New York. It was a show of chime and cheer in Buffalo last night – and Taj Thompson cheered the most.
The 25-year-old American scored no fewer than six points in crushing the Cypresses 8-3 against the Detroit Red Wings.
– That hasn’t happened since I was ten years old, says the champ.
They haven’t had as much fun as the fans at the Keybank Center in Buffalo last night in decades.
What was an overall promising start to the series for Sabers’ long punching bag culminated in an angry dump against the band’s rival Detroit Red Wings.
At the start of the second half, the score was 1-1, but then the home team exploded and eventually won 8-3.
And Taig Thompson especially exploded. He completed a hat-trick and went on to score three goals, becoming only the sixth in Sabers history to score six points in a single game – and the first since Pat LaFontaine in the winter of 1993.
— It hasn’t happened since I was 10, the 25-year-old from Phoenix tells the Buffalo News.
– But hockey is so weird. Sometimes you have games like this without even a single disc. But tonight instead was exactly like everything went in.
Rasmus Dahlin – who himself scored his sixth goal of the season and set up one of Thompson’s goals – doesn’t see it as a coincidence that his friend suddenly has such an icy dump.
– I’m not surprised in the least. This will happen more times in the future. It’s such a threat all the time. The Swedish star says again, I’d love to see him.
Nobody liked Red Wings Something What happened during the visit to western New York.
“No, that was embarrassing,” team captain Dylan Larkin sighs.
Rasmus Asplund also scored a goal for Cypress.