I think a guy like Wild Bill would be motivated in Buffalo. Rakell? He feels like the kind of player that will struggle when it comes to creating space on a hemmed in Buffalo team. My guess he reaches the apathy stage/learned helplessness in 2 weeks.
How do you know who's going to succeed and who's not. I thought Zucker was a questionable signing in the summer, but he's turned out to be the complete opposite in terms of production and personality.
Rakell has had motivation/inconsistency issues in the past. Zucker has/had always been a hard worker on and off the ice.....it just hadn't always translated into production.
I didn't know that, then it's a different matter, maybe he's not very suitable.
Well he has 8 teams in his M-NTC, but as said above, if he has had problems with motivation on a losing team before, then he probably isn't a good fit for us. He's having a good season, but he seems to be playing on Crosby's wing and has had weaker seasons before. Probably someone like Bjorkstrand would be a better fit, especially since there have been rumors recently that he might be available. But from Pens I'm very interested in Pettersson and being allowed to talk to him about an extension here and now.
