{"id":115287,"date":"2025-08-03T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115287\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:49:09","slug":"3-questions-facing-buffalo-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115287\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3. Can forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-mcleod-8480802\" title=\"Ryan McLeod\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan McLeod<\/a> improve on the NHL career-high 53 points he had last season?<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres think so and proved it by signing the 25-year-old to a four-year contract on July 1. The forward had 20 goals and 33 assists in 79 games last season and has 128 points (52 goals, 76 assists) in 298 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>But for general manager Kevyn Adams, this is about more than just offensive production; it\u2019s McLeod\u2019s ability to play in all situations that made the Sabres eager to keep him for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things I love about Ryan is he showed last year, I mean third-, second-line center, he can move over to wing, he can play power play, he kills penalties,&#8221; Adams said. &#8220;An all-situations player right in the prime years of his career as a centerman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, McLeod\u2019s speed and the departure of Peterka give him the opportunity to improve on his stats from last season. For a Sabres team that has not qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 14 years, it would come as a big help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Can forward Ryan McLeod improve on the NHL career-high 53 points he had last season? The Sabres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-115287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114964212175189108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}