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The Sabres fell 4-3 in the shootout to the Canadiens last night, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen had his best night in the crease so far this season...
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00:00They played Montreal last night, and reviews are, what,
00:04Lukanen was great?
00:06With the first, uh...
00:07It was great for 65 minutes.
00:09Yeah.
00:09He was great.
00:11Shootouts.
00:12He, in one night, he stole them a point, and then also blew a point.
00:19If both of those things can be true.
00:22He stole a point, and then he blew a point.
00:25Because he didn't make a single save in the shootout.
00:26No, and they all did the same thing.
00:28Well, kinda.
00:29The third guy looked like he was gonna do the same thing.
00:32Rob had mentioned on the broadcast, and I think we know this anyway,
00:36that players have shootout tape on goalies, and they both went blocker,
00:43and then I'm sure Lukanen thought the third guy was gonna go blocker, too,
00:46and he went five-hole.
00:47But he was great before that.
00:50They really had not a lot of business being in that game in the first place.
00:54Which, you know, they kinda were.
00:56They were down two in the third.
00:58I mean, they looked like a team that had played the day before.
01:00Yeah.
01:01And they didn't have their best player.
01:03And you're going from home to road.
01:05So, like, really, when you look back at it, it was a pretty tough situation for them to be in.
01:10And down two to get a point out of that.
01:13Like, I'm not feeling that down about yesterday.
01:16They did not play well, though.
01:18No, and any game without Darlene, I'm not sitting here saying if Darlene were to be off the team,
01:24they would go 0-84.
01:27But without Darlene, they would not be a playoff team, right?
01:31That's a significant of course, we think.
01:33Correct.
01:34You know, there are not that many guys on the team where if just that guy got hurt and missed
01:38time,
01:38you would not expect them to make the playoffs.

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