‘”I was very fortunate to get a few games with the Sabres my first year, which was a lot of fun and a lot of good experience during that period,” said the 6-foot-4, 221-pound Ullmark, who turned 24 last summer. “I had a big dip at the end of the season, which I can look back now as a good thing that happened to me. I got to know I wasn’t good enough.”’