Colten Ellis and Jack Quinn lead the Buffalo Sabres over the Red Wings

Colten Ellis and Jack Quinn lead the Buffalo Sabres over the Red Wings

Another win in the bank for the Buffalo Sabres. They played really well the last four games and this was one of their best against the Red Wings. We’ll talk about last night’s win coming up here in the Lockdown Sabres podcast. You’re locked on Sabres, your daily podcast on the Buffalo Sabres, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. What is up everybody and welcome in to this Thursday edition of the Locked on Sabers podcast. Thanks for making us your first listen every day. We are free and available wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for everydayers for tuning in. If you would like to become a part of our Locked OnSabers text club, you could do that. Head over to joinsubtex.com/lockdonsabers. That’s the place to sign up. If you want to watch the show, you could do that. Head over to YouTube, search Lockdown Savers. Hit the like and subscribe button. We’ll keep popping up in your feed. Today’s episode of the Lockdown Savers podcast presented by FanDuel Sportsbook. Download the FanDuel app right now by visiting FanDuel.com. Win $300 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. Sneaky Jody Biosi here after a Saber win against the Detroit Red Wings. A lot to get to on today’s show. We will get to all that happened in the win over Detroit, including Kade uh Colton Ellis winning his first NHL start and looking pretty darn good doing it. Jack Quinn having one of the best games of his Buffalo Saber career. Also an injury to Jason Zucker, which is not great. And not that we have many details on that, but that is not a good injury to be sustaining right now. We’ll talk about the potential impact of that considering Zucker right now is their leading goal scorer through seven games. Four goals on the year so far. I also want to get to today how even though they’ve played really well these last four games and three and four is a good start to the year. It’s not terrible. Um it’s not great. I mean it’s a losing record and that’s not a playoff pace. But considering they lost their first three games and the sky was falling, um I think they’ve done a pretty good job of maybe uh putting the sky back together just for a moment in time, even if it might be held together with duct tape because Sabres’s best players haven’t really been their best players, but they’re getting away with it right now and I think playing well while doing it. So, I want to get to a little bit of a thought on that coming up a little bit later on. Let’s uh I want to start though with just a couple of observations from the win over the Red Wings and also some of the stats from this game. 4-2 over Detroit. And the Sabres I thought were the better team. I thought from really beginning to end other than maybe a bit of a middling period there in the second that wasn’t so hot. I thought the Sabres were the better team in this game. Uh I thought they controlled the pace. I think really a lot of the numbers end up looking closer as tends to happen in NHL games and hockey games when a team builds a lead, especially a multi-goal lead with six, seven minutes to go, which is what happened last night against the Red Wings. The Sabres go into the third period tied 2-2, but they get to 4-2 with 12 minutes to go. You’re up two with 12 minutes to go. the other team is going to stack some some goals. I mean, or stack some chances, uh, shots, shot attempts because the winning team is going to be a little bit more composed in their own end and not taking chances, just keeping things to the outside. And, um, Sabres did that to a pretty pretty to a te, I would say. Uh, and it got a little bit closer at the end, but I thought, don’t let that dissuade you. The Sabres were the better team in this hockey game. And I’m not really surprised by that. the the Red Wings every year. I I every time the Sabres play them, I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I just don’t think they’re as good as these little hot streaks that they have every year. This year, it just happened to be at the beginning a team last night. I mean, you watch the games last two nights. You fans tell me, listeners, you tell me who you think looks like a more dangerous team for the long term, Montreal or Detroit? Because I don’t even think it’s close. I think the Canadians are a legitimately good team and the Red Wings I would expect to fall back down to earth below a playoff pace. So in this game 31 to29 shots on goal in favor of the Sabres. Uh shot attempts were 71 to 70 in favor of Detroit. 30 to 29 in favor of Detroit. Expected goals in this game actually were in favor of the Red Wings. A good stat for K for Colton Ellis. 