00:00thing has been over for quite some time now because the um god almighty why can't i get just
00:06the games well while you're looking sorry see if paul knows anything more about whether tyson
00:11tyson kozak will even play in this game in for alex tuck paul what does it sound like
00:17yeah it's just basically they didn't want tuck at the morning skate because he was ill so i think it
00:22definitely is a game time decision you know how does he feel you know can he get to the rink
00:27how
00:27bad does he feel like about now or within the next hour or so and then uh you know if
00:34he gets
00:34there then how does he feel when he takes warm-ups so i think it's going to be up to
00:38it's not his
00:39injury that they had uh two games ago it's it's definitely an illness what changes to the lines
00:46if he misses oh i would think uh krebs probably goes back up there and kozak would take the center
00:55the uh malenstein and or kirk would center malenstein and kozak okay so i think krebs would
01:03probably go up you made it paul let's talk about that for a minute yeah yeah everything go flawlessly
01:08this morning today today went well as a matter of fact i had i was i was in luck um
01:15i got off the
01:16airplane and lindy was just getting the team on the ice for a full morning skate if it wasn't a
01:21full
01:21i might have missed him uh but it was a full morning skate so i was able to grab a
01:26cab and
01:26get over there before the morning skate was over all right bulldog kozak is not listed as an
01:31opportunity to score an anytime goal although um matthias samuelson is plus 7 000 it's been a while
01:38and he's had a weird he's had a he's had a year you know i guess score maybe hop on
01:43that tonight
01:44another incredible way illustration of what this season has been that we're considering him to be in a
01:50drought right that's exactly what i'm saying yeah but he hasn't had a lot of great opportunities
01:55recently either well maybe tonight's the night for that we saw this match up not too long ago paul
02:01what do you think of the two teams together well it's different because stone will be playing and he
02:06didn't play in the first game uh so i think that that makes all the difference in the world because
02:11now he's out there with eichel and uh so i think that does make a big difference but you know
02:17the
02:17sabers have just been so good on the road uh recently too uh what two losses in their last
02:2320 i believe uh two regulation losses and well um it's just uh you know and and the the recipe
02:30for
02:31success has been scoring the first goal getting ahead so you're not chasing the game part of the
02:36problem with this group of guys for the last two three years it seemed like they're always chasing the
02:42game sometimes they could get back into it but a lot of times they couldn't you know they might get
02:48down three or four nothing and then get back to four three you know but not be able to get
02:52all the way
02:53back now you know over 30 games this year they've scored the first goal and now they make the other
03:00team chase them and it's a whole different ball game you're right about the road record their last
03:05regulation road loss was the game in carolina on martin luther king day two to one and they were
03:12good in that game but didn't win they have a overtime loss in tampa not that long ago everything
03:18else is a win going back to like almost new year's day almost december the game in columbus would be
03:25the other one i'm going by memory which you know is extremely dangerous i think maybe december either
03:30ninth or 21st i think you can go back to one or the other yeah i mean three okay this
03:37is really
03:37good i believe three regulation road losses ago is calgary yeah december 8th there you go yeah
03:47before i'm sorry that's patently absurd before kevin adams was released it is three regulation road
03:54losses ago the others are that columbus game afternoon games we got to stop with the afternoon
04:00games columbus and carolina are the uh only two that is incredible for once i actually remembered
04:07what i wrote nailed because that's two regulation losses from the next day on which is what i wrote
04:12i didn't count the calgary once since it was a loss it is so wild to look at their season
04:18like
04:19espn.com like the the schedule and just see like the lack of you know elves like you know on
04:29top of
04:29one another right i mean they put this team opened with three straight losses they had another three
04:35game losing streak soon after that then won a game and lost five in a row and then after that
04:43it's like
04:43just few and far between they just don't they just do not stack else that that by the way bulldog
04:49that last losing streak that's dalene leaving the sabers to go to to sweden right and then he comes
04:57back in detroit yeah they win that game that's right i mean there are five and 12 going and then
05:03they lost the first three games of that well yeah they lost first first three games of the trip that
05:07they turned it around on they lost in philly winnipeg calgary and then after that it's just like
05:13yeah it's just very few and far between and we've talked about this it's been a while but when it
05:18happened and and i know they lost the three but they basically got winning and i pointed back to
05:23that detroit game just the the person that came back he was all smiles it was like the weight of
05:30the
05:30world had been lifted off his shoulders his teammates were really happy for him and you could
05:34see it was contagious to his teammates don't forget they got behind 4-1 i believe to detroit and they
05:41won
05:41the game um so you know it was one of those it was just they were there to win that
05:47game
05:47and they did and that is a game i think i would point to if when this season is over
05:55is really the
05:56start of changing this season around because don't forget they were in last place in the eastern
06:01conference in november i remember being on twitter that night that red wings game and they were losing
06:06decisively and they were down 4-1 as you said paul that that night mid-second and just like
06:12everybody knew that they were going to lose another one and just like this is the end of the world
06:16kind of thing and they just have been almost hard to believe since so you could almost see it i
06:22mean
06:22because don't made it 4-2 before the second period ended and then the third period they just totally took
06:28the game over and it was one of those you just had the feeling it's like they're not going to
06:33lose this
06:34game i mean just the way they're playing right now and the opportunities they're getting and
06:38they didn't but i think it was key that don't did make it 4-2 before intermission paul did the
06:44morning skate offer any indication of what's going to happen with this decor tonight looks like looks
06:50like metza might play with stanley okay so good for him yeah let's give that let's give that a spin
06:57yeah and i asked lindy ruff because i've had i've had fans you guys might even mentioned it um you
07:04know that metza hasn't killed any penalties i mean you've got your four guys and they basically kill
07:10all the penalties and i asked him today look at him i said i know you're you're you have four
07:16guys
07:17that have been very successful at it you don't want to go away from it but if you have to
07:21would you put
07:21metza to kill penalties he goes oh i absolutely would he goes he he's very good he'd be very good
07:27at killing penalties and he goes uh you know they like the four that do it but he said he
07:31would not
07:32be afraid whatsoever to put him on the penalty kill well i hope that works i mean there's there's like
07:37there's a couple things going on here we've talked already a lot about stanley and shen i guess but
07:42like to me shen is over there for the playoffs and stanley i think was acquired to play
07:47size physicality so let's get him up to speed and yeah let's see if he and metza can like get
07:54some
07:54chemistry and maybe that can become a pair because like we talked yesterday paul i definitely think
08:01metza belongs in their top six but you got to have a pairing that works there right and eventually
08:07they'll get more of a log jam here if timmons progresses talking about penalty killing paul i mean
08:13he was a big part of that and a big shot blocker like you've mentioned numerous times so they'll
08:18have even more decisions to make but if metza and stanley can stabilize their third pair man that would
08:24be fantastic and i think they can because you know stanley does have a tendency to turn the puck over
08:30at
08:31times and metza i think can help him you know that you are your partner's there he'll bail you
08:37if you do get carried away and turn it over so i think it i think it's a very good
08:42idea because i
08:42think one can help the other
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