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# Leafs at Sabres Game Day Thread
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/leafs-at-sabres-game-day-thread/
- Published: 2018-09-22T21:30:02.000Z
- Updated: 2018-09-22T21:30:02.000Z
- Description: A no-Tavares night just to remind us of what we’re missing.
- Author: Achariya
- Tags: Game Coverage, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:43

Welcome to Buffalo, home of Jack Eichel, but [not Vontae Davis](http://nypost.com/2018/09/16/bills-cornerback-quits-and-retires-in-middle-of-game/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)!

Anybody else weirded out by Jeff Skinner playing on Jack Eichel’s wing? Yeah? No?

It’s a non-John Tavares night, and if you need to catch up on who’s in and who’s out, Katya wrote it all up in the game preview [over here](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/preview-jake-gardiner-preseason-debut-toronto-maple-leafs-head-to-buffalo-sabres-rasmus-dahlin/).

Because it’s a non-Tavares night, let us look back nostalgically to the [last time he put on a Leafs jersey](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-pre-season-recap-tavares-marner-der-arguchintsev-liljegren-sandin-leivo-sparks/):

Tavares finds a streaking Marner, who drops it to SUPER KAME LILJEGREN for a rocket of a slap shop. Ullmark stopped it, but JOHN TAVARES WHO IS A LEAF PUTS HOME THE REBOUND! 3-1 LEAFS!

\[....\]

A Rielly clearing that’s JUST called off for icing, followed by a nice forecheck by Timashov leads to Tavares stealing the puck and scoring his second goal of the game to seal the win. It’s the second straight pre-season game that Tavares has two goals. 5-3 Leafs.

There we have it.

How are you going to up the ante, Mr. Auston Matthews?

> Auston Matthews from Patrick Marleau! 1-0 Leafs [pic.twitter.com/lMwm1fPHo8](https://t.co/lMwm1fPHo8?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Flintor (@TheFlintor) [September 20, 2018](https://twitter.com/TheFlintor/status/1042572556803309568?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

# GO LEAFS GO

Updated lines:

> [#Leafs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Leafs?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) lines vs. Sabres:  
>  
> Marleau-Matthews-Ennis  
> Johnsson-Lindholm-Kapanen  
> Grundstrom-Cracknell-Moore  
> Clark-Brooks-Bracco  
>  
> Gardiner-Zaitsev  
> Rosen-Ozhiganov  
> Nielsen-Holl  
>  
> Andersen  
> Pickard
> 
> — Kristen Shilton (@kristen\_shilton) [September 22, 2018](https://twitter.com/kristen%5Fshilton/status/1043630295407386626?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Andrew Nielsen was added late in the afternoon in place of Andreas Borgman.

> No idea on why Andreas was removed from the lineup, he skated this morning and looked find. Details after the game. [#tmltalk](https://twitter.com/hashtag/tmltalk?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [https://t.co/PtzfxsfysZ](https://t.co/PtzfxsfysZ?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Paul Hendrick (@HennyTweets) [September 22, 2018](https://twitter.com/HennyTweets/status/1043632178872102912?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Surely, he couldn’t have run off and had too much fun in Buffalo.