4.2 expected goals for Detroit. That includes power play. Sabres were at 4.0. What that means is um Colton Ellis outplayed John Gibson in this game. He did. Um I thought Ellis was pretty well composed and that was even after a bit of a challenging start. Now the reason I would say it was challenging for him was he went a long time without even being without ever seeing a shot. The Sabres had the first eight shots of this game. Um, which by the way, good sign because I had asked Lindy Ruff and we had talked to him. He had mentioned about how the G the starts have not been good for this team so far this year. That was their best start of the year through seven games. First eight shots of the game. Entirety was spent down in the Detroit end. They’re they’re causing the Red Wings to take dumb penalties. I mean, Beck Malstein is walking one of their top four defenseman to go in alone and he gets tripped up and the Sabres go to the power play immediately. So, penalties by the Red Wings early on because the Sabres were buzzing all around him. Um, they were they were they came out hot. But because that happened, Ellis doesn’t see a lot of action and he actually had one moment where he played the puck. It’s his first action in the NHL. He hadn’t seen a shot yet. Here comes the puck. He’s got to play it. And he turns it over on the power play. Um, and I thought, “Oo, don’t let that make you shaky.” And it didn’t. Like, he he did pretty well. He got through the first period, didn’t see a ton of test. Second period, he he gets that breakaway against and he makes the save there. And that probably helped build his confidence a little bit. I thought Ellis was stout. And again, like on those numbers, long story short, 4.2 expected goals from the Red Wings. They allow He allows two. Ellis 2.2 goals saved above expected. That’s a really good mark for a single game. So, a great debut for him. I liked his quickness side to side. I I think him wearing number 92 makes me think he’s going to be better than he is because I really like that as a goalie number, but trying to stay objective and put that to the side for a moment. Um I think you see athleticism, you see the side to side movement that is there and he has to I mean to get to this level at 6’1, you got to have that ability because his frame is not really taking up a ton of space. I thought, you know, talking to Owen Parker, who’s on our morning show, WGR, the video producer, and of course, he has a history of playing goalie to the junior level, and he had a good thought about how Ellis really battles in front of the net. He fights for space. He’s, you know, a little bit aggressive with the guy in front of him. Um, and he looked really strong in that department. The really the only area that I would say he didn’t look good because he stops two breakaways and I thought he kind of had an easy time with both of them. I mean, Dylan Larkin trying to go kick the leg up, forehand, backhand, get Ellis to spread out and then tuck the puck backhand between the legs. I mean, that wasn’t even close. Ellis stayed right with him. Um, again, like the side to side movements on display there. He made that save look easy because he’s staying right with Larkin and he has no problem. And that’s Dylan Larkin. That’s not a fourth liner out there. That’s their best player. Um, and he made a phenomenal save there and again, it looked like nothing for him. The one area he did struggle was rebounds. A lot of rebounds were just kicked way, way out. And the first Red Wings goal was a pretty bad one. I mean, JT Confir ends up getting it, but the shot comes in from not a great angle on the right and he kicks it way way out and then the the play kind of resets and the puck the shot comes in and he is like he’s like sliding out to the right beyond the post and he’s diving back with his glove and just uh that was not a great sequence I thought from from Ellis but and and then the second goal, you know, whatever. I I thought really the first goal was his really bad bad moment of the game. Otherwise, I thought he had a really really strong 60 minutes. And that could be meaningful. Could be really meaningful. Him being a part of the rotation. Remember, he can’t go to Rochester. He’d have to go through waiverss and the Blues are going to get him back. They will take him back if you try to put him on waivers. And I don’t want to see the Sabres do that. I don’t love three goalies and I never have. But this guy was a third round pick, which is not a first, you know, it’s not an early second like Lucinan was, but it’s not a seventh. A third round pick goalender that did the natural development path. He went to the ECHL, was really good. He went to the AHL, he was really good. Now he turns 25 years old. All right, time to see if you’re an NHL goalender. and through one game looks like he could be. I would want to keep exploring that and Lucinin being back could complicate that as to how many starts he could get. But I would like to see more out of Colton Ellis and I my dream scenario right now because keep in mind one thing I always remind people about Lukakin Lukinan did not have the same level of success on his way to the NHL. He did not have very good numbers in the ECHL or in the AHL or even in his last year of junior like he or in his first year in the NHL. He