‘“He’s a world-class player. I have a lot of respect for how he is as a player and what he does for his team and how he leads that team,” Gilbert said after practice Friday in KeyBank Center. “I get that (fighting Gilbert) might not be the best tradeoff in his mind. … He’s a tough kid and you’d like to see him answer the bell right away, but I get it. So as a team, we decided, ‘OK, well then he’s got to have a really hard night against us.’ He had a multitude of guys being really physical on him.”’
Sabres notebook: Dennis Gilbert steps up to answer Brady Tkachuk's hit
Source: Buffalo News