Chicago Blackhawks and Buffalo Sabres complete a trade: Kyle Davidson's receiving praise for it

"We're heading into a new stage where we're starting to see and we're leaving open spots in the NHL for some of these young players that we have drafted and have developed to enter the NHL and start making up a larger or large, depending on the point of the year, portion of the roster. I think we're seeing them graduate. We've seen some of them graduate to pro now we'll see some of them graduate into the NHL and into the NHL full time. That's a meaningful step from not having any of them here or just a very small subset of our draft and prospects here over the last couple of years to where we're starting to see them almost take over this team a little bit and take over that locker room to some extent."

"We still have a veteran-laden roster, but there's going to be a much larger contingent of young players that could be here for a very long time, breaking camp with us this year. That's really exciting. I think that's a display of progress on where we've been in the past. It's a different look for this team and I think it's an eye to where we're headed. It's just an exciting step we've taken that we haven't necessarily been able to reasonably expect prior to this season."