LQR Game 33: Slump Off :Bruins @ Sabres

LQR Game 33: Slump Off :Bruins @ Sabres

[Applause] hey thanks for breaking our slump Bud slump you want to talk about a slump do you think the Buffalo Sabers need to help teams out of a slump a come on man this has been a really tough stretch for us what’s your record this year 27 and

Six mhm and your record since the beginning of last season not really a fair comparison but uh 859 and 11 yeah what about since 2020 okay uh what on 6961 and 23 but we were just coming off of a heartbreaking finals loss A finals loss A finals loss do you know when the

Last time we made the playoffs was I don’t know like some years it was when you won the cup 1972 what no 2011 idiot oh yeah that makes more sense still not great no not great so so my question for you is when do we get to break our slum guess when the majority of NHL teams are worse than you oh yeah that that could be a problem for you low quality Fans qual Bruins team that is a dub it has been some time since we’ve gotten to say that it’s been some time oh it feels good it feels so good we just witnessed basically a slump off not I I don’t know if the Sabres were on a

Streak like we were I don’t think they were but my goodness that was a game for the Boston Bruins you can make fun of the Buffalo Sabers as much as you want to and trust me I will but as much as you want to laugh about what they just did for the

Last couple of hours you know damn well that’s exactly what the Bruins looked like the past four games plus actually let’s probably goes back further than that didn’t win any Puck battles one chance in the offensive zone then back the other way just listless effort wise nothing looked good nothing

Looked good for the sabes and the Sabers had beaten us once this season 3-1 the first week of of December we had beaten them earlier in the season 52 in November they were missing Tage Thompson tonight for a last second call out and unlike my co-workers at my job I believe

That this call out was actually necessary there’s actually a good reason for it my co-workers just call out because they’re lazy yeah I’m saying it I don’t think any of my co-workers watch this but if they do I enjoy hearing the um backlash I’ll get for that in a bit this Sabres

Team is not what they wanted to be this year but that’s pretty well documented at this point for us we’re rolling all new lines cuz I heard all your complaints about the line shuffling and Monty did not but here we go zaka geeky pasta is your top line which was an

Interesting one Martian Coy de Brusque jvr Freddy Heinen Loco beer brown brown Brown’s back laai makoy lto Carlo wspoon shaton Kirk and Swan’s going to get the start MK can’t be with the team yet I actually saw a lot of people real frustrated they didn’t call

Him up they weren’t allowed to call him up the roster freeze is still going until I believe midnight tonight I think that’s when it’s end when it ends I would still love the idea of calling Merk up even with the way this game went it does lower the possibility but I

Would still still love that idea oh and also merry Christmas and happy holidays and enjoy your New Year’s and your New Year’s resolutions New Year’s resolutions put them below I’m actually curious as to what you guys will say and if they’re going to freak me out or not

Because I don’t know what you people aspire to be but I didn’t answer a bunch of the merry Christmas stuff uh honestly because I stepped away from the channel for a couple days as the holidays came around CU focus on other stuff ended up in the ER the veterinary ER on Christmas

Which is really fun everyone’s fine Larry keeps trying to die for some reason I don’t know it’s just a thing with him but we’re all good and we’re going to talk about the Bruins winning a hockey game puck drops in the first part of the hockey game there’s no way I’m

Alone in this we get the puck we get the puck deep this is the first shift they immediately win the battle and move the puck into our Zone and spend almost an entire minute and a half doing stuff in our Zone couple of shots on net no super

High danger stuff but every single one of us who has watched over the past couple weeks sat there and went oh here we go again here we go again thank God it wasn’t another one of those games thank the Lord Almighty 419 in this is a great play by Heinen and this play

Mattered more than any other play in the game in my opinion Heinen disrupts a Defender as he’s skating back towards the Blue Line in the offensive zone because it’s a turnover they’re going the other way he disturbs that Defender enough to punch the puck to the neutral

Zone lorai is going to collect he’s going to deak past one Defender and then he’s going to bump it forward to Freddy Freddy will take the Zone he’ll whip it over to jvr who’s on the right side he’s going to do a hard shot low pads Far

Side blocker side and it’s going to rebound right to Lori who never gave up on the play continu to chase it down he’s going to punch this past Levi it’s one Z we’re not even 5 minutes in I didn’t expect this team to suddenly fix everything just like that but boy did

Didn’t feel like it for a bit they just locked in all of a sudden they were the team making crisp passes their breakouts were clean they were getting into the offensive zone they were getting real scoring chances we’re going to talk a little bit about how the offense

