GDT: Game 3/82 Blues @ Knights 9PM CST BSMW

[Klank Loves You]

Talking about Buchy?

Yes. Buch's stipulation for the team asking him to play C, is that he doesn't get moved around every other game. He is going to have a longer leash than most here would prefer.

 

[StLewis11]

Binny keeping us in the game

 

[Xerloris]

Binny keeping us in the game

Usually does

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Yes. Buch's stipulation for the team asking him to play C, is that he doesn't get moved around every other game. He is going to have a longer leash than most here would prefer.

Definitely makes sense. I'm kind of Hoping Saad takes the LW slot on that line when he returns

 

[Majorityof1]

Yes. Buch's stipulation for the team asking him to play C, is that he doesn't get moved around every other game. He is going to have a longer leash than most here would prefer.

His stipulation was he did not want to be moved back and forth. We can just move him back now, and forget the forth forever.

 

[TheDizee]

need WAY more shots

 

[Klank Loves You]

His stipulation was he did not want to be moved back and forth. We can just move him back now, and forget the forth forever.

Sure. But the team seems intent on giving him the shot. I think things would have to go far worse than they have so far to pull the plug this early.

 

[DoubleK81]

Sure. But the team seems intent on giving him the shot. I think things would have to go far worse than they have so far to pull the plug this early.

If he's comfortable with it and puts in the work on non-gamedays. let him have at it.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Got stripped of the puck at least once before that. I thought i saw twice. Not a game ender, but lost battles 3-4 times in a row.

He got stripped because Faulk gave him puck in bad position, He had 2 guys all over him as soon as he received pass.

 

[Spektre]

Parayko has become the island where offense goes to die

 

[TheDizee]

Well we are in this going into the 3rd but I don't think they have played well outside of a few players.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Sure. But the team seems intent on giving him the shot. I think things would have to go far worse than they have so far to pull the plug this early.

I'd imagine as long as the occasional loading up with Buch-Thomas-Kyrou doesn't count as moving back and forth, then the experiment is certainly going to continue

 

[JR1]

He got stripped because Faulk gave him puck in bad position, He had 2 guys all over him as soon as he received pass.

And the pass was in his skates.

 

[Klank Loves You]

He got stripped because Faulk gave him puck in bad position, He had 2 guys all over him as soon as he received pass.

Yeah. "Horrible" is probably hyperbole. Im still trying to figure out his ceiling. Feels + in most places, but i've yet to see flashes of brilliance. Top players find a way to get it done against all the odds. Not all the time. But enough. Im just being super critical of the new toy.

 

[Majorityof1]

If he's comfortable with it and puts in the work on non-gamedays. let him have at it.

He's awful at it. He's 1 of 8 on faceoffs tonight. He's not good defensively at C. He the 2nd worst xGA/60 on the team through the first 2 games, and he's a great defensive forward when at wing. It doesn't matter how much time he works on non-gamedays. He has been a wing for over half his life. 3, 6 months of practices isn't going to make him an NHL caliber C.

 

[Robb_K]

Well we are in this going into the 3rd but I don't think they have played well outside of a few players.

Yes. Most of The Blues have looked sluggish both periods. They look as if they had no Camp and pre-season, and haven't played much, together. Luckily, we're only one goal away from a new game.

 

[DoubleK81]

He's awful at it. He's 1 of 8 on faceoffs tonight. He's not good defensively at C. He the 2nd worst xGA/60 on the team through the first 2 games, and he's a great defensive forward when at wing. It doesn't matter how much time he works on non-gamedays. He has been a wing for over half his life. 3, 6 months of practices isn't going to make him an NHL caliber C.

The only way to get better at something is to keep at it. I don't think anyone really expects high level results from the team this year, so if you want to give someone a legitimate shot at improving at a needed position, f*** it.

 

[Majorityof1]

The only way to get better at something is to keep at it. I don't think anyone really expects high level results from the team this year, so if you want to give someone a legitimate shot at improving at a needed position, f*** it.

Name 3 NHL players who have successfully converted from playing wing their whole life to Center in their late 20s? We need a LHD, let's let him practice a whole bunch at D and see how it works out. We'd be better off letting Holloway or Bolduc try 2C if we don't care about winning. They have actually played organized hockey at C at some point in their life.

 

[DoubleK81]

Name 3 NHL players who have successfully converted from playing wing their whole life to Center in their late 20s? We need a LHD, let's let him practice a whole bunch at D and see how it works out. We'd be better off letting Holloway or Bolduc try 2C if we don't care about winning. They have actually played organized hockey at C at some point in their life.

For some reason, i'm recalling that Buch has played C for more than a couple games before his NHL career, which is the whole reason they've been giving him a shot. Maybe i'm wrong.

 

[kimzey59]

Name 3 NHL players who have successfully converted from playing wing their whole life to Center in their late 20s? We need a LHD, let's let him practice a whole bunch at D and see how it works out. We'd be better off letting Holloway or Bolduc try 2C if we don't care about winning. They have actually played organized hockey at C at some point in their life.

Pavol Demitra
Keith Tkachuk(actually in his mid 30's when he made the swap)
Ryan Hartman

 

[Majorityof1]

For some reason, i'm recalling that Buch has played C for more than a couple games before his NHL career, which is the whole reason they've been giving him a shot. Maybe i'm wrong.

I could be wrong as well, but I remember them saying he never played. His draft profile lists him as just a wing.

 

[DoubleK81]

I could be wrong as well, but I remember them saying he never played. His draft profile lists him as just a wing.

Hell, at one point or another Ovechkin was listed as C, RW

 

[Spektre]

Pavol Demitra
Keith Tkachuk(actually in his mid 30's when he made the swap)
Ryan Hartman

Messier

 

[Robb_K]

Neighbours hits the crossbar off the opening faceoff!!! Almost tied it up instantly to start off The 3rd!

 

[Majorityof1]

Pavol Demitra
Keith Tkachuk(actually in his mid 30's when he made the swap)
Ryan Hartman

Demitra was a C in the Czech league before coming to NHL. Hartman's draft scouting report has him as a C/LW. He played some C in juniors. Buchnevich did not play C prior to NHL from what I have heard and can find. I don't remember Tkachuk being very good at C, and didn't look to deeply into his pre-NHL history

Edit: I said Demitra was C in KHL, I meant Czech League. He started in Czech league and ended in KHL. Elite prospects lists him as a C for that season in the Czevh league in 92-93.