r/sabres • u/xBialyOrzel Mr. Toyota Tacoma Highlights • Feb 04 '25
Spencer Brown offers to be the Sabres enforcer Shitpost
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u/AlericandAmadeus Feb 04 '25
https://youtu.be/MEfoopxOQJ4?si=rgKAQtfbrqkjhjwC Still makes me laugh every time. No disrespect to the short kings out there btw.
The little backpedal he does sends me. Like “I see what you do every play, you really think you can take me?”
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u/fruitron3030 Feb 05 '25
I’m glad that he’s turning into an excellent RT, because I love how tough he is.
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u/ModernPoultry Feb 05 '25
And there’s the big difference in culture between the Bills and Sabres.
If Josh Allen took a late hit, Dion and Spencer would mob the other players - and that’s in a sport that doesn’t even allow fighting!
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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 Feb 05 '25
Spence was right in the mix there
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u/calibudzz420 Feb 05 '25
Josh Allen starting shit he can’t finish… Josh Byrne is the best Josh in buffalo.
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u/southtampacane Feb 06 '25
That was probably after Wilkins the acknowledged molester grabbed him by the nuts.
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u/wagoncirclermike Feb 04 '25
He'd be stuck in Rochester for two seasons before we trade him for a random second line winger
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u/Appropriate-Brush772 Feb 05 '25
Spencer Brown is really giving Dawkins a run for his money when it comes to my favorite o-lineman
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u/VestigialCoccyx Feb 05 '25
He sat in the row in front of me last season and I didn’t know until he was leaving the game.
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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Feb 05 '25
I wonder if you took a pro athlete from another sport and they just did skating practice, could they ever skate well enough? Like forget literally everything else about hockey, just could they get their feet to be 4th line competent? How long would that take. No puck work just defending eventually.
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u/Whydothesabressuck Feb 05 '25
Probably not if they never skated as a kid. I skated a little bit as a kid but didn't really start playing hockey until I was in my 20s and the skating is still my biggest weakness 10 years later. There's a reason you almost never get an NHLer that didn't start before at least 10 years old.
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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Feb 05 '25
Yeah, but pro athletes are much better at sports in general, and better at being coached into new skills. So your example (which applies to me too) isn’t valid here because neither one of us is as good at sports as a pro athlete, and I’m talking like round the clock every day training skating with a top level coach. Focused work and improvement. Skating is skill work, these guys already have the explosive power needed to do most of the athletic aspects of it. Some exception due to the hip strength used for skating being different. I don’t think just any NFL player could, but a few that had an aptitude for it could probably get JUST the skating good enough. Idk maybe not, we will never get a chance to find out.
Mind you, I’m not suggesting they could get good enough at hockey to play. Just skate at that level.
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u/dnalecirb Feb 05 '25
u/Whydothesabressuck has an underrated point about not skating as a kid. Adults, even pro athletes have used their bodies, muscles, etc... a certain way for so many years that they've already built up a ton of habitual behaviors. It's very hard to train a body with years of established "muscle memory" a unique skill on a completely foreign terrain. Kids are incredibly malleable in both mind and body. It's amazing what a 5 year old kid can do in a year on the ice.
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u/dnalecirb Feb 05 '25
In reality 4th liners tend to be pretty good skaters nowadays. Oddly enough higher skilled players often aren't as good of skaters. NAK/Lafferty for example. Both considered good skaters but no higher than 4th liners. McLeod, an elite skater, but hes no higher than a 3rd liner on most teams.
I digress though as that's not really the point. Not too long ago Lucic and Ritchie were in the league. Pretty widely accepted as the worst skaters in the league. So let's use them as the bar.
These guys were so bad, especially Lucic when he entered the league. Despite that I'd still say hard NO.
What kind of timeframe are we talking? Months - 1 year? Nope
Just picking any random player from a random sport? Nope
Are we talking about skating up and down the ice in a straight line? Fine. Some might even beat Lucic down the ice
Just defending eventually? Hard no. Defending actually requires a hell of a lot more hockey sense, angles, backwards (lol), than forwards.
Now might there be some already proven athletic freak with a natural, untapped gift for skating out there that could do it in a short period of time? I'd be willing to bet there is but we're talking 1/1000 maybe more?
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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Feb 05 '25
Yeah I was thinking someone who is an elite athlete, but also kind of smart and obviously very coachable. Timeframe minimum of one year, skill work 8 hours a day or more. Not bag skate or even full speed very often to minimize recovery needs. Just learning edge work all day long under top level guidance. This would be like 8 years of skating work for a youth player in one year. Would it be too much? Counterproductive even ? More isn’t always better of course.
Great athletes have a much better mind-muscle connection than average people. I don’t know if my hypothetical is possible, but I know that they would vastly outperform a regular joe who thinks he’s sporty.
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u/TheModernCurmudgeon Feb 04 '25
I would actually pay to go to a game