Tuch will play for Team USA in IIHF 2023

[Eleven]

Again, all I've got...

Edited May 6, 2023 by Eleven

[Sabres Fan in NS]

What ??

 

[Eleven]

15 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

What ??

 

Alex Tuch (and his brother) will be playing for Team USA in whatever the IIHF tournament is called.  Sorry--melatonin is starting to kick in.

 

OK.  Fixed title.  Goodnight.  Also isn't it like 5 am in Nova Scotia?

Edited May 6, 2023 by Eleven

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Yes.

 

2003 ??

 

[Kr632]

This is the 6th hockey time travel thing I've seen or has been mentioned to me in the last 2 days. Did I miss something?

[Buffalonill]

[Eleven]

It's a tournament for toddlers.  OK I'll fix it again.

[Eleven]

Fight

 

Edited May 10, 2023 by Eleven

[That Aud Smell]

Has Tuch ever dropped the gloves when playing for the Sabres? I can't recall.

[Eleven]

1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:

Has Tuch ever dropped the gloves when playing for the Sabres? I can't recall.

hockeyfights.com does not have any fights listed after 2018 but I don't know how reliable that is.  I don't remember him fighting as a Sabre.

[Sabel79]

1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:

Has Tuch ever dropped the gloves when playing for the Sabres? I can't recall.

Looks like he has one fighting major in his NHL career, with Vegas in 2018.

[French Collection]

Are there any ramifications for fighting there? I thought it was 5 minutes and a game, maybe more in international hockey.

[Eleven]

3 minutes ago, Eleven said:

hockeyfights.com does not have any fights listed after 2018 but I don't know how reliable that is.  I don't remember him fighting as a Sabre.

 

2 minutes ago, Sabel79 said:

Looks like he has one fighting major in his NHL career, with Vegas in 2018.

I'm also seeing a fight in the 2020 playoffs -- that one is not on HF.com

[Sabel79]

6 minutes ago, Eleven said:

 

I'm also seeing a fight in the 2020 playoffs -- that one is not on HF.com

Hmmmm.  Looks like he only has 8 PIM that playoffs.  I dunno.  

[Weave]

28 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Are there any ramifications for fighting there? I thought it was 5 minutes and a game, maybe more in international hockey.

It was an exhibition game, so no.  If it were the tournament there would have been more penalties.

[That Aud Smell]

1 hour ago, Eleven said:

hockeyfights.com does not have any fights listed after 2018 but I don't know how reliable that is.  I don't remember him fighting as a Sabre.

1 hour ago, Sabel79 said:

Looks like he has one fighting major in his NHL career, with Vegas in 2018.

59 minutes ago, Sabel79 said:

Hmmmm.  Looks like he only has 8 PIM that playoffs.  I dunno.  

I do not intend to give oxygen to reply-guy-a.ssholeism ... but, like some of them, I am prompted to wonder: Why is an international exhibition game against Germany the first time I'm seeing Tuch in a scrap?

[inkman]

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

I do not intend to give oxygen to reply-guy-a.ssholeism ... but, like some of them, I am prompted to wonder: Why is an international exhibition game against Germany the first time I'm seeing Tuch in a scrap?

Yeah I had the same reaction.  Dude if you’re gonna drop em there, you should probably done it once or twice for your Buffalo boys.  

[Zamboni]

6 minutes ago, inkman said:

Yeah I had the same reaction.  Dude if you’re gonna drop em there, you should probably done it once or twice for your Buffalo boys.  

Yes and to take it a step further… If one’s tipping point of whether or not you want someone to be the captain is if whether or not they drop the gloves once in a blue moon in the NHL 2023 … That’s pretty sad in my opinion. Fighting should be the absolute last thing that should tip the scales of whether or not you want someone to be the captain of your hockey team in 2023+. Grit, sandpaper, feistiness, physicality, or whatever cute word one wants to use to describe a player who “gets in the face” of the opposition. I can see that being useful and effective. But fighting in todays NHL is rather useless more or less. Fighting in the NHL in the 60s 70s and 80s, is a completely different mindset. Tuch fighting at an exhibition game doesn’t move the needle at all.

[That Aud Smell]

38 minutes ago, Zamboni said:

Yes and to take it a step further… If one’s tipping point of whether or not you want someone to be the captain is if whether or not they drop the gloves once in a blue moon in the NHL 2023 … That’s pretty sad in my opinion. Fighting should be the absolute last thing that should tip the scales of whether or not you want someone to be the captain of your hockey team in 2023+. Grit, sandpaper, feistiness, physicality, or whatever cute word one wants to use to describe a player who “gets in the face” of the opposition. I can see that being useful and effective. But fighting in todays NHL is rather useless more or less. Fighting in the NHL in the 60s 70s and 80s, is a completely different mindset. Tuch fighting at an exhibition game doesn’t move the needle at all.

A very occasional - even "out of character" - fight is indicative of someone who's willing to put it all on the line for his teammates.

[bunomatic]

Watch how the team reacts when Krebs or Cozens drops em. 

[That Aud Smell]

11 hours ago, bunomatic said:

Watch how the team reacts when Krebs or Cozens drops em. 

It's obvious. I'm actually pretty ambivalent on whether fighting should still be tolerated. But when a guy gets into an honest fight -- nothing staged about it, something that happens in the moment -- his teammates get the message loud and clear: I care about you guys. Watch this. This is how much I care about you.

Blocked shots seem to have a similar effect.

[K-9]

Tuch with two goals in the opening win against host Finland.

[steveoath]

Tuch was a steamroller in that game.