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 Thursday at 09:29 PM by LGR4GM

[LGR4GM]

Gavin McCarthy, 6'2" 187lb RHD, was named Captain for Boston University's Men's team for the 2025/26 season

[LGR4GM]

Here's a link

 

 

[shrader]

It says a lot about the state of college hockey that BU just named two juniors and two sophomores at their captains. Last yeah they had a sophomore captain. They have one senior on the team and he’s a transfer. 
 

I’m sure it happened, but I don’t remember any non-senior captains under Jack Parker. We’re deep into the days of one- and two-and-dones. 

[dudacek]

Word on prospect challenge rosters?

Development camp was weak and we won’t have the college guys. Zeimer and Richard would have been nice to see, as well as Kleber, Osburn, Strbak and McCarthy

Doubt Johnson and Kozak play. Rosen might not either, but he still is a 1st contract guy.

But if they play all the 3rd year non-NHL guys, the lineup still could be interesting.

Wahlberg Östlund Rosen

Neuchev Helenius Nadeau

Fiddler-Schultz Kuntar Joshua

Kopf Savage Costantini

Novikov Mrtka

Béliveau Komarov

Fulp Bedkowski

Laberge Brunet

Leinonen

Ratzlaff

Leenders

That’s a pretty old prospect team if they do indeed ice all those former college guys. Helenius is the only junior eligible forward.

Guys like Joshua (106 pro games) and Kuntar (124) are only 3rd year pros, but they’re definitely men.

Be one of the biggest, toughest lineups the Sabres have ever iced at one of these things.

Edited 2 hours ago by dudacek