To all you Brian Gionta haters out there: if you were hoping to hear the captain of the Buffalo Sabres say the words, “I retire,” you’re going to have to wait at least one more season.
That may sound like bad news to many of you, but there’s at least one player on the Sabres who is no hurry to see Gionta hang up his skates, and that is 24 year-old Marcus Foligno.
Foligno is one of those players on the Buffalo Sabres who I have always expected more from – at 6’3″, 226 pounds, I have always hoped he would become that bruising power forward a la Wayne Simmonds, who by the way weighs a full 40 pounds less than Foligno but is almost impossible to get away from the net on the power play.