Buffalo/Tampa Shootout

Zulrath · Senior Member

Buffalo/Tampa Shootout

AB Habman · Guru

Is it so the goalie has to face an unknown shooter? Good coaching strategy especially if the player has good skills.

Gary McHab · Newbie

Zulrath wrote:

A rookie scored the winning goal in the shootout for Buffalo, however, he has yet to score an NHL goal, I find that interesting.

Watching that shootout myself, what I thought was interesting is next spring one of these stupid things could cost a team a playoff spot. If shootouts ever get to decide playoff games, I hate to say I may have to start watching Nascar instead!

Nil d · Guru

Zulrath wrote:

A rookie scored the winning goal in the shootout for Buffalo, however, he has yet to score an NHL goal, I find that interesting.

I just read the game summary, and I see that Buffalo won the shoot-out 3-0.

How can that be? At 2-0 it was already won, so why go on?

Zulrath · Senior Member

Nil d wrote:

Zulrath wrote:
A rookie scored the winning goal in the shootout for Buffalo, however, he has yet to score an NHL goal, I find that interesting.

I just read the game summary, and I see that Buffalo won the shoot-out 3-0.
How can that be? At 2-0 it was already won, so why go on?

Wherever you read that had it posted wrong, it was in fact 2-0 the Buffalo skater (do not remember who right now) missed the second shot.

beakermania · Senior Member

Vanek is young but extremely talented. He is playing on the Sabres first line with Daniel Briere and JP Dumont right now. I'm sure the decision to let him shoot was made more due to his talent than the fact he is a new shooter.

Zulrath · Senior Member

beakermania wrote:

Vanek is young but extremely talented. He is playing on the Sabres first line with Daniel Briere and JP Dumont right now. I'm sure the decision to let him shoot was made more due to his talent than the fact he is a new shooter.

How would he rank next to someone like Perezhogin? I only tuned in near the end of the game so I didn't see him all that much. It seems very much like this season, maybe even the new NHL could be the era of the rookie.

Nil d · Guru

Zulrath wrote:

Nil d wrote: Zulrath wrote: A rookie scored the winning goal in the shootout for Buffalo, however, he has yet to score an NHL goal, I find that interesting. I just read the game summary, and I see that Buffalo won the shoot-out 3-0. How can that be? At 2-0 it was already won, so why go on? Wherever you read that had it posted wrong, it was in fact 2-0 the Buffalo skater (do not remember who right now) missed the second shot.

I read that on the official NHL site. I have now seen it in the local paper as 2-0, so the NHL site is wrong.

Thanks, Z.

beakermania · Senior Member

Zulrath wrote:

How would he rank next to someone like Perezhogin? I only tuned in near the end of the game so I didn't see him all that much. It seems very much like this season, maybe even the new NHL could be the era of the rookie.

He was drafted very high, 5th or 6th ahead of players like Jeff Carter, Dion Phaneuf, and Montreal's own Andrei Kostitsyn. Since that time he has developed at a good pace and was one of the leading rookie scorers in the AHL last year. I think he has a little bit more potential than Perezhogin, and will get more points than him this year, since he will be given a larger role in buffalo than perez will get in Montreal.