{"id":155594,"date":"2025-09-19T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155594\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:20:07","slug":"sabres-cut-three-players-from-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155594\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres Cut Three Players From Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving quickly toward getting their team down the required 23-man roster, the Buffalo Sabres have returned three prospects to their respective junior programs after the first day of training camp. The Sabres announced<\/a> that defensemen Simon-Pier Brunet<\/a> and David Bedkowski<\/a>, and netminder Samuel Meloche<\/a> have been cut from the roster.<\/p>\n

Brunet will return to the QMJHL\u2019s Victoriaville Tigres after spending the last three years with the Drummondville Voltigeurs. Buffalo selected the 19-year-old with the 123rd overall pick of the 2024 NHL Draft, and he scored eight goals and 32 points in 60 games with a +10 rating last season with the Voltigeurs. The Sabres likely expect a slow-paced development, given that Brunet has already committed to the NCAA\u2019s Merrimack College for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bedkowski could take even longer to reach the NHL, if he does. The 6\u20195\u2033, 220lbs, 18-year-old blue liner spent last year with the OHL\u2019s Owen Sound Attack, scoring three goals and seven points in 30 games with a whopping 73 PIMs. The former 71st overall selection of the 2025 NHL Draft makes his presence known by his high-level physical play and his ability to fight.<\/p>\n

Like Brunet, Meloche is another QMJHL product, this time with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, who has also committed to an NCAA program for the 2026-27 season. Last season, as the Huskies\u2019 starter, Meloche recorded a 30-14-6 record in 51 games with a .900 SV% and 2.90 GAA, along with five shutouts. Meloche, 18, was drafted with the 116th overall pick by the Sabres in the 2025 NHL Draft and has committed to Northeastern University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moving quickly toward getting their team down the required 23-man roster, the Buffalo Sabres have returned three prospects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[741,49,48,81759,14116,21944,23871,81760,81761,82],"class_list":["post-155594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-bedkowski","tag-players","tag-prospects","tag-qmjhl","tag-samuel-meloche","tag-simon-pier-brunet","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155594","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=155594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}