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You wrote about Benson, you wrote about
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Ostlund, you wrote about Doan and
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Helenius all having, you know, star
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turns at at points in the postseason.
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Out of those guys, who should the Sabres
0:13
be most excited about going forward?
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>> Well, that's a tough question. Um, I
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think Doan gave everyone a lot of reason
0:20
to be excited this year, but I'm I'm
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going to go really I like I think
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Helenius could be really special, but
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I'm going to go Zach Benson. To me, Zach
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Benson is like the kind of player every
0:30
every team loves to have and every team
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loves hates to go up against, right?
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Because he's someone that has, similar
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to Doan, a lot of these like third line
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skills. It's the forechecking, it's the
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puck battling, it's the puck retrieving.
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Um, he can just keep grinding it out and
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pressure for takeaways, but what he does
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once he forces a turnover is what shows
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that top six ceiling, right? Like he has
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really great hands, he's really strong
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in transition and can find the ways to
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enter the zone with possession, which I
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don't know is kind of huge on the power
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play and why maybe he should be on the
1:00
top unit a little bit sooner here, but
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he has that playmaking ability and he
1:04
has a good shot and he knows, you know,
1:05
where to be. Knowing driving to the net
1:08
is one thing, but being in the right
1:09
position and screening goaltenders and
1:10
he doesn't have the same frame as some
1:12
players who typically play that net
1:13
front role, but he can do it. So, you
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put it all together and it feels like he
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could just be a total playoff menace for
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for years to come. And his postseason
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wasn't something that was unheard of
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when you look at his regular season, it
1:24
was just an extension of what made him
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so great in this pressure cooker, so it
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was even better. So, I think he's
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someone to be so excited about because
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there is that potential Seth Jarvis path
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for him if he can keep working on his
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two-way game because the defense already
1:38
is solid and there's also that Brad
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Marchand path when you think about, you
1:41
know, that pesky, disruptive energy and
1:45
just overall being a total rat on the
1:46
ice while being highly skilled at THE
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