Buffalo announces 59-man roster but will take NHL roster to Europe next week
The Buffalo Sabres opened their 2024-25 training camp at Key Bank Center on Wednesday with GM Kevyn Adams and “new” head coach Lindy Ruff stressing accountability and a win-now mentality, but this camp may be short on battles for roster spots due to their abbreviated calendar of practices and workouts before the club heads to Europe for the 2024 NHL Global Series.
The Sabres are slated to depart for Germany next week, where they will play an exhibition game against EHC Red Bull Munchen on Friday, September 27 and will stay until the start of the regular season in Prague against the New Jersey Devils on October 4th and 5th, which is the reason the club structured their first practice with essentially an NHL group that travel across the pond. EHC Red Bull München
"That was obviously a managerial and coaching decision to try to get our group acclimated right away, get the chemistry going." Sabres winger Alex Tuch said. "We got a lot of new guys (and) a new coach. You want to get used to them as quickly as possible, and a quick turnaround to Europe. I think it's is a big reason why we're doing that."
Here is the Sabres complete roster, with players that participated in their first practice in bold:
Forwards (32)
96 Nicolas Aube-Kubel
9 Zach Benson
41 Ty Cheveldayoff
24 Dylan Cozens
44 Josh Dunne
45 Riley Fiddler-Schultz
12 Jordan Greenway
94 Konsta Helenius
49 Mason Jobst
52 Aleksandr Kisakov
48 Tyson Kozak
19 Peyton Krebs
20 Jiri Kulich
81 Sam Lafferty
29 Beck Malenstyn
71 Ryan McLeod
95 Ethan Miedema
57 Brett Murray
54 Olivier Nadeau
79 Viktor Neuchev
36 Noah Ostlund
77 JJ Peterka
22 Jack Quinn
63 Isak Rosen
13 Lukas Rousek
67 Graham Slaggert
72 Tage Thompson
89 Alex Tuch
59 Tyler Tullio
92 Anton Wahlberg
42 Brendan Warren
17 Jason Zucker
Defensemen (20)
43 Simon-Pier Brunet
78 Jacob Bryson
4 Bowen Byram
38 Kale Clague
75 Connor Clifton
26 Rasmus Dahlin
8 Dennis Gilbert
33 Ryan Johnson
10 Henri Jokiharju
76 Vsevolod Komarov
46 Noah Laaouan
73 Zach Metsa
91 Nikita Novikov
74 Norwin Panocha
6 Colton Poolman
25 Owen Power
5 Ethan Prow
3 Jack Rathbone
23 Mattias Samuelsson
56 Peter Tischke
Goaltenders (7)
31 Michael Houser
35 Ryerson Leenders
27 Devon Levi
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
34 Scott Ratzlaff
47 James Reimer
32 Felix Sandstrom
The Sabres will open their exhibition schedule against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
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