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He's had a front row seat to a tandem that's been pretty good.

Alex Lyon's been good.

UPL has been good.

So he's got a real good feel for the goaltenders.

He has a real good feel for them as people, how they handle things, how making a switch will work.

And you have to have that.

Goaltending coach comes in, you discuss what it could mean for our team, what's the positives, what do we have to guard against?

I think the other factor for Lindy Ruff is Montreal was building a tremendous amount of confidence, offensive confidence against Alec Lyon.

They'd scored nine goals, not into an empty net against Alec Lyon.

the previous two games so at the very least everything that i said previous but then now giving montreal a different look not letting montreal build on their offensive confidence trying because you start to score that many goals you go oh we could beat this guy we we got this guy's number change change their mental outlook a little bit change their mindset a little bit so

We know that he was great.

We know how phenomenal UPL was.

I mean, everybody talks about Buffalo's penalty killing.

No, Buffalo's penalty killing wasn't very good.

And if it wasn't for UPL, Montreal would have put up three or four power play goals.

He was tremendous.

That sequence on Cole Caulfield early in the second period when it was 2-1.

I mean, that could have been curtains for Buffalo at that time, if not for UPL.

So a decision that was made with a lot of different factors, but obviously UPL delivered and that's what matters.

And that's why Buffalo won this on the game.