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https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/latest-news/six-sabres-prospects-confirmed-for-upcoming-world-junior The Buffalo Sabres confirmed what was expected on Monday when they reassigned AHL forwards Konsta Helenius and Anton Wahlberg to enable them to play for their respective countries at the upcoming 2025 IIHF World Junior Championships in Ottawa starting on Thursday. Helenius was selected 14th overall by the Sabres at the 2024 NHL Draft in Las Vegas and played for Finland last season at the Under-18s, the 2024 World Juniors in Sweden, and the World Championships. The 18-year-old has 17 points (6 goals, 11 assists) in 28 games for the Rochester Americans and is expected to center the Finns' top line. Wahlberg, 19, played for Sweden at the WJC in Gothenburg alongside Amerks teammate Noah Östlund and has 10 points (4 goals, 6 assists) in 25 AHL games this season. Buffalo will have six prospects participating in the tournament, as Helenius and Wahlberg are joined by Sabres draftees Adam Kleber and Brodie Ziemer (USA), Maxim Strbak (Slovakia), and Norwin Panocha (Germany). The opening day of the tournament on Boxing Day will feature Wahlberg and Sweden going head-to-head with Slovakia and Strbak in his fourth and final World Junior, Kleber and Ziemer with the US matching up against Panocha’s Germany, and the Finns with Helenius taking on host Canada.

That was a super crazy nice shot from Quinn. Also, Cozens had a great game, also. Two nice apples. Hope he is ready for a strong second half to lead us back into playoff race.

I would bet that does not happen. Terry is sleeping sound somewhere with a "do not disturb" sign on the door.

So this time we should stay the course, add a vet PP specialist in off season, re-sign Zucker and maybe a stay and home defense man and do better.

Same thing we always do. Trade away all these young players we have just as they are hitting their prime and start another rebuild, of course!

The situation with the Rangers is just ugly! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6016529/2024/12/23/rangers-devils-trocheck-kreider/ “We gotta show more heart,” Vincent Trocheck said after Monday’s shutout, a 5-0 shelling from the Devils in which the Rangers mustered 12 shots on goal, gave up three power-play goals and scratched Chris Kreider, the closest thing this organization has to a Mr. Ranger. It’s a shocking thing to hear a player say about his team at any point in the season. It somehow feels more shocking given how the past month has gone. The Rangers hit the three-day holiday break losers of 14 of their past 18, and they’ve been uncompetitive in about six of them. “I think of the times we’ve lost by multiple goals, left our goalies out to dry,” Trocheck said. So does everyone else. Even the flawed 12-4-1 team played with some fire in the belly, hungry for goals on a talented team even if many of the players weren’t quite so committed to defending. Now the goals have dried up and the commitment to, well, anything, is just gone. The Rangers came into this one still leading the league on the penalty kill, so they went out and gave up three PPGs on four opportunities, two of them off too-many-men penalties in the second period. The Rangers’ once-vaunted power play went 0-for-4 to drop to 6-for-49 since early November. It’s all gone. Every last bit of it. Good play, fire, heart, dignity, togetherness — poof. In just over a month, the Rangers have become a team that’s easy to play against, even after a feisty first period in which Trocheck and Sam Carrick fought. They’re pushovers.

Yes, nice change. It get old quick seeing how happy the other teams players are all the time

Juri! He's a winner

This is America! Anything is possible!

Good shot

Lame call

No way? Is that true?

Any news?

Gonorrhea?

Oh no

Oh beautiful!! Nice shot Jack, beautiful work, pass Cozens

Too many fancy passes!

Oh, that was nice!

Rob Ray is on special assignment

We are winning puck battles!

Nice!

Alright, nice period

The point is about accountability and the Sabres fly under the radar and are not really held accountable. Do you disagree with that? Yes, other cities have NFL teams, and maybe those teams cities would react exactly the same way Buffalo is towards TP, but I doubt it, Maybe a rustbelt city like Detroit or Pittsburg would, but if Terry owned the Rangers and they were this bad I can't imagine a crap storm would not ensue. Here we just get ready for the draft. We are a one newspaper town and the Sabre media just seems owned and operated by TP inc. There is little to no accountability demanded from the media

I really don't think TP cares much about money anymore. The guy is 100% asleep at the wheel. A pro-active approach would be better. There needs to be pressure put on them from fans, and whoever else cares about the team. Lets face it, an intervention is long overdo but nothing at all seems to be going on. Fans should go but wearing those bags over their heads, stuff like that.

Totally agree that the city supports a winner but while we support winners, we don't seem really good at pushing losers to get better. Jerry Sullivan does kind of have a point about our media being soft, and not really holding the organizations to account. Heck, the media really seems complicit with the team, as if they are the same team. The Bills are different on this point. The NFL's media reach is so much larger and they can put pressure on the organization to do better, the Sabres really don't have that. The media coverage of Sabres is more chummy, more friendly. And with missing the playoffs they simply avoid more media spotlights. When Mogilney made that quote that are a "one newspaper town" I think he was on to something. I'm not blaming the people of Buffalo, I'm just arguing our situation doesn't really empower fans to push for more accountability