{"id":305620,"date":"2026-10-13T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305620\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:22:32","slug":"sabres-acquire-jones-laatsch-from-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305620\/","title":{"rendered":"SABRES ACQUIRE JONES, LAATSCH FROM PITTSBURGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo receives two defensemen in exchange for Ryan Johnson, Both to report to Rochester<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOct 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Sabres acquired\u00a0defensemen <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/6333\/90\/caleb-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/stats\/player\/10850\/90\/daniel-laatsch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Laatsch<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday in exchange for defenseman Ryan Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 29 years old and a left shot, has played 255 career NHL games, most recently seven with the Penguins to start last season. The 2015 fourth-round pick had three points in four games to start this season with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (AHL). He provides additional depth at the position with Rasmus Dahlin day to day with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HUdV-OAXgAAsptG.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/HUdV-OAXgAAsptG-5ae6937826.jpg\" width=\"889\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Laatsch, 24, played 10 AHL games last season. The lefty was a 2021 seventh-round pick and played four seasons at University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HUdV-OGXEAA2WQz.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/HUdV-OGXEAA2WQz-1947a4efd8.jpg\" width=\"889\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Johnson departs the organization after parts of four pro seasons, including 47 NHL games. He was originally a first-round pick by the Sabres in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo receives two defensemen in exchange for Ryan Johnson, Both to report to Rochester Oct 12, 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-305620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}