{"id":890123,"date":"2026-06-24T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:40:16","slug":"capitals-to-acquire-alex-tuch-in-sign-and-trade-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890123\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals To Acquire Alex Tuch In Sign-And-Trade \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2069859944262668524\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>, the Washington Capitals will acquire <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tuchal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-24_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Tuch<\/a><\/strong> from the Buffalo Sabres. Before the trade is finalized, Tuch will sign an eight-year, $84MM ($10.5MM AAV) extension with the Sabres before being moved to the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this morning, there was a growing expectation that a sign-and-trade would be finalized between Tuch and the Sabres. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2069834944050831688?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Friedman<\/a>, General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kekalja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-24_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4ine<\/strong>n<\/a> indicated this morning that Tuch would not be returning to Buffalo, and the team would explore sign-and-trade scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on Friedman\u2019s report, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2069837246966972787?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger indicated<\/a> that the Washington Capitals had emerged as an aggressive suitor for Tuch. Additionally, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2069839121720160767?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Johnston of TSN reported<\/a> that Tuch\u2019s camp remained firm in a comparable contract to the eight-year, $85MM extension signed by Adrian Kempe with the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman, the Washington Capitals will acquire Alex Tuch from the Buffalo Sabres. Before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":890124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[32157,1720,1649,293,62,1650,67,132,68,3109],"class_list":["post-890123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-tuch","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116806787252380199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890123","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=890123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}