If the 2015-16 season is the next chapter for the Buffalo Sabres, then Training Camp should serve as a gripping prelude. Expectation will become execution over the next three weeks as the new (and old) faces billed to usher the franchise into a new era finally take the ice together at First Niagara Center, with practices open to the public set begin on Friday at 9 a.m.
We’ll see Jack Eichel, the No. 2 overall pick in this year’s draft, alongside his NHL teammates for the first time and we’ll get a better look at the maturation of 2014 first-rounder Sam Reinhart.