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What would you say outside of Buffalo,
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the view on Alex Tuch is? Is it, hey,
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one bad series and you can't you can't
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make a mountain out of a molehill, or
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did everybody see what Sabres fans saw,
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which was kind of a disaster against the
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Canadians and hard to really shake that
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going into the off-season?
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>> I'm sure it was, you know, one bad one
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bad series, one underwhelming postseason
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and you shake it off. I don't think
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anyone's looking at him going, this is
0:25
someone who can't play in those types of
0:26
situations, right? Because sometimes we
0:28
hear those narratives kind of spiral out
0:31
and obviously this being the Sabres
0:32
first big playoff push in some time, you
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know, it's not like all of their players
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have these long-standing reputations in
0:39
the playoffs. So, I I don't think he has
0:41
he's gaining that kind of concern, like
0:44
you see around the league when you see
0:45
a, you know, like a Nikolaj Ehlers had
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to shake that off and Martin Necas has
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to shake that off. I don't think that's
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there for Tuch yet, but I think it was
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just an underwhelming series and
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sometimes that recency bias does play
0:56
into contract situations. Generally it
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goes the other way, right? Like a third
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liner pops off in the playoffs and then
1:02
teams are ready to, you know, sign a
1:04
blank check to them. I don't think this
1:06
is going to totally crush his value and
1:08
it it helps him that the free agent
1:10
market is terrible and he is not just
1:12
the top winger available, but one of the
1:14
few true top six players available. So,
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I think a team is going to be willing to
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spend on him regardless of what happened
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>> Are you sensing hometown discount that
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he would like to stay in Buffalo, or do
1:24
you think simply highest bidder?
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>> I'm not sure here because it's such a
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unique situation, right? Like we rarely
1:29
see players make it to free agency. Top
1:32
tier players, I should say, make it to
1:33
free agency. So, with that in mind, you
1:35
would think the contract would come
1:37
sooner than later, but we're not really
1:39
seeing those types of deals come out as
1:41
hometown discounts anymore. You look
1:43
back to last year's free agents who
1:46
signed a year early and you think of
1:48
like the Kyle Connors of the world and
1:50
the Kirill Kaprizovs. Their teams didn't
1:51
get any sort of discount whatsoever, you
1:54
know, for extending them early, but on
1:56
the other hand, you look at their
1:57
situations, right? If you're Kyle Connor
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and you're agreeing to stay with
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Winnipeg, a team that has not had this
2:02
long, you know, long history of playoff
2:05
runs, deep playoff runs like a team like
2:06
Vegas, you know, it's totally different
2:09
what you're signing up for for the long
2:10
haul. So, we saw some teams kind of
2:13
overpay players. Kyle Connor gets a
2:15
comparable contract to Mikko Rantanen
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when there's a tier at least between the
2:18
two of them, and that could be precedent
2:21
now because it's that much harder to get
2:23
high-end talent. So, it's a way for free
2:25
agents and future free agents to kind of
2:28
pressure to make their maximum earnings.
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