{"id":131868,"date":"2025-09-09T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131868\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:42:07","slug":"prospects-challenge-how-to-watch-and-sabres-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131868\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospects Challenge | How to watch and Sabres&#8217; roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Prospects Challenge runs from Thursday through Monday at LECOM Harborcenter, and the Buffalo Sabres have some of their top young talent competing in the round-robin tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo\u2019s prospects will play three games, each streaming right here on Sabres.com:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Sept. 12 \u2013 New Jersey vs. Buffalo \u2013 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Sept. 13 \u2013 Columbus vs. Buffalo \u2013 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Sept. 15 \u2013 Pittsburgh vs. Buffalo \u2013 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament also includes four non-Sabres games, available to stream on those teams\u2019 respective websites. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/news\/buffalo-sabres-2025-prospects-challenge-schedule-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Buffalo\u2019s prospects taking the ice at LECOM Harborcenter this weekend, including position, age, current team and where they were drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Costantini | 23 | Rochester (AHL) | 2020 5th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Riley Fiddler-Schultz | 23 | Rochester (AHL) | Undrafted<\/p>\n<p>Konsta Helenius | 19 | Rochester (AHL) | 2024 1st-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Kopff | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | Undrafted<\/p>\n<p>Matous Kucharcik | 18 | Youngstown (USHL) | 2025 4th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Olivier Nadeau | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | 2021 4th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Neuchev | 21 | Rochester (AHL) | 2022 3rd-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Novotny | 18 | Muskegon (USHL) | 2025 7th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Noah Ostlund | 21 | Rochester (AHL) | 2022 1st-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Isak Rosen | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | 2021 1st-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Rucinski | 18 | Youngstown (USHL) | 2025 7th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Redmond Savage | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | 2021 4th-round pick (DET)<\/p>\n<p>Ashton Schultz | 18 | Chicago (USHL) | 2025 6th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Anton Wahlberg | 20 | Rochester (AHL) | 2023 2nd-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen<\/p>\n<p>David Bedkowski | 18 | Owen Sound (OHL) | 2025 3rd-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Belliveau | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | 2021 5th-round pick (PIT)<\/p>\n<p>Simon-Pier Brunet | 19 | Victoriaville (QMJHL) | 2024 4th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Luke Dragusica | 18 | Brampton (OHL) | Undrafted<\/p>\n<p>Vsevolod Komarov | 21 | Rochester (AHL) | 2022 5th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Noah Laberge | 18 | Newfoundland (QMJHL) | 2025 5th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Radim Mrtka | 18 | Seattle (WHL) | 2025 1st-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Novikov | 22 | Rochester (AHL) | 2021 6th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<\/p>\n<p>Ryerson Leenders | 19 | Brantford (OHL) | 2024 7th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Topias Leinonen | 21 | Rochester (AHL) | 2022 2nd-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Meloche | 18 | Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL) | 2025 4th-round pick<\/p>\n<p>Scott Ratzlaff | 20 | Rochester (AHL) | 2023 5th-round pick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Prospects Challenge runs from Thursday through Monday at LECOM Harborcenter, and the Buffalo Sabres have some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-131868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}