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Value of: LD - Ryan Johnson, Buffalo/Rochester

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Former first-round pick (31st overall/2019) - played three games with the Sabres; spending most of the season in the AHL.

He is a restricted free agent this summer so I imagine he is qualified.

Long-range is there an NHL future?
 
Jersey Fan 12 said:
Former first-round pick (31st overall/2019) - played three games with the Sabres; spending most of the season in the AHL.

He is a restricted free agent this summer so I imagine he is qualified.

Long-range is there an NHL future?
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I certainly think there's an NHL future there. Possibly even as a lower-end #4. Dude is smooth skating and seemingly always in the right position. Not physical and won't provide a lick of offense........but he's just solid in his own end.
 
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He played 40+ in 23/24. Then Buffalo acquired byram

I think he has another year of waiver exemption until he hits enough nhl games.

Because if sabres cap situation, I'm expecting them to move one of thr LD and he plays 3LD
 
Jersey Fan 12 said:
Former first-round pick (31st overall/2019) - played three games with the Sabres; spending most of the season in the AHL.

He is a restricted free agent this summer so I imagine he is qualified.

Long-range is there an NHL future?
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wild will give you 4th or 5th round pick for him to reunite him with Brock Faber
 
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Hockeyfan200 said:
Lol come on, you can't believe he worth more than 3rd at best. He hasn't made an NHL roster and has mostly played in AHL
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He is guy who is either a throw in as part of a package or the Sabres will keep him as their 7th or bottom pairing guy. The Sabres have Dahlin power and Byram on the left side, it’s not surprising he hasn’t played up much.

They chose to sign him instead of letting him walk two years ago to get a 2nd, so a 4th from Minny doesn’t entice them.
 
He has top four potential sublime skater with excellent puck skills who plays solid defensively would be great for the top six next year if he can play the right side especially with Sammy and his injury issues rj would make an excellent 7th d man who might play to good to justify sending him down with that said I would only package him with the first, rosen and next year's 2nd for a top six forward or a top four rhd to a team like say Seattle who has decent vets but underperformed and is going more towards their youth
 
57special said:
No reason to trade him if all he is fetching is a 3rd. Having a guy who can be called and play NHL minutes is more valuable than that.

Bottom line, though, is that a guy in his D+5 year who has barely played 3 NHL games isn't worth much.
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Not arguing your conclusion, just adding relevant information:

Johnson has actually played 44 NHL games, 41 of them in the previous season, his first as a pro.

The Sabres made a decision last summer to not add another youngster to an already young defence and feed Johnson top 4 minutes in the minors. That happened, and coach Leone has leaned on him as his shutdown guy.

Buffalo kept both Dennis Gilbert and Jacob Bryson around the big club as spares in case of injury and remained relatively healthy. Johnson's 3 games marked their only blueline call-up all season.

In terms of his development path, next year is the year he would be expected to arrive as NHLer.

It's unlikely it will be in Buffalo unless they move some people out. there's only so many spots for puck-moving LHD, even if Johnson is predominantly a defender, rather than an attacker.
 
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57special said:
No reason to trade him if all he is fetching is a 3rd. Having a guy who can be called and play NHL minutes is more valuable than that.

Bottom line, though, is that a guy in his D+5 year who has barely played 3 NHL games isn't worth much.
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He played 41 last year, mostly on RD. The team carried 8 D in front of him this year so he didn't get an opportunity, though the way their AHL coach has talked, he is right on schedule as a shutdown type.
 
57special said:
Bottom line, though, is that a guy in his D+5 year who has barely played 3 NHL games isn't worth much.
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This is dumb analysis.

He went to college for a full 4 years.

He played 40g in 23/24. Thize games generally came before acquiring Byram at 24 deadline.

This year he played a full season in AHL because Buffalo was deep at LD

I'm expecting Buffalo to trade one of samuelson, byram, power. The 3 that are left pkay 2 of the 3 and Johnson plays the other
 
Djp said:
This is dumb analysis.

He went to college for a full 4 years.

He played 40g in 23/24. Thize games generally came before acquiring Byram at 24 deadline.

This year he played a full season in AHL because Buffalo was deep at LD

I'm expecting Buffalo to trade one of samuelson, byram, power. The 3 that are left pkay 2 of the 3 and Johnson plays the other
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He played 3 games last year. I guess I should've made that clearer. I am well aware of RJ's college career, as I watched a good deal of it - more than the vast majority of Sabres fans, I would bargain.
The fact that he played 41 games in 23-24 is nice, but the fact that he was sent down, on a very bad defensive team, not so much.

The guy had 13 pts in 66 AHL gp. He sure as hell better be a shutdown type, with that offence. Most NHL GM's want their shutdown D with no offense to be big, strong, and tough. That's not RJ. At present, he is a tweener, till he proves otherwise, a 6/7D at best. A tweener isn't worth much. As I said in the rest of my post, which you left out, the Sabres are better off keeping him in case they need him for a call up, as no team is going to pay much for him right now.

He is a vg skater, with decent puck skills. I am surprised he doesn't have more points in the AHL.
 
57special said:
He played 3 games last year. I guess I should've made that clearer. I am well aware of RJ's college career, as I watched a good deal of it - more than the vast majority of Sabres fans, I would bargain.
The fact that he played 41 games in 23-24 is nice, but the fact that he was sent down, on a very bad defensive team, not so much.

The guy had 13 pts in 66 AHL gp. He sure as hell better be a shutdown type, with that offence. Most NHL GM's want their shutdown D with no offense to be big, strong, and tough. That's not RJ. At present, he is a tweener, till he proves otherwise, a 6/7D at best. A tweener isn't worth much. As I said in the rest of my post, which you left out, the Sabres are better off keeping him in case they need him for a call up, as no team is going to pay much for him right now.

He is a vg skater, with decent puck skills. I am surprised he doesn't have more points in the AHL.
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In 23/24 he played 40+. Most of this was before Buffalo did the Mitts-byram trade

This year they had byram on the team which basically forced Johnson to stay in Rochester. He's on an elc so you certainly don't want him sitting in the press box at a 7D

He's not a big Off dman. Buffalo is not looking for that.

I look at him as a mid pair.

In his call up in 23/24he was used with dahlin iirc
 
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