The Buffalo Sabres, after enduring a stretch of four preseason games in six days, have reduced their roster to a more workable 39 players with less than two weeks to go before the start of the regular season. The club assigned seven players on NHL contracts (forwards Filip Cederqvist, Aleksandr Kisakov, Tyson Kozak, Olivier Nadeau, Viktor Neuchev, Linus Weissbach, and defenseman Nikita Novikov) to the AHL Rochester Americans, who began their training camp on Monday.
The club also assigned 14 players who are signed to AHL deals (forwards Christopher Brown, Riley Fiddler-Schultz, Damien Giroux, Mason Jobst, Dominick Mersch, Michael Mersch, Graham Slaggert, Brendan Warren, defensemen Brandon Fortunato, Chris Jandric, Zach Metsa, Ethan Prow, Nicolas Savoie, and goaltender Michael Houser) to minor-league camp.
NHL clubs have to cut down to 23 players (or less) by Monday, October 9.
