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Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving is getting closer to his return from injury. However, Week 11 gave an opportunity for backup Sean Tucker to shine.<\/p>\n
While the Buffalo Bills hold a 44-32 advantage at the two minute warning, Tucker has put on a show. He has turned 19 carries into 106 yards and two touchdowns. Furthermore, he scored his third touchdown of the day on a 28-yard reception.<\/p>\n
A HAT TRICK FOR SEAN TUCKER <\/p>\n
He breaks free to put the Buccaneers back on top!pic.twitter.com\/1wjcL2ykMv<\/p>\n
Tucker\u2019s first rushing touchdown came from 43-yards out to give the Buccaneers a 17-13 lead at the time. His second score, a six-yard rush, once again gave Tampa Bay a 26-21 advantage. If you\u2019re following the plot here, it\u2019s no shock his third TD also put the Bucs ahead, 32-31.<\/p>\n
But Bills quarterback Josh Allen has been unfazed by Tucker\u2019s heroics. He scored two rushing scores of his own after Tucker\u2019s third, giving Buffalo their two-score lead. Whatever the outcome of the game, both teams have been entwined in a true shootout in Week 11.<\/p>\n
When Irving does make his return from injury, he isn\u2019t going to give up his premiere place in the offense. However, the Buccaneers may need to get Tucker more involved now. Coming into the game, he had run for 120 scoreless yards on 32 carries. But perhaps a longer leash will lead to more big plays coming Tucker\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
For now, Tampa Bay is focused on trying to come back against Buffalo. After the week, they\u2019ll take a long look at where Irving and their offense stands. That\u2019ll include ensuring Tucker gets the ball in open space.<\/p>\n
Charlie Lindgren<\/strong>\u00a0faced an old friend on Monday night, taking the net against the LA Kings opposite former goaltending partner Darcy Kuemper. The pair had played two seasons together from 2022 to 2024 before the Capitals traded Kuemper to California.<\/p>\n With the Caps looking to snap a two-game losing streak, Lindgren came up big against the Kings, stopping 30 of 31 shots in the 2-1 win. Not only did the game give the Capitals some much-needed standings points, but it also gave Lindgren his first victory in over a month.<\/p>\n \u201cI think for Chuckie to step in, that\u2019s a really tough team to play against, right?\u201d Nic Dowd said postgame. \u201cThey do all the little things. They get to the net. It\u2019s tough for him to see pucks. He played really, really well and made some big saves. It kept us in that game when we weren\u2019t foot on the gas.\u201d<\/p>\n Lindgren had overtaken Kuemper for the starter\u2019s role before the trade, but the pair both took different paths in the 2024-25 season. While Lindgren eventually lost his starting role to new acquisition Logan Thompson, Kuemper thrived in LA, putting up a .922 save percentage and 2.02 goals-against average on the way to third place in Vezina Trophy voting. Still, the two have remained close from opposite ends of the continent.<\/p>\n \u201cI love Darcy,\u201d Lindgren said postgame. \u201cI think all you guys know that. I mean, he was such a pro to me, and still one of my really good friends today\u2026So it\u2019s fun playing against friends like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Head coach Spencer Carbery, too, rejected the idea that Lindgren had more to play for against his old partner.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it could have been against anyone,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously he knows who was going in net at the other end, but I don\u2019t think it mattered one iota who was going up against him. He just wanted to play well, and he did exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n What did matter to Lindgren, however, was proving himself after a rocky start to the season. Lindgren had won just one of his first five starts and averaged 3.59 goals against per game, playing largely on the second half of back-to-backs.<\/p>\n Much of the blame rested on the skaters in front of him. Per MoneyPuck, Lindgren had stopped 1.7 goals above expected in those games, and players took responsibility for letting him down in net. So when Lindgren got a rested start against the Kings, both he and the team were determined to make the most of it.<\/p>\n \u201cChuckie\u2019s a guy that, for some reason, we just haven\u2019t been able to get the job done with him in net,\u201d Matt Roy said. \u201cBut the guy works harder than anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThose guys love him, and they just care so much about Chuckie,\u201d Carbery. \u201cAs hard as it is for Chuckie when he\u2019s in games and we\u2019re not playing well in front of him and they\u2019re ending up in the back of the net, the guys feel that too, and they take that to heart.\u201d<\/p>\n LA has been one of the strongest road teams in the league, putting up a record of 9-1-2 in their first 12 away games, but the Capitals started strong, with former King Matt Roy scoring less than four minutes into the first. That early success helped Lindgren gain confidence as the night went on.<\/p>\n \u201cIt helps to get off to a good start,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like my first few games probably haven\u2019t been that way. I\u2019ve been taking ourselves a whole one nothing, two nothing, three nothing. Felt good to go to a lead tonight and credit to the guys in front of me for doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that Lindgren wasn\u2019t tested, even in the first period. One of his biggest stops of the night when he stopped Alex Laferriere on a shorthanded breakaway midway through the opening frame.<\/p>\n \u201cYou look at the first period, I mean, they didn\u2019t have a ton of rubber at the net,\u201d Lindgren said. But maybe the ones they had were maybe above average quality. So that\u2019s my job, to obviously keep the puck out of the net\u2026thankful that I was able to do that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Kuemper, too, put up an excellent showing against his former team, a fact Lindgren made sure to highlight postgame, pointing to what looked like a surefire goal from Tom Wilson at the netfront that Kuemper had managed to stop.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a heck of a game,\u201d Lindgren said. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re up 2-0 and I was just dying for us to get to three. And he did a good job. I don\u2019t even know \u2014 that one in the third on Willy \u2014 I don\u2019t know if he saved that or what. But he played heck of a game<\/p>\n But except for a single goal from Anze Kopitar, Lindgren stood tall to hold onto the lead, even as the Capitals faltered. He went on to make a series of critical saves in the final 20 minutes, both during an LA power play and at six-on-five to secure the win.<\/p>\n Lindgren is unlikely to retake his former starting role, especially given another stellar start to the season from Thompson. But competing against Kuemper once again, albeit on opposite sides of the ice this time, Lindgren proved he can still come out on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving is getting closer to his return from injury. However, Week 11 gave an opportunity for backup Sean Tucker to shine. 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