speaker 3: this series towards Montreal. But at the end of the day,
21:17
Speaker 3: if your goalie just makes saves, you win. That's the
21:21
Speaker 3: biggest difference. They got saves in round one, they did
21:24
Speaker 3: not get saves in round two.
21:25
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the coaching. I know you said that
21:28
Speaker 1: after the Game five post game that you said that
21:30
Speaker 1: Lindy was sort of getting from him from Saint Louis.
21:34
Speaker 3: He was drastically getting out coached, I think. But then
21:37
Speaker 3: Lindy kind of sucks that it come so long. But
21:40
Speaker 3: Lindy pulled all the right levers in game six, and
21:42
Speaker 3: I think he pulled the right levers tonight too. Whether
21:45
Speaker 3: it was lucan In, whether it was you know, whether
21:48
Speaker 3: it was treating it like a road game by staying
21:50
Speaker 3: at a hotel and things like that, Like the Sabers
21:51
Speaker 3: drastically the last two games played really well, so I
21:55
Speaker 3: think he got out coach early on. But I think
21:57
Speaker 3: he showed why he's a talented head coach and why
22:00
Speaker 3: he's been around as long as he has, because he
22:02
Speaker 3: proved he can make those adjustments. He proved he knows
22:04
Speaker 3: how to still how to pull the levers of this team.
22:07
Speaker 3: So early on it was a mismatch, but I think
22:10
Speaker 3: when the Rough kind of punched back and reminded people
22:12
Speaker 3: why he's a good head coach.
22:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again Montreal is going to move on to
22:16
Speaker 1: face the Montreal Canadian or the Carolina Hurricanes, excuse me?
22:20
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, I don't know if there's anything
22:22
Speaker 1: you want to mention right before we hit the Lindy Rough.
22:25
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the Sabers player stats tonight, you know,
22:30
Speaker 1: anybody you want to mention that for good or bad reasons?
22:34
Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's the same stat we've probably talked
22:35
Speaker 3: about all series. It's just Alex Tuck cannot disappear the
22:39
Speaker 3: way that he disappeared. And while he played well in
22:41
Speaker 3: Game six, I thought he was absolutely abysmal tonight and
22:43
Speaker 3: then not the reason that they lost, but a big
22:45
Speaker 3: reason why they did. He had a couple of chances
22:47
Speaker 3: to make some big plays, did nothing.
22:50
Speaker 1: No points minus six in the home games for in
22:53
Speaker 1: the second round for Alex Tuck and even Tage Thompson
22:56
Speaker 1: and Krebs. That whole line well before when they wore
22:59
Speaker 1: a line had struggled. Dobish after a loss was five
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Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Sabers head coach Lindy Rouff with
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Speaker 1: of the late William Robert Hunter. Here's what Lindy Rouff
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Speaker 1: had to say following his team's three to two over.
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Speaker 8: Wist Nicole Mellenstein's no goal. Did they give you an
27:55
Speaker 8: explanation on that?
27:59
Speaker 6: No?
27:59
Speaker 8: Just you know, I thought it was a little bit
28:02
Speaker 8: of a quick whistle and because you can always go
28:06
Speaker 8: back and look at those, but didn't really get an
28:10
Speaker 8: explanation of it.
28:13
Speaker 9: Lindy, With the way this series went back and forth,
28:16
Speaker 9: I mean, did you and your staff anticipate overtime and
28:20
Speaker 9: this kind of ending and how do he was a
28:22
Speaker 9: coach prepare for a sudden death and possibly season ending overtime.
28:27
Speaker 8: Well, I think we said at the start of this
28:29
Speaker 8: series it was going to be two really good teams playing.
28:34
Speaker 8: We had some momentum swings and you get to overtime.
28:38
Speaker 8: We had a couple of really good chances when we
28:40
Speaker 8: had the chances in our hands. Those are the opportunities
28:44
Speaker 8: that you hope you get. We just didn't finish. We
28:49
Speaker 8: had a couple of great opportunities, even in the third
28:52
Speaker 8: the hllaneous toe slash glove save that that almost went.
29:01
Speaker 8: You know, I think the ice was fairly tilted. We
29:03
Speaker 8: had a lot of opportunities to make a difference in
29:07
Speaker 8: the game.
29:09
Speaker 2: Wendy.
29:10
Speaker 10: When you're going into that overtime, the way the game
29:14
Speaker 10: had been uphill and now you finally had a lot
29:17
Speaker 10: of momentum going, how much would you think to yourself,
29:19
Speaker 10: you're looking in that room, somebody is going to be
29:21
Speaker 10: a hero for this team.
29:23
Speaker 8: I thought it was just part of our journey, you know,
29:25
Speaker 8: tough start where you know, we let one go in
29:29
Speaker 8: off a skate a penalty that we were almost had killed.
29:33
Speaker 8: We got just a little bit aggressive and left that front.
29:38
Speaker 8: But these guys never quit all year, just another indication
29:41
Speaker 8: you know, you battle hard. We stayed with the game.
