{"id":886662,"date":"2026-09-10T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886662\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:54:10","slug":"evening-notes-dickinson-timashov-gilbert-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886662\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Dickinson, Timashov, Gilbert \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/brianlarose\" title=\"Posts by Brian La Rose\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian La Rose<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at September 9, 2026 8:28 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Vancouver made a bold bet on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/buiumze01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zeev Buium<\/a>, signing him to an eight-year, $75.04MM <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2026\/09\/canucks-sign-zeev-buium-to-eight-year-extension.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extension<\/a> that begins next season.\u00a0 They did so despite the blueliner only having 76 career NHL appearances under his belt.\u00a0 At a time when new benchmarks are being made regularly, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/san-jose-sharks-dickinson-contract-extension-vancouver-canucks-buium-compare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Miller of Sharks Hockey Digest wonders<\/a> if Buium\u2019s new deal could serve as a viable benchmark for Sharks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dickisa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Dickinson<\/a>.\u00a0 A 2024 first-round pick like Buium, Dickinson (selected one spot earlier) is also viewed long-term as an offensive defender, although he wasn\u2019t quite as productive in his rookie year as Buium was.\u00a0 While an eight-year contract won\u2019t be an option for Dickinson, if he takes a step forward in San Jose this season and shows more of his offensive potential, Buium\u2019s contract could very well stand as a viable comparable when talks can begin about an extension next offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>Veteran winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/timasdm01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dmytro Timashov<\/a> is on the move once again. HK Nitra in Slovakia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hknitra.sk\/a-muzstvo\/do-utoku-prichadza-dmytro-timashov-svedsky-hokejista-so-skusenostami-z-nhl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed the 29-year-old for the upcoming season.\u00a0 Timashov played in 45 games between three different teams, notching nine points and 95 hits.\u00a0 Since then, he has bounced around; this will be Timashov\u2019s seventh different team and fifth different league since the 2022-23 campaign.<br \/>\nThe Kraken have found their emergency goalie \u2013 or EBUG \u2013 for the upcoming season. In their recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/kraken\/team\/training-camp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">training camp roster<\/a> announcement, the team indicated that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/534005\/dolan-gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dolan Gilbert<\/a> will have the role in 2026-27.\u00a0 The 25-year-old spent a year at Concordia University Wisconsin at the NCAA\u2019s Division III level before moving on to Michigan State University, though he played in just two games in two years with them, both coming last season.\u00a0 EBUGs are required to accompany the team to all games starting this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at September 9, 2026 8:28 pm Last week, Vancouver made a bold bet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,456147,456148,575,25927,7527,3066,85],"class_list":["post-886662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dmytro-timashov","tag-dolan-gilbert","tag-nhl","tag-sam-dickinson","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886662","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=886662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}