Tage on The Cam and Stuck Podcast - Talks Buffalo and the hit that nobody responded to

[JohnC]

45 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:

I agree.  Let’s say Bennett never fights.  Would you say he is soft? 

Bennett is a tough player because he plays a hard game checking players all over the place. He's a full throttle player whenever he hops over the boards. The fighting is a distracting sideshow. I'm aware that most people don't agree with me on this issue. As far as I'm concerned, fighting should be banned, or the instigator should be given 25 minutes in the box and be required to sit there until the penalty time is finished. I'm confident that this is a minority view. If you want to watch fighting, then go to a MMA match. 

[Mr. Allen]

29 minutes ago, JohnC said:

Bennett is a tough player because he plays a hard game checking players all over the place. He's a full throttle player whenever he hops over the boards. The fighting is a distracting sideshow. I'm aware that most people don't agree with me on this issue. As far as I'm concerned, fighting should be banned, or the instigator should be given 25 minutes in the box and be required to sit there until the penalty time is finished. I'm confident that this is a minority view. If you want to watch fighting, then go to a MMA match. 

Sorry.  I was agreeing with you.  I don’t think fighting and toughness go hand in hand

[Gatorman0519]

Another bad year and Him and Dahlin are goners. We are probably the worst franchise in modern history. It is crucial we make significant progress this year or the franchise will be clearly in a death spiral if we are not already. 

[ska-T Palmtown]

1 minute ago, Gatorman0519 said:

Another bad year and Him and Dahlin are goners. We are probably the worst franchise in modern history. It is crucial we make significant progress this year or the franchise will be clearly in a death spiral if we are not already. 

To be fair (although it is football), the Bills had a 17-year drought and the Sabres are currently tied with the J-E-T-S at 14 for the longest active streak. I honestly don't see the Jests ending theirs this year, so here's to hoping the Sabres can!

[JohnC]

25 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:

Sorry.  I was agreeing with you.  I don’t think fighting and toughness go hand in hand

I was aware that we are in accord. Sometimes it seems that the fight crowd is more interested in dropping gloves than scoring goals. We need more Zucker type players who battle around the net and score the hard goals. That’s where the focus should be.

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, Weave said:

Clearly, if we are 7th in fighting majors they aren’t related in the way most folks would relate them.

To me, it seems like our fighting majors are a reaction to teams taking advantage of our soft play.  Its a poorly developed line if thought on my part, but I suspect we’d have fewer fighting majors if we were harder to play against.  We play soft, some opponent takes advantage of it, then someone ill-equipped for fighting drops the gloves as a reaction.  Ultimately, it is our soft play that drives it, I think.

Or maybe its just the jade colored glasses I see this team through.

Thanks for bringing that up.  Was going to say something to that effect but got caught in a meeting.  

Not that any teams nowadays send fighters out to set the tone or change the momentum, but the Sabres fights ALL seem as being reactionary to somebody having had significant liberties taken and none of them, with the possible exception of Krebs who is a bantam weight at best, seem to have the slightest idea of what they should be doing in a fight.

And, if the Sabres weren't getting liberties taken against them, they'd never be in any fights.  (Which wouldn't actually be a bad thing.  Don't need to see Thompson nor Tuch out for 3 weeks with a broken hand from punching somebody's visor.)  Because it seems NOBODY EVER starts a fight because a Sabre took liberties against somebody else's teammate.

[Thorny]

On 6/18/2025 at 11:16 AM, dudacek said:

Since no one else has mentioned it:

Tage Thompson loves him some Donnie Granato.

Tage Thompson considers Jeff Skinner one of his best friends and favourite linemates ever

Tage Thompson knows some people think Jack Eichel is a ***** but says he was always good to him, and that he admires and looks up to Jack.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Thorny