Sam Reinhart is The Best Player on The Panthers

[57special]

Somewhere, a Sabres fan is reading this thread and doing this...

 

[PBPantherfan]

How has this not been posted yet?

 

[benfranklin]

Warms my heart to see so many former Sabres doing well.

Just for fun I looked at some recent Buffalo Sabres rosters because so many of their players end up on contenders. Here is their 2020 roster

Taylor Hall-Jack Eichel- Sam Reinhart
Jeff Skinner- Eric Staal- Dylan Cozens
Cody Eakin-Tage Thompson-Viktor Olofsson
Zemgus Girgensons-Curtis Lazar- Kyle Okposo

Rasmus Dhalin- Brandon Montour
Jake McCabe-Henri Jokiharju
Rasmus Ristolainen-Colin Miller

I understand some of these guys were young in Dhalin and Cozens, but how did this team not make the playoffs ?!!!

Forgot Ullmark too. Lol

The Sabres are the best development team in the league.

 

[Fraser28]

Fastest Panthers player ever to 20 points.

 

[PaulD]

And a borderline top 10 player in the world. It’s funny because you watch him play and he has absolutely zero explosiveness. But he is the single smartest player in hockey and is crazy versatile. Best two-way winger of his generation.

Reinhardt is great. Barkov is even better.

Huberdeau and Barkov were on different lines. They did play on the first PP unit together. Huby had similar ice time with Barkov as Tkachuk does. And Reinhart was doing what he is doing now with Barkov out with injury.
Now, Huby and Reinhart do have great chemistry with Barkov when they do play together, that is a fact. But give these guys their credit. And Forsling is a defenseman, and not on a line Barkov, He plays great one on one defensive hockey. And Verhaeghe does his thing on the first or second line. That doesn't mean Barkov isn't really good, or isn't the best player on the team though.

Barkov is the best player on the team.
But they have some real stars up front . Reinhardt, Tkachuk, Verheage, Bennet

All five better than any player on my Habs.

 

[benfranklin]

And a borderline top 10 player in the world. It’s funny because you watch him play and he has absolutely zero explosiveness. But he is the single smartest player in hockey and is crazy versatile. Best two-way winger of his generation.

Some bold statements there. One you cant quantify and the other, his advanced analytics aren't bad by any means, but BEST two-way winger of the generation is a bit of a stretch.