00:00Yeah, a good first period.
00:01And then right in the start of the second period,
00:03Quinn worked himself loose and came down the slot all by himself,
00:08and Hill made a great elbow save, and then it started.
00:13And it's like, well, what started?
00:16Well, Vegas started taking penalties, and you would say, well, good.
00:20That means the Sabres have some power plays,
00:23and maybe they can get themselves going.
00:26It was an absolute disaster.
00:30I mean, disaster might be being nice.
00:34I mean, it was three of the worst power plays I have seen,
00:40and it totally, totally took them out of the game.
00:44You talk about the air going out.
00:46It was like that was that.
00:49I mean, they give up a breakaway to Carlson, Thompson, with a turnover,
00:55and Carlson walks in alone.
00:58Ellis makes two saves.
00:59I mean, he stops the breakaway and the rebound.
01:02All right, you got away with that one.
01:04Learn from it and do better.
01:08And, well, they weren't satisfied with that.
01:10They had to give Marner a breakaway.
01:12Thompson's at the blue line, was looking for Darlene,
01:17and next thing you know, Marner grabs the puck, steals it.
01:20He walks in alone.
01:22He doesn't make a mistake, puts a great move on Ellis.
01:26And, you know, if you're going to keep getting short-handed breakaways,
01:29eventually one's going in.
01:31And that one did.
01:32And then just as the penalty ended, out comes Barbashev from the penalty box,
01:39like he shot out of a cannon.
01:41He goes towards the net.
01:44Power had a very, very uncharacteristic bad game.
01:48He gives the puck away, and Barbashev sets up Eichel quickly,
01:53and now the puck's in the net again.
01:55And that was about a minute and a half later.
01:56So, basically, on the same penalty, you gave up two goals.
02:01The penalty was over by the time you gave up the second one,
02:04but it was the guy coming out of the box who really rattled everybody
02:09and got the turnover, and it's in your net.
02:12So, now you've given up two goals on your three power plays.
02:20And Buffalo had one chance, maybe, on the three power plays to score.
02:27I recall an Auslan one-timer from the circle,
02:32and that basically was the only scoring chance they had,
02:35and they never recovered.
02:37You know, once Vegas did that, Buffalo never recovered.
02:42So, really, at the end of the day, the Vegas stars came through,
02:46and the Buffalo, quote, stars didn't.
