Pierre McGuire

Lane Hudson had his game in round one, but I thought the puck tonight, and I know he had five shots on goal, and I know he blocked three shots, but personally, I found that he fought the puck tonight.

I found that the puck was like a grenade on his stick tonight.

Listen, I thought that this series was going to be different than the Tampa Bay series because...

Buffalo is very aggressive on the forecheck.

And I thought that if the Canadians could play the puck out of their zone and make a couple of quick passes out of their zone, it would lead to odd man rushes and it would lead to counterattacks.

Instead, it's Buffalo that had a lot of odd man rushes.

It's Buffalo that had a lot of counterattacks.

I don't have the exact number at the end of the game, but Eric Engels tweeted out after two periods, it was eight odd man rushes for Buffalo.

That's a lot.

How do they eliminate those?

Listen, I, you know what I had, if obviously I knew that takes Thompson played, he was a non-factor.

Like he was really invisible.

And you know what though?

That makes losing this game much more difficult.

It does.

Tate Thompson plays 18 minutes and 28 seconds.

He doesn't have a shot on goal.

He wins one of eight draws.

He goes 13% in the circle.

Tate Thompson is minus one.