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AVs forecheck, stick work, and puck handling is really impressive…

Keep McDonagh off the ice…

AVs are faster… better with the puck… TB is tougher… more grit… with a better goaltender… Just a pleasure to watch these teams compete… We need a goaltender… and a few years for our young kids to grow into men…

Superb hockey played by both teams… I live in Sarasota, so rooting for TB…

TB will have no chance keeping up in the thinner atmosphere… AVs are just a better conditioned team…

AVs offense in the TB zone was relentless… Just too much for TB… Great win for them…

Boom… TB taking to the net…

AVs have som PP… Scored on 7 of last 11… TB can’t afford penalties…

Wow… Didn’t expect Paul back after he limped off after the 1st… to let alone score less the two minutes into the 2nd period… Got the crowd going now…

TB more time in offensive zone… More shots… More goals… Better checking tonight… 2nd period should be interesting after AVs adjust…

AVs are relentless… Get McDonaugh off the ice… Offsides…

Glad the AVs aren’t in our division… They are so fast, such good skaters, constant motion in the offensive zone… Think they also benefit living in the thinner atmosphere… Better respiratory condition…

Another stupid penalty… Bolts show no discipline…

What a stupid penalty. Cooper should sit McDonaugh the rest of the period…

No quit in the Bolts… Wearing the AVs down…

Goaltending aside… Watching the Rangers and TB series, both teams have many more grown men than the Sabres… We are a couple years and a few players away from competing successfully against either team, in my opinion…

Beane and Granato must be pretty impressed with this teams determination… Appert keeping them focused…

What a great win and series… First time Amerks advance to second round since 2004!!… Way to go, Amerks…

Many fond memories drinking 25 cent Genesee Splits at the Idle Hour Bar on Center St in Geneseo as an Undergrad… Rented a house a block away… Rolled home…

Ok… I got the game…

Can someone post a link to the Amerks Radio broadcast of the game??

Amerks have three days to regroup and reset… Chance for Samuelson to return…

Ruotsalainen Is a playoff beast!… 7 pts in playoffs so far… Guy knows how to score… If he has a good training camp… might earn a promotion…

I’m 72!..

Having attended the Sabres game in Tampa last month… can only tell you Tampa opened the gates an hour before the game… and the mood was driven by high energy Techno Music and light show… through the warm ups… ending with the introductions and anthems… Their announcer was youthful, excited, and had the crowd into it… Sound Board was plugged into the game and contributed like an extra man… Very impressive…