Sabres and Preds each played last night. Buffalo stomped Atlanta, 8-2 on home ice, while Nashville beat Detroit. The Preds have won 4 out of their last 5.
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Sabres enter today's game in eight place with 78 points, two ahead of Carolina, and four in front of Tronna. This is Buffalo's game in hand on the Canes, who won't play again until Tuesday night when they face Ottawa. After today, Buffalo will staill have one in hand over Tronna.
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Both teams feeling one another out early on. Trotz deploys his patented 1-1-3 early on. No flow through the neutral zone as Lindy gioes with his 1-2-2.
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1-0 Preds:
Blake Geoffrion and JP Dumont create a below the dots 2 on 1.. Geoffrion feathers cross
crease pass to Dumont... puck hits someone or something... Geoffrion gets the goal.
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Sabres appear to me to be sluggish. The first pass and transition game from teh ATL game is not on the ice for Buffalo right now. Sloppy. Choppy.
Both teams played last night, and, Nashville had to travel while Buffalo slept.
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I'd like to see Buffalo wheels start working. they will draw penalties with speed.
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2nd Period:
Buffalo come out in an angrier mood-- they can't get a penalty call to save their lives.
Move your feet and you'll get one. stand around and you will not.
1-1
mancari and Goose play hell's Angels on the forecheck as Gerbe finds a puck and beats Lindback low.
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2-1 Sabres
Secionds later, Connolly strips Shea Weber of the puck at the Nashville blueline. Skates in two on one... looks, fires... roof daddy! Glove high. Snipe.
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@ 10:50 Sergei Kostitsyn sits two or less for too many men.
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3-1 Sabres
With Franson in the hole for slashing Gerbe.... Buffalo PP.
Miller threads breakout pass to Stafford cruisning the blueline... He and Ennis head in two on one.... Staff saucers to Ennis... SCORE! Ennis' 19th, a PPG.
Matt Cooke is a head hunter. He''s bad paper. He's dangerous. He refuses to change his bad attitude and he refuses to grow up. His owner, Mario Lemieux, defends him to the hilt.
Hey, Mario, Matt's not such a nice guy afterall. Take a look at thehis gong that he dropped on the head of NYRs Ryan McDonagh today:
You'd have thought that Cooke would have learned a valuable lesson when he was suspended by the NHL last month for freight training Fedor Tyutin of the Blue Jax.
Stupid is as stupid does, Matt.
Enjoy your 8-12 games in the NHL cooler.
Cooke is a repeat offender and he deserves the same, if not more games of suspension, than Trevor Gillies of the Islanders.
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