‘“A few people have asked me that and honestly, it wasn’t (frustrating),” Quinn, 20, told The Buffalo News. “Mainly because they had a Covid outbreak and guys got games, but I talked to (Rochester coach Seth Appert) and said, I want to prove myself in this league and that I kind of can move on from it. I don’t need a Covid break to move up to the NHL. It really didn’t matter for me. I’m going to come back from mono, I’m going to keep improving, keep doing my thing and hopefully there comes a time when I can go up and stay up. It wasn’t really bothersome that I didn’t get a couple games.”’
Archives for January 6, 2022
Sabres Notebook: With lots of recovery time, Don Granato can push top players Thursday
‘”I will be gauging who is fresh, who’s feeling it, and I wouldn’t be afraid that if a guy’s going, you could get a career-high minutes,” Granato said after practice Wednesday. “You don’t have to save it for anything because there’s plenty of time to recover and that is a coaching situation that you know and you’re going to coach to that circumstance. So if somebody is feeling it, and I see him on the bench not breathing heavy anymore, they might just go right back out there.”‘
Sabres’ Victor Olofsson believes he will start scoring: ‘Knocking on the door’
‘“It takes him longer to prep it because he doesn’t have that feel because of the injury he went through,” Granato said following Wednesday’s practice inside KeyBank Center. “And he might not even recognize that. I can see it because I can see the pattern that’s different in his release. The prep of the release of a shot, there’s that extra half a second or one second or one quarter of a second.”’
Sabres relieved as no one enters NHL’s COVID-19 protocol
‘So the Sabres must recall at least one forward from the Rochester Americans. JJ Peterka and Arttu Ruotsalainen, both of whom played twice for the Sabres last week, would probably be first in line.’
Thursday’s San Jose Coverage
Victor Olofsson looking to break goal scoring slump
‘“I don’t expect any chance that he’s playing, but he’s back,” Granato said after Wednesday’s practice. “He’s in the building and going through protocol upon returning, which that process probably pulls him out of eligibility for tomorrow’s game, by virtue of not skating and not being in shape to play at the NHL level. It would be tough for me, on a personal level even if he was cleared immediately to play a game, to throw him in there tomorrow, because he had that time off.”‘
‘He has swagger’ | Sabres taking notice of Luukkonen’s presence in net
‘”When I saw that, it was like, ‘This kid, he’s never going to break,'” Kotyk said by phone this week. “That would have folded a lot of people, or it would have allowed for negativity to creep in and be like, ‘This isn’t right.’ … He never complained. He just worked and worked and worked.”‘
Thursday’s Rochester Coverage
Jack Quinn set to rejoin Amerks (WHEC-TV)
AMERKS COME UP SHORT TO CRUNCH (Amerks.com)
PETERKA POISED TO BRING HIS GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL (Amerks.com)
CRUNCH DEFEAT AMERKS, 2-1 (SyracuseCrunch.com)