Welcome to the Jeff Merrick Show, Matt Marrasey here filling in for Jeff.

And what a night last night?

And for multiple reasons.

And one of them, and actually let's let's play this clip here

from Dylan cousins from from last night and we'll get right into things.

Yeah that was a crazy pass we just kind of locked eye contact when I was curling and I just tried to get going as fast as I could.

And he made a football pass there to me. So, a little Hail Mary and somehow managed to handle it.

But it was a great pass by man to put in the right spot.

Boy was it ever. Rasmus Dalene to Dylan Cousins 12 seconds into overtime.

Bang, Sabres went again, three two over the islanders.

And a lot of people liking that pass to that of Eric Carlson to Mike Hoffman for the finish.

And while Rosamis Dauleen should get a lot of credit for that pass, the play by Dylan

cousins to keep that in play and still maintain possession and get a breakaway and score is impressive in its own right.

What else is impressive as we switch from Rasmus Dalin, a former first overall pick,

to last night's games on the ice.

It impresses me how bad teams are right now and how so many of these teams are

are willing to just give games away so that they can ensure

a better chance to get Connor Bedard. The topic of today is going to be tanking.

And I'm not, this is not about the players on the ice because they are playing to win,

every single night they're playing to win and that's not about them.

But this is going to be one of the most interesting races that I think we've ever seen.

Forget, forget the playoff races, those are going to be fine.

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