The Buffalo Sabres have graduated a number of their young prospects to the NHL, which is one of the reasons that the club snapped the NHL-record 14 season playoff drought, winning the Atlantic Division, and advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season.
Under former GM Kevyn Adams and current GM Jarmo Kekalainen, the club has continued to add promising young talent into the fold, and in his annual Top 100 Prospects, The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler had four Sabres youngsters on the list. Players eligible have to be 22 years old or younger and not fully established with their NHL club.
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The top ranked Sabre is 2026 first rounder Daxon Rudolph, who was a bit of a surprise selection at fourth overall, and was listed 12th, behind blueliners Chase Reid, Albert Smits, and Carson Carels, who were selected after Rudolph in the Top 10 of the Draft in Buffalo last month.
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2024 top pick Konsta Helenius was ranked 42nd overall, after averaging nearly a point-per-game in the American Hockey League and impressing in a brief playoff appearance against Montreal, while 2025 first rounder Radim Mrtka was 54th, and 2022 first rounder Noah Ostlund was 55th.
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2026 first rounder Ilia Morozov was listed as an honorable mention after being selected 20th overall, but a surprising omission was Sabres prospect Brodie Ziemer, who scored 23 goals for the University of Minnesota and captained Team USA at the World Junior Championships last December.
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