Barely Breathin’
Mar 28, 2008 NHL
The Sabres kept their scant playoff hopes alive with a rare shootout win last night against the Ottawa Senators. Jason Spezza opened the scoring unassisted, but Maxim Afinogenov matched him a minute later. Jochen Hecht got his 22nd on the power play to finish the first period with a 2-1 lead.
Buffalo then assisted Mike Fisher in breaking out of a goal-scoring slump, as he scored the next two. However, the Goose scored the game-tying goal with less than 2 minutes to play to force the OT session. After no score there, the game went to the shootout. Like many of you, I wrote the Sabres off once they got there, but they came through and notched the win. Pominville and Roy put shots past Gerber, and Spezza had the only tally for the Sens.
I was pleasantly surprised by the play of Max, it seemed like he was skating very well and was ofthen the most dangerous player on the ice. Still a few times where I wanted him to pass instead of making yet another loop around with the puck but I can live with it when he’s getting the shots he was getting.
Unfortunately, there was no help in the standings last night as Washington and Boston both won. Philly was idle and remain 5 points ahead with the Bruins.
Montreal comes in to town tonight for another must-win game.
Tags: fisher, gaustad, gerber, hecht, Hockey, Maxim Afinogenov, NHL, pominville, roy, sabres, spezza
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