{"id":97385,"date":"2025-07-27T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97385\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:39:08","slug":"timmins-signs-2-year-4-4-million-contract-with-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97385\/","title":{"rendered":"Timmins signs 2-year, $4.4 million contract with Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/conor-timmins-8479982\" title=\"Conor Timmins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Timmins<\/a> signed a two-year, $4.4 million contract with the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. It has an average annual value of $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old defenseman, who was a restricted free agent, avoided a salary arbitration hearing. He and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/isaac-belliveau-8482801\" title=\"Isaac Belliveau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Belliveau<\/a> were acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on June 28 for a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Timmins had 15 points (three goals, 12 assists) in 68 games last season with the Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs while averaging an NHL career-high 16:55.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a solid two-way player that is big, a right shot, and I think it just really solidifies our (defense) corps moving forward,&#8221; general manager Kevyn Adams told the Sabres website.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/devon-levi-8482221\" title=\"Devon Levi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devon Levi<\/a> is Buffalo&#8217;s lone remaining restricted free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Timmins signed a two-year, $4.4 million contract with the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-97385","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\/114926660422658794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97385","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=97385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}