{"id":767217,"date":"2026-06-29T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:08","slug":"sabres-to-re-sign-winger-beck-malenstyn-to-six-year-18m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767217\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres to re-sign winger Beck Malenstyn to six-year, $18M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winger is finalizing a six-year, $18-million deal to remain in Buffalo, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Malenstyn has spent the past two seasons with the Sabres. In 2025-26, he had seven goals and seven assists in 81 games played. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old also appeared in 13 playoff games and had three points (one goal, two assists). <\/p>\n<p>Malenstyn was drafted by the Washington Capitals 145th overall in 2016. The Capitals traded him to Buffalo in the 2024 off-season for the second-round pick that ended up being Cole Hutson, brother of Montreal Canadiens star Lane Hutson.<\/p>\n<p>In 262 career NHL games, Malenstyn has 19 goals and 29 assists for 48 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winger is finalizing a six-year, $18-million deal to remain in Buffalo, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported Sunday. Malenstyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-767217","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\/767217","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=767217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}