BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres completed their selections at the NHL Draft in Pittsburgh, taking three more centers along with two defensemen and a goaltender on Saturday afternoon.
After taking two centers in the first round on Friday night — Russian center Mikhail Grigorenko at No. 12 and Latvian Zemgus Girgensons at No. 14 — Buffalo continued to bolster the position by taking Canadian Justin Kea in the third round, U.S.-born Logan Nelson in the fifth, and Minnesota high school product Judd Peterson in the seventh.
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In the second round, the Sabres selected defenseman Jake McCabe from the University of Wisconsin, where two of his three goals as a freshman were game-winners.
Kea, a 6-foot-4 physical forward who has 125 penalty minutes in 127 career games with Saginaw of the Ontario Hockey League, is a second cousin of former NHL enforcer Jeff Beukeboom.
Buffalo picked Swedish goaltender Linus Ullmark in the sixth round. With their two seventh-round selections, the Sabres took 6-foot-4 defenseman Brady Austin from Belleville of the OHL and Peterson, a from Duluth Marshall High School.
