Sabres sign 2021 first-round pick Isak Rosen to entry-level contract
The Buffalo Sabres have signed forward Isak Rosen to a three-year entry-level contract, the club announced Tuesday afternoon.
Rosen, 19, scored four points (two goals, two assists) in 28 Swedish Hockey League games with Leksands IF during the 2021–22 regular season. The Sabres originally selected Rosen with the 14th-overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft.
We have signed forward Isak Rosen to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Rosen was selected with our 14th-overall pick of the 2021 NHL Draft.
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A 5’10”, 165-lb left wing, Rosen also spent time with Mora IK of the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan league and the U20 Leksands IF team in Sweden’s J20 Nationell league this season.
The Sabres acquired the pick they used on Rosen from the Philadelphia Flyers on the first day of the 2021 NHL Draft. The deal saw Buffalo receive the No. 14 pick (Rosen), a 2023 second-round pick, and defenceman Robert Hagg from Philadelphia in exchange for defenceman Rasmus Ristolainen.
Before acquiring the Rosen pick, the Sabres already owned the No. 1 selection in the 2021 NHL Draft. They used that pick on consensus top prospect Owen Power, who signed his own entry-level deal with Buffalo in April.
The Sabres have now signed five of their 11 draft selections from 2021: Power (first round, No. 1 overall), Rosen (first round, No. 14 overall), Aleksandr Kisakov (second round, No. 53 overall), Josh Bloom (third round, No. 95 overall), and Olivier Nadeau (round four, No. 97 overall).