Whatever their faults, and I agree they are many, every name you mentioned knows more about hockey than you or I ever will so let's put that to rest. I don't like Kypreos either, I think he's a blowhard. But the one thing he does that I like is that he doesn't repeat the NHL line that all the players are in it just for the "love of the game". He calls like it is in that respect. He makes it clear that the players are in it for the money as much, or more, than for any other reason. That is his belief and he is consistent in that. Now, is he right about Kuch? I don't think so. I certainly hope not. And one more thing, I didn't make the original comment, someone else did. All I did was respond with something that I had heard directly and publicly from someone who is a lot closer to it than we are. Time will tell if he is right or we are.
Sort of. He knows more about the game than us. Does he know more about the happenings in Tampa Bay? On that, I'm gonna say No pretty easily. I'm from Canada, so I get a near daily dose of Kypreos, and, while I think he's somewhat underrated as an insider, it's pretty obvious that he doesn't watch TB games, nor has he watched TB games in years, aside from the odd playoff series, and he was among those talking about how we might be looking to move on from Kucherov because of his poor ECF performance, something like three days before we signed Kuch long-term. He's also the guy who started the, "Is Stamkos injured?" thing from the 2015 SCF, because clearly he hadn't watched Stamkos since 2013 and didn't realize that this was just how Stamkos plays now.
So I mean, yeah, these guys know hockey. But they also can't watch every team in the league, and it's pretty obvious that they don't, but that doesn't keep them, Kyper especially, from giving opinions based on nothing.
That said, I don't think he gets enough credit for times when he's right, which happens more than people want to believe. But he doesn't get that credit because he makes statements like this, again, based on nothing.