“I Love It In Buffalo” | Ryan McLeod’s First Season With The Buffalo Sabres | Highlight Reel

“I Love It In Buffalo” | Ryan McLeod’s First Season With The Buffalo Sabres | Highlight Reel

[Applause] He’s all over this game. Here’s Mloud with a chance. Knight got the pat down. Samuelson with Knight on his kester. [Applause] Scores. Rimmed around towards Byron. Short pass for Mloud. Mloud closing in with a shot. Scores. Ryan Mloud. Two quick ones for Buffalo. They retake the lead. And the Sabres will flip it up. Here’s Zucker waiting for some help. It’s there at the far post. Scores. What a cut in off the play by Mloud as he gets his second as a Saber and puts Buffalo on the board here. Now trailing two to one with 1026 to go in the second period. Sabres with a chance of a twoon-one now with an empty net. Chance to bury it. And there it is for Mloud. And now the Savers with a potential twoon-one with the speed of Mloud to the net. [Applause] scores. Savers now work it free. High slot. Boom. Holmes. Mloud tries to center it. Barpole [Applause] scores. Quick start here would be good as well. The shot is blocked. Right back to the point. Mloud gets it back again. Far circle. Scores. Byron. [Music] carrying in. Worked it out. Back door toward Tuck. Picked up by Bryson. Bryson drops at the line. Ryan Mloud score with traffic in front. The Sabres have the lead. Fire him at the half wall. Works it in behind. Mloud tuck. Scores. [Music] tie up top. Kurka one timer doesn’t see it. Loose puck. They score with 105 to go in the third. It’s now 42. Mloud on his own at the line. Gains the zone for Zucker getting underneath. Shot scores. [Music] Sabres now with a chance for Mloud on the break. He’ll dish it off with a shot. Scores. Good race down the wing by Quinn. Taking the pass from Mloud and the Savers get the lead on the road, leading him one to nothing. Mloud right side one-on-one. Turns, fires a pass across, scores, goes off the Ottawa player and into the net. He’s got three goals on the year. He can add another one because he just buried that one behind Forsber. This puck kicked to the stick and they score. Cloud puts it right past Dustin Zarski on the first shot of the hockey game. Just ability to Oh, they score off the face off and kept on bouncing and beats Tokarsski just before the buzzer. Well, you look at the importance of faceoffs and winning those races to the puck. Spins around popped off the wall. Tage Thompson off the bar. It’s there for Mloud and his stick is snapped in half and they’re going toward a penalty shot. They call the goal. They call a penalty shot here. And look at the smiles. You can’t stop smiling on the bench. Mloud with the hattick. It’s a burst of speed, right? To cut through the D and bury that one on the rebound from the post. First hattick of his career. Drop it back to the line. Here’s a pass across. Tic tac toe. Tage Thompson finishes that little game of tic-tac-toe. His second of the game and Buffalo up two to one. Up top by one timer. Far scores. That puck dribbles in. It’s sat right there on the line for Ryan Mloud. It is going to be his 11th goal of the season. And this was a good offensive zone possession time. You see that Bo Byron and Rasmus Dene were playing at the top. Now a twoon one and fresh legs. Here’s Mloud. It’s a burst. Scores. And don’t try and overdo it. And that’s a good example right there. 100% Sabres winning the draw. Shot from Height. Scores. Here’s a play that’s going to find Mloud with a chance. Score. What a move. Everybody involved. Get everybody on the board. Oh, just a nice job by Mloud getting in behind and a pad save by James Rhymer. Fetchnikov with a hit on Quinn after the play was gone. Twoon one with Mloud sending it across. They score. Mloud with a pass to Purka and the Buffalo Sabres have cut this lead in half now. They trail four to2 with an early goal here in the third. Mloud tipped it out toward the line past Benson and out to center ice. Here’s Mloud on the hop. The cloud moving in center shot score off of Luke in or a teammate. That was a shot pass from Kulak to Heyman there. Mhm. Nice pass tuck [Music] score. Here’s Mloud. Quick pass. Quick shot. Scores. left into a cloud of dust to bloom the Knights. Byum back to Mloud cross ice. There’s the shot. Scores. What a quick release that was as a great shot from Owen Power beats Court Mosal. And this game is tied at two. Jersey slides it across. This will be taken away and it’s Mloud with speed. He’s in behind the defense back and scores. It’s a big one. Mloud taking advantage of some sloppy play by Utah at the line. Good sabers take advantage. Here comes Mloud. Three and two to the line. Perka back to Mloud. Pass into the slot. Curling away. Bernard Docker. Great pass. Scores. Rasmus Dali with the shot. The setup from Bernard Docker. And Buffalo has taken a two to one lead here late in the second period. Great play diving Conor Clifton. And then Mloud will set it ahead for Alex Cox. Shoot. scores short-handed again, Alex Tuck. And the Sabres are up four to two. Sabres again getting to the puck carrier quickly. Puck comes right out in front. Rhymer’s got it in the backand clear down the ice. This is going to go into the empty net themselves after this one. Yeah, good battle down low here. Samson, nice finish over in the corner. Bull and Byron behind the net. And this puck’s just going to pop to the front of the net here. And Mloud on the backand is pulls it about two feet above the blue paint and on the back end. And it’s curling, curling, curling. Sabres at the line. Kept in by Mloud. Scores. Quick shot. Great keep in by Mloud. And Quinn picks up his second of the game. And the Sabres strike with a pair here in this period to lead it three to two. Here’s Mloud playing it onto the wing. Return pass from Mloud getting in behind. Draws a penalty scores. What a goal by Mloud. Oh, baby. Ryan Mloud just blows his way to the net past the coverage on a delayed penalty call has given Buffalo a two to one lead here early in the second period. Dylan Cousins behind the net center. Savers able to clear it down the ice and this will be an empty net goal as Mloud from just inside the blue line with 239 to go wants to play it up the ice quickly and does. Mloud leaves it on the wall near side. Good follow up by Purka walks in, fires, scores. JJ Purka got 80 miles an hour on that one and the Sabres have a one- nothing lead in Columbus. LJ trying to center. Buffalo getting it back. A twoonone chance here on the rush. Buffalo pushing it actually with two on the on scores. Mloud feeds it across and Quinn buries it and it’s three to one Buffalo. This is Mloud. He’s just waiting. He’s got nothing here. So he just nice little drag move around this D that just kind of lays it out there, pulls it in, and then the quick pass tape to tape. Perfect strike and Jack Quinn just able to redirect that one past the goalender there. the stick of Dale and it’ll be carried up by some twoon-one on entry. JJ Padka fires and scores. Tuck comes out of the box. He picks off the puck. Net is empty. Tuck turns. Just lifts it up to center. Sabres with an empty chance. Mloud. Yes, sir. With 47.9 seconds to go, the empty net for Buffalo pushes it to 53 Sabres.

Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan McLeod had a career year during his first season with the team. After being acquired via trade from the Edmonton Oilers in July 2024, McLeod proved his top-six abilities in Buffalo. He scored 20 goals and had 33 assists (topping his previous career highs), played a role on the penalty kill’s first unit, won faceoffs (52.3%) and fit smoothly into the lineup as a center.

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