“We Let Them Off Easy Today” | Buffalo Sabres Forward Tage Thompson After Sabres Loss To Tampa

“We Let Them Off Easy Today” | Buffalo Sabres Forward Tage Thompson After Sabres Loss To Tampa

I mean I thought we were just sloppy with the puck um I think we forced a lot of things through the through the neutral zone and kind of into their pressure um kind of making the game a little more difficult on ourselves and obviously uh it’s kind of how they they

Got the first two goals just um kind of you know free Beast for them and um you know the game plan going in there was just to make him work and make him defend and um I think we let let him off a little easy tonight uh gave him kind

Of an easy game and obviously they get a two- goal lead now now we’re chasing a little bit so um yeah not much I mean they’re a good team they’re going to make you you earn everything you get offensively and um I think we we just made the game a little

Bit too easy for them tonight they did capitalize on a couple of turnovers but overall I thought you guys defensively other than that there wasn’t a lot of chances for them was there yeah I don’t think so I thought we were I think we were pretty good in our dzone um I

Thought we exited our Zone pretty good I think gave us trouble tonight was our neutral zone uh just kind of on the regroups and quick counters um like I said just kind of force and stuff that maybe wasn’t there and just maybe being a little too stubborn um in terms of

Getting it behind their knee um trying to make plays coming over the blue line um I thought it would be played a great game keeps it you know pretty tight for us and gives us a chance to to get back into it cuz he with a big goal there um

You know in the third period I thought we had some some good looks but um you know it’s it’s tough when you’re playing a good team like that to Chase from behind did frustration maybe set in a little bit when when that was happening to you guys um yeah I mean I think

Whenever you’re you’re generating and you’re not getting chant or you’re not getting you know rewarded for it it can be frustrating I think at the same time we got to do a better job I think we’re a little too perimeter in the ozone I

Think when we did get it um you know and get out low to high or or whatever um I think we need to get more guys to the inside and guys to the net um could have done a better job of that obviously not the home stand you were looking for

Three and three yeah I mean obviously we want to be better um three and three is not good enough but um you at the same time we got a a road trip coming up here and um you know we can make a big statement we just got to focus one game

At a time here and uh go from there

Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson spoke with the media after the team’s 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on January 20, 2024. Dylan Cozens scored the lone Sabres goal in the tilt.

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