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I agree with this as well, and don't see why many here are refusing to see the validity. 3rd line is quite relevant when it comes to TOI, and Reinhart - 2nd overall pick - will probably want more; a "larger role." Isn't that why ROR was happy to leave the Avs?

 

 

 

It was Vanek's 2nd season in the NHL, Jochen Hecht was one of the best/reliable 2-way centers we've ever had. Let's not compare our current roster to the one that won the President's trophy.

 

Vanek scored 40 goals on the third line. Hecht was a left winger.

Let's address the myth that hockey players have to be slotted on lines by their relative ability.

 

Why wouldn't Sam be happy if he was playing 12 ES minutes a game with, say Kane and Bailey, and another four on the first unit PP? Why wouldn't he be "bumped up" and be part of the two- or three-line rotation in a tight game late?

 

Players care about ice time and being put in a position to succeed.

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Vanek scored 40 goals on the third line. Hecht was a left winger.

 

 

Don't know what your point with these things is. Hecht played center a lot with us, and was a beast of a 2-way center. See here, and NHL.com's site, which list him as "C":

 

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BUF/2007.html

 

 

I would love Samson at 3rd center, to be clear. I hope playing 3C and PP1 will satisfy his TOI inclinations, because I think it could be really good for our team.

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Don't know what your point with these things is. Hecht played center a lot with us, and was a beast of a 2-way center. See here, and NHL.com's site, which list him as "C":

 

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BUF/2007.html

 

 

I would love Samson at 3rd center, to be clear. I hope playing 3C and PP1 will satisfy his TOI inclinations, because I think it could be really good for our team.

 

Sorry, to clarify:

1) Talented, high draft picks can produce and score — and without grumbling — on the third line. Fifth-overall pick Thomas Vanek scored 40 goals on the third line when he was the same age Sam Reinhart is now.

2) Teams can have success while playing players on lines "above their stature." Witness the last great Sabres team, which used a 30-point grinder (Grier) and a 40-point two-way guy (Hecht) with their top two centres, rather than the more talented Vanek or Afinogenov, and still managed to win the President's Trophy.

 

Not to the point, but who usually played with Drury and Grier, was it Kotalik or Pominville?

Dumont was with Jochen and Danny. Gaustad and Mair and Peters rounded things out, right?

 

Damn, I liked that team.

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I don't think Reinhart will be happy on the 3rd line but I guarantee you if Kane is on the 3rd line he will pout and you'll have to trade him fast or that locker room will fall apart totally. There were already rumors about locker room issues last year, Kane is a prima donna. 


Salary cap will not allow you to keep 3 top lines. Remember that team couldn't keep Briere or Drury after they gave Vanek all that cash and that was before a real cap. 

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Wish I had them for you, I just remember them talking about these things on tv.  In the HNIC hot stove or whatever they call it these days the talk was about a division between some of the young players and the veterans. Bylsma had lost the room as well. You take it with a grain of salt, of course, but would it really surprise you to think that the locker room last year was a mess too? 

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1. I never said Kane was the locker room problem. They didn't name names. But as for his off ice issues, that isn't exactly "news".

 

2. I know what I heard. It was last year, March or April, near the end of the season. They rarely talk about the Sabres at all so it caught my attention. Wasn't on this board or I would have brought it up then. 

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1. I never said Kane was the locker room problem. They didn't name names. But as for his off ice issues, that isn't exactly "news".

 

2. I know what I heard. It was last year, March or April, near the end of the season. They rarely talk about the Sabres at all so it caught my attention. Wasn't on this board or I would have brought it up then. 

 

Off ice issues, if anything, are old news. Get over it.

 

Many people on the Sabres complained (publicly and reportedly) about things last year... none of whom were named "Kane." 

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I don't think Reinhart will be happy on the 3rd line but I guarantee you if Kane is on the 3rd line he will pout and you'll have to trade him fast or that locker room will fall apart totally. There were already rumors about locker room issues last year, Kane is a prima donna. 

Salary cap will not allow you to keep 3 top lines. Remember that team couldn't keep Briere or Drury after they gave Vanek all that cash and that was before a real cap. 

 

Kane doesn't have the ability to cause the room to fall apart.  He may alienate himself and get his rear end chewed out but he couldn't tear the team apart.

