{"id":25951,"date":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25951\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","slug":"sabres-conor-timmins-avoid-arbitration-with-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25951\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres, Conor Timmins avoid arbitration with 2-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/buf\/buffalo-sabres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> avoided a salary arbitration hearing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233868\/conor-timmins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Timmins<\/a> by signing the newly acquired defenseman to a two-year, $4.4 million contract on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Timmins was a restricted free agent and acquired with defenseman Isaac Belliveau in a trade that sent blueliner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3042191\/connor-clifton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Clifton<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> on June 28. The Sabres are Timmins&#8217; fifth team in six NHL seasons since the 2017 second-round draft pick broke into the league with Colorado in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>He finished last season with a career-high three goals and 15 points in 68 games split between Pittsburgh and Toronto. Overall, he has six goals and 46 points in 159 games.<\/p>\n<p>Timmins&#8217; signing leaves the Sabres with goalie Devon Levi as their only unsigned restricted free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. &#8212; The Buffalo Sabres avoided a salary arbitration hearing with Conor Timmins by signing the newly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-25951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}