had the the one big year with the Sabres a couple years ago was kind of it. There was no stepping stones along the way. He got to the league because of necessity. The Sabres had no other goalies. Ellis has done it the has produced along the way and he didn’t have an opportunity in St. Louis. So to me, it’s very possible. Honestly, I think it’s really possible that Colton Ellis is a better goalender than Ukapolucin. I think there’s a very there is a chance of that and I want to see that out. Um the dream scenario to me is that that is the case that Ellis is a he was a hidden gem that the Blues made a mistake by letting him go and they you know were in a tough spot because they already have two good goalenders and that was the only reason he was available and the Sabres get you know a thank send a thank you card to the Blues for doing all the development of a good young goalender and then the Sabres get to you know see the fruits of that labor. Um, but I want to see that through and the dream is Ellison and Lion. That to me is the dream. Ellison Lion with uh with Lucin maybe becoming a trade chip at some point, which remember Elliot Freriedman said in the first week of the offseason last year that Lucinan’s name was out there. So, um, if Ellis can really put together how many how many good starts would you want to see? Cuz even 10 might sound like really you want to you want to dump Lucan in after just 10 good games by this guy? Um, let me see like three months. let me see like a dozen to 20 starts and that might take a while. It’s really to me not really a realistic idea until the end of the season um to dump Lucan in because you’re so impressed with Ellis. He won’t build up enough starts uh to make that case very strong. The other thing that I wanted to mention from last night’s game, uh when Zack Benson is on the ice, he’s the quarterback. when it’s his it is his team when he’s out there and that I think we are watching the Zack Benson breakout. I’m very excited to report that because you know I love this player and I’ve loved the I love the potential for him and I think he is beginning to realize that potential. He is the guy in control when he’s out there. That’s what I am seeing that he has the puck way more than he did last year. He is and part of that is his escaping ability. He is able to take space that he wasn’t once able to take where he’d have to make these quick decisions. Puck on my stick, puck off my stick because someone’s going to close on him and he’s not going to have the ability to get to another area to kind of give himself some more time now because he’s got more skating speed. If there’s a little pocket of space and there’s a guy trailing from behind, he doesn’t have to go puck on my stick, puck off my stick. He can go puck on my stick. Let me carry it for a little bit. Let me poke my head up, look around, see what the best pass is. I I’m really seeing a guy that’s in control when he is on the ice. The power play, especially this power play right now, that that’s where he’s the quarterback. Dene’s at the point, but Benson to me is the one that is he he teed up Zucker on a great chance right out of the gates in the first period. He’s moving around the wall. He’s got his head up. He’s looking around for what the right pass is. Um I think he’s making that number one power play a lot more dangerous. And I think it’s because he looks more in command when he’s on the ice than I have seen by far in the first two seasons of his career. So, I think we’re watching the Zack Benson breakout right now. I think it is happening. Um, I don’t know how many goals he’ll score, but he might he might get like 50 assists, 40 assists. I don’t know what the right number is there, but I I think you’re going to see a lot of points from him this year. And then finally, the last thing before we get to uh Jack Quinn and his game, Jason Zucker out tough. He bangs his shoulder into the wall, was looking like he was going for a bit of contact. Um, he immediately kind of grabs it and he goes to the room. It’s not official that it is a shoulder, by the way. I guess it could have been his elbow or or his bicep area. Um, it looked like a shoulder to me. Really hoping he’s not out because I’ve liked him at the start of this year. I think Zucker, who could have been a regression candidate, right? Like he’s had some down years in the recent past. Um I mean it was two years ago he had nine goals and 25 points for Arizona. 