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You misunderstand me here. Kane won't pull the room apart but I could see him pouting and quitting. His work ethic is already questionable and inconsistent. He has spurts but seems moody at best and can take a shift or a night off at any time. He'll just quit trying at all and the trade value will plummet.

 

Reinhart is a bigger problem and could be trouble to the room since he is close to ###### ice. 

 

 

(change that to Eichel off ice then, since I apparently can't say it the original way) lol

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Wow, you're just really misunderstood around here. The whole bringing-up-Kane-out-of-nowhere on this thread, followed by unsubstantiated rumors, accusations, and again questioned his work ethic.... I don't know. I'm not going to label whatever it is you have against him, but it seems pretty deep-seated.

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You misunderstand me here. Kane won't pull the room apart but I could see him pouting and quitting. His work ethic is already questionable and inconsistent. He has spurts but seems moody at best and can take a shift or a night off at any time. He'll just quit trying at all and the trade value will plummet.

 

Reinhart is a bigger problem and could be trouble to the room since he is close to ###### ice.

 

 

(change that to Eichel off ice then, since I apparently can't say it the original way) lol

Lol! What? Kane has work ethic issues? GTFOOH. You need to put down the pipe.

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I don't think Reinhart will be happy on the 3rd line but I guarantee you if Kane is on the 3rd line he will pout and you'll have to trade him fast or that locker room will fall apart totally. There were already rumors about locker room issues last year, Kane is a prima donna.

 

Salary cap will not allow you to keep 3 top lines. Remember that team couldn't keep Briere or Drury after they gave Vanek all that cash and that was before a real cap.

Hold up, this is not correct. Drury and Briere had left b4 Vanek was offer sheeted. Also that was when there was a real cap. That entire 2nd paragraph is wrong.

Reinhart is a bigger problem and could be trouble to the room since he is close to ###### ice.

 

way) lol

What? Reinhart has never in his entire career been a complainer. He's literally known for being a leader from juniors.
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Salary cap will not allow you to keep 3 top lines. Remember that team couldn't keep Briere or Drury after they gave Vanek all that cash and that was before a real cap. 

Now that I can fully respond, the highlighted and underlined. This entire sentence is false. The Salary cap came into existence with the 2005/2006 season. By July 1 2007 it was at the end of its second year. Further Briere and Drury were both inked to new deals by July 2. http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922738(Drury). http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922605 (Briere). However Thomas Vanek was not offer sheeted until July 7th and not matched until July 8th http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2927805.  

 

I'm pointing this out because what you posted is such a false statement we need to set the record straight. It tears apart your theory and also ignores the fact that Reinhart would be an RFA at the end of this season, meaning cost controlled to some extent. 

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Now that I can fully respond, the highlighted and underlined. This entire sentence is false. The Salary cap came into existence with the 2005/2006 season. By July 1 2007 it was at the end of its second year. Further Briere and Drury were both inked to new deals by July 2. http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922738(Drury). http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922605 (Briere). However Thomas Vanek was not offer sheeted until July 7th and not matched until July 8th http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2927805.

 

I'm pointing this out because what you posted is such a false statement we need to set the record straight. It tears apart your theory and also ignores the fact that Reinhart would be an RFA at the end of this season, meaning cost controlled to some extent.

Theory? You are giving too much credit. All I see is a poopy wall.

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Now that I can fully respond, the highlighted and underlined. This entire sentence is false. The Salary cap came into existence with the 2005/2006 season. By July 1 2007 it was at the end of its second year. Further Briere and Drury were both inked to new deals by July 2. http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922738(Drury). http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2922605 (Briere). However Thomas Vanek was not offer sheeted until July 7th and not matched until July 8th http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2927805.  

 

I'm pointing this out because what you posted is such a false statement we need to set the record straight. It tears apart your theory and also ignores the fact that Reinhart would be an RFA at the end of this season, meaning cost controlled to some extent. 

 

You are right that Pokey is way off on his factual assertions -- which of course calls into question his assertions about what he heard on TSN about Kane -- but I don't agree that his mistakes on the facts tear apart his theory about the cap preventing teams from having 3 top lines.  Obviously a team can't give huge contracts to 9 forwards. 

 

OTOH, I think a reasonable response to his theory is that a team's top 3 lines don't need to be comprised of 9 expensive players.  You can have, say, 4 or 5 expensive guys, with the rest being cheap younger guys that you cycle through and let go when they get too expensive -- as Pittsburgh and Chicago have done successfully. 

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