Krebs added six points (two goals, four assists) on a line Boston couldn\u2019t contain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur speed our size, ‘Krebsie,’ a really good part of his game is his relentlessness,\u201d Thompson said, explaining the success and the part Tuch plays in it. \u201cHe\u2019s got a motor on him. Moves his feet; he\u2019s in quick, disrupts time and space. Tuch has such a long reach. So powerful and strong that when he does get to you, he just outmuscles guys. I feel like I have a long reach, anticipate plays well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you have a combo of those three things, you can read plays and see where it is going and then we have the skating ability to get there and the strength to win battles.\u201d<\/p>\n
It has been like that all season for Tuch, who had 66 points (33 goals, 33 assists) in 79 regular-season games, good for third on the team behind Thompson and Dahlin, the third time in the past four seasons Tuch has scored at least 33 goals — he had 36 in 2022-23 and 2024-25.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is to go out there and lead by example and just compete on every shift and do the little things that make it easy on the rest of my teammates,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are on to a new series, a new team. We are going to play them at least four times, maybe seven, and it is going to be a battle every shift, every game and it is going to be different every game. You have to enjoy it, get excited for each game and come out swinging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone in the Sabres dressing room knows Tuch will go out swinging for his all for his teammates, for the fans, for the city. This opportunity means the world, they know, because of what it represents.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t been a lifelong Sabre, but a life-long Sabre fan, being from the Syracuse area,\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cYou look at the way he has played, he has taken a lot of pride in the opportunity, with the way the year went for him, the way the playoffs are going for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to be a difference maker, game in and game out. This is the time of year when you need big moments out of big players. We want him to give us all he\u2019s got, and he has so far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Krebs added six points (two goals, four assists) on a line Boston couldn\u2019t contain.\u00a0 \u201cOur speed our size,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-652099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}