Buffalo Sabres<\/a>\u00a0players under the age of 25 as of August 1, 2025. Each participant used their own metric of current ability and production to rank each player.<\/p>\nIsak Rosen<\/p>\n
Drafted: 2021 \u2013 1st Round (14th Overall)<\/p>\n
Position: Winger<\/p>\n
Born: March 15th, 2003 \u2013 22 Years Old<\/p>\n
2024-2025 Stats: 8 GP | 0G, 1A (BUF); 61 GP | 28G, 27A (ROC)<\/p>\n
2025 Calder Cup Playoffs: 8 GP | 5G, 1A<\/p>\n
2024 T25U25 Ranking: 16<\/p>\n
Sweden native Isak Rosen has been developing at a steady pace these past few years \u2013 both prior to and since his drafting. In 2018-2019, he made his debut in Leksand (under 18 team) and then one season later with the Swedish Hockey League. During this time, he led all 17-year-olds of the junior league in points with 35 total. During his participation in the International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Championship \u2013 in the same year he was drafted by the Sabres \u2013 Rosen contributed nine points in seven games, helping his team secure the bronze medal. The following year, he tallied five points and Sweden earned third place again.<\/p>\n
As he has gained experience in the AHL over the last three regular and post-seasons, Rosen is inching closer to more NHL ice time (hopefully this year?!) and he has certainly earned it. Of his 28 goals, six of them were with the man-advantage with as many being game-winners. He also had a career-high in points for the Americans last season and has shown he can contribute not only throughout the regular season, but in the playoffs as well. The winger averaged almost a point per game in the post-season and previously led the AHL in scoring until he was called up to Buffalo at the tail end of the regular NHL season. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Though Rosen does not thrive as a two-way player (yet), his impressive speed and ability to help his teammates create plays are what stand out. He has been criticized for being too passive with the puck, but this could easily improve with more call-up time and gained confidence. Perhaps he can serve as one of the many puzzle pieces needed to resuscitate the Sabres and move them closer to ending their 14-year playoff drought. It has to happen sooner or later\u2026right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 26, 2024; Ottawa, Ontario, CAN; Buffalo Sabres right wing Isak Rosen (63) scores in the third period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-122945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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