Rasmus Dahlin Is Expected To Play Against The Islanders | Lindy Ruff Pregame | Buffalo Sabres

Rasmus Dahlin Is Expected To Play Against The Islanders | Lindy Ruff Pregame | Buffalo Sabres

ding good to go tonight ding is good to go how have you seen him navigate this that’s not ideal obviously to have to miss the game like that no but I think it’s it’s better to play be able to play one of them uh you know the situation we’re in where we got in so late the I mean the plan all along was that he wouldn’t play the back toback so uh he had a good skate yesterday feels good didn’t get a chance postgame to ask you what uh Rhymer started what what led to the decision to go with him instead of uko the other night uh again such a I mean was a late turnaround um whoy had started the last couple so we just decided to stay with our plan this team you’re playing tonight doesn’t give up much on they’re very good defensively what’s it going to take to to start creating more getting more Rush chances because you haven’t had many of those recently it seems well you know I think it’s the way the league defense right now um you know these guys are going to have three guys back all the time uh you know the rush chances when you create a turnover we have to make a little bit more I thought we missed on a couple would have been two on ones uh through the neutral zone in Boston um a couple three on twos that uh were near misses uh we had the one Krebs opportunity where the rush was there but you know teams are doing a good job of making sure they got numbers back in a game like this where you know you have to get the Pucks in deep to get after the punk how do you get that get those guys getting enough speed to get through to beat them well I think I think we saw the uh the speed the other night uh we got on top of them we were above them um part of that is you know making sure that when we put it in we’re we’re getting it you know whether it’s a hard Rim getting up in the glass goalie can’t play it uh giving him a distressed Puck that gives us a chance to get on top of him do you want to see L deferring and L looking for that perfect play yeah you know I think they like you said they don’t give up a lot they got big defenseman you’re going to have to we’re going to have to get round the net front we’re going to have to tip we’re going to have to it’s going to have to be a little bit ugly did you did you get the sense that the way that the group played for you know most of that Boston game that there was did use some of the good out of that to maybe build some confidence a little bit going into this game yeah you know I think it’s it’s hard but you have to uh you know I think it was 14 shots we only given up with I think about four minutes left in the game uh got a power play goal you know should have killed the last one off you know hurt us right at the end uh but there from block shot blocking to the way we defended how hard we uh competed our own end um you give yourself a chance to win a hockey game you guys have been getting Zone time um a lot of opportunities where you cycle it and get it to the point what’s the next step to just getting maybe not even use the point come off the half wall get it to the net front I don’t defer to you know what would be the the longer Play Let’s Get it to the net quicker and just create some chaos off of that there’s some big takeaways from your last game here November 30th that you can bring in tonight three nothing loss but you guys did something well in that game um you know I think you always look at some situations and you always take that forward thanks

Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff spoke to the media ahead of our game against the New York Islanders on December 23, 2024. Ruff gave an injury update on Rasmu Dahlin and previewed the matchup with the Islanders.

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