Quoting: boilermaker
So what's with Bloom? He wasn't on Wheeler's top 15 Buffalo prospect list. Is he hurt, having a down year, or does Wheeler not know what he is talking about?
I know Buffalo fans love all their prospects and I'm envious of you. But sooner or later you have to trade some of them for some veteran pieces to fill in the holes in your roster. Down the road, you're not going to advance far in the playoffs with 20 players in their early to mid 20's on the roster. And sooner or later these prospects are going to lose their waiver exemptions, so it's either play on the parent club or risk losing them for nothing via waivers. Just my two cents.
Well I’m not sure if you were looking at a more updated list
*if so, please post a link
But half the guys on this list aren’t prospects anymore, they’re on the Sabres roster & playing regularly
Guys at numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, & 10 are all playing for us
I think it’s more that we’re stacked with guys that would fall into the tier of “B level” prospects
While most teams have 5 or so guys in this tier, we’ve got at least a dozen
So i guy like Bloom was ranked 19th on the list i posted the link to, but really, you could flip a coin between him & anyone from 11 on imo
I’ve never seen him play other than highlights, & everyone’s highlights look good. Everything I’ve read on him seems to be fairly positive though, & he seems to be progressing nicely. Way too soon to guess what he’ll end up being though.
Rank seems to be from career AHLer to decent middle6 guy
But you’re right- we are overloaded & don’t have room to give all these guys the chance they deserve
Makes total sense to move some along in packages to get a good player to help us