Dennis Gilbert is fighting, creating a goal while Sabers beat blue jackets – Buffalohockeybeat.com

Buffalo-Sabers defender Dennis Gilbert offered a little idea of ​​how his match was materialized only three seconds when he won Tuesday with 3: 2.

There is a code, you know.

“Outside the cuff,” said the local child with Columbus wing, blue jackets Mateo Olivier, one of the emerging heavy weights of the NHL, immediately after the washer fall.

Did Gilbert know when he saw Olivier’s name in the starting lineup, they would release their gloves?

“I just had a feeling,” he said.

Did they look at each other?

“Yes, I don’t really remember,” he said.

Uh, well, Dennis.

After a 4-3 victory on Sunday afternoon, the sakes that had to show some muscles strongly. Right or not if he fails to make New Jersey Pamulato Devil Stefan Noisen pay for his illegal blow to hide the Tage Thompson’s Head wing made them look weak.

Instead of training Monday, Sabers held a team that was involved in “everything”, said Wing Alex Tuch. They felt ready to continue from their inaction.

However, the hockey world was watching Sabers. Maybe they wanted Gilbert to send an early message. Maybe they wanted something to unfold organically.

When Sabers coach Lindy Ruf saw his colleague Dean Avson, he released Olivier to start the game, he countered with Gilbert.

“Dennis started tonight because when I looked at their sheet when it came in, they started their most difficult line,” Ruf said. “I didn’t know what they meant. They may have watched the movie and said, “Let’s go after them from the bat.” …

“It had nothing to do with yesterday. It was just about who they started. “

The fact that Gilbert has easily lost the battle hardly matters.

“It was a message that he wanted to send that what happened to the last game would not happen again,” said Tuch, who scored two goals. “It doesn’t even matter. He is the first person, will do everything for the boys and everyone here knows it. To make it, I want to say it’s hard. It’s not easy. And a lot of respect. “

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Gilbert won more respect 12:17 in the second period, when his exquisite slap Passy from the point to Tuch in the slot created a goal-front goal in front of the crowd of 14 198 fans at Keybank Center.

“Phenomenal Pass,” Tuch said after Sabers’ fourth consecutive victory, their longest series after five games from January 19 to January 26, 2023.

Despite the skating only 8 minutes, 41 seconds – the largest number of any player who did not leave the game injured – Gilbert, who dressed as the seventh defender, had a significant influence.

“There were many discussions that go around the league, especially for us, and to have a man like Dennis Gilbert, a child from his hometown who likes to put this T -shirt every night, walking in the center of ice with one of the most difficult boys … (this) just shows how much heart I think we have in this room, “Tuch said.” And I think it’s a big reason we won this game tonight.

“He is a hell of a teammate and a hell of a man.”

The Sabri quietly built some speed. After they regularly melted late in the matches, they pulled out three consecutive wins with one goal.

“I think when you have a” blowing “and lose games, it affects you and that’s good. He is a man, ”Gilbert said. “But our group was really good at being much more glamorous in these situations and encouraging and finding small victories as something as simple as blocking a shot and chipping the washer. …

“This makes it easier now and more naturally.”

Sabers humbles your seventh triumph in the home in the last nine games with an exhausted range.

They played without goalkeeper # 1 ukko-pekka luukkonen, who every day with an undisclosed injury, according to Ruf. Then in the second period the wing Beck Malestin left with rear cramps – “He couldn’t move,” Ruf said – leaving them only 10 forward.

Reserve veteran James Reimer detained the fortress, making 27 saves and winning only his second victory this season and first from November 23.

Sabers defender Bowen Bayram opened the score 10:07 in the game before Kent Johnson’s Nifty Spin-O-Rama in the left circle to tie the 1:47 race in the second period.

After the fighter restored the lead, he tilted the shot of Captain Rasmus Dalin in 18:56 in the second period.

Ivan Provorov narrowed it to one goal again 12:38 in the third period.

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