For starters, let's do a little exercise.
Go to Hockey's Future and take a look at the Buffalo Sabres prospect lineup, including this year's draft picks. Using those lists, try to come up with a lineup that, at any time in the future, about which you'd feel comfortable saying most, if not all, of its players will be NHL ready.
If you include the young veterans signed to five more years in Tyler Myers, Cody Hodgson and Tyler Ennis—as well as Matt Moulson, who is also on a five-year deal—a problem starts to materialize.
There isn't enough room for everyone.
Construct the list any which way you want—you will invariably omit a player about whom someone somewhere is excited.
This, of course, is only a "problem" in the sense that some roster decisions are on the horizon for Buffalo general manager Tim Murray, but that point deserves some extra attention given the Sabres' flush prospect situation.
To put it simply, not every member of this highly touted group of prospects will suit up for the Sabres—and that's a good thing.
By now you've heard how good ...
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Buffalo Sabres PSA: Don’t Fall in Love with Prospects
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