Ennis Stays Hot, Adam and Tropp Continue to Shine

by David Oleksy on Oct 29, 2009 1:00 PM EDT in Prospects

It's time for the weekly Sabres prospects recap. I think te headline says it all for the Sabres prospects. This was actually a really bad week for the prospects with many of them struggling while a few continue to play at an elite level. It's fun to follow these young players and see who is doing anything worthwhile.

It looks like 2009 first round draft pick Zack Kassian will get back in the lineup for the Peterborough Petes and Jacob Lagace might be able to return to the lineup this week as well.

Luke Adam continues to be impressive and the Sabres are watching his play and targeting him to become a key player in years to come. As great as the Adam story is the Corey Tropp story is even better. His troubles last season and being thrown off the Michigan State team were well chronicled but he is erasing the memories of that with a quick start to the season.

Complete Prospect recap is after the jump.

Buffalo Sabres Prospect Rankings				W	L	OTL/T	GAA	SV %	Weekly Notes
Rank	Player	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	Weekly Notes
1	Tyler Myers	Buffalo Sabres	8	2	3	5	8	2	scored another goal and had shootout winner
2	Tim Kennedy	Buffalo Sabres	8	0	3	3	2	8	2 Games Played, 2 assists
3	Nathan Gerbe	Portland Pirates	9	3	5	8	0	10	3 Games Played, 1-assist, minus-1
4	Jhonas Enroth	Portland Pirates	8	2	6	0	4.32	0.861
5	Mike Weber	Portland Pirates	10	0	2	2	0	20	3 Games Played, plus-4
6	Philip Gogulla	Portland Pirates	10	1	3	4	-4	4	3 Games Played, 1-goal, 2-assists
7	Luke Adam	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (QMJHL)	15	8	14	22	7	24	2 Games Played, 2 goals, 2-assists, plus-1
8	Tyler Ennis	Portland Pirates	10	6	2	8	-2	0	3 Games Played, 2 goals
9	Drew Schiestel	Portland Pirates	6	0	1	1	-2	4	2 Games Played, 1-assist
10	Zack Kassian	Peterborough Petes (OHL)	6	3	5	8	-1	11	Injured - Did not play
11	Paul Byron	Portland Pirates	10	2	3	5	-4	8	3 Games Played, 1-goal, 1-assist
12	TJ Brennan	Portland Pirates	9	0	3	3	-1	22	3 Games Played, 1-assist, minus-1
13	Marc-Andre Gragnani	Portland Pirates	8	2	2	4	0	6	1 Game Played, minus-1
14	Felix Schutz	Portland Pirates	10	0	2	2	-2	12	3 Games Played, minus-1
15	Corey Tropp	Michigan State Spartans (NCAA)	6	6	6	12	2	2	2 Games Played, 1-goal, 2-assists
16	Alex Biega	Harvard Crimson (NCAA)							Season did not start
17	Dennis Persson	Portland Pirates	7	0	1	1	-4	6	Did not play
18	Bradley Eidsness	North Dakota Fighting Sioux (NCAA)	5	3	1	1	1.78	0.906	0-1-0, 5 goals against, 24-of-29
19	Marcus Foligno	Sudbury Wolves (OHL)	13	1	4	5	-4	47	1 Game Played, 2-assists, plus-2
20	Brayden McNabb	Kootenay Ice (WHL)	15	3	12	15	-3	40	2 games played, 1-assist, minus-4
21	Corey Fienhage	North Dakota Fighting Sioux (NCAA)							Healthy Scratch
22	Drew Mackenzie	Vermont Catamounts (NCAA)	4	0	1	1	-3	8	1 game played, minus-1
23	Nick Crawford	Saginaw Spirit (OHL)	14	3	13	16	-1	2	3 Games Played, 3-assists, minus-2
24	Jacob Lagace	Chicoutimi Sagueneens (QMJHL)	14	10	8	18	-3	16	3 Games Played, no points
25	Mark Adams	Chicago Steel (USHL)	7	0	1	1	-3	12	3 Games Played, minus-3
-	Nick Eno	Bowling Green Falcons (NCAA)	2	0	1	0	4.94	0.877	1 Game Played, Loss, 4 Goals against, 14-of-18
-	Connor Knapp	Miami-OH Redhawks (NCAA)	3	1	1	0	3.13	0.873	1 Game Played, OT Loss, 3 Goals Against 16-of-19
-	Jordon Southorn	PEI Rocket (QMJHL)	17	2	6	8	3	19	2 Games Played, 2-assists, plus-2
-	Justin Jokinen	Minnesota State Mavericks (NCAA)	5	1	0	1	0	4	1 Game Played, no points
-	Mike Kostka	Portland Pirates	10	1	1	2	-1	7	3 Games Played, 1-goal, minus-1
-	Derek Whitmore	Portland Pirates	10	0	1	1	-2	2	3 Games Played, no points
-	Travis Turnbull	Portland Pirates	7	0	1	1	0	21	3 Games Played, minus-2
-	Maxime Legault	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)	3	1	0	1	-2	11	3 Games Played, 1-goal, minus-2
-	J.P. Lamoureaux	Portland Pirates	4	1	1	0	3.94	0.871	1 Game Played, win, five goals against
-	Matt Generous	Portland Pirates	4	0	1	1	1	0	3 Games Played, 1-assist, plus-1