‘”[He] for sure has every single quality you would want in an NHL center other than size,” Sabres director of amateur scouting Jerry Forton said. “I just talked about the other attributes that I think will easily offset the size. And when he went up to the [Swedish Hockey League] this year — in very limited minutes, I get that — they played him at center. He went to the Under-18s, he played a couple games 25-plus minutes at center at the Under-18s on the gold medal team and I don’t know that we ever saw a drop off in his play.”‘