Thursday, November 5, 2009

Paybacks a Shutout

Four days ago the Sabres suffered their worst defeat of the season 5-0 in Long Island. Last night, in my opinion, they played their best game of the year, this time defeating the Islanders 3-0. Through the first 11 games of the year it could be said the fast start was credited to the 3rd and 4th lines (and Ryan Miller), while the first two lines struggled. They showed up last night, with Derek Roy nabbing his first goal of the season, as well as Vanek (off to a slow start by his standards getting his 5th). They also got 2 powerplay goals and killed off all three penalties. Rookie sensation (can you say early rookie of the year candidate) Tyler Meyers got an assist, his fourth. Miller was exceptional saving 24/24 his 2nd shutout of the year. Everyone is contributing. On the other side I must say former Sabre Marty Biron was magnificent. He stopped 36/39, but the score really could have been 10-0 (the game looked like the one-sided 7-1 victory from last year, minus stellar goaltending which led to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTPudRyyhsE ).
It was a great game if you like Buffalo to watch. They controlled the game at will. With 1:12 to go in the 3rd period, they controlled the puck in the Islanders end. For 48 of those seconds (I counted because I haven't seen such puck control dominnce in a long time) the puck did not go higher than faceoff circle in the Islanders zone. The final 10 seconds were killed behind the goal. Can't wait to see what they are able to do as the season progresses and the rookies (3 of um) settle in and gain experience. Oh and by the way, in 12 games they have only given up 24 goals.


I'm struggling with the twitter. It owns me. If someone could help me with the link url thingy, well to be honest im just lazy. I didn't want a twitter so I could probably figure it out, but someone could just tell me and then you would feel accomplished for helping, and I would be happy of the laziness.

Girls today are confusing. They say Brenton don't facebook stalk me it's creepy. Brenton, I want you to follow me on twitter.

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