DarthEbriate

Yikes. Get in front of the man, please. Joker inexplicably jumped outside --- maybe thought Quinn would be closer to support inside, but you can't give up the center ice lane, even with a good head fake or shoulder shimmy.

Tuch, the Concept Of will be with you. Always.

Nice stop, UPL.

It's fine when Thompson is unmarked. But no one has let that happen since the beginning of March. But it needs to have a second wrinkle -- someone to stand in front of the net. Run it from behind the net. Activate the D down to the far side of the net. Something.

Holy moly! That's how well a goalie can read the play? And how fast a glove can be? Is that... legal?

Dang it, kids. If you're going to do it, get out of the zone first... then dipsy doodle and make weak passes.

Slash broke Greenway's stick: no call.

Don't take any penalties. Let them chirp all they want.

It looks like both Buffalo and Florida learned about the Penguins loss at the intermission and realized they can keep Crosby out of the playoffs for the first time since his rookie season.

Super useful.

I am curious to see him after his shoulder(s) are fully healed. He got offseason shoulder surgery, then injured the same or other shoulder in his first game back with the Wild. If he can look more like Tuch-lite and less like a slow Ummm.. Woohoo 3! So... that 3-0 outburst... I meant over the course of the 2nd period... not in less than 4 minutes. But I'll take it.

Woohoo too!

Woohoo!

The Flyers are 5-0-2 in their last 7 (and 2-10-2 before that), but it looks like they're hungry and playing about as well as they can. The good news is that the Sabres have 2 or 3 more gears that they can hit --- perhaps not without TNT and Levi in the lineup. One of those 3-0 outburst second periods would be very useful right about now.

And here we are, outshot by 10 in the first period.

What are they afraid of? Not having a chance to make the playoffs? Get out there and win the puck battle. Big deal if you get hit, or punched, or hauled down and draw a penalty (or not). Outwork them because they're going home for the summer already.

Should've been a holding the stick penalty. And one reason why I wish scoring before the whistle on a delayed penalty didn't negate a PP opportunity. Good shot, Dad Kposobi! At one point the Sabres were outshooting the Flyers 3-0 (and maybe 4-0?) and then it was 14-4 Philly. Sabres are extremely fortunate to get out of the first with a tie.

Started well, but starting to let the Flyers carry play.

Oh. It's their version of RJ Night.

To be fair, if Nathan Gerbe had ever scored 44 goals he would've been an All-Star, too. Being a big monster Swede and wearing among the biggest pads in the league helped Lehner be a good goalie, but he was utter dreck in any shootout or breakaway. Saros is shorter than Levi and is a regular Vezina candidate. Shesterkin is 6'1". Miller was only 6'2" and a skinny little punk to boot. Hasek, the greatest goaile ever, was 6'1" and an even skinnier little punk than Miller.

Starting UPL? Huh. I did not expect that. He's going to be wound as tight as Cameron Frye in the Howe jersey. So the question becomes: if the team is flat like the previous Flyers games, how long of a leash do you give them before you pull him for Levi? (And let's go Blue Jackets! Yay for the most irrelevant franchise in hockey! Go get 'em and earn a win over FLA. It'll be good hockey god karma for Bedard!)

Good job, Bruins. Now go to hell.

Of course, maybe someone should've told Pasta that. Yay, Boston! (because it helps Buffalo)

Boston coaches trying to throw this game, everything from a backup goalie to resting Bergeron, to making useless coaching challenges... All it tells me is they'd rather see Pittsburgh in the opening round than Florida. (Or Buffalo or Ottawa, I guess). 😇

That was an odd desperation challenge for a tie game. Swayman has to sell the bump a lot more than that or else there's no way they're overturning it. Crosby a light graze at home? Nothing to see there. Even if his stick blade was nearly in Swayman's eyehole, he didn't bump Swayman nearly enough to warrant a call.