Sabres Development Camp June 30th Harbor Center

[Thorny]

 

[kas23]

On 7/1/2025 at 9:39 PM, Taro T said:

Pretty sure you're thinking of the Prospects Challenge which happens right before TC opens in September.  Expect they'll still be doing that again.  Last year IIRC there were 5 teams partaking.

That’s our Stanley Cup. 

[The Jokeman]

6 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

The Sabres have almost no forwards in the pipeline of note. It's basically 3 guys. They've spent almost all their 2nd and 3rd round picks on defense, goalie, or trade. The Sabres RHD pool is deeper than their forwards pool. 

Should drafted Roger McQueen over Radim Mrtka.

[Flashsabre]

3 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

Should drafted Roger McQueen over Radim Mrtka.

Don’t know that yet. McQueen has the health issues and Mrtka has a ton of upside. Kid is very young for the draft and hasn’t played a ton of high level, coached up hockey and still was Seattle’s go to dman when he came over during the season.

 

Wait a couple years and see.

[dudacek]

44 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Don’t know that yet. McQueen has the health issues and Mrtka has a ton of upside. Kid is very young for the draft and hasn’t played a ton of high level, coached up hockey and still was Seattle’s go to dman when he came over during the season.

 

Wait a couple years and see.

It will be interesting.

People talked a lot about McQueen’s back injury, but setting that aside, as a player he reminded me of Kirby Dach.

I preferred Mrtka.

[LGR4GM]

Y'all keep spelling Bear wrong but yes Mrtka has a lot of upside. 

[The Jokeman]

2 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Y'all keep spelling Bear wrong but yes Mrtka has a lot of upside. 

I wanted Bear too but didn't expect McQueen to fall to 9.

[LGR4GM]

 

 

[JoeSchmoe]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

 

 

I wish I could tell who's who. There's some pretty nice plays being made there.

[PromoTheRobot]

5 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

I wish I could tell who's who. There's some pretty nice plays being made there.

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-2025-development-camp-roster

[PromoTheRobot]

14 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

The Sabres have almost no forwards in the pipeline of note. It's basically 3 guys. They've spent almost all their 2nd and 3rd round picks on defense, goalie, or trade. The Sabres RHD pool is deeper than their forwards pool. 

They have 20 forwards in the pipeline, 16 defenders, 5 goalies.

https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/53/buffalo-sabres/in-the-system

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

They have 20 forwards in the pipeline, 16 defenders, 5 goalies.

https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/53/buffalo-sabres/in-the-system

Not all draft picks are created equal. 

[JoeSchmoe]

18 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-2025-development-camp-roster

Thanks. It's just kind hard to see in that fast paced video without an announcer.

[Thorny]

17 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Not all draft picks are created equal. 

Also 2x the forwards play so 20-16 isn’t a good ratio anyways 

[dudacek]

I think what we are feeling is the hangover of having such a rich selection of prospects this time three years ago and few of them hitting the way we had hoped.

We now have a more typical group of prospects and wonder if the previous group didn't do anything how the hell will these guys?

[PromoTheRobot]

59 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Not all draft picks are created equal. 

Did you scout them all?

[Thorny]

27 minutes ago, dudacek said:

I think what we are feeling is the hangover of having such a rich selection of prospects this time three years ago and few of them hitting the way we had hoped.

We now have a more typical group of prospects and wonder if the previous group didn't do anything how the hell will these guys?

Our strength was in futures and we cashed it out to near-non existent results and a below-average roster. What we are left with is like you say an average pipeline, with various strengths and weaknesses, with almost no confidence in their ability to turn that into much of anything this go around when it’s a worse overall organization starting point than last time.

My solution? I’m converting the strength to where it should be: converting the below average roster and average pipeline into an average roster with a below average pipeline.

1) winning needs to be the focus, in the now (even just for the sake of salvaging the future!)

2) we will be wanting to work on rehabilitating our pipeline anyways so weakening it some before we do so isn’t the end of the world and if we are better in the now we’ll have the time to do so 

like I said, keeps coming back to one thing: this team is woefully short at LEAST one futures for current trade. Reconfigure. Bump the roster up to average. Be 16th/32: make the playoffs 

Edited 53 minutes ago by Thorny