Where would you rather be than right here, right now?!!
First Niagara Center is buzzing like a bee hive right now. There's a distinct Playoff buzz in the house tonight. Now its up to the home team to deliver a solid 60-65 minute effort.
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Ellis and Leopold are scratched for Sabres.
Bathrobe Commodore, Fabian Brunnstrom, and Cory Emmerton are your Daywta scratches.
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1st Period:
First six minutes have been an exhibition in puck possession and time and space denial. Sabres doing a good job of containing the Wings' skill players. fast feet and active sticks in lanes.
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This is Jhonas Enroth's 9th straight start.
Miller will start vs. Smashville on Saturday night.
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1-0 Wings
Kindl from Holmstrom and Abdelkader. Dumb Leino turnover leads to the goal.
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Roy takes penalty at 10:47. Sabres need a big stop to stem the tide of momentuum away from Wings.
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2-0 Wings
Jason Pominville gets nailed for a high stick and Franzen makes him pay. High cheese on Enroth.
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3-0 Wings
Val Filppula beats Enroth clean.
Enroth allows his third goal of the period on Detroit's first 12 shots.
Paging Mr. Miller, Mr. Ryan Miller............
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2nd Period:
* Wings 18 shots were the most by a Sabres opponent in a period. The three goals against also tie season high.
* Buffalo last rallied from a 3 goal deficit after falling behind 3-0 on January 1, 2010 vs. ATL.
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Lindy leaves Enroth in to start the second period. Short leash, I'm sure.
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Sabres have squandered three consecutive PP opportunities in the second period.
Lindy will not be happy about the PP entries and recoveries. Sloppy and slow sum up the Buffalo PP in this period. Not enough pucks to the net.
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3rd Period:
Still 3-0 Wings. Sabres were given three beauty opps to get back in this game when the Wings were slapped with three consecutive penalties in the second period. No continuity and urgency on their PP.
Wings kill off all three and further frustrate the Sabres.
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Do you honestly think the Sabres will score three goals on Jimmy Howard in the third period?
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