Expected Buffalo Post Game Show - Sabres vs Blue Jackets | Game 1

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Welcome to your first expected Buffalo the Podcast post-game show.
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Brought to you by All Season Long, Richmond, Bona, your
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personal injury law firm. 6-3 defeat at the hands of
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the Columbus Blue Jackets. Not a building that they have
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a lot of success in. Not really a team the
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last couple of years they've had a lot of success against.
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The good thing is there's a lot to chew on here.
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There's a lot to grab onto and take from Game 1.
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If I'm going to pick a loss in a regular
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season opener, I think I'd pick this style. The New
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York Rangers shutout loss that we saw last season. There's
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just more to chew on and more to take away here.
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That's what we'll do. We'll work our way through it.
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Game notes. just kind of hammer through some things. I
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posted some of it on social media, but we'll kind
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of hammer through some of the notes I wrote down here,
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and then we'll get into some more details on things.
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Tage playing center to start the game with Norris I
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thought was interesting. Norris, I think, got back to center
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in the second period, and then they switched it back again,
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but I thought Norris would be the one there to
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play in the middle, but he didn't. But, I mean,
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that line overall wasn't terrible I think of anything besides
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a nice pass that Norris made maybe the first second
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shift of the game after that I'm not sure I
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like the single thing he did the entire rest of
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the game I put a post out that I thought
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maybe giving Kulik an opportunity there and they did for
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one shift and they actually had the puck in the
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offensive zone that entire shift but yeah not a huge
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fan of the way Norris played tonight I was fine
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with Tage Doan was you know I don't think he
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was either good or bad he kind of was just
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there So that speed and transition did come out a
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few times. It started there early, went away, and then
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they picked it up halfway through the game again and
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kind of continued that. I thought some of the partner
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communication was pretty poor. Crevier, not his best game. The
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numbers behind it look pretty good, but I thought you
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saw some of the things with the speed. And again,
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I don't think him and Power have played that much
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together in the preseason and training camp, and maybe we
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saw some of that come through. If Zellweger is back
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on Saturday, I would anticipate that he goes back with power.
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So we'll deal with that. First game, you work your
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way through it. Jack Quinn. Hold on. In a game
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they lost, can I give Jack Quinn a shout out?
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I think you can make an argument he was their
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best forward tonight. Really good. Really good. created a few opportunities,
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almost had the tying goal off the post late in
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the third, had a goal in the game, was skating
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really well, skating fast, and the most important thing for
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me is that forechecking was there. The forechecking we started
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to see at the end of last season and into
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the playoffs, I think is a difference maker. If he's
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going to be that aggressive on the puck, if he
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is going to attack offensively, I think Quigg can have
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a great season. So we got his first goal of
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the season today, He might have even had another assist, too.
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I'm not quite sure. But shout out to Jack Quinn.
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You know, I thought he had a really, really strong game. Overall,
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that line with Aslan and Benson, I thought was good.
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I thought they created a lot. Aslan had a nice
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opportunity in the third period. I thought he was going
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to put that away off a nice pass from Quinn.
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He missed it wide. But overall, I like that line.
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You know, Aslan had a nice play on the Quinn
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goal to keep the puck in and get this team
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back in the game there. Power play.
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Man.
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Ugh. Power play. Full two minute five on three.
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Terrible. Bad.
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It was last year. It was last year, man. It
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was last year. Everything on the outside. Nothing aggressive. Passing
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the puck around the outside. Tage in his usual spot.
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Darlene in his usual spot. Okay. So we're just going
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to do this again. We're just going to have our
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guys stand in their spots and fire some shots through
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and hope pucks get through and all that. There was
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way more movement in the preseason. Where did it go?
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There was a lot more movement. Tage was moving around.
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Darlene was moving around. They weren't in the same spots.
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Puck movement was crisper. It was back to the old ways.
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0-5 on the night. Special teams.
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We can get there right now. Special teams, you can
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point to Lukanen, you can point to this, you can
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point to that. We'll get into Lukanen here in a minute.
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Special teams is the difference in this game. You go
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0 for 5 on the power play, a full 2 minutes,
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5 on 3. You don't score a goal, nor do
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I think maybe like, what, 2 shots even on net
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that whole 2 minutes? You go 0 for 5 on
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the power play, 1 for 3 killing penalties. You have
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2 power play goals. That is your difference in this game.
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In the season preview podcast just yesterday, I talked about
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special teams being important as the sneaky important thing of
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this team. Your power play cannot be as bad as
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it was last year, and I had questions if that
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penalty kill was going to slide if they didn't get
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the same goaltendings. I have Jack Quinn out there killing penalties.
