Sabers Review Lukáš Rousek
The Sabers had winger Lukáš Rousek back within the lineup for today’s shootout win over the Oilers after reviewing him from AHL Rochester on an crisis advance late final night, per CapFriendly.
Rousek, 24, is in his moment NHL season and his third playing North American professional hockey within the Sabers organization. A sixth-round choose of the group in 2019, he’d suited up in eight major alliance recreations heading into today’s activity. The smooth-skating winger has cemented himself as a top-line nearness within the minors but has however to blow the entryways off within the NHL, recording a objective and an help with four shots on objective whereas averaging 10:
55 per diversion. He didn’t get on the scoresheet in today’s diversion, but he enlisted an indeed rating and one shot on objective and logged about 13 minutes.
He’s persistently advanced all through his time in Rochester, in any case, and seem exceptionally well make a few commotion for a spot on the Sabres’ opening-night program in 2024-25. The 5-foot-11 winger has remained on pace with final season’s sums, clicking at generally a 0.8 focuses per diversion rate with 10 objectives, 38 focuses, and a -8 rating in 48 recreations with the Amerks this year. Sabres GM Kevyn Adams inked Rousek to a two-year expansion with a $775K cap hit final summer, so he won’t reach confined free organization until 2025. He’ll have intervention rights upon expiry.
Rousek’s review does not tally against the Sabres’ four post-deadline reviews since it was executed beneath crisis conditions. Buffalo would have been brief a forward nowadays with Rousek as Jordan Greenway was out with an undisclosed harm.