Bruins<\/a> coach Marco Sturm was asked about the series and talked up his team’s size and physicality compared to the Sabres.<\/p>\nIt may seem a little cocky, but he might be on to something. The B’s have not been the team the Sabres wanted to open their playoff slate against, considering Boston won the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n
But, despite a pretty extreme lack of playoff experience on the Sabres roster, they’re not going to get shaken by Sturm pumping up his team.<\/p>\n
“You know, that\u2019s his take on his team,” Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. “I have a lot of respect for what our team has done and how we play, and the speed we play the game, and they\u2019ve got a good team. They know who they are, and we know who we are.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I think it\u2019s, obviously, we\u2019ve all seen it,” Sabres forward Josh Doan said. “It is everywhere right now, but at the end of the day, I think our group trusts what we\u2019re doing here, and we\u2019ll just let that play out throughout the series, and we\u2019re gonna stick to our game plan.<\/p>\n
“So it\u2019s one of those things that you see, but at the end of the day, there\u2019s no real response from us in this room.”<\/p>\n
No real response, huh?<\/p>\n
Well, maybe there will be a response when the two teams hit the ice for Game 1 on Sunday, because it sure sounds like Sturm may have given a hungry Sabres team a little bulletin board material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sabres are set for their first playoff appearance in 15 years PublishedApril 18, 2026 6:50 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedApril…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-555653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116428580462295535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}