20180625 Sharpen Up

Rasmus Dahlin is in Buffalo and he and Jason Botterill will hold court with the media at 10 a.m. this morning at KeyBank Center. We'll live stream that for you here on Sabres.com and on our Facebook page. That'll start you day and it'll end with news of qualifying offers to restricted free agents.
Here's what you need to know.

A look back on the weekend

The Sabres selected five defensemen at the 2018 NHL Draft, starting with first-overall pick Rasmus Dahlin. Check out Sabres.com's Draft Central for full coverage presented by New Era for everything from Dallas.
The rest of the class includes:
2nd round, 32nd overall: LHD Mattias Samuelsson
4th round, 94th overall: C Matej Pekar
4th round 117th overall: LHD Linus Lindstrand Cronholm
5th round, 125th overall: RHD Miska Kukkonen
7th round, 187th overall - LHD William Worge Kreu
"It's been a long waiting and you can't really plan anything, but finally today, I can plan my future and I love to call my new town Buffalo." -Rasmus Dahlin
You can read the full feature here.

Today's press conference…

May also include a jersey number announcement…

Congrats, Rip!

Qualifying offers due at 5 p.m.

The Sabres have until the end of the day to extend qualifying offers to the following restricted free agenets: Sam Reinhart, Scott Wilson, Nicholas Baptiste, Justin Bailey, Danny O'Regan, C.J. Smith, Sean Malone, Victor Antipin and Jason Kasdorf.
Botterill confirmed over the weekend that the team will not qualify Robin Lehner, making him an unrestricted free agent on July 1.