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I'm only going to say he's the blame for those goals,
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but that's a weird decision. I don't think Jack Quinn's
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a penalty killer or has the, uh, aggressive style and then,
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you know, IQ to be a penalty killer. I think
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that was kind of weird that we went to Jack
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Quinn as a penalty killer. Again, I'm not blaming him
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for either of those goals, but just an odd decision. Um,
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Both those goals, where were they? Nobody had the sticks
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tied up in the middle of the ice. You had
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two deflections. Because nobody's tying sticks in the middle of
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the ice. But, I mean, somebody else saw in the comments,
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but one for five kind of in the power play
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of the guys. I'm not dishing out half credit here. Like, fine.
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They were, I'll give them a half a point. Like, okay,
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you were. 5 for five in the power play. If
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it was like the guy just stepped out of the box,
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bang in the net, fine. But I think it was
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like a good one to two seconds after the power
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play ended. I mean, one to two seconds is a lot,
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but you know what I mean? It was a couple
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seconds after the power play ended. I think the guy
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was back in the screen by the time the puck
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went in. I think that's the most discouraging thing, is
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that it looks the exact same. The second power play
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unit was better, moved the puck more. And to Lindy
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Ruff and Seth Eppert's credit, whoever it was, late in
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the game, deciding to go with the... I think it
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was late in the game. Deciding to go with the
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second power play unit first, ahead of the first one.
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It was a good call there. I'd recommend going back
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to that more if you continue to see that your
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second unit is going to move the puck better because
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they don't have Tage, they don't have Darlene, who just
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seemingly decide they're just going to pass it between each other.
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They move the puck around. They have guys who can finish.
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They have guys who can score on that second unit now.
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So....
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Special teams, man. That is going to be the thing
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to watch as you move forward here. Game 1 of 84,
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but not what you wanted to see on special teams.
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Let's go to the next negative thing before we end
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that up positively. Let's get our negatives out and then
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end positively. Lukanen. In HockeyStatsModel, he ends the game with 3.07
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goals saved below below expected. I stuttered on that one.
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Negative 3.07 goal save above expected. So not good. 76%
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save percentage. Not good. I'm not going to sit here
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and tell you they really lost because of the goaltender.
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Would I have liked one, two more saves? Okay.
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Sure.
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He made a couple big saves at the end to
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keep them in. On the two-on-one. On the breakaway. Those count.
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They do count. The power play goal is a deflection.
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The other power play goal is a deflection. The one from...
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I forgot who it was. The third goal of the game.
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That's a deflection. Get your shoulder on it. You're a
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big guy. Make yourself bigger in the net. I get it.
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I understand. I understand all of that. I would have
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liked to see more saves. But I'm not going to
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sit here and kill him. I think they get your
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defenses to be better on the net. You got to
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do a better job tying up sticks. You got to
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make those things happen. And we'll see who plays Saturday,
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whether it's going to be Lukanen again or they go
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with Ellis. I would assume it's Lukanen for the home opener.
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So hopefully you see a bounce back game there. And
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he kind of starts to find his footing again. If
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he struggles again in that game, you know, We'll see
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if Lyon's close. Maybe you have to go to Ellis
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for the next one. Yeah, I don't want to get
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through yet. I was going to go to the schedule
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a little bit. let's save that. So those are your,
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I think, mostly negative things. I talked about the defense pairs.
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I saw it look slow. I don't think it really
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helped that the ice was pretty bad, it seemed. I
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know the broadcast talked about bouncing pucks, and I don't
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know if that's a thing in the league, maybe, but
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the ice looked horrendous. The puck wasn't really moving that
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much at points in the third period. It wasn't just
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the Sabres. It was both teams just flubbing the puck
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and bouncing like a tennis ball. It was not ideal,
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not good. There's some first game rust and jitters, if
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you will, that you mishandle pucks, but it was pretty
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tough in that game. But, you know, I didn't love
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Crevier in power. I thought the same as it in Darlene.
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Even at times, it didn't look in the same page.
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It looked off. they didn't anticipate pressure when they should
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have at certain times that wasn't, you know, it's not
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characteristic of this group and it could just be, you know,
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first game and you got to work things out. And I,
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I get it, you know, one of 84, right. Keep
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saying it one of 84, long way to go here. Um,
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you know, I thought for the most part, Metza and
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Grizzly refine a big shout out to Zach Metza for,
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for dropping the gloves and standing there with Olivier. Um,
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you know, I think that's garbage. What Olivier did there. Um,
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You're one of the supposed to be quote-unquote biggest, toughest
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guys in the league. You're going to pick on the
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smallest guy on the ice?
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Like, okay.
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Not to mention the first four or five punches threw
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in there with his gloves on. Whatever. I mean, he
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gave them the opportunity, right? He gave the Sabres a
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five on three, and they didn't capitalize. Didn't capitalize. So
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who's the dummy there, I guess? Positives. Let's kind of
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rotate to some positives. I like Quinn. I thought Tage
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was fine. Dillon didn't really notice him that much. Ostlund,
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I liked the way he played in the middle. I
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thought that was good. Except that one play in the
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first period. Like, buddy, where you going? Trying to skate
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in front of the net? You know, you don't want
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any of that. But overall, I thought his game was fine.