29:44
Speaker 8: We get we get one to make it two to one,
29:46
Speaker 8: and we talked about playing the game the right way
29:49
Speaker 8: and made a great playoff of face off and Doling
29:55
Speaker 8: got us tied, and I really felt that the game
29:59
Speaker 8: was right there.
30:01
Speaker 3: On a personal level, what are the initial emotions of
30:03
Speaker 3: the season ending that way tonight?
30:09
Speaker 2: You know it hurts.
30:10
Speaker 8: I told the team that it hurts. That pain will
30:16
Speaker 8: go away, but I won't let this one game define
30:21
Speaker 8: the season we had. I told the players how proud
30:25
Speaker 8: of I was of them the battle to you know,
30:32
Speaker 8: we took into Game six in Montreal and then came
30:35
Speaker 8: back here and gave ourselves every chance to win. So
30:41
Speaker 8: this one game doesn't define our season for us.
30:46
Speaker 1: There was Lindy Roff on the Wild Bills out of
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Speaker 1: repair post game. We're not gonna play the whole thing tonight,
30:51
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30:57
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts about what Lindy said to me?
31:00
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, sums it all up. One game doesn't
31:03
Speaker 3: define your season. It sucked, but what are you gonna do?
31:07
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's probably more topic for another day
31:10
Speaker 3: when you have to discuss the season as the whole.
31:12
Speaker 3: He wasn't They had chances to barry they didn't. But
31:15
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I postgame comments from
31:18
Speaker 3: a coach after a game seven lots aren't gonna really
31:22
Speaker 3: matter because unfortunately it was a good season. So like
31:26
Speaker 3: he said, it does not define your season. So he's
31:28
Speaker 3: gonna focus on the positive obviously, talk about a little
31:31
Speaker 3: bit of what could have happened, what could have gone better,
31:33
Speaker 3: and things like that.
31:33
Speaker 2: But I have no, it doesn't matter.
31:37
Speaker 3: The season's over right, Yeah.
31:41
Speaker 1: I get it, And again those are tough to do,
31:43
Speaker 1: especially after a loss like that. But yeah, I mean,
31:47
Speaker 1: you talked about just being power proud of that group,
31:49
Speaker 1: but you obviously want to see them finish the job
31:51
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. So I guess as
31:54
Speaker 1: we finish off here our feature or our stick top
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Speaker 1: of the game for our Sabers Player of the Game,
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Speaker 1: the Naga region for over twenty five years, I'm not
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Speaker 1: even gonna give it to a player in this game tonight, Austin.
32:06
Speaker 1: I just want to give a show out to Consta Helenus.
32:09
Speaker 1: I think that what he showed in these last three
32:12
Speaker 1: games that he played in, you know, the height of
32:16
Speaker 1: the magnitude of these games, he shows that he can
32:19
Speaker 1: hang and that he's going to be a long time
32:21
Speaker 1: centerman in the National Hockey League at twenty one years old.
32:24
Speaker 1: He came in, answered the bell, played great, The moment
32:27
Speaker 1: didn't look too big for him. He had a lot
32:28
Speaker 1: of opportunities in all these games he scored a goal,
32:31
Speaker 1: had so many opportunities as well. But I just want
32:34
Speaker 1: to give a show out to number ninety four Consta Helenus.
32:36
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a Saber for a
32:38
Speaker 1: long time, and I think these three games that he's
32:40
Speaker 1: had here in the playoffs are really going to help
32:42
Speaker 1: him as he goes forward.
32:44
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:44
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, he was awesome. I'll highlight I mean, you
32:47
Speaker 3: can obviously talk about Dollian. I think Dallian has been
32:49
Speaker 3: on an absolute tear last like four games. But I'll
32:53
Speaker 3: just give props to Owen Power. I think you know
32:55
Speaker 3: Dallian was Dollian when you know earlier in the series
32:58
Speaker 3: he wasn't, but I think Owen power or obviously doesn't
33:01
Speaker 3: have the points of the production. But what he was
33:03
Speaker 3: able to do consistently performing in these playoffs, and I'm
33:05
Speaker 3: sure we'll find out what actually happened to him at
33:07
Speaker 3: the end of that game, what his injury was, but
33:09
Speaker 3: the fact that he was able to cut it out
33:10
Speaker 3: and play through what he's played through and still look
33:12
Speaker 3: as effective as he have. Sure he doesn't throw people
33:17
Speaker 3: through the boards, but I don't ever want to hear
33:18
Speaker 3: a word about how he's soft ever again, because when
33:21
Speaker 3: they needed him to, he's their second best defenseman at worst,
33:24
Speaker 3: at times their best defenseman.
33:26
Speaker 1: Well, as we wrap up Boston, don't know if you
33:28
Speaker 1: got any quick thoughts on if you think Carolina is
33:31
Speaker 1: gonna get through Montreal easily in the season final.
33:34
Speaker 3: No, I'm going to remain pretty steadfast. I think whoever
33:36
Speaker 3: won this year is was gonna be able to take Carolina.
33:39
Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna I'm probably gonna look like an idiot
33:41
Speaker 3: in two weeks.
33:41
Speaker 1: But I just the time off is do you think
33:44
Speaker 1: that plays?
