Sabres Camp To Be Abbreviated By Global Series

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.

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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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