It was a mature effort by a team that didn\u2019t necessarily have previous claim to that kind of playoff maturity. And yet, the Sabres did exactly what they needed to do, were exactly where they needed to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next man was right there, on every pass,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cI think we had good legs, we had good energy. When you have good energy, you get to places. Our feet were moving. I think that\u2019s the biggest deal, our feet were moving. We weren\u2019t standing around. Our anticipation where pucks were going was really good. We were back on top of them, so most of their passes they had to make had to go through us. We created the turnovers that led to the scoring opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sabres even came as close as they\u2019ve come in this series to a power-play goal, with Doan\u2019s goal crossing the line just two seconds after Boston’s bench minor for too many men on the ice had elapsed. Technically, they\u2019re still 0-for-39, going back to April 2, but it was certainly an improvement.<\/p>\n
They were, in truth, good everywhere. Good in the first period when they dominated, good in the second when they didn\u2019t let up, good in the third in closing it out and adding two more goals (Beck Malenstyn<\/a> at 5:08 and Alex Tuch<\/a> at 6:32) to really put the nail in the coffin.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we\u2019re at our best when we\u2019re on our toes,\u201d Krebs said. \u201cJust consistently on the forecheck making their ‘D’ make mistakes and I think we did that right off the hop. They felt it and we continued to put the pressure on.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the same for us. If they\u2019re putting pressure on us it\u2019s hard to make plays and we want to do that to them. We capitalized on opportunities tonight and made the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a mature effort by a team that didn\u2019t necessarily have previous claim to that kind of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-631670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}