00:00Lord we have not even mentioned Connor Hellebuck this is not a Connor Hellebuck discussion right
00:04now as far as I'm concerned I want this to be a Colton Ellis conversation my thought was I want
00:13to see this guy and see if he can get on a roll now I also understand the opposite of
00:21that it's
00:22early in the season it is October 9th UPL needs to be reminded and maybe soothed and if that's the
00:34case also that's maybe another part of the conversation of is that tenable or not but you
00:40don't want to pull him in the opener because it's a long season and you're our guy or one of
00:46our guys
00:46however we're not going to give Colton Ellis this next start because you're our guy we're not going
00:54to pull you after two periods against the stars because you're our guy and I don't know where the
01:03question is 8030550 if you want to call in and talk about this but selfishly I wanted to see Colton
01:12Ellis
01:13and now he can still do it it's only been one game but where do you think the decision-making
01:19philosophical aspect of this is for the Sabres and their goaltending unit well I think you you said it
01:26in there without I don't know if you knew it or not but you a few times probably not went
01:31our guy
01:33as if there's only one and as if that one needs to be Lukanen and that is how they've approached
01:39it
01:40consistently for years now they have gone into seasons saying Lukanen's it he's going to be the
01:46starter that's our guy and for that same reason I that's why I came in here and and said I
01:54think
01:54that Lukanen's going to start I don't know that he should but I think he's going to because the
01:59reality is that they treat him like he's their guy and he goes in there and he plays an average
02:06at best at worst bad first game he plays another game that I against the Blackhawks that I would
02:14call average as well that ends up in a win and you go all right the other guy went in
02:21there Ellis and
02:22he played well and he he he really played well and we can say that he helped us win that
02:27night I don't
02:28think you can say that about any of Lukanen's games so far including last night but your your your
02:35thought process there is well we shouldn't abandon ship on our guy two starts into the year and I
02:44know Ellis was good but he's young and the other the our other veteran goalie that was great last
02:50year isn't here for us so we're going to go back to our guy because he should prove to us
02:54why he's our
02:55guy he should play well tonight and prove that he deserves to be the guy and I can understand that
03:03I totally get that because of what we discussed earlier the want for a workhorse you want somebody
03:09to be that for you but now I don't know how many times you can go back to that with
03:17this player at
03:18this point after this many years and this many times that that game last night was played by him
03:24how many times have we done this with Lukanen where it's man he wasn't terrible but it was four goals
03:31on 15 shots and there just was no chance for the Sabres to win tonight the body language was bad
03:38he did make some nice saves too great he also gave up a brutal goal through the five hole in
03:45the second
03:45period that sort of started a chain of goals quickly after because he can't stabilize himself
03:51yeah and you just you can't keep going back to the well you just can't it's it you've seen the
04:00story
04:00too many times and I understand why they wanted to give it a try and that's why I said what
04:06I said
04:06about him and I thought I thought that the the sort of buzz and the whole thing got really loud
04:12and
04:12maybe even unwarrantedly so like it grew I think past even where it probably should have been the noise
04:18but then he had to go and prove everybody a little right last night and that's what he did he
04:23proved
04:23everybody that was freaking out after the first game after after the Blackhawks game that he proved
04:28all of them right and what are you supposed to do I I I can tell you right now if
04:35I was coaching this
04:36team or if I was jamming this team he's not he's not getting back in my net he's not
04:41you
04:41you
