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We're 5 years in and I still haven't heard a halfway decent argument for why Sam shouldn't play center. Of course the reasons why he should are numerous.
Uggh.
How many more GMs, how many more coaches, how many more seasons must we go through before people stop crying about playing Reinhart at C?
All of these different people who have spent their entire careers in the game cannot be wrong. But no -- according to some they are wrong & a small bunch of people on an Internet forum know better....
We're 5 years in and I still haven't heard a halfway decent argument for why Sam shouldn't play center. Of course the reasons why he should are numerous.
Who on HFSabres is this? He either reads this board alot of is a poster here.
...or he has eyeballs and a brain.Who on HFSabres is this? He either reads this board alot of is a poster here.
We're 5 years in and I still haven't heard a halfway decent argument for why Sam shouldn't play center. Of course the reasons why he should are numerous.
lmao
- Because he is incapable of creating in any sort of transition. He is a decent passer but why have him at center when he can not bring the puck up the ice on his stick or attack the goal. Everything he is best at can be accomplished at Wing . This is one of the great excuses used as to why Sam is only a good player and not a star #2 OA pick .
lmao
Just because he's not Eichel doesn't mean he can't do anything...
Playing center will let Reinhart control the game, it will put the puck on his stick a lot more often and also let him utilize his smart movement more.I didnt say he couldnt do anything. I said he couldnt transition the puck up the ice on his stick or attack the goal.
I fail to see how Reinharts skillset gets amplified playing center. His assets are best utilized at wing.
- Because he is incapable of creating in any sort of transition. He is a decent passer but why have him at center when he can not bring the puck up the ice on his stick or attack the goal. Everything he is best at can be accomplished at Wing . This is one of the great excuses used as to why Sam is only a good player and not a star #2 OA pick .
I didnt say he couldnt do anything. I said he couldnt transition the puck up the ice on his stick or attack the goal.
I fail to see how Reinharts skillset gets amplified playing center. His assets are best utilized at wing.
Because he is incapable of creating in any sort of transition. He is a decent passer but why have him at center when he can not bring the puck up the ice on his stick or attack the goal.
Everything he is best at can be accomplished at Wing . This is one of the great excuses used as to why Sam is only a good player and not a star #2 OA pick .
You're underrating his passing ability tooYou kind of answered your own question. He's going to transition the puck up the ice, by passing it to his wingers, one of which, Skinner, can be very dangerous if he's given freedom to bust the zone early. And though you are underrating his passing ability, hes at least a decent passer where he will have more options in space to move the puck to his wingers instead of relying on passing it to the taking advantage of other team's positioning.
Everything he is best at can be accomplished at wing, true, but all his strengths are best utilized at the center position.
Krueger can solve this by himself. Put Reinhart at center with two wingers who can skate and transition well. Put Kahun and Johansson on his wings and that's a good line.
Put Skinner and Olofsson with Eichel.
Re-sign Girgensons and Larsson, and with Okposo, you've got a third line.
Then focus on building a 4th line.
You're underrating his passing ability too
Echoing off someone some page(s) back opining that HF posters don't know as much as the "professionals"...who did get fired:
It really is maddening.
When/when/when/when will....or why/why/why not...has someone with some allegedly professional journalistic credentials actually/actually asked...hard asked...the question: Reinhart and center?
Am I wrong to have missed it? Is it somewhere linked?
How has this NOT been a legit, long, in depth interview...how has it not been published? If not locally, then the Athletic?
Why does this team's fans still wonder?
This neverending Reinhart/center stuff is torture.
Sam Reinhart is no stranger to shifting from right wing to center. When the Sabres opened training camp Friday, he was in the middle.
He's excited about it. He is also aware he could be a right winger before camp is over.
"I've spent my whole career back and forth. I've been ready for it," Reinhart said in HarborCenter. "Like I've said in the past, I'm ready for every challenge thrown at me. I'm going to work with it the best way I can."
Reinhart centered for left wing Benoit Pouliot and right wing Stevie Moses during practice.
"There's a long way to go before the season starts," he said. "I'm going to let my play do the talking for me. I'm going to try and earn every opportunity that I get."
It's actually been asked many many times. Unfortunately, every time the question is asked you get some nonsense like this:
And there is never a follow up question, like why try other non-natural centers like Erod, Mojo, etc. or what weaknesses keep him from playing in the middle? I suspect they value short area quickness and/or high level puck carrying skills at the center position, but who knows.
Of course, there's also that time that he was tried for a dozen games when the team had a new coach, new system, and some awesome wingers to support the centers... Everyone on the team was garbage for the first two months, but at the time no one was blaming Phil for being a horrific hockey coach.
Sabres' Reinhart ready to earn his spot after starting camp at center
I wonder how Pouliot and Moses are doing these days
There are not many good prospects for which I would trade Reinhart, if they do not want to pay him.