On defense, meanwhile, the Sabres could be without Logan Stanley on Friday. The big blueliner missed practice with an illness, and his status is uncertain for Game 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was worse yesterday, better today,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cBut then\u00a0you’re\u00a0missing a couple\u00a0days,\u00a0and you\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0ate. We’re\u00a0gonna\u00a0have to judge where the energy level is, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Stanley can\u2019t play, it will likely be Michael Kesselring filling in on a pair with Conor Timmins. Kesselring, who\u2019s only played two games since mid-March, has been anxiously watching the series from the press box and awaiting his playoff debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt kind of depends on how Stan\u2019s feeling, but I mean, Game 6 in my hometown, I couldn\u2019t be more excited if I get the opportunity,\u201d said the 26-year-old, who grew up in New Hampshire and played at Northeastern. \u201c\u2026 I\u2019ve been watching close, so I\u2019ll be ready to go if I do get to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kesselring never really got into a rhythm as he battled lower-body injuries earlier this season, but he\u2019s confident this extended practice time has him game ready \u2013 whether that\u2019s Friday in Boston or later in a playoff run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll be good for me just to get in that mindset of playing, just in case [Stanley] doesn\u2019t. Or even for the future, if someone gets banged up or whatever,\u201d Kesselring continued. \u201cI feel good, I feel like I\u2019m skating really well again, and I really strongly believe I can help our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here are some more notes from Thursday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On defense, meanwhile, the Sabres could be without Logan Stanley on Friday. The big blueliner missed practice with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-616947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}