‘Former Sabres general manager Jason Botterill locked up Jeff Skinner, and current general manager Kevyn Adams has already locked up Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin, Owen Power, Dylan Cozens and Mattias Samuelsson. He also may want to lock up Jack Quinn, JJ Peterka and Devon Levi when the time comes. That all indicates there isn’t much room to be had for Mittelstadt to fit into the long-term plans of the team.’