Actually worked tonight but for the most part it was positive they really just that goal jump started the whole team which goals often 10 but I thought up to that goal we didn’t look that good and then we just get a good play from a couple of guys that’s all it takes 731

In Marian’s going to go for cross cheing that’s a terrible call he does sort of elbow him in the back of the spine so I don’t know what the call is here it does look illegal though it certainly does but he gets the two minutes for the

Cross check and then 2 minutes for misconduct for John at the ref being like how is that a cross Che check I never hit him with my stick and the ref because there’s zero accountability for anyone in these situations and I’m not complaining about the rest of this game

But this is a a perfect example of these guys they call the extra two minutes on the misconduct looking at the the review seeing that they got the call wrong but their feelings got hurt so they’re going to call the extra two I don’t believe these guys should get bered all game

Long but if you suck at your job people should be allowed to tell you they really should I have people in comments every video tell me I suck at this it’s fine I people should be allowed to say that to me it hurts my feelings but

Whatever anyway we’re going to go on the penalty kill for four minutes and we crush it we crush it the penalty kill is so good 732 left geeki is tripped up by Krebs we’re going to go the power play and that was a terrible looking power play that suddenly produced we’re

Struggling to get into the Zone clearly but but about 45 seconds left of it de Brusque uses a little bump bass to take the Zone on the left side he’s going to leave it for Maran on the left point he’s going to keep skating down the wall

Marian’s going to feed it right back to him he’s going to keep moving his legs go right around the net and as he gets to the glove side of the net the defense is going to pinch just a little and we’ve talked about this play with our

Defenders too you have to seal off that pass or else all you’re doing is leaving someone open for even a fraction of a second and de Brusque has a perfect tape to tape pass to coil who absolutely roofs this two power play goal gorgeous play and de Brusque needed it this was

One of deus’s best games in six weeks maybe the whole season looked really good him and your final score in the first period I don’t know why I said final there is 20-0 and you feel great how many of you trusted that lead just with the way the team’s been playing

Over the past couple weeks that’s right 0% 0% no matter how bad the Sabers look or how good the Bruins looked you wouldn’t have trusted it yet that’s where the team put us you can have unrented optimism but you can still be nervous I think that’s fair second

Period starts 307 in Loco draws a slashing call by tuck we’re going to the power play and again the power play looks really bad until it doesn’t down to about 50 seconds pasta takes the blue line and he tries to feed de brus going to the net in front of him puck skitters

To the wall but de brus just charges after it retrieves it quickly Taps it to Coy under the right Circle who’s skating towards the net and Coy looks like he tries to feed jvr who’s standing directly in front of Levi but jvr is like jumping to get out of the

Way so what actually happens is Coyle flings the puck over and it goes off of the skate of the defender past Levi it’s 3-0 another Power Play goal we take those they don’t ask how they ask how money 3-0 do you trust it yet no you don’t stop don’t lie to yourself you

Don’t makoy shortly after this goal is going to make the play of the game potentially sway comes out High to make a blocker save off of a point blast and the puck is just falling right behind him and makoy comes through and with the stick takes it right out of the air sway

Gives him a little hug after it was just a great play makavo is so good man he’s so good we’re so lucky to have there’s certain players on this team we’re genuinely so lucky to have either way that keeps it a 30-0 lead cuz that puck was definitely going in if he didn’t

Swap that away 703 left Jose is going to go for tripping power play and this power play actually looked pretty solid in less than a minute into it pasta is going to take the Zone he’s going to go down the right side he’s going to shoot

On net collect his own rebound off that he’s going to continue his tour around the net and it’s some Nifty tight passing between marshan who’s up on the left point and geeki who’s on that left Circle and pasta who’s against the wall and they’re bouncing that puck around so

Fast it moves all of the Defenders from the Sabers just a couple of feet during this penalty kill towards that side Marian recognizes this he’s going to whip the puck over to makoy who’s on the right he’s going to skate down on that right side and he’ll fire it on net zaka

Is there deflects it deflects it past the net but as it goes by the goal line geeky jumps on it and just flings it back towards the slot and a diving Levi actually manages to knock into the net himself pretty sure geeki is going to get credit for this goal it’s 40 power

Play goal once again that is three for three on the power play with some good bounces but we take those 533 left get ready for some math here you ready 533 left Frederick’s going to go for holding we’re going to the Penalty kill 23 seconds later middle stat is going to go

