{"id":660541,"date":"2026-05-09T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:06:08","slug":"sabres-loosened-up-headed-to-montreal-for-game-3-of-east-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660541\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres &#8216;loosened up&#8217; headed to Montreal for Game 3 of East 2nd Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game 3 is at Bell Centre in Montreal on Sunday (7\u00a0p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, ESPN). When a best-of-7 series is tied 1-1, the winner of Game 3 is 248-126 (.663) all-time.<\/p>\n<p>So, an angry, disgruntled, embarrassed collection of Sabres showed up for work Saturday. They practiced for 30 minutes, working on zone entries, puck retrievals and a power play that featured revamped units before departing for Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>After the game Friday, captain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/rasmus-dahlin-8480839\" title=\"Rasmus Dahlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>\u00a0said they had some things to talk about and that Saturday would be a big day for them.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did they do?<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-tuch-8477949\" title=\"Alex Tuch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch<\/a>\u00a0said the mood was good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Came in, we had a good meeting, got skating out there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think everyone loosened up a bit. Back to playing hockey, had a few laughs and trying to stay loose. Trying to build up each other&#8217;s confidence and getting back to how we know we can play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 3 is at Bell Centre in Montreal on Sunday (7\u00a0p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, ESPN). When a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-660541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}