14 goals on the whole season. Um year before that 27. Year before that nine. Like just it’s been a little bit of a back and forth affair with him. And that has not looked like it’s the case. Like 21 goals last year, four goals in seven games. Like oh he’s right picking right back where he left off. To lose him in that middle six will be pretty tough. So fingers crossed. We’ll keep you updated on Zucker status as we progress here. Who picked up the slack though while Zucker was out last night? Jack Quinn. The Jack Quinn game potentially. It can’t be that because it was the Colt Nellis game. But I want to get to Quinn and how good a game he had when we come back here on Lockdown Savers. Today’s episode of the Lockdown Savers podcast presented by Monarch Money. Let’s be honest, most of us can’t even name all our financial accounts, let alone what they’re worth. Between 401ks, savings, and investments, it’s easy to lose track. That can mean leaving money on the table. That’s why I started using Monarch, an all-in-one personal finance tool that brings your entire financial life together in one clean, easy to use interface on your laptop or on your phone. Love that you can review everything with your partner, see shared goals, make makes better financial decisions together. 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Florida eight points in eight games. That’s the top three. Immediately behind them, Leafs, seven points in seven games. Talk more about them tomorrow. Sabres, six points in seven games. So, and then you got the Bruins and the Senators and the Lightning, by the way, who are not off to a great start all behind them. Um, listen, you win your game in hand, and I know I don’t want to already be on to games in hand. We’re only seven games into the year, but you’re tied with the Florida Panthers for the third spot in the Atlantic Division. So, it’s early, and the Sabres did not really lose a lot of ground. The division as a whole doesn’t look that good, and that was predictable. The Panthers don’t look great. The Leafs don’t look great. The Bruins don’t look great. The surprise to me is Ottawa doesn’t look great. I thought they would be the team that ascends. That has not happened. And then Tampa Tampa’s demise has been pretty st pretty tough. I mean, listen, I I can’t take too much of a victory lap on uh really anything Atlantic division wise so far because my top two teams predicted I had Ottawa winning the division and then Tampa number two and through six, seven games. Uh they’re the bottom two teams in the division. So, but I guess that’s a good thing. Um, the other player that I want to shout out from last night’s game, if really I’m going through my sneaky standouts from last night, it’s uh, it’s a pretty easy three for me. Um, although guess I could have picked Benson. I feel like I could pick Benson every night though, but chose not to do that. I went Colton Ellis as one of my top three standouts from last night’s game against the Red Wings. That was an easy one. 2.2 goals saved above expected. It’s really strong. Uh, I threw Josh Don in there because he did score a goal in the third period, a big one to give them that cushion. Although, I think John Gibson should have stopped that puck. It was a one-timer that was a little bit along the ice pad level. Typically, you want your goalie to make that save. Uh, part of why I think Ellis outplayed Gibson because Ellis made that save last night. Gibson didn’t. Um, don’t also though, 63.5% expected goals, four percentage when he was on the ice, which is very good. Jack Quinn though, one goal, two assists, ties his careerh high for three points in a single game. And I’ve been hard on Jack Quinn. A lot of people have been, even the coach coaches have been hard on Jack Quinn because he has not lived up to expectations. And to be fair, he rarely gives you the game that you saw from him last night, which is he him making a substantial impact and doing it offensively. All three plays that create that he was in on where he got a point were solid solid offensive plays. Two more so than than the middle one. But that first assist, his play of the night, he is in the neutral zone and that behind the back pass to Zucker is so smooth. But it doesn’t stop there. For him to know, all right, my work is not done after I’ve sprung Zucker on this behind the back pass. Now I got to charge to the net and I got to beat my man to get into the front. And that is exactly what he did last night. He charges. He beats the Redwing uh I think it was a forward back playing defense. Um which is maybe part of the reason that he got there. It was uh Albert Johansson. I guess that wasn’t that was a defenseman. He got caught a little bit and Quinn gets in front of him. Doesn’t look back. The Zucker pass across. It’s a good adjustment by Quinn because the Zucker pass gets deflected so it’s a little bit slower. So, he’s got to he’s got to hit the brakes. You know, he’s flying up the ice. This is this has got to be a really smooth play by him because he’s got a guy trailing to have a little bit of pressure. The pass gets deflected. So, now shot is out and he’s got to have his head up and have good vision to realize what I want to do here because just firing it at the goalender is not going to work. That pass being deflected across to you has given the goalie too much time. He’s now in position and honestly that defenseman is coming to challenge your shot as well. Quinn makes the perfect play. He adjusts the right way to a slower pass across it. Reopened up the pass back to Zucker and he was not afraid to make the extra pass. That’s a play where