‘His meteoric rise made headlines with his tournament-leading seven goals at the Winter Olympics while coached by former Buffalo Sabres winger Craig Ramsay, and continued last month at the IIHF World Championship with nine points in eight games. Slafkovsky is ranked by NHL Central Scouting as the top European skater in the draft and, according to its director, Dan Marr, the most physically ready to make the immediate jump to the best league in the world.’