19-year-old forward played last season for Youngstown in the USHL and will be heading to Miami(OH) this fall
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Michael Augiello, since you are in Buffalo, which player or players, are they most depending on to fill that gap?
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I think it falls on what I refer to as the, the three amigos, and that’s their three former first-round picks, Jiri Kulich, Noah stlund, and Konsta Helenius
Kulich missed most of last season with a blood clot problem
stlund was called up midway through the year and played well in a sort of secondary role
And Helenius was great down with Rochester and then was inserted into the lineup of the playoffs and scored two goals against the Canadiens
I think it’s unrealistic, though, to expect these three young players, especially Kulich coming off of a serious blood clot situation, to make up the gap, that was created by the trade of Alex Tuch and the trade of Bowen Byram
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I think there are other players, more veteran players, that are gonna need to pick up the slack
I don’t think you can expect Tage Thompson to score more than the 40 goals that he normally scores
So it’s gonna have to be some of these young guys
And honestly, when you roll the dice on young guys, I mean, that’s a, that’s a risky proposition
So I, I’m, I don’t like the way that Jarmo Keklinen has approached this off-season because he didn’t add offense to replace Alex Tuch