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I really liked the way that line looked. I anticipated
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that line would look the way it did. I'm really...
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I keep going back to Quinn, but what happened is
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what I thought. Playing with those two in Benson and Austin,
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you're going to get a lot of opportunities. And he did.
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And he did. And he got a couple great chances.
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He hit that post, scored a goal. I'm sorry. I
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really like that line. I don't know. Beyond that, I
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guess Hellenius kind of started to get going. McLeod made
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a nice pass on that one goal. Krebs, I thought,
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wasn't that great. Really didn't like his pass in that
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two-on-one from behind the net. Just, what are you doing?
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You had better plays there, and you're going to do
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a spin pass to the middle, and an odd man
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rush the other way. That's just the definition of trying
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too hard, trying too much. There was 1.2, maybe the
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second period, where he had a nice look to take
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a shot and tried to pass it. You got to shoot, man.
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You got to take those shots. Defensively, I thought Power
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was up and down. He got his points, which I
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guess that's a good sign that maybe he gets some
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more production out of him this year. Darlene really wasn't
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noticeable that much for me. Samuelson, I didn't really notice
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anything with the injury. Crevier showed some issues with the
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speed there at times, but overall I think he'll be fine. Kulik,
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that's the one I haven't talked about yet. Kulik, where
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did he end this game at? Let's see if I
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can pull it up quickly. he ended the game with.
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Let's work our way through on ice 5 on 5
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Kulik 8 minutes of ice time at 5 on 5
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all situations 8 minutes and 45 seconds that was my
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concern with him being in the 4th line he wasn't
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going to play a lot now I.
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Will say when he did get in I thought he
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made some nice plays early in the game. I thought
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he had a good shift when he got with Tejan Doan.
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So when he got the time and the opportunity, I
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thought he was fine. I didn't have an issue with
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his game or anything. But it's, you know, I mean,
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I don't know. Like, are we going to play him
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eight minutes every night in the fourth line with Carrick
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and Malinstein? I think you're better off just putting Kozak
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or Danforth there. Let him go in the AHL. Or
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maybe you shift some lines around and next game he
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gets a bigger opportunity at the lineup. But I don't
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think eight minutes is what you're looking for there. Especially
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for a guy you're trying to get back in the flow.
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Which would be weird. They tried to accelerate his playing
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in the preseason and maybe they're trying to slow roll
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him in the regular season. I don't know. I honestly
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think still to this point, even though he played tonight,
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I think when everybody gets healthy, you get Lyons got
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to come off of IR. Zellweger's got to come off
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of IR. I do think the roster move when they
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have to make it since he's waiver exempt has to
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put him in the AHL. But we'll see what other
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injuries are. There's still time for that to play out.
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We'll see what other injuries are. We'll see how he performs.
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But yeah, I just, you know, I said I don't
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love him on the wing. I don't love him playing
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eight minutes. But game one, right? Game one, we'll see.
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how that progresses here and however long he sits up
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with the team. So, 6-3 loss in Game 1. On
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to Chicago for Game 2 on Saturday, your home opener.
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I expect a good performance there. Reveal your division winner
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banner and all that funfair, fanfare of all of that,
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of a new season. But really, it's an early... It's
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an early season big stretch. Does that make sense? Because
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after this road game, you have a five-game homestand now.
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So you really don't want to not take advantage of
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that and get off to a hot start. Five-game homestand.
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You're playing Chicago, who doesn't have Conor Bedard. looked really
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bad against Vegas, to be perfectly honest. I mean, for
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most of that game. They got back in it, but
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I thought they were heavily outmatched against Vegas. So get
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your win there. Because really, while you have this five-game homestand,
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it's not easy. The Blackhawks are the easiest game you're
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going to play. And then you're going to host the
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Wild on Tuesday. You're going to host Dallas on Thursday.
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You're going to host Utah on Saturday. You're going to
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host Florida the following Monday on Columbus Day at 1 o'clock.
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and then you go to Montreal, go to Toronto and
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then go to Montreal again. So, you know, it's a
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little bit of a, you get some games in here.
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You get some games in here. Well, some tough teams,
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some division teams, uh, to kind of see where you stand. Uh,
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thankfully they're on home ice, so that should help. But, um, yeah, I,
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I would, I hope they take advantage of this, this
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5 a.m. home stand out of the gate. Um, Because,
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you know, if you don't, it can come back to
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bite you later. Although this team does play really well
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on the road. At least they did last season and
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into the playoffs. So, who knows, right?
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All right.
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Well, thank you for listening to our first post-game show.
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And then we will talk again on Saturday after the
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home opener. Thanks for listening. And we'll see you then.
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Bye.