The Buffalo Sabres youngins will hit the HarborCenter ice beginning tomorrow for the start of Sabres 2017 Development Camp. The stated goals of the four-day event, as per the team, are to "introduce prospective players to professional work habits and organizational standards" while giving the players "an opportunity to become familiar with the team and the resources available to them through the Sabres development staff and the performance team."
Forty players are scheduled to attend the camp lead by "veterans" like Justin Bailey and Nick Baptiste, both of whom started their pro careers in 2015-16 and have well over 100 games of professional experience. Others like collegians Connor Hurley, Anthony Florentino and Sean Malone, all 2013 draft picks who are either still in school or recently graduated, attended their first D-Camp four years ago and are back again. Buffalo natives Bailey and Malone will be joined by another local product in Austin Osmanski of East Aurora.
Buffalo's entire 2017 draft class, lead by eighth-overall pick Casey Mittelstadt and Marcus Davidsson (37th,) is also scheduled to be introduced to their new team at camp and we also get visits from Victor Olofsson and Rasmus Asplund both of whom played in the top Swedish hockey league last year. There are also five invitees including two 18 yr. old goalies who went undrafted in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
The list: (Jersey number, Position, Name, League[s] last year, Drafted)
Pro
#56--RW, Justin Bailey (AHL/NHL) 2013, 52nd-overall
73--RW, Nick Baptiste (AHL/NHL) 2013, 69th
52--RW, Hudson Fasching (AHL/NHL) 2013, 118th (LAK)
86--C, Eric Cornel (AHL) 2014, 44th
74--RW, Vaclav Karabacek (AHL) 2014, 49th
54--D, Bryson Martin (AHL/ECHL) 2014, 74th
70--LW, Alexander Nylander (AHL) 2016, 8th
College (* will be attending)
17--RW, Judd Peterson (St. Cloud State, NCHC) 2012, 204th
37--C, Connor Hurley (Notre Dame, H-East) 2013, 38th
42--C, Sean Malone (Harvard, ECAC) 2013, 159th
46--D, Anthony Florentino (Providence, H-East) 2103, 143rd
57--C, Maxwell Willman (Brown, ECAC) 2014, 121nd
13--C, Christopher Brown (Boston College, H-East) 2014, 151st
03--D, Will Borgen (St. Cloud State, NCHC) 2015, 92nd
42--D, Ivan Chukurov (UMass, NCAC) 2015, 182nd
38--D, Casey Fitzgerald (Boston College, H-East) 2016, 86th
81--LW, Brett Murray (Penn St., Big-10) 2016, 99th
##--D, Philip Nyberg (UConn, H-East) 2016, 129th
77--C, Casey Mittelstadt (*Minnesota, Big-10) 2017, 8th
05--D, Jacob Bryson (Providence, H-East) 2017, 99th
17--LW, Linus Weissbach (*Wisconsin, Big-10) 2017, 192nd
19--LW, C.J. Smith (UMass-Lowell, H-East) undrafted FA, 2017
CHL
45--D, Brendan Guhle (Prince Albert/Prince George, WHL) 2015, 51st
58--D, Devante Stephens (Kelowna, WHL) 2015, 122nd
61--C, Cliff Pu (London, OHL) 2016, 69th
79--D, Vojtech Budik (Prince Albert, WHL) 2016, 130th
27--LW, Brandon Hagel (Red Deer, WHL) 2016, 159th
51--D, Austin Osmanski (Mississauga, OHL) 2016, 189th
41--C, Vasily Glotov (Cape Breton, QMJHL) 2016, 190th
Overseas
50--G, Jonas Johansson (Almtuna, Swe-1/AHL) 2014, 61st
84--LW, Victor Olofsson (Frolunda, SHL) 2014, 181st
65--C, Rasmus Asplund (Farjestad BK, SHL) 2016, 33rd
20--D, Oskari Laaksonen (Ilves, SM-sarja/SM-liiga) 2017 89th
08--C, Marcus Davidsson ( Djurgardens IF, SuperElit/IF, SHL)2017 37th
60--G, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (HPK, SM-liiga) 2017, 54th
Invitees
24--C, Bobby McMann (Colgate, ECAC) undrafted
10--D, Erik Autio (Penn St., Big-10) undrafted
06--D, Bill Sweezey (Yale, ECAC) undrafted
33--G, Kyle Keyser (Oshawa, OHL) undrafted
01--G, Jake McGrath (Sudbury, OHL) undrafted
For more info on the camp and a link to the roster from Sabres.com, click
here.
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