(WGR 550) – Each of the Buffalo Sabres Olympians bought wins on Saturday. First it was Rasmus Dahlin and Crew Sweden beating Slovakia 5-3 after which Tage Thompson and Crew USA knocked off Denmark 6-3.
Sweden and Slovakia traded first interval targets and Dahlin arrange Los Angeles Kings winger Adrian Kempe within the second to offer Sweden a 2-1 lead.
A pair of targets by Vancouver Canucks middle Elias Pettersson helped Sweden stretch its result in 5-2 earlier than Slovakia closed out the scoring.
In three video games Dahlin has a purpose and three assists for 4 factors. That’s fourth general in Olympic scoring. The Sabres captain misplaced one in every of his assists in opposition to Italy. Jesper Bratt’s shot was stopped, nevertheless it was dominated that earlier than the rebound bought to Gus Forsling who scored, the puck hit Lucas Raymond. Dahlin ended that sport with two assists.
Dahlin performed 24:27 on this sport which led Sweden. He’s getting used much more than he was through the 4-Nations Faceoff.
Sweden completed tied with Finland and Slovakia at 2-1-0, in Group B however completed third due to purpose differential in head-to-head between the three groups.
Thompson had some respectable alternatives on america energy play. He solely had one shot, however a lot of his makes an attempt have been simply barely blocked or deflected. What I haven’t favored is for 2 video games now, New York Rangers coach Mike Sullivan has not solely had J.T. Miller and Vincent Trocheck within the lineup after they shouldn’t even be on the workforce, however he’s breaking his neck to get his two Rangers enjoying time.
Within the first sport Sullivan was substituting Miller in for Thompson fairly a bit and a couple of times for Kyle Connor. Saturday it was Trocheck’s flip to be slotted by which saved Thompson’s ice-time right down to 9:12 which is worst on the workforce. The one purpose Trocheck and Miller are even on the workforce is as a result of Rangers basic supervisor Chris Drury is GM Invoice Guerin’s right-hand man. It truly is a joke that they’re not solely on this workforce however are within the lineup when guys like Jason Robertson, Cole Caufield, Alex DeBrincat and Alex Tuch are significantly better gamers and sitting at dwelling. It’s additionally a joke that Clayton Keller isn’t even dressing within the video games for 2 gamers that don’t belong there.
Crew USA finishes the spherical robin Sunday in opposition to Germany.
