‘“A guy that could tip the puck unbelievable, shoot the puck unbelievable, could stickhandle,” Ruff said of Vanek, who played his first eight seasons under him with the Sabres. “Thomas was a hell of a player, and I see some of that, for sure, (in) Tage. There’s some similarities there, where Thomas could rip it, Thomas could deke his way in, and there was goals that he scored that you would wonder why the goalie didn’t make the save. But it’s just the way those guys shoot the puck.”’