Listed below are three issues to observe in Sport 6:
1. Buying and selling areas?
Time and again, Ruff has caught near a season-long rotation in web. Which implies it wouldn’t be stunning to see the Sabres begin Alex Lyon in aim for Sport 6.
But when he’s making that change — or another — Ruff wasn’t biting Saturday morning.
When requested who could be beginning in web, he laughed.
“You already know what my reply is?” he stated. “It’s one of many prime three we now have.”
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen began the playoffs in web for the Sabres, however was changed within the third interval of Sport 2 in opposition to the Boston Bruins within the opening spherical. Lyon held the web by means of the top of that sequence and was the starter because the second spherical opened. Buffalo opted to go along with Luukkonen in Sport 4, a 3-2 win, and Sport 5, however Lyon entered that sport within the third interval of an eventual 6-3 loss.
And that’s not the one change that could possibly be made.
“When you could have a sport like this, you’ve received to be prepared to make any change you want, whether or not it’s D adjustments, line adjustments,” Ruff stated. “I’ve to have a way of what’s going good and what could make us higher.
“I can simply say proper now that inside the sport, if we’re not producing or we’re giving up an excessive amount of, I believe you robotically received to take a look at adjustments. We’ve sat for a day and a half speaking a couple of Plan A and a Plan B. I believe it’s a must to have that in your pocket the entire time.”
2. Mr. Saturday Night time
The stage is about for Canadiens ahead Cole Caufield to dwell as much as his nickname, which he has come by actually.
Contemplate this: Caufield had 35 factors (21 objectives, 14 assists) in 23 Saturday evening video games throughout the common season, a part of his team-leading 88 factors (51 objectives, 37 assists) in 81 video games.
Now, with Montreal taking part in its first Saturday house sport of the 2026 postseason, he has the possibility to shine once more.
“It’s not a nasty nickname,” he laughed. “I don’t actually thoughts it. I’ve simply received to dwell as much as the identify, I assume.”
St. Louis, for one, hopes he does.
“We don’t hate that,” St. Louis stated with a chuckle. “You already know, he loves the sport and the power of a Saturday evening on the Bell Centre.
“Does it increase his love of the sport? I don’t know. For no matter purpose he finds himself in nice conditions on Saturday nights.
“It’s enjoyable to observe.”