Ryan Whitney

For once, they were ready that first period.

They jumped all over them.

But I thought maybe the rest of the game, Montreal might have outplayed them a little bit.

I know they outshot them, but Buffalo had the timely scoring, and they got the power play going again.

Yeah, I want to go back to that second unit power play, put my little coaching hat on.

Oh, okay.

And explain to the people what happened out there.

Their second unit, and this is what used to happen in the old days.

You had your first unit, one minute, and then the second minute.

And as a penalty killer, you hate it if they had two different setups.

if they had an umbrella on one side, if they had the box in one.

So the second unit now used the box in one that you don't see anymore because this 1-3-1 is almost unbeatable on the power play because you always know where somebody's open.

But that's what happened.

Montreal penalty killers got caught

stuck in oh this is how we play one three one all we do is play one three one oh what the hell is this the box in one work just even on the mcleod one because of their setup you see dones in the middle and he knows he can whack it either way one of those guys are going to be open because the d converge on him and they got a lot of chances from that and and it was a huge adjustment by uh seth appert and the buffalo sabers

Yeah, but you're in those positions.

Yeah, but if you're a penalty killer, you know, like, okay, it's a 1-3-1.

I always push down the boards here, and then it comes underneath me, and I go out.

And Keith probably knows this as a power play guy.

I remember we would do that on a power play.