Sabres Youth Succeeding

The Sabres young players, including Zach Benson and Jiri Kulich are starting to have some success at the NHL level.

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00:00They've got some kids that are playing, you know, or they especially Kulik. Kulik's able to play number one center for them right now

00:06Which which is incredible that he has to. It might say something, yes

00:10But he is being asked to play it and he's doing he's not doing a bad job at all

00:15Is that not much different than Zach Benson? Like Benson made the team and on one hand, he's fine

00:22He fits in on the other. Like I probably shouldn't make your team that early right away

00:27There are gonna be plenty of organizations where that guy's not making the team, but here he is and he can play. Yeah

00:32Yeah, it's it's a it's a good. It's a good pair. It's a good comparison. It's a good bad

00:36Yeah, like again, like there are good signs from the kid there

00:40But then you like Benson is perfect for this

00:43Benson's mind is still so impressive to me how he is a second ahead of everybody else on the ice, but

00:49You see why on a lot of other organizations. He might not be in the NHL yet, which is

00:56Strength and speed he's just not there. He gets he gets dunked onto the ice pretty easily

01:01He got thrown down pretty hard last night gets thrown down last night

01:04He does fall a lot like he's not the he go look up the the NHL edge stats and like 20 mile per hour speed

01:11Bursts or guys like average time like he is one of the slowest players in the National Hockey League right now

01:15No Benson is

01:17And again, that's not like to say he's never gonna be an amazing player and he is I think an effective player right now

01:24But that I think would hold a lot of other teams back from putting him right up there and the Sabres have basically

01:31Had to I think put him up there in the NHL

01:34So that's that's a little bit of Cooley Cooley could least got Paul's mentioned

01:38I didn't even play a hundred games down in Rochester like he got some a lot growing down there even maybe a good amount

01:44So, you know, maybe it was time for him no matter what but was it time for him to be the number one center?

01:51I wouldn't have never gone that far