if it doesn’t work, a bunch of people are going, “Oh, what are you being too cute for making the extra pass?” No, that was the right decision. Even if that pass doesn’t end up working out, that’s the right play. You got to take the risk of getting that pass back across to Zucker because the goalie’s in position and your shot is almost never gonna go in. You got to get that back across. And he did. And see what happened. It was a happened. Zucker the whole net to shoot at. Um he’s going to score that goal 99 times out of 100. So loved the play he made there all the way around. Second play was a little bit of luck. You know, it’s a good job by him. He’s skating. He’s using his feet. He’s taking up some space. Um he tries to make a tow drag move, loses the puck, and ends up being an assist. Whatever. like still fine play, got a little luck, that happens. The third goal is a power play goal that he just walks in and buries, rips a one-timer. And that that’s what I’m talking about from Jack Quinn. He was drafted for that. And we have not seen enough of it. But that was exactly what you expect from a player of his caliber as a when he with his shot at least um because he can get a lot of torque on that on that stick. So now you look up and you go, “Wow, one big game from Jack Quinn.” And look at who the Sabres three top goal scorers are on the year. Zack Benson, Josh Don, and Jack Quinn. All tied to lead the team in points. Benson, by the way, doing it in three fewer games than everybody else. Benson, Don, Quinn. Those are your leading scores through um through seven games. Now, not a bad thing, but quick talk when we come back. Where are Tage and Tuck? Cuz they are not producing like those three are that when we come back here on the Locked On Sabres podcast. Today’s episode of the Locked On Sabres podcast is presented by FanDuel Sportsbook. The NFL season is here and FanDuel has an offer that you do not want to miss. It’s not just the NFL though. It’s the NHL. It’s the NBA now firing up. A lot of good stuff. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. You get $300 in bonus bets if you win. It’s right. Pick a bet, put down five bucks. If it hits, you’ll unlock $300 in bonus bits used all across the app. Um, that could be on football. That could be on really, of course, it could be on anything. I’m I’m really looking at this Thursday night game between Minnesota and LA. And I kind of like Minnesota to do it because the Chargers haven’t been able to block anybody. Um, so I’m looking at that for tonight. But you can find a hockey game you like. Maybe you wait till tomorrow when Buffalo plays Toronto. Maybe you wait for the World Series. Uh but check out, find out something you like. And if you’re a new customer, you bet $5 and you get $30 in bonus bets if you win. So that’s right. Just pick a bet, put down five bucks. If it hits, you unlock $300 in bonus bets that you can use all across the app. So what are you waiting for? Visit fanuel.com to download the FanDuel app today and get started. Sneaky Jody Bioassi back here on the Locked On Sabres podcast. The Sabres are uh off today and then back at it for a home and home with Toronto Friday and Saturday. Game time is being moved around there because of the World Series. Uh Blue Jays hosting the Dodgers tomorrow for game one and then game two is Saturday and the Leafs host the Sabres. So Friday moves from 7:30 to 7 in Buffalo. Saturday moves from 7 to 5 in Toronto. Um, I will be at game one of the World Series. So, um, I will be kind of taking the night off from the text club. So, if you’re in the text club, um, I’ll be tracking what’s going on with the Sabres game, but I will not be watching Shift to Shift. I haven’t set the record, watch it back later. Um, kind of a once in a once in a li it’s not necessarily once in a lifetime chance, but can’t imagine I’m have many opportunities to go to the World Series. So, I am going to game one. Um, by the way, I’m wearing a Saber jersey. I’m wearing a Saber jersey. I don’t know. Share an opinion if you have a thought on this. I don’t have a Blue Jays jersey or anything. I got actually a blue and gold Blue Blue Jays hat, coincidentally. So, uh, kind of matches up with the Saber jersey. So, if you’re looking in the crowd or if you’re going, look for the saber, look for the white Jim Loren Saber jersey. Uh, and you should find me home and home in Toronto. Can’t wait for it. Not yet, though. I don’t want to get to that game yet. We’ll talk about it tomorrow. Um, Alex Tuck and Tae Thompson. Should we be worried at all about these two? My answer to that question is maybe. Maybe with one of them. Tuck would be the one. Thompson. One goal, three assists in seven games. And the one goal, he didn’t really beat a goalie cleanly. I mean, he did, but it was a wrist shot from the point. No traffic in front. A goal is not going to go in very often, but he is coming close. And that’s why I’m not really that worried about Tage. He leads the team in shot attempts. In fact, he’s ninth in the NHL. He’s getting looks