{"id":26034,"date":"2025-06-30T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26034\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:40:07","slug":"sabres-re-sign-jack-rathbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26034\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres Re-Sign Jack Rathbone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eligible to test free agency in less than 48 hours as a Group Six unrestricted free agent, defenseman Jack Rathbone<\/a><\/strong> has instead decided to re-sign with the Sabres.\u00a0 PuckPedia reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that Rathbone has signed a two-year deal to remain with Buffalo.\u00a0 The deal will pay $800K in the NHL, $525K in the minors, and has a guaranteed salary of $550K per season.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old came to the Sabres last summer as a Group Six UFA, inking a one-year, two-way pact that guaranteed him $500K, meaning he gets a small pay bump on this new agreement.\u00a0 Rathbone didn\u2019t see any action with the Sabres this season but was a regular with AHL Rochester, tallying 23 points in 63 regular season games while adding three assists in eight playoff contests.<\/p>\n

Rathbone looked like a legitimate NHL prospect a few years ago.\u00a0 He held his own in eight games with the Canucks in 2021-22 and notched 40 points in just 39 games with their AHL affiliate in Abbotsford that same season.\u00a0 However, Rathbone hasn\u2019t been able to come anywhere close to those offensive numbers since then and has now spent time with three different organizations over the last year and a half.<\/p>\n

Rathbone shouldn\u2019t be adding to that new team total next season, assuming he once again clears waivers in training camp and starts with Rochester.\u00a0 Instead, he\u2019ll serve as a valuable experienced player for the Amerks while being a possible recall option should injuries strike during the season in Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eligible to test free agency in less than 48 hours as a Group Six unrestricted free agent, defenseman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1720,22962,293,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-26034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-jack-rathbone","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114770006824315992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","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=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}