Jacob582
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- Oct 16, 2012
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And not to dig at you guys, but why did you give up Gerbe? I absolutely love his style of play and think he's our best forward right now. That probably speaks to how terrible of a team we have, but he's all hustle. He forechecks hard on the PK (I always notice him) and he backchecks well too.
Gerbe requested out because he couldn't handle any more of Jay McKee's short jokes.
In all seriousness, Gerbe complained publicly about his ice time. Our GM, Darcy Regier could hold a grudge against players, so he cut him loose. Sabres didn't have great depth, but it didn't look like there was space for Gerbe on the top 2 lines. Gerbe struggled some, coming back from surgery.
We were also trying to get bigger up front as we had Ennis and Gerbe on the team. Sabres traded Paul Byron (5' 6") a few years earlier for similar reasons.