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Goo Goo Dahls
October 13, 2018, 9:21 PM ET [6 Comments]
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Ever humble and polite, Rasmus Dahlin thanked Jeff Skinner and his Sabres teammates for creating the memory that will never leave him.

Dahlin's first NHL goal wasn't a Van Gogh masterpiece. However, it was the quintessential Dahlin play: eyes and head up, feet constantly moving, supporting the rush, reading the play, driving to the net front, stick on the ice, red light spins.

Dahlin clearly has a nose for the net.

Dahlin extended gratitude to Jeff Skinner for doing the heavy lifting on his historical first NHL goal. Skinner also fetched the keepsake puck from the Arizona net.

What will Dahlin do with the puck?

"I don't actually know," the phenom said after the 3-0 shutout win.

"Probably put it on.. I don't know what they call it in English, but like a painting so it can hang up on the wall."


Thanks, Sabres.com


If the kid keeps up this scoring binge, he's going to become know as Salvador Dahlin, surrealist.





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The Swedish Mafia is running the show win Buffalo, NY right now.

Slick Swede defenseman Rasmus Dahlin scored his first NHL goal just 2:45 into the game in Arizona.

Fellow Swede Linus Ullmark made 36 saves on 36 shots that he faced for the Buffalo Sabres for his first ever NHL shutout.

The Sabres defeated the Arizona Coyotes 3-0 and are owners of a 3-2 record ths season.

After finishing the regular season in last place in the NHL standings, the Sabres won the NHL Draft Lottery on April 28. Dahlin, the #1 pick in the 2018 NHL Draft, pushed the puck into an open net to make it 1-0 after Jeff Skinner drew goalie Antti Raanta out of the crease to play a shot that deflected off the left post directly to Dahlin.


At 18 years and 183 days, Dahlin is the youngest defenseman to score a goal in Sabres historyDahlin's first career goal


It was Skinner's first point as a Sabres since being acquired in a trade from the Carolina Hurricanes in August. Skinner scored his first goal as a Sabres in dramatic fashion at 16:29 of the third period to make it 3-0.

Typical Skinner goal.

Dangle, deke, freeze tendy, backy, high provolone cheese.













Skinner finished with a goal and an assits for his 79th career multi-point game in his nine season NHL career.

Conor Sheary scored on the power play at 18:06 of the second to give Buffalo a 2-0 lead. It was his third goal in four games. It took Sheary only five games in Buffalo to score his career high in power play goals. Sheary scored 2 PPGs during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons.

The Sabres are off to their best five-game start to a season since they went 4-1-0 in 2010-11.

Buffalo plays in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. The Sabre defeated the Golden Knights in Buffalo on October 8.









Congratulations to Rasmus Dahlin.

The first overall pick at the NHL Draft has scored his first goal of his professional hockey career.

The slick Sweddish rear guard slammed home a Jeff Skinner rebound early in the first period of Saturday night's battle between the Buffalo Sabres and Arizone Desert Dogs.

Watch how Dahlin jumps and joins the rush the way his head coach Phil Housley used to back in the 1980's for the Sabres.

Good things happen when you go to the net.







With his first career goal, Dahlin becomes the youngest Swede to score a goal in the NHL:






The Sabres have scored 9 goals this season. Three of the goals have been scored by Sabres defensemen. Jack Eichel has scored three goals, Connor Sheary two and Jason Pominville one marker for the Sabres.


Housley and new Sabres D coach Steve Smith deserve volumes of credit for inspiring their D-men to be the fourth and fifth men in the rush and to attack the net looking for loose change to throw in the fountain of youth.











After going scoreless in his first three NHL games, the 18 year old rookie phenom from Frolunda (Swedish Eiite League) has recored a goal and an assist in his last two games. Dahlin assisted on Nathan Beaulieu's goal against the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night.









I absolutely love that Dahlin scored his first NHL goal with Swedish defenseman extraordinaire Oliver Ekman-Larsson on the ice. OEL was -1 as a result of being on the ice for Dahlin's historical goal.

Dahlin is going to be a generational defenseman.



Thanks, Sabres.com

Buffalo is 13-3-1 in its last 17 games against Arizona, including a 8-2-1 record since the beginning of the 2013-14 season.

The Sabres are 10-2-0 on the road against the Coyotes since the beginning of the 2001-02 season and 11-5-0 in 16 road games against the Coyotes since they relocated from Winnipeg prior to the 1996-97 season






Next stop on the Western roadie:


Tuesday night on the Vegas Strip






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