{"id":487863,"date":"2026-02-24T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487863\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:43:15","slug":"nhl-trade-buzz-stamkos-not-too-worried-as-deadline-approaches-with-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487863\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Trade Buzz: Stamkos \u2018not too worried\u2019 as Deadline approaches with Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-tuch-8477949\" title=\"Alex Tuch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch<\/a> can become an unrestricted free agent July 1, which might make the 29-year-old forward a leading candidate to be moved before the Deadline. But he&#8217;s not thinking about whether he&#8217;ll be traded with the Sabres (32-19-6) holding the first wild card in the Eastern Conference and trying to secure their first playoff berth since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t focused on that,&#8221; Tuch told the Buffalo News on Friday. &#8220;Honestly, like I said, I&#8217;m just focused on playing the next game. I&#8217;m focused on being a Buffalo Sabre and doing whatever I can to help our team win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuch signed a seven-year, $33.25 million contract ($4.75 million AAV) with the Vegas Golden Knights on Oct. 19, 2018. He was traded to Buffalo in the deal that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jack-eichel-8478403\" title=\"Jack Eichel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Eichel<\/a>\u00a0to Vegas on Nov. 4, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres have been in discussions with Tuch about a long-term contract since before Jarmo Kekalainen replaced Kevyn Adams as general manager Dec. 15 but have yet to reach an agreement with the Deadline looming.<\/p>\n<p>Tuch is second on Buffalo in goals (22) and points (48) in 56 games, behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tage-thompson-8479420\" title=\"Tage Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tage Thompson<\/a> (30 goals, 59 points).<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres visit the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Alex Tuch can become an unrestricted free agent July 1, which might make the 29-year-old forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-487863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}