Bryson is not waivers exempt and would be claimed for sure. Granato really likes him and he will fit perfectly as our 3rd pair LHD or 7th Dman. UPL and Subban will be the tandem to start the year in Rochester, but if UPL makes the team then it should be Warm and Subban. Nadeau, Savoie, and Bloom will return to the CHL, Kozak may as well. Ostlund is in Allsvenskan (Sweden minor league). Peterka appears to look like he's making the Sabres. Not sure what they will decide to do with Kulich, I'd be in favour of him returning to Czechia for 1 season then coming to the AHL next year

There are many options obviously for both forward and defense.
You are correct Savoie will not be in Rochester, I will make that correction.
I put this together to demonstrate how strong the Amerks will be as
TBH, Buffalo did very well to sign Clague.
You may very well be correct about Bryson as management is giving both Pilut and Clague extra ice time since Bryson has played only one pre-season game.
Both Pilut and Clague have played very well, it is nice to have this much depth.
Who knows there may be a trade with the Blues as Scott Perunovich and Marco Scandella will be out of action until April and March respectively.

The D-core will be weak as usual, but they will have excellent young wingers with lots of skill.

Let's agree to disagree about the Defensemen.
Laaksonen was the best defenseman during the Prospect Challenge.
He did not play particularly well in his only preseason game but Pilut, Clague, Fitzgerald and Laaksonen are all borderline NHL material.
Clague offensive stats were better than Bryson last year with 2 goals and 10 pts in 36 games v Bryson 1-10 in 73 games.
Fitzgerald only put up 6 pts in 36 NHL games last year and was one of the biggest hitters among the Sabres leading the team with 8.5 hits/60.
In addition he had an awesome AHL playoff with 2 goals and 7 pts in 10 games.
Pilut has already demonstrated that he has AHL All Star capabilities.
Prow and Laaksonen are excellent AHL offensive RHD.
It would be hard to find another AHL defense with that resume of NHL and AHL talent.

IMO the Amerks should be a favorite for the Calder Cup which was my only reason for posting this.
Subban, Houser, Luukkonen between the pipes should be among the best in the AHL.
They will ice great prospects among the forwards Biro, Cederqvist, Kisakov, Kozak, Kulich , Rosen, Weissbach, and maybe Peterka.
I have to think back to 2004-'05 when Rochester had Vanek, Pominville, Roy, and Gaustad on the Amerks that had this many offensive threats.
Pilut, Clague and Fitzgerald all have NHL games on their resume, Laaksonen and Prow are deadly offensive RHD.

sabres89 what do you mean: "Those goalies would give me night terrors."
The opposing teams?