For elbing we’re going to be 4v4 for 137 I don’t know how it wasn’t 4 minutes either he was gushing blood I know it’s from the visor but it was the elbow that caused the visor to go into the nose I don’t get it either way Marian’s fine

It’s going to be 4v4 for 137 28 seconds after that makavo is going to go for tripping so it’s 4 V3 for a minute 10 that makes sense 27 seconds later it’s a two on0 as both Carlo and lome committed to the left side of the

Defensive Zone and it they get beat they lose the wall the the the board battle I don’t know why I called it the wall and Carla just takes penalty he goes nope this is a freebie if I let them go and just wraps him up so that’s going to be

A penalty in itself so now we’re going to go 4 V3 for 42 seconds is not going to change the 4 V3 because middle stat still in the box the Sabers can’t have five players then it’s going to be 5v3 for 28 seconds then it’s going to be 5v4

For a minute and 10 and then it’s even strength that’s all short-handed stuff for us and and we kill all of it beautifully and we’ll go to the third you’re up four goals To None you feel good about it this is where you’re like we got this we can

Trust this San’s playing great we’re not allowing a ton we have it and 207 in Heinen is shoved into Levi by Clifton they’re going to call colender interference cuz they’re bad at their jobs we’ve been over that penalty kill we kill it and by the way I’m complaining about these calls cuz

They’re bad not because the Bruins got didn’t get favorable calls in this game I think you can actually argue that the referee kind of skewed towards the Bruins in this one I thought we got the better side of it even with all the penalties we took I know box score

That’s not going to feel right but watching it I really feel like the Bruins got away with some stuff either way we kill it and it’s the six kill this game technically even though not all of them were 2minute full power plays for them we went for six for six

On the penalty kill and three for three on the power play we had a perfect special teams night just gorgeous 511 in it’s a Faceoff win by the Sabres in our Zone and Johnson from the top of the right circle is going to use Tuck’s moving screen in front of swayan to just

Pick High blocker side it’s 4-1 there’s nothing nothing you can do about that if you’re swayan the net didn’t get cleared out properly we weren’t on Johnson fast enough he had all the the time in the world either way 4-1 it’s going to be your final that Levi is going to have to

Stop breakaways from marshan and poock just to keep it that close both of them go five hole Levi Stones them both good job on him and 32 seconds left Quinn’s going to go for hooking for a power doesn’t matter 4-1 final score it’s a slump breaker we broke the streak you

Love to see it and with that game notes lorai is done in the AHL man he’s great great he looks great he needed a little bit of time going back to the AHL and then he used that time to get a little more familiar with the lessons he

Had learned right back to the NHL he looks like he’s here to stay and he’s here to stay in grizz’s spot in my opinion I unless Grizz is unplayable on the third pair and you have to have him next to makavo I don’t see why you’d

Split up Lori and Ma right now I really I really think they’re really solid and I know this is one good game defensively after games and games and games of not looking great I thought lorai has been getting better each game that’s been one of those consistent things for me either

Way Swan’s been great I I think that just goes without saying he’s just really really solid the perfect special teams we already mentioned lastly the difference between this game and the others is pretty simple to me you won board battles your for check showed up on time and then won those battles it

Created Havoc the defensive structure help held way better than it has the special teams are solid you just had better results because of all the board battles you were winning that’s I think that’s simply it I still think the offense was actually rather uninspiring obviously happy with the goal scored

Four goals scored is solid would take that any night but there’s some lucky bounces in there you’re not always going to go P perfect on the power play and coil’s shooting 19% right now we still need help offensively but if the power play can stay solid and the

Defense returns to its Elite defense that we got used to that’s a viable way to Win Hockey games we know that the offense doesn’t have the depth that we want that’s a real thing with this team it’s not something I’m going to and moan about that’s how it’s designed the

Defense has to be elite for that to work that way so this game is not tricking me into being like the offense is fixed it’s not we got a couple good bounces in there we’re still going to struggle to score at times that being said the defense showing that they’re getting

Back to their structure the goal tending staying solid and honestly just special teams playing well huge green flags for us coming out of the break huge we will take it and that’s it guys it does it for me like comment subscribe nailed it we got another game Saturday against the

Devils feels like feels like we just played them which we sort of just did I’m psyched for that one I lost a bet with that last one so I’m hoping that we can turn that around this time because I don’t want to lose a bet again maybe I

Shouldn’t bet on the team maybe that’s the lesson to take here eh I’m sure it’s fine go bees go bees thank you for watching but of course we’ve got to give a shout out to the lowquality YouTube channel me members need a real name for that one of these

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