‘“Nothing but excitement,” winger Tage Thompson, 23, said on a Zoom call Tuesday as the Sabres held end-of-season meetings inside KeyBank Center after finishing dead last. “Obviously, we have a young core right now. … We have a lot of guys like that right now that are hungry to win and take over games and I think that’s a dangerous thing when you have a core group like that. We saw it the last part of the season there.”’