{"id":764772,"date":"2026-05-01T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:38:14","slug":"norris-jumps-right-back-in-with-his-line-for-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764772\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris jumps right back in with his line for Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR 550) – <\/strong>The Buffalo Sabres had practice Thursday before flying to Boston for Game 6 of their best of seven series with the Bruins. Boston avoided elimination, winning Game 5 in Buffalo on a David Pastrnak overtime goal. <\/p>\n

As expected Josh Norris was on the ice and will go back to centering his line before he got injured which includes Josh Doan and Zach Benson. With Noah Ostlund going to miss some time, Ruff said putting Norris back there was the natural choice,<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a period of time that line was really good for us and we put him back in his spot. I thought he had a great practice today, skated really well, feeling really good, it\u2019s an opportunity where a guy like \u2018Nory\u2019 can just step up and he could be a big difference maker for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Logan Stanley missed practice due to illness. Lindy Ruff said he was worse yesterday, but better today. Ruff said they\u2019ll have to make an evaluation on Friday. Michael Kesselring practiced in his place alongside Conor Timmins. <\/p>\n

Tage Thompson took over Game 1 helping the Sabres erase a 2-0 third period deficit to win 4-3. Thompson scored two goals in that game, but hasn\u2019t had a goal since. Ruff said,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at the opportunities in the game and a game ago they were talking about how they needed more out of Geekie and Pastrnak and this is the time of year where the attention towards your best players always comes to highlight, if one guy doesn\u2019t have goals for two or three games, and it\u2019s no different with McDavid in Edmonton with his start to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you look at the game and break it down, he had an unbelievable chance in the third period where Krebs fed him cross-crease and he didn\u2019t finish. If that goes, you\u2019re (Mike Harrington) probably not asking me this question today, but it didn\u2019t go in, so we know our best players, we\u2019re depending on them to be difference makers, but the cool thing about our team all year long has been that if the top guys weren\u2019t producing, for a few games, we had other guys helping us win hockey games and it\u2019s really about what our team has been about all year. <\/p>\n

With the Rochester Americans eliminated from the playoffs, the Sabres have the Black Aces back. This group will skate separately from the team and are around just in case they\u2019re needed. They include,<\/p>\n

Devon Levi<\/p>\n

Radim Mrtka<\/p>\n

Vsevolod Komarov<\/p>\n

Ryan Johnson<\/p>\n

Anton Wahlberg<\/p>\n

Konsta Helenius<\/p>\n

Riley Fiddler-Schultz<\/p>\n

Ruff is glad they\u2019re up and gaining from this experience,<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always looked at it that it\u2019s a great opportunity for those young guys to come up and be part of the experience. With the number of players we have here right now, there\u2019s a point where you have too many and you don\u2019t want it to be a distraction, so they\u2019re going to get their workouts, we\u2019re going to try to keep our game people separated, but at the same time they\u2019re going to be training, they\u2019re going to be watching and we know at any time one of those guys could be a guy that may need to be called on.\u201d<\/p>\n

With practice on Thursday, Ruff will not hold a morning skate on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR 550) – The Buffalo Sabres had practice Thursday before flying to Boston for Game 6…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3103,1720,314072,293264,293,62,67,132,68,289120],"class_list":{"0":"post-764772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-josh-norris","11":"tag-lindy-ruff","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wgr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116496531979280698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}