33:44
Speaker 3: No, it's not the time off. If you look at
33:46
Speaker 3: what Montreal had done and Buffalo would have had a
33:48
Speaker 3: similar path. Obviously Boston is not as good as Tampa Bay,
33:51
Speaker 3: but both teams played a hard, checking, defensive style first round.
33:55
Speaker 3: We're able to get through it, and then they played
33:56
Speaker 3: in a running gun style, chaotic second round or the
34:00
Speaker 3: ice was pretty open for the most part, So they've
34:02
Speaker 3: both been tested in the playoffs through different styles of games.
34:06
Speaker 3: Obviously Carolina is a different beast with the way that
34:08
Speaker 3: they're able to play, but I just think what you
34:11
Speaker 3: were able to see from Montreal in this series, they
34:14
Speaker 3: were able to open the game up, and a lot
34:17
Speaker 3: of that was Buffalo allowed.
34:18
Speaker 2: Them to open the game up.
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Speaker 3: But I think for the most part, just the way
34:23
Speaker 3: that their power play is able to create space and
34:25
Speaker 3: kind of create absolute nightmares for the penalty kill is
34:28
Speaker 3: a big thing. And it's easy to say Carolina's top
34:34
Speaker 3: line hasn't performed and they're still playing well, which is
34:36
Speaker 3: a positive for them, but I just think it's more
34:38
Speaker 3: Freddie Anderson. I don't know if Freddy Anderson is going
34:41
Speaker 3: to be able to keep up the level play that
34:42
Speaker 3: he has done because Montreal is not Philadelphia and Ottawa.
34:46
Speaker 3: No disrespect to those two teams, but they're a different animal.
34:49
Speaker 1: I think there's a short leash to go to Boosy
34:51
Speaker 1: if he struggles.
34:52
Speaker 2: Even if there is, I don't think. I don't. I
34:56
Speaker 2: don't think it matters.
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Speaker 3: It's the same thing. Even if Booski goes in. He's
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Speaker 3: playing a different style of team, a team that can
35:03
Speaker 3: produce offense and has a ton of scorer.
35:05
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
35:06
Speaker 3: I just I have a sneaking suspicion that Montreal is
35:10
Speaker 3: going to be able to get past him. I thought
35:13
Speaker 3: I thought, like I said, I thought whoever won this
35:14
Speaker 3: series was gonna be able to beat Carolina, So I'm
35:16
Speaker 3: gonna stick with that.
35:17
Speaker 2: Not plus it's.
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Speaker 1: Carolina exactly six oh seven still still hurts, or oh
35:25
Speaker 1: five oh six, so they all blur together at this point.
35:27
Speaker 1: I think it's oh five oh six, but yeah, Ottawa,
35:30
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. So my final thought, Austin would just be like,
35:34
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, we're gonna the people in the chat
35:37
Speaker 1: talk about fix the goaltend and all that. We're gonna
35:38
Speaker 1: get into that next week when we do our offseason
35:40
Speaker 1: preview and everything like that. We're not gonna spend too
35:44
Speaker 1: much time on it tonight, obviously, But uh, just what
35:46
Speaker 1: a series. I mean, you know, for this to go
35:48
Speaker 1: seven games, we said it was going to go seven
35:49
Speaker 1: games coming in. These are two teams I think that
35:52
Speaker 1: are going to be in this position for many years
35:55
Speaker 1: to come. And uh, yeah, just it was nice to
35:58
Speaker 1: be covering playoff hockey for the well for the first
36:01
Speaker 1: time on this show. But just in general after fourteen seasons, Uh,
36:04
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun, man, and appreciated all the
36:07
Speaker 1: uh the game, the late nights, and the postgame streams,
36:10
Speaker 1: and uh, I know our our listener base appreciated it
36:13
Speaker 1: as well.
36:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good year.
36:15
Speaker 3: Like I said, made the playoffs, you made game seven
36:17
Speaker 3: of the second round. Can't complain. It's gotta hurt in
36:20
Speaker 3: the moment, but obviously no one's gonna no one because
36:25
Speaker 3: there's always gonna be some people, but most people are
36:27
Speaker 3: not gonna look back on the season as a failure
36:29
Speaker 3: as a fan. They were able to break the drought
36:31
Speaker 3: and kind of do things that we thought worth punching
36:35
Speaker 3: above their weight but evidently was not punching above their weight.
36:38
Speaker 3: But yeah, it sucks, but you move on. You have
36:42
Speaker 3: a off seas might be a little bit more fun
36:45
Speaker 3: to discuss this year because the team is good now.
36:48
Speaker 1: So yeah, they took They took that step on that ladder, right.
36:51
Speaker 8: Uh.
36:52
Speaker 1: You don't go from missing the playoffs in fourteenth three
36:54
Speaker 1: years to winning the Stanley Cup, as cool as it
36:56
Speaker 1: would have been this year, did they?
36:58
Speaker 2: Did?
36:58
Speaker 1: They take it? Took a big step, and we'll get
36:59
Speaker 1: into all that in our next episode, but that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be it for tonight's postgame episode and our postgame live
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