I wrote a lot about Lambert here for Expected Buffalo, but I really want to dig into the rationale behind why I think Lambert deserves to be one of the first names off the board and should be a prime target for the Buffalo Sabres. There are a lot of reports and secondary sources to dig into that I will just give a basic summation of Brad Lambert and his Liiga play. He has good size, amazing speed and skill, and great transition ability.
Round 1 of the 2022 NHL Draft will take place July 7 from Bell Centre in Montreal.
Zemgus Girgensons came into the organization as a first-rounder with lofty expectations on his shoulders, fell off but remained a consistent presence in the bottom six, and was nonexistent in the 2020-21 season. Sounds familiar — maybe because the Sabres themselves have lived out a similar trajectory through the 2010s and 2020s (including the “nonexistent in 2020-21” part, ha ha). In keeping with Girgensons as a metaphor for the tank-era Sabres, though, his 2021-22 season was a nice bounce back.
No | Player | Pos |
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41 | G | |
74 | LW | |
96 | LW | |
78 | D | |
4 | D | |
91 | LW | |
24 | C | |
26 | D | |
20 | C | |
28 | C | |
15 | RW | |
29 | RW | |
10 | D | |
33 | D | |
37 | C | |
21 | RW | |
71 | RW | |
25 | D | |
13 | D | |
53 | LW | |
47 | G | |
72 | C | |
31 | G | |
89 | RW |