Sabres Prospect Pool 2025-26

[Flashsabre]

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3 assists in his next game.

[Thorny]

Patience, people 

2028 closer than u think 

[PerreaultForever]

Patience? It's always "the next one". Problem is by the time the next one arrives the previous one has left. 

It's normal to have the best prospect pool when you're at or near the worst. It's also normal to have a bad prospect pool if you're the top or near it. If you can be the top and have prospects you might be a dynasty. Sabres have the best, then it drops down the list, but the NHL team doesn't get better. Go figure. 

[Flashsabre]

[steveoath]

How old is Mrtka? Most be playing up a year or two at U20?

[dudacek]

18 minutes ago, steveoath said:

How old is Mrtka? Most be playing up a year or two at U20?

Just turned 18 in June.

 

[LGR4GM]

Elite Prospects put the Sabres pool at 19th overall. Seems about right to me. 

[Taro T]

18 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Elite Prospects put the Sabres pool at 19th overall. Seems about right to me. 

Are any of the young guys that are on the Sabres roster considered part of the Sabres pool?  If not, yeah, lower-middle of the pack seems right.  But if the real young guys that are already Sabres are included, being much below 12 seems to be a dis.

[dudacek]

41 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Are any of the young guys that are on the Sabres roster considered part of the Sabres pool?  If not, yeah, lower-middle of the pack seems right.  But if the real young guys that are already Sabres are included, being much below 12 seems to be a dis.

They are not: no Benson, no Kulich, no Power.

Of interest is how the Sabres top prospects slid despite good rookie AHL seasons: Östlund from 57 overall to 67 and Helenius from 23 down to 58.

Mrtka enters as Buffalos top-ranked prospect at 43.

Rosen - an honourable mention last year - is now considered graduated.

[LGR4GM]

52 minutes ago, dudacek said:

They are not: no Benson, no Kulich, no Power.

Of interest is how the Sabres top prospects slid despite good rookie AHL seasons: Östlund from 57 overall to 67 and Helenius from 23 down to 58.

Mrtka enters as Buffalos top-ranked prospect at 43.

Rosen - an honourable mention last year - is now considered graduated.

Buffalo dumping 2nd round picks and drafting safe projectable 1st rounders the last 2 years isn't helping much. 

Leinonen was ranked 2nd out of the 3 recent drafted goalies (Leenders topped him here) and Bedkowski (6) was in the top 10 for Buffalo. 

Edited 57 minutes ago by LGR4GM