and I think eventually they’re going to start going in. Last night, he had one right on the goal line. Uh he had one that came across him on one of the early power plays and he tried to slide it underneath the goalie. He didn’t get it. He had the one play where he came in with speed through the offensive zone and he went the between the legs Tim Connelly move and he whipped a backhand right on, but he hit John Gibson kind of in the center of the chest. Um, you’re seeing these chances. I think they’re coming. I think the goals are coming for Taage. Sure, you could definitely look right now and say you need your best players to be your best players and Ta Thompson hasn’t been one of their best players. Fine. You could you could say that if you want. Um, because there’s no doubt if they want to make the playoffs, Ta Thompson, you know, he can’t score 20 25 goals for you. He’s got to be a 35 to 40 goal guy at minimum if this team legitimately wants to make the postseason. and he’s not currently playing like that, but I’m seeing signs that he is going to he is going to he’s going to get that production. Tuck on the other hand, I don’t know. There’s a little bit of a whisper on social media that I see from fans wondering like, is this guy really going 110%. And if not, is there something contract that is either distracting him or I I don’t I don’t want to accuse him of being checked out, but what’s really going on there? Is something contract related holding him back? What what’s what’s going on? Because I don’t think Tuck looks like himself. I’m not seeing him. He is in his best. He is involved on every play because he’s so fast and he’s so long with that stick and his height that like you see him you see him influencing every shift that he’s out there and you’re seeing him disappear for shifts at a time and that’s not normal for Alex Tuck. Uh it’s only one goal for him also. So I guess you could kind of put the same criticism on him that you would with Tage like I need you to score more goals if this team’s going to make the playoffs. um he is not playing with the best linemates, but he’s also not playing with nobody. I mean, he’s playing with Josh Don and Ryan Mloud. And while you could go look at those two and say in theory like, okay, well, that kind of looks more like a shutdown defensive line there, at the same time, Don’s not having a problem creating offense. He’s finding a way to do it. Um Mloud maybe not as much because Mloud’s only at two goals, two assists on the season. uh it’s not enough of an excuse. Like Tuck’s got to play better and I he’s on the second power play unit, so he’s not going to put up those numbers to the same extent. Um but does anybody look at Alex Tuck right now and think he’s playing like a $10 million player? because that’s what we’ve talked about contractwise. And unless I see a major uptick from him, um the contract discussion could change on him because if he plays like this for more for more weeks and months, I’m going to be want to be very hesitant to give him a giant seven-year $10 million per year extension. So, that’s uh just a just a quick thought on those two. Think you got you want to see more from both of them. Sabres and Leafs tomorrow. in Buffalo. Don’t know what we’re going to get for Leaf fans. One quick sign that maybe we couldn’t get we might not get as many Leaf fans as normal. The tickets on the secondary market right now, go check out the game time app are around like 45 to 50 bucks. And if you’re familiar with how the ticket market usually goes with the Leafs, it’s usually a lot higher than that. So, we’ll talk more about what the atmosphere might be like, the matchup, that’ll be tomorrow here on the Lockdown Savers podcast. If you would like to become of our Lockdowns text club, join subtext.com/lockdowns. You want more hockey talk, you can check out Lockdown Fantasy Hockey or NHL Game Night, which you can find anywhere. You get your podcast on YouTube as well. Talk to you tomorrow on the game day for sabers and lease here on the lockdown savers podcast. 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The Buffalo Sabres get the win over the Detroit Red Wings at home, led by Colten Ellis in his first start of his NHL career. Sneaky Joe breaks down Ellis’ special night, in which he was the game’s #1 star, featuring a couple of big breakaway saves. If Ellis can string a few good games together in a row, could he push Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen out of the rotation? Also, Jack Quinn’s three-point night is what Sabres fans have been dying for, ever since he was drafted in the top-ten. Quinn had both an incredible assist and incredible goal against Detroit.

Joe says Zach Benson is in far more command on the ice than he has been in previous seasons. And are Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch giving the Sabres enough? Joe believes both will have to step it up for this team to continue playing as well as they have been over the last week.

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